Category Archives: Surgery

This is Louie.  About five days ago, he had a vomiting spell.  We couldn’t find anything on physical examination.  His vaccination history is good, and his stool exam was negative.  An X-ray didn’t show anything, so we thought he might have a little intestinal infection.  Hey, maybe he ate some garbage.  So, we gave some […]

Maddie sort of "fell through the cracks".  That’s just a figure of speech, though here she looks thin enough to fall through a crack.  The "crack" she fell through was the one that formed when the marriage split.   She’s really Mom’s dog, but she liked to go down to the farm shop and hang out […]

They say that cases come in threes, but that’s not one of my personal superstitions (and I do have a few).  On Sunday I saw two hit-by-car cases, both with a broken pelvis.  Quite a coincidence, and two was enough for one day, thank you. The pelvic bones, the pelvis (as in Elvis), the pelvic […]

He just seems to get better by the hour. I’m not ready to say we’re out of the woods, but he’s on his third can of dog food (prescription diet I/D).  No more vomiting, but he’s still got some loose feces, still doing a little straining.  He trotted all over the back yard and marked […]

Yesterday we had a rather unusual case of the dog who "can’t go".  The "take-home message" is that we always take this complaint seriously. "Acting constipated" is a not uncommon description of a pet’s situation.  Upon receiving this complaint, the thoughtful veterinarian’s next step is to ask the owner what the pet is actually doing.  […]