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IT HAPPENED ONE APRILby Kathy Wolfe

April has been a busy time over the years! Follow along as Tidbits takes a look at some of the interesting events that have taken place during this fourth month of the Gregorian calendar.• Noah Webster was 70 years old when he copyrighted the first edition of his 70,000-entry “American Diction-ary of the English Language” in April of 1828. Although we’ve depended on Webster’s dictionary all our lives, his first edition sold only 2,500 copies. When it came time to issue the second edition, Webster mortgaged his home in order to finance it, and he lived in debt the re-mainder of his days. • In April of 1973, Martin Cooper stood on the streets of New York City and did something no one had ever done before. He placed a call from a portable cellular phone! Cooper, the general manager of Motorola’s Communications Division, called his competitor at AT&T labs using a 30-ounce (850-g) brick-like phone. Compare this with today’s phone at about 3 ounces (85 g). The process of bringing portable cell phones to the consumer market took 10 years, and Motorola intro-duced their 16-ounce (453-g) DynaTAC phone in 1983, carrying a price tag of $3,500.

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In clinical medicine we see many ‘mild’ deficiency syndromes improve when diets are changed or supplements are added. It is apparent that most diets other than mice and birds are deficient in many ways. Reviewing thousands of cat’s body scores and their diets we found most had some deficiencies. The old adage – “You are what you eat.” is more true for cats than for humans. There are many ‘new’ feline diseases that have come to the forefront in the last 30 years that appear to have some dietary basis: diabetes mellitus, thyroid disease, urinary tract disease, cancer, liver disease, kidney disease, heart disease, etc.. Deficiency diseases are becoming one of the biggest areas of research.

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One of the vaccines that we strongly recommend our canine companions get is the Leptospirosis vaccine, or Lepto for short. Leptospirosis is a bacterium that is carried by wild animals; common carriers are skunks, rodents, raccoons, foxes, and coyotes. The bacterium is frequently localized in the kidneys or in the reproductive organs and is shed in the urine. Dogs pick up Lepto when they sniff the urine of an infected animal and the bacterium comes in contact with mucous membranes where it enters the blood stream and rapidly multiplies. The main reason we strongly recommend the Lepto vaccine is that not only are we protecting our dogs, but also we are protecting ourselves because Leptospirosis is zoonotic (meaning it can be transferred to humans). Typically Leptospirosis can cause liver and kidney failure in dogs and potentially cause multiple organ failure and death in humans. For these reasons Leptospirosis is an invaluable piece to our canine companions vaccine protocol. Please contact us if you are interested in more information or in obtaining the vaccine.

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Can my dog really get heartworm disease in Colorado?

Do we have heartworms and fleas in Colorado? Yes, we do. When I moved here from Virginia in 1980, I was told that you do not have to worry about fleas and heartworm disease in Colorado as it is too dry a climate. This is not the case now. We have heartworm positive cases of native Colorado dogs and cats, and the wildlife (rabbits, foxes, prairie dogs, and deer) in Colorado are infested with fleas and ticks. Dogs, cats, and humans who have contact with the flea and tick infested pets can also become bitten and are susceptible to many of the diseases transmitted by these vectors.

Heartworm disease has spread throughout the U.S. in the last 100 years. More dogs and cats are at risk of infection. Environmental and climatic factors (increased temperatures and higher humidity) influence the presence of mosquitoes and the transmission of heartworm disease. It has become more difficult to predict when mosquito season starts and stops in Colorado. For this reason, the American Heartworm Society recommends year-around administration of an approved heartworm preventative and annual testing for heartworm disease.

Heartworm disease is transmitted by several species of mosquitoes. Mosquitoes act as an intermediate host for the heartworm parasite, Dirofilaria immitis. Microfilaria develop into infective third stage larvae (L3) in the mosquito. When the mosquito bites a pet, the L3 leave the mosquito and enter into the pet. A heartworm preventative administered to your pet within 1 month of infection can be greater than 99% effective in preventing heartworm disease. Heartworm disease can cause severe heart and lung disease, can shorten a pet’s lifespan, and can result in death.

The primary prevention of heartworm disease is to administer a monthly preventative such as ivermectin, milbemycin oxime, moxidectin, or selamectin. A simple blood test can determine if your dog or cat is infected with microfilaria or adult heartworms. Anywhere a mosquito can go, a dog or cat can be bitten and infected. Administration of a heartworm preventative year-around will minimize the risk of heartworm disease.

Many of the heartworm preventatives also provide protection against roundworms, hookworms, whipworms, and/or tapeworms. Ask your veterinarian which heartworm preventative is suitable for your pet’s lifestyle. Flea and tick prevention coupled with the internal parasite control can provide maximum protection for your pets.

