Our pastor and I were reinstalling our church’s Easter cross in the yard this afternoon when I asked, “How is your squirrel problem going?” “Funny you should ask,” Brother said. “I went into the attic Saturday and ran all of the squirrels out and nailed up hardware cloth where they went out, so I thought [...]
I was worried. It could have been a carjacking. The SUV was parked crossways in the road ahead of me, and the 4-wheeled all terrain vehicle (ATV) was headed right for me. Fortunately, the ATV went right on by and when I got abreast of the SUV I figured out the whole story: It was [...]
We interrupt the flow of thank you letters from the Reeves Elementary multi-age class with another story from the class. From the “Importance Of Reading In Professions” series, two of the students had indicated that they wanted to be astronauts. While we were readily able to obtain a judge, an attorney, a hairdresser, a rocket [...]
Spunky the cat came in today with the owner’s son and a history of coughing twice each day for about two weeks. He was otherwise acting and feeling fine and eating well, he just had this nagging, gagging cough. He even came in with a differential diagnosis list: “He’s coughing like he has a hairball. [...]
We have mice. No, not that kind. No, not that kind, either. Well, OK, we do have the computer kind but we don’t have the wild kind. What we have as of the last couple of days is pet mice. Two, to be specific. In our practice we don’t see pet mice very often, but [...]
Sometimes clients ask me, “What is the hardest part of your job?” The answer is easy, “Dealing with frustration.” Like today. A nice lady came to see us, escorted by her kind neighbor, who transported her and her daughter’s dog, Cuz. Cuz was having difficulty breathing. Right away in the examination I noticed that Cuz [...]
Have you ever been hit by a low-flying dog? It happens to us all the time. Wild and domesticated animals instinctively know that sudden movements are difficult for their enemies to predict. They use that knowledge to protect themselves, or to extract themselves from dangerous situations. Sometimes pets perceive the procedures we perform to be [...]
Recently I have been working with a teenaged mother-to-be, helping her to have a healthy pregnancy in every way. At “29″, Maggie is no youngster to be having her first. She and Rocky didn’t actually plan to have a family. They both live with her parents and she had already begun the process of planning [...]
FUS was the first name by which I knew the illness: Feline Urologic Syndrome. FLUTD took its place a number of years ago. Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease. As you might imagine, a disease process about which even the experts can’t agree on a name is a very complicated syndrome. Pour yourself a large cup [...]
A diagnosis of heartworms is not a death sentence, even in a somewhat older dog. Precious “Sweetie” came to see us this week, her first doctor’s visit in her 8-year lifespan. Not surprisingly, having never been on a heartworm preventive and living in a swamp-surrounded, mosquito-laden area of a southern state, her test came back [...]
This is Sara. Well, more specifically, this is Sara’s right eye. Sara’s first visit with this eye problem was about a week ago, and she presented with a history of squinting and protecting the eye. We examined Sara thoroughly, and found no other physical problems on the body, so we turned our focus to the [...]
Defenders of the so-called “vicious breeds” will often say, “It’s not the dog’s fault, it’s always the owner’s fault, when such attacks occur.” And, there’s some truth to that statement. Owning any dog is a big responsibility. Owning a dog which is physically and mentally capable of massive damage to living things adds some very [...]
Each Saturday until they are all displayed we will add the Thank You Notes that Mrs. Lipski’s and Mrs. VonderBruegge’s students wrote when Dr. Randolph of MyPetsDoctor.com visited their Reeves Elementary First and Second Grade MultiAge Classroom.
Your pet has a medical condition. It’s 4 AM. Is it serious enough to take him to the veterinary emergency hospital now, or can it wait until your pet’s doctor is open in a few hours? Today we’ll be talking about some conditions for which your pet needs to be seen immediately. For some conditions, [...]
Relaxin. “Oh, so you’re taking the day off today, Dr. Randolph?” No, I didn’t say relaxin’, I said relaxin. Relaxin is a hormone that is produced during pregnancy in mammalian species. Both its function and its importance vary among species, but its main function seems to be to cause a softening and growth of the [...]
Want to hear a real horror story about “leftover medications/other people’s (pets’)medications? Neither did I, but, as the patient was here, I had no choice but to listen. As much as we have all heard the admonition to “take the medicine until it’s all gone,” and “don’t take other people’s medications,” we still do it. [...]
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