This is Ling Ling. She’s some kind of a Collie mix, or something. Sweet dog. Her picture here was taken a few years ago to illustrate her owner’s great idea for bandaging the elbow. Who doesn’t have old socks lying around? I use this technique all the time now. Last summer, she came in for […]
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This really super-nice dog is thirteen years old. You can see that his beautiful chocolate coat is nicely accented by a lot of gray around the muzzle. Despite his gray hairs, he appears to be in very good physical condition generally. His coat is sleek, he is well muscled, eyes are clear, teeth are good, […]
If you had a cancerous lump you’d probably want to have it cut off. As long as we’re cutting it off, I suppose we might as well get it all, shouldn’t we? Makes sense to me… only… how do we know how much to cut off? Everybody has rules to live by. Some are sensible, […]
Old Yeller Alert You may remember Checkers from my post on chemotherapy. He was the poster boy and his success inspired a number of pet-owners to treat their buddy’s cancer instead of just throwing in the towel. Today, Checkers finally threw in the towel. I first met Checkers in August of 1998. He was a […]
Old Yeller Alert It’s funny (funny strange, not funny ha-ha) to see the different extremes in how we react to some abnormality in our pet’s behavior or condition. Some folks will be in a for a comprehensive exam if Fluffy so much as passes gas in front of company. Others don’t see a problem until […]
It was just a little lump between Fluffy’s toes. I mean, it was tiny, but in three weeks it had grown and was about 3/8 of an inch. Her owner wasn’t too worried, but she wanted it "looked at". I tried to aspirate it (suck some cells out through a small needle) for a cytology […]
Thinking about Macey’s battle with cancer (see yesterday’s post) reminded me that a lot of people have some real misconceptions about chemotherapy. The commonly held belief is that the treatment is worse than the disease. I often encounter pet-owners with the preconceived idea that chemotherapy makes you really sick, rarely works, and just generally makes […]