There are some things that are inherently dangerous, but if you start them early enough as a kid, you just don’t think about it. Working with horses is like that. Intellectually you know it’s potentially very dangerous, but when you grow up doing it, you just aren’t scared (cautious, yes, but not quaking and shaking). […]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Warning: There is a gross "before" picture at the bottom of this post. Some time ago, in my discussion of bug-eyed dogs, I touched on proptosis globus. This means that the eyeball has been popped out of the socket. Since the bug-eyed dog has a shallow socket and a big eyeball, it doesn’t take much […]
If you’re a regular reader, you may recall that I’m a band nerd, and an old euphonium player. Tonight I had the rare pleasure and privilege of seeing and hearing the United States Navy Band in concert right in my old home town. Despite the funky acoustics of the high school gym, the sound was […]
As I said, goats are not our specialty. We rarely see one and don’t pretend to any expertise in that department. Many veterinarians don’t care to see anything but the dogs and cats that they feel most comfortable with. I mean, if you only see a goat once every five years, how good are you […]
It’s always nice to have a chance to give back. Today was a good day for me in that regard. One of my colleagues in a near-by town was the victim of a fire which totally destroyed his clinic. He is practicing out of a house in which he has improvised a temporary clinic. You […]
I like a lot of different kinds of music. My favorite is vocal ensemble close harmony. Think Barbershop Quartets, the Mills Brothers, The King’s Singers, the Andrews Sisters, Rockapella, Take 6, and cowboy songs (of course). I like brass quintets, Renaissance and Baroque music, and Sousa marches, among others. Upbeat, peppy Bluegrass and old-time thumping […]
This "Beau". He is thirteen years old, and this picture was taken about 15 minutes after we finished cleaning his teeth. His teeth were really covered with calculus (tartar), and he had a little gum disease. Cleaning his teeth was especially important because of his other medical problems. Not his lower back problems (which have […]
I wrote about Bugsy’s surgery in July. He was in today for a check-up and the owner told me, "He is really seeing better. He goes up and down the stairs now. He was afraid to do that before." Also, his eyes don’t look painful anymore. Both are good things. Yay.
This is Coco. She doesn’t look very remarkable, but she is. If you were reading here last August, you may remember when I wrote about performing my first pericardiocentesis. Coco had developed a huge accumulation of fluid around her heart, and this was interfering with it’s ability to keep her going. I felt at the […]
It’s time for that yearly check-up again. Have you ever been a little frustrated when the venipuncture technician had trouble "finding your vein"? Did they ever have to poke you more than once? Don’t you hate that? This is my hand. They don’t have trouble finding my veins. Sometimes I do have trouble finding the […]
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