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• The press dubbed it “The Wedding the Century” when actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in April of 1956. Thirty-six seamstresses worked on the 26-year-old Kelly’s wedding dress for six weeks in preparation for the nuptials. She had met the prince the previous April while doing a photo shoot in connection with the Cannes Film Fes-tival. After eight months of correspondence, Rainier traveled to America, met the Kelly family, and three days later, he proposed. Her family was required to provide a dowry of $2 million to him before mar-riage plans were to proceed. Six hundred guests at-tended the wedding, and the royal couple departed that evening for a seven-week Mediterranean honey-

moon cruise aboard the prince’s yacht. • Lots of folks don’t have to stop to ask for direc-tions thanks to the efforts of Rand McNally. In April of 1924, the company published its first road atlas, although they had been publishing maps and geogra-phy textbooks for years. The company was founded by William Rand and Andrew McNally in 1868 and became the first major mapmaker to use a system of numbered highways. • April has had its share of tragedies. In 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed by Timothy McVeigh. In 1999, Colora-do’s Columbine High School shootings occurred. It was also the month of the assassinations of President Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. The devastating nuclear accident at the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl plant also took place in April.

• Twenty-seven-year-old James Cash Penney head-ed out to Wyoming in 1902, and on April 13 of that year in the community of Kemmerer, he opened his first dry goods and clothing store called The Golden Rule. He chose the name because it was his phi-losophy to treat others the way he would like to be treated. In his free time, Penney worked as a lum-berjack felling trees. Ten years later, his chain of stores had grown to 34 stores, and he incorporated them all as the J.C. Penney Company. By 1924, he was generating an income upwards of $1.5 million a year. Today, the company operates over 1,100 stores with 150,000 employees and sales approaching $18 billion annually. And that little store in Kemmerer? Still there, operating on a daily basis.

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SCOTT HAMILTONIt’s tough enough to become an Olympic champion under the best of circumstances, but figure skater Scott Hamilton has had more than his fair share of hardships. Let’s see what makes Hamilton a true vic-tor.• At the age of two, Ohio-born Scott Hamilton contracted an illness that caused him to inexplicably stop growing. Extensive tests followed, as did wrong diagnoses. One physician diagnosed cystic fibrosis and gave the toddler six months to live. A trip to the Boston Children’s Hospital resulted in a special diet and exercise plan, and miraculously, the disorder corrected itself. However, the end result was that Hamilton’s stature remained small at just over 5 feet, 2 inches (1.6 m) and 108 pounds (49 kg). • After watching his older sister at an ice rink, Ham-ilton became interested in skating. At age 13, he be-gan training for national competition with former French Olympic champion Pierre Brunet, winner of three Olympic medals. In order to meet the expenses of Hamilton’s training, his mother, a second grade teacher, returned to school to become a college pro-fessor. Another obstacle hit the Hamilton family’s path when Mrs. Hamilton was diagnosed with breast cancer. When she was forced to quit work, the money for Hamilton’s training stopped, and as a high school senior, he faced having to quit skating. When anony-mous benefactors stepped forward with the offer to finance his training, he was able to continue. • Cancer claimed the life of Hamilton’s mother in 1977 when he was 19, and he vowed to make her proud. When he earned third place in the 1980 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, he earned a spot on the Olympic team. At the Olympics in Lake Placid that year, he proudly carried the American flag in the opening ceremony and went on to finish in fifth place. The next year he took the gold in the World Figure Skating Championships, a feat he repeated for the following three years. In 1984, he was the gold medalist at the Olympics in Sarajevo, after which he turned professional.

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¥ On April 25, 1719, Daniel Defoe’s fictional work “The Life and Strange Adventures of Robin-son Crusoe” is published. The book, about a ship-wrecked sailor who spends 28 years on a deserted island, is based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who spent four years on a small island off the coast of South America in the early 1700s.

¥ On April 29, 1854, the Ashmun Institute, the first college founded solely for black students, is officially chartered in southeastern Pennsylvania. Renamed Lincoln University after the Civil War, its graduates include poet Langston Hughes and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

¥ On April 27, 1865, an explosion on a Mississippi River steamboat kills an estimated 1,547 people, mostly Union soldiers returning home after the Civil War. The Sultana was built to hold 376 pas-sengers, but reports say that there were as many as 2,700 people on board.

¥ On May 1, 1931, New York City’s Empire State Building is dedicated. The idea for the Empire State Building is said to have been born of a com-petition between Walter Chrysler of the Chrysler Corp. and John Jakob Raskob of General Motors to see who could erect the taller building.

¥ On April 30, 1948, the Land Rover, a British-made all-terrain vehicle, debuts at an auto show in Amsterdam. The Land Rover had a boxy, utili-tarian design, four-wheel drive and a canvas roof. Seat cushions, doors, a heater and spare tire were considered extras.

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