You may remember the case of Cinnamon from a previous post. She made it in today to get her dental work. All of her teeth were still in her mouth when she arrived, but not many of them had much to hang on to. Once we began cleaning off the pus and tartar they began […]
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Or, "if you don’t look, you don’t find". When a client presents a pet with a problem they are concerned about, it’s very tempting to go right to that problem. After all, that’s why they’re here, right? Unfortunately, unless I go about the pet’s examination in a systematic way, I’m liable to miss something because […]
I haven’t had much time to post this week. We’re staying as busy in the clinic during February as we usually do in the spring. Since winter is usually pretty slow, I’m guessing this bodes for a busy year. I was also pretty busy this week helping my nephew and his buddies rehearse a skit […]
Sort of. "Forever" is a really long time, ditto for "never". I find I’m more likely to have said "I’ll never do…" than to say "I will _____forever", but it’s a similar order of magnitude: a really long time. For instance, when I left home to go to school, I was never coming back to […]
When I was a kid there was a TV show called "Let’s Make a Deal". There were lots of appeals to greed in the program and many ways to make a fool of oneself. The BIG deal of the day always involved three doors (evoking that great short story "The Lady or the Tiger", by […]
I don’t know what brought this story to mind. Maybe it was the recent discussion of Pit Bull dogs. Many dogs and cats are pretty stoic about pain. Certainly some are screamers, wailing at even the vaguest contemplation of possible pain (much like my own self). Most conceal their pain, though. This is a survival […]
In the fall of 1973, I started working at the Equine Center of the College of Veterinary Medicine. I stocked shelves, cleaned and sterilized instruments, fetched and carried, swept and mopped, and shoveled out many a stall. At the end of the semester, I spent most of what I had earned on my dream stereo […]
I was born in 1953. Men born in that year were the last group to be subject to the military draft in the United States. There was a lottery system and each year numbers were drawn. If your birthday was in the 300s, you were off the hook. If your number was 10, you were […]
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