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Sighting: Black & tan tugou

23 Monday Sep 2013

Posted by M.C. in Sightings, Taiwan reminiscences

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formosan mountain dog, nantou, rabies, taiwan, taiwan dogs, tugou

Didn’t get a chance to post this gorgeous tugou encountered on a walk when I went down to Puli, Nantou County — the only land-locked county in the center of the island where my dad’s side of the family mostly resides.

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I don’t often see black and tans that retain such a sharp mask and distinctive form.

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You see why they often end up getting dubbed “Basenji” mixes when they arrive Stateside?

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Despite her towering presence atop the column, she wasn’t that big, about 40 pounds. I’d be able to brush the top of her head and certainly her ears without stooping if she was beside me. Not that she offered a chance to get close.

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Given the current rabies situation in Taiwan, I made sure to note the number of free-roaming dogs that I still saw during my trip down south. While I didn’t encounter groups of strays, as I have before, it was mildly surprising that many pet dogs were still given free rein. Rabies “hysteria,” as it were, is not so easy to observe from a casual perspective. One probably has to go to shelters and vets to get a better sense of heightened anxieties.

About a week after my country excursion, the first case of rabies affecting a pet dog was confirmed in Taitung, on the Eastern coast.

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Public notice posted at the library when I first arrived in August, warning that “This KISS could be deadly!”

I know not what this portends. Taipei often seems a world away from the rest of the island, let alone further points abroad.

Puli

FILM: Cujo, with a digression on rabies in Taiwan

05 Monday Aug 2013

Posted by M.C. in Film, Links, Taiwan reminiscences

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animal horror, cujo, dog movies, horror movies, rabies, stephen king, taiwan

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Film: Cujo
Director: Lewis Teague
Performers: Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh-Kelly, Ed Lauter, unnamed Saint Bernards and Rottweilers (as Cujo)
Breed featured: Saint Bernard
Animal trainer: Karl Lewis Miller (credited for animal action); Glen Garner, Jackie Martin (credited as animal handlers)
Production information: Warner Brothers, 1983 (USA)

Stephen King’s Cujo is synonymous with the killer dog raging out of control. If you don’t know the story, the name may or may not bring to mind a Saint Bernard (gee, I wonder if the movie spurred an uptick in demand for this breed?). It may or may not even call to mind rabies, the disease that is transmitted to the titular dog, causing him to stalk and kill both his familiars and hapless passers-through. In popular parlance, to “go Cujo” just means to turn violent with little to no basis for aggression; provocation or other, explanatory factors are not necessarily part of the definition.

kids, this is NOT how you greet a strange dog -- rabid or not

kids, this is NOT how you greet a strange dog — rabid or not

Cujo embodies the basic fear that no matter how “tame” you may consider your cohabitants — your pets, your spouse, your child(ren) — there is always a possibility that they will turn on you. Yet, it’s not nearly so frightening when betrayal comes in the form of a cheating or abusive partner, a side plot to the central conflict. When the creature that turns is a 200-pound dog who is physically unstoppable, can’t listen to either emotion or reason, and could easily tear out your throat and suck the juices from your face without bothering to wipe off any of the mess… well, that’s the stuff of nightmares.

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Really gross, drippy, and OMGdontevenTOUCHmejuststayAWAY nightmares.

As I jot down this review, I am thinking of Taiwan, currently in the grips of rabies hysteria. In June 2013, a number of ferret-badgers from the landlocked county of Nantou in central Taiwan tested positive for the rabies virus. These discoveries effectively struck the island from the list of international rabies-free zones, a status it has enjoyed for over 50 years. The news was made official in mid-July. To date, there have been 36 confirmed cases, though none involve pets or any of the large population of free-roaming cats and dogs.

Ideally, the disease will be contained as vaccines are properly administered — when they’re available. There’s been a shortage of supplies, and quite a bit of dramatics involved. Historically, cross-culturally, and even aesthetically, this seems to be the nature of the disease. Visual and literary depictions of rabies frequently run to extremes, as if born of anxieties that the madness is transmissible by more than bites, but by thought itself.

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What seems most frightening about rabies is how it possesses and transforms the very nature of the individual, the closest thing to mammalian metamorphoses documented by humans. Even the cleanest household beast will turn into a drooling, staggering mess if infected — and by then, it’s a goner. In the case of pets, it’s frightening to think that a constant companion, whose presence is frequently invited and a welcome part of daily life, has even the slightest potential to become the vector of violence and trauma. Indeed, pets only became as widespread and as precious as they are now when the threat of an untimely loss due to rabies (and other common diseases like distemper) was effectively nullified by modern vaccines.

