www.greatermonroekc.org Page 1 June 2018 Meeting Next Meeting is Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. Held at the Hilltop Fish Fare and Steakhouse 1602 E. Roosevelt Blvd. Monroe, NC 28112 Ph: (704) 289-3733 We meet in the back room of the Bistro. In order to minimize in- terruptions to the meeting, please plan to arrive by 6:00 p.m. if you are having dinner. Board Meeting will follow after the regular meeting adjourns. 2018 Newsletter Editor: Donna Otero 4975 Friendly Farms Road Greensboro, NC 27406 [email protected]GMKC by-laws state that the news- letter is to be distributed 2 weeks IN ADVANCE OF THE GENERAL MEETING. Therefore, ALL articles and information for the newsletter need to be submitted by the TUES- DAY that is 2 WEEKS FOLLOWING THE GENERAL MEETING. For the July 2018 newsletter, I will need all your information by June 26, 2018 Opinions expressed in this newslet- ter are those of the contributor and do not necessarily reflect the views of GMKC either as a group or indi- vidually. Advice or helpful hints should never be taken as substitutes for personal veterinary counsel. Contact and referral persons are in no way guaranteed by the GMKC 2017 Officers and Directors President—John Schoeneman Vice President— Martha Milligan Secretary—Janet Broome Treasurer— Martha Milligan Board of Directors Lynn Rowell Ruth Hoffman Louie Ginocchio Paw Prints Greater Monroe Kennel Club this issue Volume 17, Issue 5 Meeting Announcement pg 1 May Meeting Minutes pg 2 Karen’s Korner pg 3 June 2018
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ISSUE 00 MONTH YEAR
June 2018 Meeting
Next Meeting is Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.
Held at the Hilltop Fish Fare and Steakhouse
1602 E. Roosevelt Blvd. Monroe, NC 28112
Ph: (704) 289-3733
We meet in the back room of the Bistro. In order to minimize in-
terruptions to the meeting, please plan to arrive by 6:00 p.m. if
you are having dinner.
Board Meeting will follow after the regular meeting adjourns.
Secretary’s Minutes: Motion made to approve April minutes by Randy Jackson, seconded by
Betty Montgomery, vote unanimous.
Treasurer’s Report: Report given to club by Martha Milligan, motion to approve by Betty Mont-
gomery, seconded by Ruth Hoffman, vote unanimous. When all receipts have been received, divi-
sion of bills for all except agility will be completed and breakout of expenses completed with Co-
lumbia Kennel Club.
President’s Report: March Spring Classic Show was very successful, we are waiting for receipts
to come in then we will settle Show reports with Columbia. We had a full capacity of RV’s for this
show, approximately 180 parked, all reserved grooming spaces were sold, and vendors with the exception of one (illness) filled spaces. We have been in
communication with the property attorney for the final bill; reporting on finalization of this process will be reported at June meeting.
Membership Report: Thirteen members present and 7 guests; 4 guests have applied for membership.
Pet Safe Report: The club had two cats in our care for 90 days; they have been successfully returned to their owner. We have no pets at present.
Sunshine Club: Karen has been ill so Martha sent a card. Good to see Karen back. Lisa will help Karen with the cards while Karen recuperates and will
help Karen as needed in the future. Thank you, Lisa.
NC Federation Club: We have paid dues for the year and gave a donation of $75 over and above club dues. Betty participated in a phone conference
in April; discussion was concerning rescue dogs coming from foreign countries with potential dangerous viruses. China and India are the primary
sources of dogs coming into the country and into rescue groups in the Northeast. Vets have approved the dogs but still tests may be missing some virus
infections. NC Federation will continue to stay on top of this.
August Agility Show: August 9th through 12th, please plan to help with set up and breakdown to make this another successful show. Scheduled 990
runs for agility days, extra help would be appreciated for full days (check with Martha). We have applied for special new events – Obedience, Rally,
Barn dog, Open show 4-6 puppy and applying for Scent work. New classes approved and encouraged by AKC for this show. AKC will be present as well
as Royal Canin, sponsor for these events, will be there.
Meeting adjourned 7:37 p.m.
GMKC Board Meeting, May 8, 2018
Board meeting called to order 7:53 p.m.
