Carnassial Tooth Abscess
“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…
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Zepp Lateral Ear Canal Resection-Lucy’s Update
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
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…
Cat Urinary Tract Problems
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…
Cat Urinary Bladder Inflammation
I have long been fascinated by a syndrome that occurs in cats that has no logical explanation I can come up with: Why do cats with blood in the urine deposit that abnormal sample on white surfaces where the contrast…
Cerenia For Motion Sickness In Dogs And Cats
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…
Black: A Dog With A Growth
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…
Cat Bite Abscesses
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…
Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV)
Feline Leukemia Virus. Few words are scarier to a cat lover than those. And, with good reason, even though a positive Feline Leukemia Virus test is not always a death sentence. Let’s look at both the disease and testing in…
Hot Spots In Pets
Poor Fritz. Wednesday night, between church and choir practice the preacher and his wife took me aside. Uh-oh! What had I done now? “Jim,” said Melinda, the pastor’s wife, “Fritz has this nasty place on the side of his head…
