Pet foods can be classified into three main categories: premium, supermarket brands and other. In pet foods you truly get what you pay for. Premium brands of foods include Science Diet in Growth, Maintenance, Senior and Light formulas, Iams Eukanuba,…
Evamist contains estradiol, a powerful form of estrogen. It is used by menopausal women to reduce hot flashes. It is available in a spray form and is applied to the forearm between the wrist and elbow. Women who use Evamist,…
Nature is a process of coming and going. Three times this week we have had to tell pet owners that their dogs had terminal conditions. One is already gone. Another will probably not last more than a few days. The…
When we lose a pet we experience the same five stages of grief one experiences with any loss. One of the ways to help ease that grief is to perform positive acts that help us keep good memories alive. A…
Lost to followup is a term used commonly in research literature when a patient is in a study but can no longer be found to determine its current status. For example, let’s say Company A comes out with Medication 16,…
So, you want to be a veterinarian. For purposes of this discussion we will assume that you are older than age nine, as everyone that age and younger wants to be a veterinarian. At least, according to the kids who…
Rare is the veterinary practice that doesn’t offer boarding as an ancillary service. You have several choices when it comes to care for your pets during travel. Among them: take them with you have someone house-sit with your pet at…
DVM Newsmagazine news editor Rachael Whitcomb reports in the September, 2010, edition that short-nosed breeds of dogs are more likely to die in flight than dogs with longer snouts. Anatomically termed brachycephalic, meaning “short head,” these dogs have all of…
Country artists Brooks and Dunn have a song out called “God Must Be Busy.” In it they talk about some of the problems in the world, including “old folks can’t afford the drugs they can’t live without.” We ran into…
The acronyms for Hill’s Prescription Diet foods are not difficult to figure out. The “d” always stands for diet. It was easy in the old days, before there were so many different Prescription Diets. c/d was “crystal diet,” k/d was…
