People are searching the internet for information on how to care for their pets. Some veterinarians hate this. Not me. It would be pretty hypocritical for me to rant about "Dr. Internet" when I sort of am "Dr. Internet". The thing is, I try to confine my advice to subjects that I personally know well. […]
Category Archives: Strange Beliefs
I received a review copy of Sleeping With the Beast, by Dale Ryan. It’s not your everyday dog-book. To quote the dust jacket notes, “In Sleeping With the Beast, Dale Ryan invites us into her home for a close-up view of what it’s like to live with dogs – from cooking to decorating to gardening […]
"There is no accounting for tastes", said the old woman, as she kissed the cow. This must serve as my disclaimer. I am no epicure, no gourmand. While I would rather have good food than bad food, my idea of going out to dinner is "eat, pay and get out". Rhapsodizing over the delicate blending […]
Many times we hear the plea, "You’ve gotta fix him, Doc." Man, only God can make a tree, and only the body does the actual healing. If things are pretty torn up, some surgery can speed up the healing by putting those pieces back next to each other where they belong. That won’t make them […]
This is Dodger. Apparently he has lots of outfits. He doesn’t have some huge "hunchback" — that’s his owner’s shirt subtly blending into Dodger’s shirt. They match today. That’s not why I took the picture, though. I took the picture because it’s the first time I’ve seen a pair of "Doggles" in person. Dodger’s dad […]
I was born in 1953. Men born in that year were the last group to be subject to the military draft in the United States. There was a lottery system and each year numbers were drawn. If your birthday was in the 300s, you were off the hook. If your number was 10, you were […]
The most recent issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association had a review article about how people go about finding a lost pet. Researchers surveyed several hundred pet-owners who had lost a pet and asked what they tried in order to recover it. If they did recover the pet, the researchers also […]
"Whoa! He didn’t like that!" says Fluffy’s owner, when Fluffy [not his real name] has just experienced some singularly unpleasant invasion of privacy — most commonly a rectal thermometer, or rectal examination. I suppose that when our loved ones are distressed (just as at a funeral) we feel compelled to say something, simply to show […]
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 […]
You always know when a client is having a problem with his dog eating poop. The conversation invariably starts with this question: "Do you think there might be something missing from Fido’s diet?" What would prompt them to think that Fido has a nutritional problem: Poor hair coat? Skinny? Dull eyes? Poor muscle tone? Poor […]
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