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 […]
Category Archives: Explanations
Today I got my sample copy of "Healthy Pet" magazine. We are sending this out quarterly as a newsletter for our clients, and they let us add a custom message on the the cover wraps. The first thing that I looked for was to see if my special announcements (including our BLOG) had been included […]
This is one of those topics that someone emails you with things like "get a roll of duct-tape, a pair of welding gloves and a plumber’s helper." Normally, we have "cat-pill-giving school" for our clients while we are all in the exam room. Rather than giving them a handout, I just demonstrate with their cat. […]
"But… but… I just let her outside for a minute!" "Didn’t have your shoes on, did ya?" There is no telling how many times that little conversation has played out. They knew the dog was in "heat" (estrum), but they underestimated the sex drive, which is a mistake. If the boys don’t dig in, the […]
My blogging guru Steve Mays sent me this link to a conCATenation of cat-bathing anecdotes, myths and advice. Several of my friends have previously been kind enough to send me the facetious notes on how to simultaneously bathe the cat while cleaning the toilet bowl. That’s pretty funny in the abstract, I reckon. One […]
Sort of. "Forever" is a really long time, ditto for "never". I find I’m more likely to have said "I’ll never do…" than to say "I will _____forever", but it’s a similar order of magnitude: a really long time. For instance, when I left home to go to school, I was never coming back to […]
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 […]
Why have a static website (as opposed to a blog)? It’s sort of like why you’d have a Yellow Pages ad instead of just writing a book about yourself. Lots of people are not looking for "me" or what I think; they are looking for "a veterinarian in Kennett". IF they want to know more […]
Old Yeller Alerts will appear at the first of a post that doesn’t have a happy ending. I like to use real cases to illustrate an important or interesting medical situation. Unfortunately, some of those cases don’t have happy endings. Recently a reader told me that they avoid some of my posts to avoid an […]