"Blackie" is seven years old. For the last two years he has had recurring urinary problems. Every couple of months, he’d have an episode of having to "go out" frequently; he would strain to pass small volumes of urine, and there would be noticeable blood in the urine. His previous doctor treated him with amoxicillin, […]
Monthly Archives: January 2007
The most recent issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association had a review article about how people go about finding a lost pet. Researchers surveyed several hundred pet-owners who had lost a pet and asked what they tried in order to recover it. If they did recover the pet, the researchers also […]
The Cherokee District of the Boy Scouts held its annual Klondike Derby this weekend. This is one of the three district-wide camporees where all the troops in Southeast Missouri get together to camp, get acquainted, and have fun competing in activities using their Scout skills. The Klondike is always held in the winter (hence the […]
"Man mauled by Pit Bull still critical" read the headline. I visualized someone in his hospital bed, telling the nurse "Hey, you need a shave. And look at the cobwebs in the corner. You call this a hospital?" Of course, the headline referred to a much more tragic situation: a man who had been savagely […]
"Whoa! He didn’t like that!" says Fluffy’s owner, when Fluffy [not his real name] has just experienced some singularly unpleasant invasion of privacy — most commonly a rectal thermometer, or rectal examination. I suppose that when our loved ones are distressed (just as at a funeral) we feel compelled to say something, simply to show […]
Much like "rules are made to be broken". Today I felt like I was on vacation. The day actually proceeded according to the appointment schedule. I saw patients on time and went to lunch on time and finished almost on time. That does actually happen occasionally, and I get close lots of the time, but […]
That statistic has been bandied about for several years now, and as we old geezers [my daughter declared me a "geezer" about 8 years ago, and I’m not getting any younger] die off, the whole profession may eventually be eighty percent female. This is a number I have heard many times, and have repeated many […]
I’m off to the Missouri Veterinary Medical Association winter convention. Time for continuing education and hobnobbing with my fellow wizards (as the Great Oz would say). I thought I’d be on the road already, but emergency calls last night kept me going so late that I went to bed without even packing. I’ll be back […]
When I was growing up, I’d say that two thirds of the shows on TV were Westerns, "oaters", "horse operas". That was just in prime time. On Saturday mornings I’d get up at six AM and watch the test pattern Indian until Hopalong Cassidy came on. The first piece of classical music I came to […]
After reading yesterday’s post, one of our flock asked for more information on rawhide chews. If you’re here reading, you probably already know that rawhide is supplied in a variety of forms. You can get potato-chip size chips, little strips, little strips rolled into "straws", big strips, big strips tied into a bone-shape, and a […]