Royal Canin has announced a new recall, due to finding melamine derivatives in some batches. The foods are marketed under the Sensible Choice and Kasco trade names. The link has the batch dates and numbers. As always, the link has been added to the KVC webpage.
Monthly Archives: May 2007
My daughter, Blair, will be graduating from college this weekend, so probably no blogging for a few days. Proud parents are off to Columbia, Missouri to see our eldest graduate with honors.
Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal carried two articles that were obviously prompted by our pet-food recall problems. The first is about an apparent widespread use of unsafe additives for local consumption on a routine basis across Asia. Formaldehyde, which has been linked to cancer, has legitimate uses in adhesives and embalming. But in Indonesia, Sutikno, a […]
One of the difficulties in being a solo practitioner is that you can really only do one thing at a time. Sure, you can "multi-task", working on multiple patients in the same time period: some patients will be in a holding pattern while waiting for lab results, or their initial ear cleansing can be done […]
An idosyncratic reaction is a reaction that is peculiar to one individual (or at least to a very small minority of patients). Some reactions might be called an "intolerance". Everybody else can take this medicine, but it always makes me sick. For example, the orthopedic surgeon gave me a sample of an anti-inflammatory medicine when […]
When someone calls and says that their dog or cat is "constipated", we don’t just automatically hand out a list of laxatives over the phone. We always ask "What is your pet actually doing? Passing small hard stools? Squatting and straining a lot?" It is usually the latter. This is often the outward appearance of […]
If you’re interested, I’ve got the rest of my pictures from the Wild West Arts Convention available on Flickr now.
Today I got a call from a man I hadn’t heard from in years. He used to raise dogs and he also brokered exotic animals, from monitor lizards to lion cubs, including this one ( in this ancient daguerrotype from when my clinic and I, and Becky, here, were young). Gee, his son-in-law is on […]
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