Not that any kind of buckshot is that good for a dog. This has been a heavy week for trauma. We had a guy who was horribly lacerated by large dogs. After removal of dead tissue, partial closure of wounds, surgical drains, four days on I.V. antibiotics and fluids, hot compresses, hand-feeding and general heavy-duty […]
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"In a fair and distant land, where we’re going to take the Scouts, it never rains a single drop unless you’re camping out. So, a-camping we will go ’til the rivers overflow, and when everything is soaking we will shoot the buffalo." The red asterisk in the Bootheel is Kennett. The big green and blue […]
Warning: gross pictures at the bottom I’ve posted on pyometra before, and also on why you should spay your dog while she’s young and healthy. Today we had a really spectacular case, though. This beautiful German Shepherd is only 2 years old, and had what appeared to be a normal heat cycle three weeks ago. […]
Every year, my wife wants the Christmas tree up on December first. It doesn’t usually happen, but that’s what she shoots for. Myself, I think that it’s a mistake to start revving up the Christmas decorations and songs before Thanksgiving. By the time Christmas arrives, you’ve worn it out (yes, Wal-Mart, I’m talking to YOU). […]
Sometimes it seems that your patient’s history is rigged to fool you. Of course, you don’t know that when you start the case. At that point, everything seems so logical. Sassy is a 7-years old Maine Coon cat. We had her in for dental cleaning a few weeks ago. Her pre-op blood-work was fine. No […]
This is nothing to lose sleep over. While it is certainly true that lead is toxic and you shouldn’t eat it, the potential hazards of the involved toys have been way overblown. So, some toy tennis balls like this have lead paint in the pawprints. How much of this would your dog have to actually […]
Old Yeller Alert The weather is finally getting cold here in southeast Missouri. Motorcycle riding will be reduced to the bi-weekly ride to "blow out the cobwebs"– twenty minutes of freezing while wishing I was home already. You’d think the mosquitoes would all be gone, but they are still flying around inside my house. We […]
In one way, these two cases seem similar: very young puppies who were doing lousy, and now they are on the mend (though hardly up to their potential — they could, and will, be so much better). In other ways they seem totally different, yet they still share one underlying factor: they waited WAY too […]
My home was built in 1909 by my great-grandmother. Her children were grown and moved out, but she built it big enough for them to come back and gather there. My father knew it as his grandmother’s house. I knew it as my great-aunt’s house. It remained the gathering place on holidays even when folks […]
This guy looks like such a nice dog. His owner told me, "You know, he gets irritable sometimes. Maybe you should use a muzzle." I posted previously on why I am a little reluctant to put the muzzle on. For some reason, I continue to labor under the delusion that my reflexes are faster than […]