CYTOLOGIC EXAMINATION OF VAGINA SMEAR IN DOGS

Abstract

At the present time the question is posed in a quite acute way about the change in sexual behavior of dogs. In this relation the owners of bitches have their dogs’ mating problems very often. Sex cycle length is confirmed by individual variability and the same female may change it every year. This make it difficult to determine their bitch‘s optimal date for mating and fertilization taking only outward signs into account. One of the main conditions that provide successful dog breeding is to use microscopic analysis of the contents in vaginal smears. Our work presents the data of cytological examination of vaginal mucus in dogs to determine the most optimal time for insemination. In the course of the examination it was established that the optimal days for breeding are the 3–4th days of estrus. For the data of the cytological examination of vaginal smear in dogs, the most favorable days for breeding are when the cytological smear contains no leukocytes, when the cytological smear surface cells are located in groups of 4–6 cells or they are crowded in the form of tiling. The sigs of no breeding days in the cytological smear picture are decreased number of surface cells and increased number of intermediate cells, mucus character changed and leukocytes appeared. The smear attains turbid and darkish background.