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Of course, there would be no story if Cujo’s owner had just properly vaccinated him like a responsible, modern pet owner. Indeed, the world has moved on from the days of Old Yeller, where a farm dog chasing wild rabbits on his turf was only so much charming, innocent fun. Now, you gotta add rabid bats and other, unforeseen dangers to the environment. Cujo (and his owner) are essentially punished for being relics of backwoods ignorance that no longer have their place. But in a story like Old Yeller, where no humans are actually hurt by rabid animals, the pain is more psychological. In this story, where the dog’s original owner is quickly dispatched, and the main victims are a mother and son who just happen to get stuck on Cujo’s farm, the threat is mostly about physical rather than emotional harm.

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That is, if they could just kill the damn dog and get to a phone, there’d be no lingering regrets about losing a formerly-loved friend. And honestly, by the end of the movie, I was kind of wishing they could just be done with it though I knew there was only one way out. The rabid dog never wins. He just can’t.

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But cripes, at least they can give him a proper bath when the shooting’s over!

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Afya Serengeti – Eradicating Rabies

28 Thursday Oct 2010

Posted by M.C. in Health, Links

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africa, african dogs, afya serengeti, intervet, kenya, merck, rabies, schering-plough, serengeti plains, tanzania, vaccinations

Well, this post is only a month late for World Rabies’ Day…

But it hasn’t stopped being relevant.

I stumbled across this campaign, Afya Serengeti, Health for Serengeti, which aims to control the spread and eventually eradicate rabies in the Serengeti Plains (Kenya and Tanzania). The campaign is sponsored in part by Intervet/Schering-Plough, a subsidiary of Merck.


Photo from the project photo page

It seems that Intervet is promoting the campaign through US veterinary clinics. For every dose of an Intervet-manufactured vaccine administered (there’s a list on the website), the company will donate a dose of rabies vaccine to the project.

They also have a click campaign which anyone can participate in. For every 5000 verified clicks received via the button on the front page of the site (unique visitor counts apparently don’t matter), Intervet will donate an undisclosed amount of “resources.” Every click also enrolls you in a chance to win a $50 iTunes gift certificate if you fill out some information and include a photo of your pet as a “message of support” to the program.

I don’t know the details about the project’s management other than what’s on the site, but I agree with the motivating premise that rabies should be preventable in this day and age, and that we should have the resources to do something about it. The gravity of the disease is something I seldom considered while living in both the United States and Taiwan, the latter of which is a rabies-free island, achieved partially through the tragedy of massive dog culls in the 1980s — something that would not be feasible in parts of the world where dogs share as close a relationship to basic modes of daily life as they do in parts of Africa.

Q: How is the relationship between dogs and people here?

A: Dogs are worth a lot to us. First they are watchdogs. They warn us if something is wrong. They can also bring food to our home, when they catch an animal. Meat costs 3000 shillings per kg. The dog brings 10 kg for free.

(from Episode 5 of the website’s video presentations)

And these dogs belong with their people, and are both good with and good for them. It was previously assumed that there were far too many roaming strays to ever successfully implement a rabies vaccination campaign. However, as the folks from Afya Serengeti show, these dogs have names, homes, and humans who will happily bring them in for free vaccinations.


Photo from the project photo page

I found the video presentations to be most persuasive. Check the tab for Serengeti Movies for five well-produced clips (by Ten10 Films) on how the project is carried out at a grassroots, village level. I recommend watching at least the first episode with Sarah Cleaveland, who speaks cogently about the inception of the project and introduces the personnel involved, and the fourth and fifth episodes which contain lots of amazing footage of villagers and their wide variety of dogs. Okay, I liked episode two and three as well, for their presentation of the personalities behind the campaign and the vivid examples of old-school advertising techniques like loudspeaker jeeps, respectively. It’s all very inspiring.

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Thyroid testing, part 2 at the new vet

06 Wednesday Oct 2010

Posted by M.C. in Bowdu the shiba inu, Finances, Health

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allergies, atopica, bordatella, canine hypothyroidism, comfortis, convenia, foot licking, Ketoconazole, lepto, rabies, rescue remedy, thyroids, vaccines, vet, yeast infections

We went to the vet today for Bowdu’s followup thyroid test, as instructed by both the previous vet and HemoPet. Standard Operating Procedure calls for hypothyroid dogs to get a repeat blood draw within 4 to 8 weeks of being diagnosed and starting supplements to make sure the dosage is correct. It has been six weeks since we started dosing Bowdu.