Members present: John Schoeneman, Martha Milligan, Ruth Hoffman, Louie Ginocchio, Lynn Rowell, and Janet Broome.
New Business: The Board discussed the new special events comprising the AKC Event Group Classes to be presented for the first time at our August
Agility Show. John, Martha and the AKC coordinator will have conference calls detailing needs for events.
Unfinished Business: Vice President presented motion to pay off the property; vote was unanimous, votes taken
John, yes;
Ruth, yes;
Janet, yes;
Lynn, yes;
Louie, yes;
Martha, yes.
Meeting adjourned 8:25 p.m.
End of Reports
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All articles in this section were submitted by Karen Phillipa
Karen’s
Korner All articles in this section
were submitted by
Karen Phillips
Stem Cell Therapy Could Help Pets Overcome Pain
PetPace Revolutionizes Treatment of Pet Epilepsy
IDEXX Research Links Tick-Borne Disease Exposure,
Kidney Problems in Veterinary Patients
Electromagnetic Field Therapy For Dogs with Spinal
Injuries
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Stem Cell Therapy Could Help Pets Overcome Pain
Filed Under:Dana Tyler, Local TV, Pets
There’s nothing some people wouldn’t do for their pets, especially when they sense the animal’s in pain.
As CBS2’s Dana Tyler reports, some cutting edge treatments can help bring canine relief when your pooch
needs it most.
“He looked like a really old, unhappy dog,” Madhu Garg said of Napolean, her 8-year-old French bulldog.
Napolean is playing like a puppy now, but that wasn’t the case two years ago.
“He limped for a whole year,” said Garg. “And he developed arthritis in his elbow.”
Rehabilitation and other therapies didn’t work. So Dr. Leilani Alvarez, director of integrative and rehabilita-
tive medicine at New York’s Animal Medical Center, suggested stem cell therapy.
“It’s actually waking up the body to its own healing mechanisms to bring other cells to the area to help the
tissue to heal,” she explained.
Stem cells were extracted from fat that came from Napolean’s own body, which required surgery. The cells
were then injected directly into the area needing treatment.
Two years later, he still appears to be pain free.
Now, research is underway that may eliminate the need for surgery altogether for pet patients needing those
stem cells.
Sawyer Howell and his German shepherd, Boone, have been buddies for nearly 10 years.
“He’s been all over – all over the country hiking with me,” he said.
But Boone has hip dysplasia and suffers from osteoarthritis.
“It’s been, you know, kind of sad watching him slow down,” said Howell.
As part of the new trial, Boone was spared a painful operation and treated with stem cells from puppy um-
bilical cords taken during routine cesarean sections.
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“I really hope that with the study we’re able to see if it actually benefits,” veterinarian Dr. Analisa Schilling
said.
It’s a large study looking at about 600 dogs nationally, and it’s double blind, so Howell doesn’t know if
Boone got the stem cells or a placebo.
“He hasn’t gotten any worse,” he said.
Boone is being closely monitored and has his blood checked regularly to mark any progress.
“We have so many owners who come in and say, ‘I hate to see my dog in pain.’ It’s heartwarming that we
can also give them another alternative,” study coordinator Angela Vogt said.
The question isn’t whether stem cells work. Research has shown they’re effective in treating conditions like
arthritis.
But it’s unclear if the same effectiveness can be found in outside donors. That’s what the study hopes to
find out.
Electromagnetic field therapy for dogs with spinal injuries Tracey Peake, North Carolina State University
Spinal surgery can involve a painful recovery process – whether
you're a human or a dog. But what if a noninvasive treatment utilizing
a pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) could improve pain, reduce in-
flammation and possibly aid motor recovery? A recent small clinical tri-
al at NC State's College of Veterinary Medicine set out to see whether
this was the case – and some of the results were promising.
Acute intervertebral disc extrusion (IVDE) in dogs occurs when there
is an explosive release of disc material from the spinal column. In
IVDE the "jelly-like" center of the disc cannot withstand pressures ex-
erted on it by movements of the spine, so it ejects into the spinal canal
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above it. The disc material both bruises and compresses the spinal
cord, rendering the dog unable to walk or feel anything below the inju-
ry site. It's most often seen in short-legged breeds like Dachshunds,
but can occur in other breeds as well.
