VCP 411: Medicine Section

BEHAVIOUR

• Looking in for the behaviour of an animal when presented to you gives a clue to the underlying disease condition.
• Mostly when the animals are presented to you the animals are calm and co-operative, but they also turn to be nervous, restless, anxious and tense
• Pathological variationas eg.
  
  • Restlessness to violence in case of colic in horses & lead poisoning in cows
  • Comatose in milk fever in cows
  • Frenzy in rabies in dogs
  • Does not respond to owner's call & running into objects with staggering gait in case of Organophosporus poisoning in dogs