This is Cinnamon. Isn’t she adorable? Notice the grey hair? Notice a little cloudiness in her eyes? Cinnamon is no youngster. Indeed, despite her small size, she’s almost 11. For whatever reasons, Cinnamon didn’t have spay surgery when she was young. Previously we have discussed how that predisposes dogs to mammary (breast) cancer. Now, time [...]
The teenaged girl sat crumpled in the floor of our examination room, sobbing loudly. I evaluated the kitten’s problems as her father and older sister sat on the bench, waiting. Instinctively, they all knew the verdict as well as I did, but waited for me to make it official: “I’m sorry, but the kitten is [...]
The story of little Susie is one repeated altogether too often in the United States. It is a sad tale of a puppy who got excellent care as a new baby, finished the puppy series of vaccinations, had her spay surgery, and never saw a doctor again. You can substitute kitten for puppy and neuter [...]
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