Today we were able to recover three bags of M/D from our clients and get them a substitute diet. The diabetic cats don’t seem to be feeling bad. One of the cats is not diabetic, but was eating the food for weight control. She has been staying in Kennett as a temporary pet-sitting arrangement and […]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
There has been new information released (and some more witheld) in the pet food recall. I have updated the KVC webpage on this twice today. Again, we have seen no pets affected here. We have had many people worried about it, but no kidney failure patients. The biggest concern for me is that we have […]
Because if you don’t, this is the sort of thing that can happen. Tinker Belle is a fourteen years old, seventeen pound Rat Terrier. They never got around to spaying her. She has had two breast tumors removed in the last three months, one malignant, and one pre-cancerous. Her owners asked if there was anything […]
Since we’re mostly a dog and cat practice at KVC, it’s not every day that we see several horses. This picture is one you wouldn’t see every day, no matter how big a horsey practice you were in. Twin foals are quite the rare occurrence. Most mares pregnant with twins undergo spontaneous abortions. Valuable breeding […]
There’s an old joke about someone finding the simpleton hitting himself in the head with a hammer. When asked why he would do such a thing, he replied "It feels so good when you stop." When I was a boy, we used to camp at Alley Springs State Park for our family vacation. In those […]
The last time I threw a leg over Ol’ Red was about 10 days ago. Spring had just begun to peek out, with patches of vivid green here and there among the brown dregs of winter. Now the red-buds are in their brief and glorious flower and all the grass is green. Daffodils and tulips […]
This is Dodger. Apparently he has lots of outfits. He doesn’t have some huge "hunchback" — that’s his owner’s shirt subtly blending into Dodger’s shirt. They match today. That’s not why I took the picture, though. I took the picture because it’s the first time I’ve seen a pair of "Doggles" in person. Dodger’s dad […]
I said before I went that I was looking for the seminar that would make dentistry fun. It must have happened, at least to some degree. This afternoon a good client brought in her old cat because she thought her mouth had been injured. The cat was drooling, and wouldn’t eat well. On examination, we […]
Boy, you leave town for two days. While I was on the road Friday night, the national news broke the story about pet-food recalls. I don’t hear a thing about it until I check out Veterinary Information Network this morning… about the time the phone calls start pouring in. I put a couple of links […]
After work Friday, we made the six-hour drive to Columbia, Missouri, arriving around eleven-thirty. On Saturday, I arrived at the veterinary school for my dental seminar. It snowed a lot, and it snowed for a lot of the year back when I was in school there (1972-1978). Having snow in spring was a nice touch […]