I just recently posted on eclampsia. I bet I hadn’t seen a case in six months, maybe a year. Tonight I had the third case in two weeks, and all of them pretty good sized dogs. This kid is supposed to be a Chihuahua, but she weighed fifteen pounds. Of course, maybe five pounds of […]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
I’ve posted on this before, but two things happened this week to bring it to mind. The first was a meeting with ten new Scouts (and five older ones). As usual, my question "What is your honor?" was met with blank stares. As usual, I was dismayed (but no longer surprised). A few boys essayed […]
Maddie sort of "fell through the cracks". That’s just a figure of speech, though here she looks thin enough to fall through a crack. The "crack" she fell through was the one that formed when the marriage split. She’s really Mom’s dog, but she liked to go down to the farm shop and hang out […]
Sometimes you don’t realize how much you needed something until you get it. In my case, what I needed was some fresh air and open space. I’ve either been working or going to meetings or working the little league basketball games for Kiwanis, or going to funerals or just about anything except riding my motorcycle. […]
The phone rang at 3:00AM. This is never good: I am not pretty and I need my beauty sleep. "Do you make house-calls?" It turns out the guy got up to use the bathroom and found his dog stiff and twitching uncontrollably. "Is this a female dog?" Yes. "Has she had puppies recently?" Two weeks […]
In December, Pepper was purchased from a kennel as a 2-year-old. She wasn’t a family pet, but she seemed friendly enough. Her new family took her home and she was fine on the ride. Then they opened the car door and she bolted away. They couldn’t get within six feet of her, and she disappeared. […]
I have heard it said that "…if you want a big funeral, be sure to die young: before you’ve outlived all your friends." The other approach would be to live a long and full life, and keep making new friends as you go. That’s what filled the church for Martha’s memorial service. I didn’t get […]
Old Yeller Alert In a previous post, I discussed many of the problems one might encounter in adopting a pet of uncertain origin. In an attempt to be warm, fuzzy, and make the idea attractive, I pretty much glossed over the worst case scenario. The problem is that these animals are not brought to the […]
This is one of those posts that could easily stray from the warm-fuzzy image we’d like to project. Sometimes a patient is not in a life-threatening situation, yet you feel that his condition is something that just can’t wait. I’m not even going to define paraphimosis (much less post a picture), but that’s what the […]
No snow all winter, beautiful weather last weekend, and global warming… and six inches of snow fell last night. Actually, it started yesterday afternoon, and by five PM, it was really accumulating. As the snow increased, the client traffic decreased. The phones got quiet as people who don’t know snow became immersed in it, some […]
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