Surgical decompression is the preferred treatment for IVDE – sur-
geons drill a hole in the bone above the spinal cord and remove the
disc material. This procedure alleviates the compression, but doesn't
help with any bruising of the spinal cord. Afterward the dog's ability to
recover depends largely on the amount of injury incurred. For dogs
with the most severe grade of injury the recovery rate is just over 50
percent – the rest remain paralyzed.
"The treatment for IVDE has remained pretty static for the last few
decades, but recently there's been a renewed effort to improve the
outcomes for these dogs," says Natasha Olby, the Dr. Kady M. Gjess-
ing and Rahna M. Davidson Distinguished Chair in Gerontology. Olby,
who specializes in neurology, recently conducted a small clinical trial
of a loop that delivers PEMF over the surgical injury sites for 16 dogs
with severe IVDE.
"These dogs all had sensorimotor complete injury, meaning they can-
not move or feel their back legs," says Olby. "We wanted to test the ef-
fects of the therapy to see if there was any improvement in pain reduc-
tion, wound healing or motor recovery."
PEMF therapy isn't new – it's been shown to improve wound healing
in human patients recovering from breast reconstruction surgeries.
There is evidence that the field triggers pathways that reduce inflam-
mation and improve growth factor levels and blood flow.
Sixteen dogs participated in the trial, separated into either a placebo
or treatment group. Assisi Animal Health, a company that manufac-
tures PEMF therapy loops, provided 16 randomized devices for use in
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the trial. After surgery the dogs were placed in jackets with incorpo-
rated loops that were programmed to deliver therapy every two hours
for two weeks. Once at home, owners were instructed when to switch
the loops on and off for another four weeks.
Olby and her team collected data on the dogs' pain levels in a number
of different ways, including via an algometer, which measures pres-
sure applied. The dogs with the active loops demonstrated a 30 per-
cent higher threshold for pressure after six weeks than the control
group.
While both groups had equal numbers of dogs that remained para-
lyzed after surgery – which was in line with the 50 percent recovery
rate – the group that received treatment had better knowledge of foot
placement and lower markers of injury in their blood than the control
group, suggesting that there may be a beneficial effect on the recov-
ery from the spinal cord injury.
While these findings were promising, Olby cautions that there is more
work to be done. "This was a small, pilot trial with very few dogs par-
ticipating. While we can say that we saw pain reduction along the inci-
sions for these animals, we would have to do a larger trial before con-
cluding that the PEMF therapy enhances neuro-
logic recovery following spinal-cord injury."
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PetPace Revolutionizes Treatment of Pet Epilepsy
BURLINGTON, MASS. (PRWEB) APRIL 10, 2018
PetPace, the world leader in wearable technology for pets, today announced a new objective, innovative and
automated program that allows pet owners, for the first time, to examine how pet biometric data changes
in relation to seizure events. Addressing an acute gap in pet epilepsy care, PetPace Bio-Response™ for Epi-
lepsy has the potential to revolutionize treatment of epileptic dogs.
Epilepsy is a common condition affecting millions of dogs worldwide. A key clinical question that often re-
mains unanswered is the frequency of seizures a dog suffers. Since dogs spend many hours unobserved, it
is difficult for pet owners to know when a seizure occurs. As a result, veterinarians are challenged to formu-
late treatment plans for epileptic patients without knowing the actual scope or frequency of seizures.
As part of the PetPace Bio-Response™ for Epilepsy program development, PetPace is working with a large
group of epileptic dogs and their pet parents to collect hundreds of seizure events and their correlat-
ed PetPace Smart Collardata.
Starting this month, PetPace began to enroll the PetPace Bio-Response™ for Epilepsy to its Pet Plus and Pet
Platinum clients. It collects and analyzes a range of physiological and behavioral data from owner-reported
seizure events, including changes in pulse, respiration, temperature, activity, positions, HRV and more. The
PetPace analytic engineanalyzes the relevant biometrics using advanced mathematical models and ma-
chine learning techniques and provides key statistical indicators, measures and graphical patterns that can
then be used to detect future seizures.
“This technology has the potential to change the way caregivers relate to and treat epileptic dogs and cats,”
said Dr. Asaf Dagan, DVM, Diplomate ABVP (Canine and Feline practice), and PetPace’s Chief Veterinarian.
