Module 1: Health of animal mind and body Flashcards
What are the 3 essential components for overall wellness of an animal?
Environmental health, physical health and behavioural health are all important aspects of an animals’s health. Just becuase an animal’s body is healthy, does not mean that it’s healthy.
What are the emotional needs of dogs and cats?
Opportunities for social interactions with humans and other compatible animals, Well prepared areas for pooping, resting and eating, The opportunity to hide in a secure place or to rest without being disturbed. The abiility to engadge in specices specific behaviour like scratching for cats and chewing for dogs, have the regualr opportunity to play and exercise, mentally stimulating activity.
What question can you ask yourself when you are trying to observe animal behaviour?
What does that animal do and not do, especially compared to how they normally act.
What is stress? What is the purpose of the reaction?
Stress is the body and mind’s reaction to anything that disrupts our normal baseline state of functioning. The purpose of the reaction is to turn the body and mind to the normal state of functioning.
In this course how do we consider stress? What are the levels of stress?
In this course, we consider stress to be negative. The levels of stress are mild, moderate or sever.
Define distress:
Distress is when the stress is sever or prolonged or when the individual is not able to cope with or escape from the stress.
What is a stressor? What are the categories?
Stressors are things that produce stress. The three categories are Environmental, Social and Physiologic.
Give examples of environmental stress
Noise, bright lights and rapid movements
Give examples of physiologic stress
Pain, hunger and illness
Give examples of social stress
Unfamiliar people or animals as well as separation from familiar people or animals.
What are the immediate responses to stress that are intended to help us to escape?
Heart rate and breathing increase, Blood sugar rises, Thinking changes, pain perception is temporarily decreased,
What are chronic stress long term responses?
Suppress our immunity, increasing our risk of infectious diseases, Negatively impact our gastro intestinal system increasing the risk of stomach problems, it also increases the risk of developing behavioral or other health problems.
What is one thing that can help animals have less stress?
When animals have a routine and know what’s coming for the day ahead, it can help them feel much less stressed out.
In what ways are dogs and cats eyesight better than humans?
Dogs and cats have eyes that are more sensitive to movement, They are able to see at very low levels of light, They have a wide visual field.
In what ways are dogs and cats eyesight worse than ours?
They can’t see as sharply, they lack depth perception, their colour vision is limited.
