What is wrong with this kitten? How did she get this classic "Roman Nose" profile? She wasn't born with it. She has an infection called Histoplasmosis, a systemic fungus. Most folks have heard of "toe-nail fungus" or "athlete's foot" or ringworm. These are fungus infections of the skin, and they don't go deep into the […]
Category Archives: Internal Medicine
Dogs tend to be good-natured and stoic, and often conceal their pain. Many times we find older patients who have really painful arthritis, and the owner describes the problem, as: “Well, he’s slowing down some. Just getting old.” A short round of anti-inflammatory pain medicine sometimes reveals that he wasn’t “just getting old” – he […]
Today a lady arrived at our door with a drooling, twitching puppy, and around a half-gallon of insecticide. It had been a full gallon when she left the house. When she returned home from her errand, she found the puppy in considerable distress. He had chewed on the spray-tube apparatus, and managed to drain half […]
We can do so many wonderful things with medicine and surgery that we begin to think we can fix anything. If we just do the right thing, make the right choices, do the right tests, perform the right treatments, we can make the patient well again. Well, doing the right thing is certainly better than […]
This is Molly. A few days ago she was presented for an examination. She had been limping a little the night before and just didn't feel well. There was no lameness when she came in, but she didn't have much mojo. She didn't seem in any distress really, just no energy. She also had not […]
A stray cat had kittens out in a fellow's shed. She took off and abandoned two of them. One of them had already died, and the second was just dragging himself around a little. This tender-hearted gentleman brought in the surviving kitten. He had been working at feeding it formula. He was pretty sure about […]
This is Storm today. She looks pretty happy. That's because her toe is not hurting nearly so badly as it was 10 days ago. Now she can walk on her right hind paw, though it still gets sore toward the end of the day. Here she is 10 days ago, not putting that paw on […]
This is Bear. He's nibbling at the grass here. For over one year he has had frequent episodes of vomiting. Sometimes it's just a little fluid, sometimes undigested food, sometimes a little grass, or a combination of the above. He came to see us after having numerous unsatisfactory attempts at treatment. "I'm here for a […]
I have posted before on this very subject before. Today's case is just too much for words (unless, like myself, you've got a way with words). Little miss Backtrack here is in a pretty precarious situation today due to several serious medical problems. I didn't get to ride my motorcycle on this beautiful day, as […]
Here's Mimo. He and his house-mate Perry are boarding at the clinic for a few days. "While they're here I want to get their vaccines up to date, and Mimo needs his teeth cleaned. He has really bad breath." The admitting staff asked if he had any other problems. "Well, he vomits a lot, but […]