Horses and rabbits

Horses are susceptible to many diseases so it's very necesary to know wich one's are the most common, and what they generates in the animals.

1) Distemper (Strangles): it's a bacterial disease caused by Streptococcus equi wich can be transfer by direct contact or inhalation. The bacteria generates pus by an abscesses on the lymph nodes wich is released by the nose. The bacteria can live a lot of time is many objects wich had contact with the infected animal, so it's very important to change the clothes when you was with a sick horse and you have to be with another one.
Strangles can affected horses from any age but usually the most susceptible are the younger horses. The abscesses also caused struggle with breathing until the abscesses drain complete. At last the horse will not have permanent damage.

2) Anemia (swamp fever): It's a disease caused by as a retrovirus (equine infectious anemia virus) wich it's trasfer by bloodsucking insects and also by body fluids. The symptoms are fever (caused by the brack down of red blood cells), irregular heartbeat, swelling and weakness and maybe a suddenly death.

3) Tetanus: It caused by a bacteria called clostridium tetanni wich enters to the body by wounds usually wich ones are in foot. the bactteria attacks the nerves wich caused spasm and muscular steffness. At finally usually the infection caused the death of the animals by a respiratory failure.

4) Encephalomyelitis: it's a disease caused by a virus called Easter equine encephalomyelitis virus. The virus enter to the horse organism by a vector. The first symptoms is fever that usually last one ore two days, also appears nerve symtoms that includes sound sensitiviti, periods of excitement and restlesness and also the complete pralization of the nerves wich generates death.

5) Influenza: It's caused by a virus called equine-1 and equine-2. It has a high rate of transmission among horses and a short period of incubation. The symptoms are fever, have dry, runny nose, BEcome depressed and don't want to eat or drink. Usally the disease disappear after two or three weeks.


Equine External Anatomy

Equine Digestive System

One of my favorite farm animals is the rabbit! I have one at home called Floppy, and i can say that they are very funny and good pets for everybody!
Searching, I found a good web site wich has a lot of information for people who want to have rabbit and the ones that already has one. Here we can learn how to make our pets happy :)
Here's the link         http://www.myhouserabbit.com/


External anatomy of rabbit

Italy!

Hello! The country that I would like to visit Italy. I don't know very much why I like this country, maybe is for the food and also because people have told me that Italians are very closed to ech other and friendly but I don't know if that's true, because the person who gived me that description was from AFS and she interviewed me when I was proposing to go on a exchange.
I don't know very much about it, I just know that it has a lot of history on it's cities and also they are beautiful with their typical way to be build.

If I go there I would like to know Rome and the cities closed to the sea. Maybe the unfamous towns wich are far away from the popular cities. I would like to meet a big family and live their life as a member of it, with all of that includes.
If I visit Italy I would like to be all the summer vacations there, I would't like to work or moved there because if I'm thinking about that I would go to Australia or New Zealand.

Things that I like.

I love this picture very much, I saw it a long time ago and everytime that I visit National Geographic's web site I like to look for it to laught and get impress about how beatiful animals can be.
I think that the seals elephant of this picture are very good friends because they are close to each other making pull faces to the camera. I also think that the person who took the picture was very lucky because it's very difficult to be close to wild animals like these and make them fell comfortable.

This is the other picture that I like. I think that it's beautifull because it shows that wild and ferocious animals also can be tender and express love to their cubs. I think that even many people may think that this situation it's unusual, I think that animals can have fellings as people has so it's no difficult to see animals showing affection to the members of his family or even to another animals.

The videos that I like

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/specials/in-the-field-specials/boyes-cape-parrot/

I saw this video and I almost cry because it's shows the sad reality of the wild animals, how they have been becoming extinct for our fault, because we only think about money and material things that will take our society to nowhere. I can't understand how we can be so selfish and we can live friendly with the things that gives us life, like ecosystem.
The best part of the video is when the guy release the cape parrots hoping that they will increase the poblation, and make him fell that the hard work gives rewards. I think that is very inspiring.


http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals/mammals-animals/bears-and-pandas/bear_polar_momsandcubs/

This videos shows a few part of a complete documentary of this polar bear mom and her cubs. I remember that I saw the complete documentary when I was in Viña del Mar, on the last vacations. The Polar Bear mom had work very hard for her cubs and even in this video are the beautiful parts of the documentary, there are missing the dificult moments and the sad dead of one of her cubs. I choosed this video because it remind me the documentary that is very beautiful. It's nice to see how animals lives and overcome the difficult thing of the life.

Finaly I would like to give you a link of the nasa that shows amazing photos...
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html