The "Mighty Carson & Barnes Circus" was in town yesterday. The three-ring, big-tent show has visited Kennett twice before over the last twenty years and I, for one, was glad to see it again. After a rather dry year, Wednesday brought us as big a toad-strangling, gully-washing, street-filling rain as you could wish for (or […]
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Some time back I wrote a post on demodectic mange. I had a great "before" picture, but the case was lost to follow-up. This is a different case, and this time I do have the "before" and the "after" pictures. Shadow is a youngster who suffered a grievous injury to her left front leg. After […]
I really don’t consider myself a Luddite. I have a cell-phone, write a blog, my motorcycle has a shaft drive, I like central heat and air. On the other hand, I like some traditional things like acoustic instruments, and early music (baroque, renaissance, medieval) played on period-type instruments — I own a harpsichord and a […]
A while back, I posted some thoughts on getting a second opinion, and today I follow up with some more. The bottom line is (if you don’t believe it, scroll down to the bottom): If you want a second opinion, let me help you get the most out of it. Yesterday I examined a little […]
It’s good to be getting back to a little bit of a normal routine again. The blog has been rather neglected as we prepared for, went on, and recovered from a trip to Orlando, Florida. I hadn’t been away from my office for 24 hours since April, so I was indeed glad of a break. […]
A day when someone actually ASKS you to sing is even better. Today a client asked how my brothers and their families were getting along. I had to regale him with the story of my nephew Max and the Wild West Arts Convention and the his Guinness Book of Records appearance. That then got into […]
This is Toby with a blow-by oxygen tube in front of his face. Toby is 14 years old. As often happens, in the earlier stages of his disease a lot of his clinical signs were chalked up to "just getting older". When he began having difficulty breathing, his mom sought help. This is a lady […]
Last week we saw a lovely (if overlarge) cat named Baby. She didn’t look quite so bedraggled then. This picture was taken as she awakened after her ear-cleaning procedure today. It was Baby’s first visit to our hospital and I was unhappy to learn that she had been suffering from chronic ear infections "for years". […]
Does he look a little brighter here? He sure acts that way. After being totally hand-fed, hand-watered with a syringe, and receiving lots of oxygen, this guy is back on track today. He’s eating well and running and playing. I had a terrible time getting a picture of him because he’d keep running up to […]
"The bigger they are, the harder they fall." You know, I think that’s generally true. Of course, I also believe that the older they are (or the older I am, anyway), the harder they fall. When I was a little kid and made accidental dismounts from the horse, it seemed like a longer distance to […]