Vol. 12, Issue 5 (2023)

Author(s):
Dr. N Arulnathan, Dr. M Chellapandian, P Anuradha and Dr. D Thirumeignanam

Abstract:
A field study was carried out to diagnose the cause of dermatitis in native breeds dogs in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, India. Based on the complaints received from the native dog breeders, that they dogs were having hairless patches on the body and not responding to the treatment for parasitic and fungal and microbial infections. Hence, in order to address that problem, and for differential diagnosis a detailed questioner was designed and the complete management and feeding practices followed by the native dog breeders in that area were collected. Based on the analysis of observed data, indiscriminate feeding of raw eggs lead to unavailability of biotin due to the effect of avidin binding nature and in turn lead to biotin deficiency that the cause of hairless patches. An awareness programme was organized for scientific feeding practices and advices were given to the native dog breeders recommended to feed their dogs with boiled eggs instead of raw eggs and also advised to multivitamin supplement 5-10 ml per day based on the body weight of the dogs for one month to rectify the biotin deficiency induced dermatitis. On the observation made by after two months around 78% of the dogs were cured from dermatitis problem which was induced by the indiscriminate feeding raw eggs to the native dog breeds.