"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go…" Personally, I think getting started too early makes you sort of take it for granted by the time the blessed day arrives. I'd rather have a frenzy of decorating about a week before, but I'm in the minority. My house is getting decorated, and […]
Category Archives: Trauma
Cats have disagreements. Diplomacy often fails to resolve these (if it's ever tried), resulting in physical altercations. Most of this involves a lot of swatting with claws. In fact, even a cat who has been de-clawed for years will usually instinctively slap you before he thinks to bite you (fortunately for my nose). They do […]
Here's Rex. Despite her name, Rex is a girl. She is a house-dog, except for the day she escaped and ran off for a couple of hours. She came back with her left hind leg wounded. The next day she came in to see me. This wound is obviously infected. It looks like there are […]
This is the “after” picture. I didn’t take “before” pictures. Things were a little hectic at the time. “The other dogs have attacked Cuddles, and I can’t tell whether she’s still alive or not. I can’t see her breathing.” It was before 7:00 AM, and Cuddles’ owner was as upset as you can be […]
The cat's basic nature differs considerably from that of the dog. They are nocturnal hunters. They climb trees. They are very flexible — if their whiskers can get through an opening, so can the rest of the cat. A dog accepts restraint pretty well, but cats hate it. Many cats simply refuse to wear a […]
This is Junior. If he looks a little "out of it", then this is a really good picture. Junior is a Bassett Hound, led astray by an old English Bulldog. They both left the yard, but Junior got too far out into the street. [What,no fence, you say? Yeah, no fence. "You pays your money […]
Why do dogs swallow needles? As Sir Edmund Hillary said about Everest, “…because it’s there.” Oddly enough, if they actually get a needle or pin swallowed, more often than not, it just passes on through and comes out in the stool. Under most (NOT ALL) circumstances, the intestinal tract recoils from those sharp points and […]
Warning: We have a happy ending, but there are some gross pictures. Crushing injuries are among my least favorite. They not only do a lot of damage, but it is difficult to determine the extent of the damage when you first examine them. Sometimes tissue looks okay, but has had its circulation irreparably damaged. You […]
So here we are with our hip joint back in place, taped up in a "sling", but still under anesthesia. It usually takes a lot of force to dislocate that ball-and-socket joint, so it’s unusual to have a big dog like this with her hip dislocated and no other major injuries. If there’s that much […]
Warning: There is a gross "before" picture at the bottom of this post. Some time ago, in my discussion of bug-eyed dogs, I touched on proptosis globus. This means that the eyeball has been popped out of the socket. Since the bug-eyed dog has a shallow socket and a big eyeball, it doesn’t take much […]