Suddenly, it’s warm. Too bad I wrecked my motorcycle. Even worse, the insects seem to have burgeoned almost instantaneously this spring. It’s made a week of firsts. This wad of heartworms was removed from a Beagle who was only two years old and dying because of them, sad to say. Most dogs, even with no […]
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If you saw the previous post, you may remember how skinny and awful Pepper looked. After a few weeks of regular groceries, she is much improved. The best news is that her attitude is even more improved. She is trusting, friendly, cooperative and obedient, and very cheerful in her new home. I predict that another […]
So here we are with our hip joint back in place, taped up in a "sling", but still under anesthesia. It usually takes a lot of force to dislocate that ball-and-socket joint, so it’s unusual to have a big dog like this with her hip dislocated and no other major injuries. If there’s that much […]
This is the sort of "can of worms" one hates to open. Yet I feel the need to open a discussion. I am concerned that heartworms (at least in our area) are starting to become resistant to all the preventive medications that we have. I have been practicing in a severely endemic area for heartworm […]
This picture was taken right before I decided to scoot up the ladder and help that guy over the wall. I made a bad decision. The young man is a great Scout and his buddies could (probably) have done it without my help — I was there to observe and advise. This young man also […]
Last summer I did a short post on a kid with 10 retained baby teeth. What a piker. This is Abby. She’s not showing you much of her smile. At this point, you wouldn’t have minded seeing it, but you surely wouldn’t have wanted to smell it. She has a lot of baby teeth that […]
Not so long ago, I posted on a case, noting that goats are not our specialty. Danged if we don’t have another broken-leggedy goat today. This one is a little fresher, thank goodness, and I think has a pretty good prognosis for return to soundness. She’s a little kid, still growing, so that helps. Her […]
This is Tommy. He came in to get a skin problem checked out. Since a skin problem is sometimes just "the part you can see" of a whole-body problem, we always do a complete physical examination. In checking Tommy’s teeth, I found that his left upper cheek tooth was the wrong shape, covered with tartar, […]
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 […]
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 […]