Casos de intoxicações exógenas em cães e gatos atendidos na Faculdade de Veterinária da Universidade Federal Fluminense durante o período de 2002 a 2008

In recent years cases of domestic animals exogenous poisoned were treated at the Veterinarian College of The Federal Fluminense University (UFF). Accidentally or intentionally, they occurred mainly at home and involved different toxic agents, such as pesticides, raticides anti-coagulants, and medicines, among others. This study is about a retrospective study of cases of poisoning in dogs and cats treated at the UFF veterinary college the period of March 2002 to March 2008. The cases were classified by substance or toxic agent, species, sex, breed, age and year occurrence. Totally, 101 cases were registered, with 30 in 2002, 10 in 2003, 12 in 2004, 3 in 2005, nine 9 in 2006 and 9 cases in 2007. Most cases occurred in 2002, and the principal cause was drug intoxication, followed by poisoning raticide, especially cabamate and it was also observed a large number of cases where the substance involved couldn't be identified.