Old Yeller Alert Yes, that’s an empty dog-bed. It will be staying that way. I got the call at 6:30 AM. "Fuzzy has been crying all night. I gave her one of my pain pills, and it didn’t help. Do you think it’s time?" I first met Fuzzy in 1999. She was eight years old […]
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I had lots of paperwork that needed doing Saturday afternoon after we finished seeing our regular patients. It still needs doing. The temp was 53 and "partly cloudy", which means that a motorcyclist is hoping for partly sunny. I bundled up and saddled Ol’ Red. I had worked through most of the New Year’s holiday […]
Last night the Pfizer company broke the news about their amazing weight-loss drug for dogs. They have put nothing out in the veterinary journals, no teasers from their representatives who call on us, no nothing. Then it’s suddenly on CNN. Generally speaking, drug news that hits the fan in this manner has been less than […]
Steve Mays is my blogging guru, and is also a dog-lover. Today he features his thoughts on the Doggie Poop Catcher. Sure, I love dogs and things doggish. From my apparent obsession with asking clients to bring in stool specimens, you would think that I also love dog feces (I don’t). Really, I don’t find […]
This morning at 5:00AM the telephone rang. "This is Billy. Roxxi just ate some rat poison. What should I do?" My usual answer when awakened in what passes for the middle of the night is: "..Unnhh?!" In other words, I do not awaken rapidly, in full possession of my faculties. In one of Edgar Rice […]
When my wife read yesterday’s post on "Anal Sac Problems", she asked rather skeptically, "Is Butt-so-Fresh a real product?" Well, yes and no. You definitely need to deodorize the pet’s hindquarters after the anal sacs discharge and there are products which will do the job, fortunately. Butt-so-Fresh, however, is not one of them. My boyhood […]
Warning: This post describes disgusting bodily functions. When I was starting veterinary school, I visualized myself as "the boy-wonder equine surgeon". I really thought that I’d be doing nothing but horse-work. Not only do horses not have anal sacs, at that time I wasn’t aware that these particular disgusting anatomical structures even existed. Had I […]
My staff are great about staying late, working through lunch, doing whatever is needed. If I have to be gone, they do their best to hold the fort. So, when holidays come around, I take care of the animals in the clinic. My whole family lives in Kennett, so family gatherings require no travel — […]
Generally speaking I’m a pretty unadventurous eater. This is in part because spicy foods give me indigestion. Also, I don’t seem to get as much pleasure from eating as a lot of folks do. Perhaps this is due to my sense of smell being a bit atrophied from years of assault with disinfectants and nasty […]
Well, let’s ask Cookie here, shall we? She’s a cute little Dachshund, about seven years old. We look forward to another seven years with her if things go well. Two years ago she had her teeth cleaned. She had some deep periodontal pockets, which were filled with Doxirobe to help things re-attach. There wasn’t much […]