“The powerful combination of caregiver input and PetPace advanced analytics may open the door for re-
mote, automatic detection of seizures, and ultimately to significant improvement in the management of
this unfortunate condition,” he concluded.
Prof. Mickey Scheinowitz, previous Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Founder/Director of
Biomedical Technology Innovation Program at Tel Aviv University, added, “Leveraging the data collected by
the dog’s smart collar and using machine learning and big data models holds a great promise for the future
of medical care. PetPace’s Bio-Response™ for Epilepsy program is an excellent application of this approach
in the veterinary world”.
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About PetPace
PetPace was founded in 2012 to bring peace of mind to pet owners and prevent unnecessary pain and suf-
fering for dogs and cats through improved pet health and quality of life. PetPace specializes in the remote
monitoring of pet vital signs by utilizing advanced analytical methods and alerting models. The company’s
low power, wireless collar is fitted with an array of sensors that report abnormal vital signs within estab-
lished physiological and behavioral parameters. Once an abnormal sign or behavior is detected, a sophisti-
cated cloud-based analytical engine evaluates the signs and if needed, sends an immediate alert regarding
any suspected condition. This allows the owner or the vet to take preemptive action to protect the pet’s
health. For more information about PetPace real-time pet health monitoring, visit http://www.petpace.com.
IDEXX research links tick-borne disease exposure, kidney problems in veterinary patients Positive results for B. borgdorferi and E. canis antibodies associated with a higher risk of CKD in dogs later in life.
By dvm360.com staff
IDEXX Laboratories, makers of the popular IDEXX SNAP 4Dx Plus test to detect exposure to vector-borne diseases, has released
internal research connecting exposure to the pathogens causing Lyme disease and ehrlichiosis—the positive “blue dot” result—to
kidney problems later in life, even in animals that seemed asymptomatic at the time of the screening.
“To protect our pets and ourselves, we need to stay alert to the risks,” reads an IDEXX white paper detailing the study design and
its results. “That means regularly screening pets—including asymptomatic or seemingly healthy ones—to identify exposure to in-
fected ticks.”
How the study was conducted
To conduct the research, investigators at IDEXX performed a retrospective study using results from its patient database. They ob-
tained complete chemistry panel (including SDMA, a biomarker that can signal kidney disease relatively early in the disease pro-
cess) and urinalysis results logged between July 2015 and January 2017. They then correlated these results with vector-borne dis-
ease data gathered between January 2003 and January 2017, according to the white paper.
To be considered “exposed” to infected ticks, a patient had to have at least one positive vector-borne disease test result in its histo-
ry. Patients were deemed to have chronic kidney disease (CKD) if they showed increased SDMA (>14 μg/dl) and creatinine (>1.5
mg/dl) for at least 25 days and inappropriate urine specific gravity (USG <1.030) in that same period. To establish persistence in
these patients, neither SDMA nor creatinine concentrations could return to normal ranges in their available history.
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Investigators also correlated these results to the patients’ geographic areas—namely, whether or not those areas were endemic for
Lyme disease and ehrlichiosis. The patient population included male and female dogs of all breeds from 1 to 25 years old.
What the researchers found
Dogs with antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme pathogen, were found to have a 43% higher risk of developing CKD. Dogs
with antibodies to Ehrlichiaspecies had a 300% higher risk of developing CKD if they lived in Ehrlichia canis-endemic areas (those
patients not located in endemic areas did not show increased risk of CKD with Ehrlichia exposure). The results were statistically sig-
nificant and clinically relevant, IDEXX’s white paper states, “indicating that regular monitoring of these seropositive patients is med-
ically necessary.”
“Although the design of this retrospective study does not allow for determination of a causal relationship,” the paper continues in
its Conclusions section, “the study supports that dogs who test positive for Lyme disease or Ehrlichia are associated with a statisti-
cally significant increased risk of developing CKD in endemic areas. … Consequently, patients of any age that test positive for Lyme
disease or Ehrlichia should be considered for comprehensive evaluation. At every annual visit, the patient should receive a physical
examination, a complete blood count (CBC), a complete chemistry panel with the IDEXX SDMA Test, and a complete urinalysis to