Here’s our bill from today’s appointment:

  • Office call / examination fee — $53.00
  • T4 and Free T4 bloodwork — $140.00
  • Domitor / Antisedative reversal — $116.00
  • Leptospirosis vaccine (annual) — $24.50
  • Canine Rabies 3 year vaccine — $21.75
  • Bordatella vaccine — $21.75
  • Antibiotic Injection — Convenia (1.4 mL) — $78.60 $0.00
  • Ketoconazole (Quantity: 20) — $24.80

Total before discount: $480.40
Minus student discount and free antibiotic: -$116.29
TOTAL: $364.11

I really appreciate the student discount and the free injection, though I’m not sure why they felt we deserved it given Bowdu’s total non-compliance, which is why they had to bust out the sedative, as expected. Even with four drops of Rescue Remedy on a marshmallow before we brought him in, he was fighting both the scale and the stethoscope — not exactly invasive procedures.

He was due for his rabies in November, so the vet recommended just getting it out of the way. When I asked about the necessity of Lepto and Bordatella, I was told that the clinic had already treated two Lepto cases this year from dogs who hadn’t left our city, and Bordatella is standard for any dog that comes in contact with other dogs. I haven’t done enough research on individual vaccines to know what to refuse, so we just got what they suggested.

We had to leave him at the vet in the “sedative queue” for a couple hours before we could come back and pick him up. The Doggy Daddy gets very anxious whenever he has to leave Bowdu in the hands of strangers, which has happened maybe a total of four times ever. So do I, but I try to mask my anxiety by telling myself it’s often part of the routine… They’re professionals… They handle screaming, squirmy, uncooperative pets every day. Still, when they called to notify us that we could retrieve him, I had this paranoid vision that they were going to tell us Sorry, but your dog broke out of his restraints and mauled one of our vet techs before charging through a window and into the street, where he was immediately hit by a passing SUV. [Yes, this is why I’m a crazy dog lady sometimes.] Instead, the report was that he was very good when he was not being prodded with needles, and they decided they liked him because “he has kind eyes.”

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Photo taken 22 February 2008

They gave us a round of Ketoconazole after determining that the fermented tofu smell coming from his ears and feet (which I hadn’t detected from the latter, though I’d noticed the scaling for sure!) was a yeast infection. This isn’t a drug he’s tried before, so hopefully it’ll be effective in keeping Bowdu’s paws under control. Meanwhile, we’ve been advised to bathe him more frequently with a good antibacterial/antifungal shampoo, and switch to an oral flea medication like Comfortis to help enable this process.

So we’ve gotten a lot of “new” professional recommendations today, though they’re still considering his case from the angle of allergies, not so much physical conditions that hypothyroidism might predispose him to. It’s comforting just to try something different at all, and I feel like this vet actually listened to me when I said I didn’t want to use Temaril-P. She drew up a cost estimate for Atopica, which we have considered and may still consider in the future.

Meanwhile, we’ll await Bowdu’s thyroid test results and I’ll continue to process the events of the day.

BOOK: Fula, Basenji from the Jungle

14 Tuesday Sep 2010

Posted by M.C. in Digging in the Libraries

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basenji, congo, distemper, fula, rabies, sudan, veronica tudor-williams

Tudor-Williams, Veronica. Fula: Basenji from the Jungle. Surrey (UK): Veronica Tudor-Williams, 1988.

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Fula was brought to England in 1959 by Veronica Tudor-Williams, the world’s greatest authority on this breed prized by the pharoahs. Fula’s descendants are among the top Basenjis in all countries showing the breed. Yet, she was bred by an unknown tribesman of Equatoria Province in South Sudan.

This is the story of Veronica Tudor-Williams’ search for Basenji puppies in the Country of the Barkless Dogs with two men friends and a landrover. Their adventures and the eventual arrival of new Basenji blood in England makes exciting and appealing reading.

I had this book on my nightstand as my pleasure reading for August. Within a few nights, I had polished it off. While this book shares much of the drama and narrative arcs common to late 19th/early 20th century missionary and ethnographic accounts that I have read, its delivery is so much more congenial, gentile, and unguarded, it seemed fresh. It was truly an adventure unto its own.

Tudor-Williams sets out on this journey with a single-minded motive: to find and obtain the finest Basenji that she can locate in relatively “wild” territory. The setting is post-independence Sudan, where the vestiges of colonial history cling to the edges of her narration. At one point, she comments that local government officials were so willing to entertain her group because they knew she was not interested in politics — though I would suggest that the very possibility of her presence is political by nature. Occasionally, she’ll offer casual remarks such as, “I was told that the Sudan was one of the best governed of all the British colonies or protectorates, and their love for British rule was shown when we went out long after World War II. In the various villages we passed through the people would run out, ‘Have the British come back, have the British come back?’ and they seemed very sad when through our interpreter we told them that we were very sorry and that we were only passing through” (19). Moments like this cast a romantic veneer over what might also be seen as an extension of the historical, extractive relationships between colony and empire. But as the story continues, it’s apparent that on this level of a search for “authentic” Basenjis, there’s actually a lot of humor and warmth and even empathy that makes this a very different kind of mission indeed. In some ways, it’s much closer — literally — to the dirt, the land, and the people.

