On a much smaller scale, thankfully. Two of the four new ones are in Canada and South Africa. One is an expansion of the original Menu Foods list. Only one seems to be a new player, and I must admit I’d never heard of them before: Blue Buffalo. As usual, I’ve added the new links […]
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If you were reading a couple of months ago, you may recall that our family has an affinity for the traditions and mythos of the Great American West. There’s the Sons of the Western Bootheel, for instance. You got to share our visit with The Rhinestone Ropers a while back. Tomorrow I leave for Claremore, […]
Regular readers may recall the story of Kirby, the dog with the leg problem who came down with Parvovirus before we could deal with his leg. He was on I.V. fluids for four days. It was another two days before he could really keep much food down. Today he was pronounced recovered from Canine Parvovirus […]
I keep thinking that everybody who even thinks that they might have a problem will have quit stone-walling by now and recalled their food. Yet, today we have another report from Natural Balance. Of course, it’s possible that their food problems have nothing to do with the previous reports. Maybe they’re the victim of mass […]
Every now and then, somebody thinks that having a donkey basketball game would be one hum-dinger of a fund-raiser. Then they have one. Attendance is big. Everybody loves it…but it’s a long time before somebody thinks that again: too hard to get a new crew of donkey-riders while it’s fresh on the minds of the […]
In light of the recent spate of pet food recalls, many folks have considered preparing their pet’s diet themselves from fresh ingredients. Since any fresh produce that is out of season must be coming from South America or someplace, I’m not sure how that makes us feel that much safer. There is nothing inherently wrong […]
In the old days, the UPS man would sometimes leave packages on our doorstep. Sometimes clients drop off stool specimens on the doorstep before we open. And then there are days like today, when we find abandoned pets on our doorstep. They might be tossed over the fence in our exercise yard, or tied to […]
Here’s "Kirby". He came in as a rescue operation yesterday. One of my really good clients met Kirby and noticed him dragging his right front paw. His people said he had fallen out of a pickup truck about a month ago and injured it. They had been told the leg should be amputated, but just […]
With two more recall notices today, I thought this would be a good time to pass on the Veterinary Information Network safe feeding guidelines. The new sites are on the KVC webpage. Q: What should pet owners feed their pets?A: In light of all the gaps in our understanding of this problem, there is no […]
"He smells like a dog", the client says. Being as he is a dog, this doesn’t seem to me to be a problem, technically. If, being a dog, he smelled like, say, a camel — now that would be a problem. Of course, this is not the truly stinky dog. Every dog has a tendency […]