When I was in undergraduate school, I had pet rats for a while. Of all the pocket pets, the rat would be the most popular and endearing except for one thing: that naked, pink tail (that, and "rat" being synonymous with treachery and evil). They are smart, active in the daytime, remain docile even after […]
Category Archives: Back-story
As I may have remarked earlier, caring for horses and riding horses were my father’s only hobby, and practically the only activities that we shared with my father as a family. The first picture in my website biography is of my wife and I on horseback. It was taken at the Eminence Cross-Country Trail Ride […]
There comes a time in a young veterinarian’s education when he (or she) realizes that his idea of normal conversation has become somewhat deranged. When you’re in class six days a week, from 7:30 AM until 5:30 PM, and in the library until 11:00 or so, and everybody you see is a fellow veterinary student […]
Well, maybe not everything. However, it is a well-known non-fact that if a dog’s nose is cold and moist, then he is okay. That doesn’t happen to be true, but it certainly is well-known. People don’t just think it might be that way — they know it. In actuality, the only places that dogs normally […]
About twenty years ago, a young man named Roland Nash was working sales for KBOA radio station in Kennett. He stopped by my veterinary clinic and proposed that I advertise with them by doing a short radio spot on pet-care. I had already written some newspaper columns, and I enjoyed speaking to groups, so I […]
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