Back in the fall I posted a series of photos, sort of a "diary" of the healing of a bad crushing injury. The last picture in the series looked pretty good, but this most recent picture is really gratifying. This is the underside of the chest of Hercules, a big old Labrador retriever. On the […]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
This really super-nice dog is thirteen years old. You can see that his beautiful chocolate coat is nicely accented by a lot of gray around the muzzle. Despite his gray hairs, he appears to be in very good physical condition generally. His coat is sleek, he is well muscled, eyes are clear, teeth are good, […]
I just got an email from the Animal Poison Control Center. Here's a link to a page on their site listing some of the most common problems. It's always good to take a quick look and and get a reminder about things to avoid.
Five weeks, and Dizzy ate on his own for the first time. When he continued to do so for a few days, it was time to pull the feeding tube. I've unwrapped the bandage (we've changed it weekly) and you can see the tube going into the side of his neck, into his esophagus, and […]
Two more weeks of nursing care (four weeks total so far), and it looks like the infection is all under control. I'm thinking it's time to try to repair that upper jaw, and try again to re-attach the inner cheek surfaces to the gums and cover up that naked mandible bone. So, it's sleepy-time for […]
So now we're a couple of weeks into this mess. In this picture, you can see that his tongue is healing well. Some of the stitches have already dissolved, but a couple of them are still hanging in there (the purple things). You can also see the wire that is holding his mandibles together, and […]
Dizzy would rather sleep in his litter-box and eliminate on a towel, so that's what we did. You can see his feeding tube hanging out of the bandage. He never bothered it. Three times a day we mixed prescription diet A/D with water, and pain medicine. Morning and evening, we added antibiotics. At noon we […]
Warning: Gross pictures below You may have seen Dizzy's picture with a face full of acupuncture needles. That's pretty much an "after" picture. We are definitely getting a happy ending. This is about the "before", when a good outcome didn't look too certain. One of our great clients moved into a new (for her) house […]
Abi is a beautiful, good-natured dog who got a little too close to a horse's hoof. Actually, she got kicked in the head. It turns out to be not as cool as when Dean Martin sang about it. Incredibly, she is walking around like nothing much happened. When you look at a close-up of the […]