This is so hilarious I just had to share it with you. Molly came in for a step in her heartworm treatment. As her owners and I talked, Dad mentioned that Molly had a bowel movement on the back porch this morning. Six year old Cedar Rose had been asked to clean it up. She [...]
Penny arrived today with a condition we see occasionally associated with really fastidious housekeepers. Actually, this can happen anywhere cleaning products are used, even ones we associate with “mildness.” Penny has a flakiness on the pads of her front feet. After extensive questioning we ruled out the likelihood of cleaners in Penny’s case. At this [...]
See Monday, August 10, for Part 1 of Dog and Cat Hurricane Evacuation. Suppose you are a policeman, fireman, other first-responder, veterinarian or just a person who is philosophically opposed to evacuation. You are determined to stay through the storm, no matter what. If you intend to stay, many of the same preparation instructions still [...]
Today’s Daily Post was inspired by Gracie. We have wanted to get Gracie’s dental disease taken care of since 2007. With the preanesthesia laboratory testing, anesthesia, cleaning and polishing and to extract one puppy tooth it will cost about $550.00. And that’s if we don’t have to extract more teeth than the one we know [...]
I never get tired of standing on this particular soapbox. Cats need to be indoors. Even thirty years ago, when there really was what we used to call “country” and the nearest paved road was twenty miles away, male cats roamed ten or more miles to impregnate female cats and to fight with other males, [...]
Every good comedian needs a straight man. Sometimes a zealous doctor needs one, too. I got mine today as a childhood friend of our twin sons brought me a cute little dog she had rescued from a humane shelter in Birmingham, Alabama. Jenna and her son, Britton, had seen videos of a brother and sister [...]
MyPetsDoctor.com is headquartered on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. While most of the world thinks that Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, LA, on August 29, 2005, in fact the eye straddled the state line that Louisiana and Mississippi share. That put us in the northeast quadrant of the storm, the so-called “bad side” for the northern [...]
With the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina just 19 days away and tropical waves rolling off the Horn of Africa, MyPetsDoctor.com thought it appropriate to publish a piece on hurricane preparedness tips for pets. The single most important factor is to have a hurricane evacuation plan in place so that you and your pets can be as [...]
Rut’s show-dog story happened before microchips were in widespread use, as was the case when this next tale occurred. The Youngs were travelling in a Class A motorhome across the panhandle of Florida with their two cats, Toby and Alley. An automobile swerved in front of them, forcing them off the road. The RV flipped [...]
Always one to look for the bright side of any incident, a good friend of mine who travels the show-dog circuit called me aside one day. Having not seen him for some time, I asked where he’d been hiding, and why he had a cast on his leg. “I’m glad you asked,” Rutledge said, “because [...]
We’ve all heard of the “crazy cat lady” but today I encountered the “crazy dog lady” on my way to work . I could tell from a distance, as I approached her, that she was behaving frantically as each car passed by. A beautiful Springer Spaniel bounded from yard to road and on to another [...]
Instincts are fascinating. Pets, wild animals, even people use instincts to respond to certain situations when they may not have had the opportunity to learn from similar encounter before. Take spayed female animals who retain their maternal instincts. Our dog, Pearl, for example, would have made a great mother. Every little creature she comes across [...]
Otodectes cynotis is an equal-opportunity parasite that is more than happy to infect dogs or cats. You know them by their common name, ear mites. It is important to recognize that ear mite infestation in cats is a very different syndrome than the condition in dogs. Ear mites in dogs tends to be a condition [...]
I was out on an errand today when a regular MyPetsDoctor.com reader asked, “Why don’t you put names of medications and dosages on your Web site?” The answer is a little complicated. We do name certain medications used in certain conditions. Dosages, on the other hand, can vary from patient to patient and even day [...]
Today’s Post will be short and sweet. It’s something I feel very passionate about. Don’t feed people food to your pet. Table food. Human food. Table scraps. Whatever you want to call it, dogs and cats need to eat dog and cat food (respectively). Anything you add to your pet’s diet has the same effect [...]
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