Tudor-Williams and each of her partners were able to select one dog apiece, so they had to make their decisions carefully. The first batch of “true Basenjis” that they came across resided in a leper colony. As this community was segregated and socially stigmatized, strong characteristics of the breed were preserved amongst their dogs, whom others were reluctant to touch. In the midst of such disease and squalor, her clear delight in discovering the dogs seems out of place, but then Tudor-Williams explains why they were skipped over: “There was one lovely little bitch which could have beaten most of the Basenjis in England. We did not ask if she was for sale as it was only the start of Basenji country and we also felt the poor lepers needed her more than we did, as the dogs were obviously their pets” (44).

Indeed, you see that she harbors a deep respect for the close relationship that the Sudanese have with their pets. It’s a bond that she understands in her own terms, so she doesn’t begrudge others when her mission is thwarted, as in the case of a woman who refused to sell her dog and even seemed offended by the proposal. “We talk of other nations and especially coloured ones not loving dogs, but what could this be called except love?” (47) While the language and some of her assumptions are deeply implicated in her time and place, sentimental snippets like this give the adventure a transcendental appeal.

There are also details that make you appreciate how much has changed between the time of her writing and now. Rabies, for example, is an ominous specter that haunts the journey from the very outset. The crew received notice that a dog that had just bit Tudor-Williams prior to her departure had died of rabies while they were in passage; thus, a long series of treatment shots dogs her (pun intended) during the entire trip and punctuates the story with some humorous, awkward episodes. To read accounts of how precious dogs succumbed to this seemingly unpredictable and prevalent disease, I realize how intense the fear of canine-borne diseases must really have seemed back then. Then, there are the victims of early distemper vaccinations, as previous imports either died from the shots they received in quarantine or from infections sustained elsewhere. Combine all this with descriptions of water that’s not even safe to bathe in, and you get the paranoid feeling that the text itself is bristling with infectious germs, at times. Her anecdotes also go far in letting me understand the attitude towards mandatory quarantine in the UK. Quarantine itself is not adequately explained in this book, but it’s clearly regarded as a burden to both the human and the psychological welfare of the dog, which adds another layer of ethical consideration to the campaign.

She also describes a brief journey in an unpressurized airplane — for dogs and humans alike. It sounded like a vile mess in the passenger hold, but luckily the dogs came out unhurt. This, however, was just an inter-African flight; within a couple brief pages, the dogs were shipped to England and out of quarantine, and the adventure over. Tudor-Williams’ pick was Fula, a red and white bitch whom she brought back to the UK. She also imported a brindle named Tiger who was officially owned by one of her traveling partners. However, because Tiger’s markings were not accepted by the Kennel Club at the time, she had to return him to his original claimant in Southern Rhodesia. The send-off is described as a tearful affair, and as I was touched by their separation, I realized that through her account, I, too, must have invested a little bit of hope in him. She doesn’t go into detail on the rationale behind the rejection of brindles, other than “there are a few difficult people around, and a small handful of one Basenji club said we did not need more colours in Basenjis” (99). Nevertheless, I find her attempt to change breed standards noteworthy. In particular, it makes me think of the current status of cream-colored Shiba Inu, a pretty common genetic variation, but nevertheless inadmissible in AKC trials. The interesting realization, to me, is that breed standards are malleable, but they’re guided by a consensus of knowledgeable, invested breed preservationists, and not by rogue breeding practices (even if they happen to be one of the foremost experts of the breed!).

Fula eventually produced just two litters which contributed greatly to the modern pool of Basenji blood. The rest, as they say, is history. But not exactly. Because what was most alive to me about this “historical” account was the search itself, motivated by a desire for change and progress in the name of bettering the breed to this day. At times, her search criteria seemed arbitrary, or at least heavily skewed in favor of her individual preferences — smaller, “feline” ears as opposed to the “donkey-like” ears popular among later generations, for example. Dogs specifically of a smaller, compact stature, for another, lest they be pressured to cull an entirely litter as they almost had with Simolo, an earlier, pre-war import (43). To my untrained eyes, Basenji look more alike each other than dogs of many other breeds, like German Shepherds, or Rat Terriers, or Shiba Inu. So I wonder if this is due in part to the stringency of breeding criteria which still guides today’s reputable kennels. Some might call this elitism or purebred snobbery, to the point of excluding newcomers. But as Veronica Tudor-Williams’ account reveals, and contemporary initiatives like the ongoing African Stock Project demonstrate, there’s a much more complicated history and motivational drive that guides the future of this breed, as a whole.

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