Stomatitis course features in dogs and cats

The purpose of the study is to find out the features of the course of stomatitis in dogs and cats in the Primorsky Region. Tasks: identification of the etiological features of stomatitis; determination of predisposition to diseases of the oral cavity; study of breed predisposition, age and concomitant diseases. In veterinary clinics, to confirm the diagnosis, clinical, laboratory (general, biochemical blood tests, smear smears) and x-ray studies of animals were performed. Statistical processing of the obtained data was carried out by the Student difference method described by V.A. Chistyakov. The object of the study was the registers for the reception of sick animals in the period from 2019 to 2022 in veterinary clinics in the Primorsky Region. During this period, 1911 dogs and 2509 cats of various breeds and ages were examined. To confirm the diagnosis, clinical, laboratory and radiological studies of animals were performed. The studied material was summarized for the prevalence and etiology of diseases of the oral cavity in animals in the Primorsky Region. According to the data obtained, stomatitis is often recorded in domestic animals in the Primorsky Region, in dogs the incidence rate is 67 % of cases, in cats - 52 %. Predisposing factors for dogs are concomitant infectious diseases (62 % of cases), and for cats - trauma to the oral cavity (51 % of cases). Stomatitis is more confirmed in animals aged 4 to 7 years, less often it is recorded in young animals. Among dogs, such breeds as the Yorkshire Terrier, Spitz and Chihuahua are susceptible to it. Stomatitis was more common in cat breeds such as Scottish, British, Sphynx, and outbred.