A couple of years ago, I wrote a post on why I carry the Hill's Science Diets and prescription diets. I still have confidence in the nutrition. On the other hand, I am losing patience with their merchandising practices. They used to be pretty plain vanilla. If you were feeding a growing puppy, you bought […]
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If National Pet Week was too warm and fuzzy for you, the merry month of May has more in store for the pet-lover (and the not-so-pet-loving public, as well). After all, who has not had a nervous moment when meeting a dog of unknown temperament? Especially a BIG dog of unknown temperament? Or a dog […]
Well, I've been remiss in not bringing the Immiticide status report up to date since my last post. The FDA has granted a provisional approval to the European supplier of the raw materials for melarsomine. This apparently falls under some sort of "compassionate use" guideline. The official line now is that we still cannot just […]
You may recall that I posted some time ago on the shortage of Immiticide, the only drug approved to treat dogs for heartworms disease (that is, to kill the adult heartworms). They were going to have it all fixed by the end of March. Well, now, last week it was after "March 31st", which was […]
If you look for information on cat claws, most of what you find is devoted either to the mechanics of the retractable claw or to the pros and cons (or evils, depending on your degree of zeal) of the de-clawing operation. Google up pictures of the claw anatomy, and you get stuff like this. But, […]
I've got a few topics in the hopper, but there just hasn't been a lot of time for this blog. My daughter had been in Zambia for only about two weeks when she developed appendicitis. They flew her to South Africa, and she had surgery in Pretoria. Everything has gone well, and she's back with […]
I've posted on concerns with both excessively hot weather and cold. This is something I think you'll find helpful. The Tufts Animal Care and Condition scale (TACC) gives a really good approach. It addresses the size of the animal, its physical condition, the condition of its environment and housing, as well as the weather and […]
How many times have you been sitting on hold and heard some variation of that? How many times did it make you feel better? I've posted before on my appointment schedule getting way behind. Today was another one of those days when the list we started with became irrelevant to what was actually going on. […]
I had set my alarm for 6:00 AM, so when my wife woke me, I thought it must have malfunctioned. I was supposed to be up early to check the road conditions. The clock was fine, but it read 5:00 AM. Plans had changed since I went to bed at midnight. She informed me that […]
Today is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America. There are all kinds of places to learn about Scouting. I wore my uniform to work all day today to celebrate. It appears I'm having a bad hair day… or a not-very-much hair day. Oh, well… I never thought I'd be […]