Man, am I sick of this stuff. News reports tell us that dog biscuits made by Sunshine Mills and marketed under many names, including Ol’ Roy, are recalled. No reports of illness yet, but they bought their wheat gluten from one of the sources labelled as suspected of contamination. Throw out the rest of the […]
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The expanded recall by Menu Foods today essentially moves back the manufacturing dates that they feel may have been contaminated. Since they already recalled all of their products in the stores, this expanded recall would only affect someone who had been hoarding the stuff from last fall. As you may recall, the only dry food […]
It’s 6:30 PM and I’m waiting for someone from Monette, Arkansas (who didn’t even call until after 5:30, and yes, we close at 5:00 today, thank you). They think their puppy may have Parvovirus. I think so, too. It was "just fine yesterday", meaning a sudden onset of illness. It’s a puppy less than one […]
Some time ago, I posted on demodectic mange and mentioned that the treatment when I graduated in 1978 consisted of daily dipping with a stinky, poisonous insecticide. Today I found some in a cabinet. I guess I hadn’t really forgotten it was there (though the expiration date is 1986). It’s one of those things that […]
You may have noticed the logo on the masthead of our KVC website. This week we’ll be adding that to a lighted sign out front. Brooks Signs in Kennett is doing that for us, and he’s also getting into the T-shirt business. He’s got a giant ink-jet printer that prints textile ink directly on the […]
Sometime today I’m going to post on something more elevating, but I’ve added these links to the KVC webpage on Pet Food Recall. Purina‘s homepage lists a product that’s been recalled. Del Monte has issued a "precautionary recall". More to come, I fear.
Today we were able to recover three bags of M/D from our clients and get them a substitute diet. The diabetic cats don’t seem to be feeling bad. One of the cats is not diabetic, but was eating the food for weight control. She has been staying in Kennett as a temporary pet-sitting arrangement and […]
There has been new information released (and some more witheld) in the pet food recall. I have updated the KVC webpage on this twice today. Again, we have seen no pets affected here. We have had many people worried about it, but no kidney failure patients. The biggest concern for me is that we have […]
Because if you don’t, this is the sort of thing that can happen. Tinker Belle is a fourteen years old, seventeen pound Rat Terrier. They never got around to spaying her. She has had two breast tumors removed in the last three months, one malignant, and one pre-cancerous. Her owners asked if there was anything […]
Since we’re mostly a dog and cat practice at KVC, it’s not every day that we see several horses. This picture is one you wouldn’t see every day, no matter how big a horsey practice you were in. Twin foals are quite the rare occurrence. Most mares pregnant with twins undergo spontaneous abortions. Valuable breeding […]