Old Yeller Alert The weather is finally getting cold here in southeast Missouri. Motorcycle riding will be reduced to the bi-weekly ride to "blow out the cobwebs"– twenty minutes of freezing while wishing I was home already. You’d think the mosquitoes would all be gone, but they are still flying around inside my house. We […]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
In one way, these two cases seem similar: very young puppies who were doing lousy, and now they are on the mend (though hardly up to their potential — they could, and will, be so much better). In other ways they seem totally different, yet they still share one underlying factor: they waited WAY too […]
My home was built in 1909 by my great-grandmother. Her children were grown and moved out, but she built it big enough for them to come back and gather there. My father knew it as his grandmother’s house. I knew it as my great-aunt’s house. It remained the gathering place on holidays even when folks […]
This guy looks like such a nice dog. His owner told me, "You know, he gets irritable sometimes. Maybe you should use a muzzle." I posted previously on why I am a little reluctant to put the muzzle on. For some reason, I continue to labor under the delusion that my reflexes are faster than […]
I took Old Red out for a spin this afternoon and there were an exceptional number of dogs running loose. It was a beautiful fall day with a little nip in the air, the kind of day that makes the horses "feel their oats". These dogs were loping happily along the roadside, in and out […]
I learned some years ago to always offer my best to the client. While it is certainly possible that they may not desire or be able to afford Plan A, they surely won’t ask for it if they don’t know what it is. With every patient, my job is to offer what I believe to […]
No, not this Barney. I frequently give programs on veterinary medicine to school classes, Scout troops, and so forth. This week the first-graders had a story in their reading book about a veterinarian. Two of the teachers are clients and asked me if I would come and speak to the class, which I did. Kids […]
I posted on pelvic fractures a while back, and I didn’t really get into the soft tissue complications. They are certainly possible, and I guess what’s really amazing is that we don’t see more of them. You could have the urinary bladder ripped loose from its moorings, or it could be ruptured by the same […]
The weather has been perfect yesterday and today, low seventies, clear blue skies and no wind. I was able to get in a ride on Old Red both days, but had to start "an hour later" today. The shade you bless on hot days was an unwelcome interlude today. We wanted all of that setting […]
Old Yeller Alert A while back, I posted about Curly Sue having blood in her urine. She turned out to have a bleeding disorder instead of a urinary problem. Last week, she developed a urinary problem. One day my receptionist asked me what the dose would be for a mild laxative. "They say that Curly […]