LEARN TO CARE FOR ALL TYPES OF ANIMALS
Animal Health and Welfare Short Course
Revised and expanded in 2018
This course teaches you the fundamentals of animal illnesses and disorders. Your perspective on what can go wrong with an animal will expand.
Animals can become injured or ill, but they are not humans. Their nutritional, and psychological needs are often different to ours. They suffer diseases; but often different diseases to what we suffer. There may be some similarities between human health and animal health; but there are also many significant differences. If you wish to care for animals appropriately and effectively, you must understand animal health and welfare in a different way to how you understand human health and welfare. This is not to say one is more or less important than another; but it is both a disservice to animals, and an ineffective way of caring for animals, if you don’t have an appropriate appreciation of differences between people and animals.
This course covers the following lessons:
LESSON 1 INTRODUCTION
Considering Animal Ethics
Animal Rights
Animal Welfare
Health And Welfare
Providing Animal Health Care
Routine Health Treatments
LESSON 2 PREVENTING DISEASE AND INJURY
Health Checks And Observations
The Importance Of Good Nutrition
Watering
Exercise And Stimulation
Appropriate And Safe Environment
Controlling Pests And Diseases
Veterinary Prevention
LESSON 3 UNDERSTANDING & INSPECTING HEALTH ISSUES
Pathogens
Inspecting The Health Of Animals
Signs Of Ill Health
Differential Diagnosis
LESSON 4 ANIMAL FIRST AID
Types Of Wounds
Treating Wounds
Fly Control
Bone & Joint Problems
Poisoning
First Aid For Wildlife
LESSON 5 SOME COMMON ILLNESSES IN ANIMALS A-F
African Swine Fever
Allergies
Anaplasmosis
Anthrax
Aspergillosis
Arthritis
Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)
Bacterial Infections
Bile Duct Obstruction
Bladder Stones
Blastomycosis
Bloat
Blue Tongue
Botulism
Bordetella (Respiratory Infection)
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Bse)
Brucellosis
BVD (Bovine Viral Diarrhoea)
Camel Pox
Cancer
Cancer Eye
Candida
Canine Distemper
Cataracts
Chlamydiosis
Cholera
Chronic Murine Pneumonia (Murine Mycoplasmosis)
Coccidiosis
Colitis
Congestive Heart Failure
Conjunctivitis
Cryptococcosis
Cryptosporidiosis
Cystitis
Dermatitis
Diabetes Insipidus
Diabetes Mellitus
Dermatophilosis
Dropsy (Fish)
E-Coli 0157
Ear Mites
Eczema
Egg Binding
Encephalitis
Enteritis
Epilepsy
Equine Encephalomyelitis
Equine Herpesvirus (Ehv)
Equine Infectious Anemia Virus (Eia)
Equine Influenza
Erysipelas (Swine)
External Parasites
Feline Asthma
Feline Immunodeficiency Virus
Feline Infectious Peritonitis
Feline Leukaemia Virus (Felv)
Fibrosis
Fish Fungus
Flea Anemia
Foot And Mouth Disease
Foot Rot
LESSON 6 SOME COMMON ILLNESSES IN ANIMALS G-N
Gastroenteritis
Giardia
Glaucoma
Grass Tetany
Heartworm
Heat Stress
Hip Dysplasia
Hookworm
Hendra Virus (Equine Morbillivirus Pneumonia)
Hydatid Disease
Hymenolepiasis
Hypertension
Hypothyroidism
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Ibd)
Internal Parasites
Intestinal Impaction (Snakes)
Kennel Cough
Laryngitis
Legionellosis (Pneumonia Or Mild Respiratory Illness)
Leptospiriosis
Leukaemia
Liverfluke (Fasciola Hepatica)
Listeriosis
Lumpy Jaw
Lyme Disease
Lymphocystis
Lymphoma
Malaria
Mange
Mastitis
Melioidosis
Metabolic Bone Disease (Reptiles)
Mouth Canker (Stomatis)
Mrsa Infection
Muscular Dystrophy
Mycotic Infection (Reptiles)
Myiasis
Necrotic Dermatitits (Scale Rot)
Newcastle Disease
Nipah Virus
Nitrate Poisoning
Nutritional Secondary Hyperparathyroidism
LESSON 7 SOME COMMON ILLNESSES IN ANIMALS O-Z
Obesity
Overgrown Teeth
Ovine Johne’s Disease (Ojd)
Pancreatic Disorders
Parvovirus
Pediculosis (Lice)
Peritonitis
Pneumonia
Poisoning
Polyomavirus
Pox Virus
Proventricular Dilation Disease (Pdd)
Psittacosis
Q Fever
Rabbit Calicivirus Disease
Rabies
Rhinitis
Rift Valley Fever (Rvf)
Ringworm
Scabies (Sarcoptic Mange)
Salmonellosis
Scours
Sendai Virus
Screw-Worm Fly
Streptococcal Infection
Surra
Swine Influenza (Hog Cholera)
Taeniasis
Tail And Fin Rot
Tetanus
Ticks
Toxic Plants
Toxoplasmosis
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (Tse)
Tuberculosis
Varroa Mite
Vesicular Stomatitis
Visceral Larval Migrans
West Nile Virus (Wnv)
White Spot (Ichthyophtirius Multifiliis)
Woody Tongue
FINAL ASSESSMENT
