Allergy patients. You gotta love ‘em. Why? Because if you didn’t love them they would drive you completely up the wall. Take Mojo for example. I saw him just a week ago for a routine examination, heartworm test, fecal flotation…
I grew up in a world in which I was an outsider. Today, we take it for granted that our pets are family. Our practice motto, The Family Practice For Family Pets, is foundational to the way we practice. People…
“Stephanie, I need to bring my dog, Sprint, in to see Dr. Randolph for an abscess on his face. We are visiting here from Iowa, thinking of buying a vacation home on the Mississippi Coast, but we’re headed back to…
Recently we discussed Lucy, whose chronic ear problems required her to undergo a surgical procedure called Zepp Lateral Ear Resection. We performed the procedure and it went uneventfully. The only down side is that, after the procedure, when we were easily…
A cat with a urinary tract problem. After thirty years of practice it certainly isn’t an unfamiliar scenario for any day of the week. However, Theodore turned out to be a very unusual presentation. His pet parents, we’ll call them…
Anny writes to us from the Bay Area of California with a question about her kitty, who got an injection of Convenia, the long-acting antibiotic. In her post she describes some circumstances that every cat owner needs to know how to deal…
Convenia passes another test. Bayou recently came to us with an embarrassing problem: BO. Body Odor. He, well, stank. Bayou had a bacterial infection of the skin called pyoderma. It is a common problem, usually secondary with a primary underlying…
Does your pet suffer from motion sickness? If so, you suffer right along with him. The smell. The mess. The icky way his hair is matted for days afterward. Veterinarians have had a number of tools at our disposal for…
Extenuating circumstances. They affect just about everything in life, don’t they? Our pets are not exempt from extenuating circumstances, either. Take Black, a sweet, middle-aged Labrador retriever. Black has a little lump on her right rear leg, down low, past…
You’ve heard it said that a dog’s mouth is cleaner than a human’s. Even without microbiological tests I would question that statement simply on the basis of some of the things I’ve seen dogs lick! Cats’ mouths, on the other…
