SMALL ANIMAL CARE

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SMALL ANIMAL CARE

• CHAPTER ONE

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• INVERTEBRATES 420 million years
• VERTEBRATES - 370 million years
• DINOSAURS 180 million years
• SMALL ANIMAL 70 to 40 million years

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Domestication of animals.

• Up to 12,000 years ago-dogs
• About 3,500 years ago-cats

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The Small Animal Industry

• 58.9 of all American families own pets.
• Cats now outnumber dogs as most common pet!

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Small Animal Industry cont.

• 3rd in popularity is Birds
• 4th is Rabbits
• 5th is Hamsters
• 6th is Fish

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Small Animal Industry

• 10,500-11,000 retail pet stores 21 billion in
  sales!!
• Vet. Expenditures of over 7 billion for dogs
• Almost 4 billion for cats
• And over 91 million for birds

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CLASSIFICATION OF ORGANISMS

• 5 KINGDOMS
• MONERA
• PROTISTA
• PLANT
• FUNGI
• ANIMALIA

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CLASSIFICATION OF ORGANISMS

• ALL AMIMALS WE WILL STUDY ARE IN PHYLUM CHORDATA!
• CHARACTERISTICS OF CHORDATA
• NOTOCHORD
• DORSAL NERVE TUBE
• PHARYNEAL AREA
• REAR AREA TAIL

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CLASSIFICATION OF ORGANISMS

• CLASSES
• MAMMALIA FEED YOUNG MILK
• REPTILIA- SCALES OR BONY PLATES
• AVES- WINGS
• OSTEICHTHYES- LIVE IN WATER

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BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE

• GENUS- 1ST WORD, CAPITAL LETTER
• SPECIES 2ND WORD, LOWER CASE
• LETTER
• EXAMPLE
• Canis familaria (dog)