Dr. Sandra Truli Springer, Holistic Vet House Call Services
Truli Holistic Veterinary Services: 877-DR-TRULI
Getting to an answer for an itchy cat can take a lot of work. Read about the steps and what you can try at home to help your cat’s itchy skin.
A beautiful brown-black long-hair tabby kitten stared out of her black Sherpa soft-sided carrier. She hissed. Our formal introduction deteriorated into cajoling and negotiating as I snuck a full physical examination in between angry kitten hisses. My first visit with little Liz ended 20 minutes after our introduction. She was obviously displeased with me. I fell in love with her.
Continue reading “Cat Skin Allergies”
The lens looked like a white slippery bouncy ball, jiggling every time Trixie tilted her head.
A ten-year-old Sheltie mix names Trixie blindly sniffed in my direction. She appeared perfectly normal until you focussed on her eyes. Bilateral cataracts had taken Trixie’s sight years before. Today, I saw a new problem.
Continue reading “Sheltie Mix Anterior Lens Luxation”
My nurse ran her limp 3 1/2 pound, 3 1/2 year-old skinny Yorkie body to the treatment table for heat and oxygen.
“There’s a lady on the phone. She says her dog is having trouble breathing. Can she bring the dog in now?” my Saturday receptionist asked, phone receiver dangling from her fingers.
Eye sparing surgery isn’t for every blind dog.
If you have a Parson’s Russell Terrier (aka Jack, JRT), whether your dog be smooth coat or rough coat, sudden blindness can hit at any time. These terriers are genetically prone to anterior lens luxation.
The eight-week-old labrador puppy coughed in the middle of vomiting and breathed in some vomit. Now she had an unfamiliar liquid in her lungs, full of bacteria, too!
“How long has the puppy been coughing and had crusty eyes and nose?”
“One day.”
Now, when a pet parent tells me their new puppy has suddenly gotten boney, won’t eat, vomits once and has diarrhea, I doubt the problem is only 24 hours old.
Continue reading “8-Week Old Lab Mix Puppy Fights Pneumonia”
“Dog people” recognize dog faces even quicker and more accurately than they recognize people faces!
It’s not quite the new year, and as I was posting about Scooter’s breed analysis results, I realized that many breeds are mistaken for pit bulls. The general public does not understand or even see the differences in these dogs. Sometimes, the dissimilarity is so wide, a dog lover such as myself (or, probably, as you are reading this, yourself) cannot believe people can’t tell the difference.
You wouldn’t believe the dogs people mistake for pit bulls!
Continue reading “Top Ten Breeds Commonly Mistaken for "Pit Bulls"”
Today Doc Truli was asked to feel a woman’s side and tell her if she had a rib there or not…seriously.
“Doctor, I know you don’t see humans….but…”
Continue reading “Top Ten Questions to Save for the "Human" Doctor”
Sam, the Boxer blood donor, thought the whole thing was funny. He smiled, let his tongue hand out to maximum, and licked any nurse that came within reach.
My nurse ran to the treatment room,
“We have an emergency in room one; the puppy is white.”
He meant the gums, nose, pads, and even her little toenails were snow white with anemia. The 8 week old little American Bulldog had almost no red blood cells to carry life-sustaining oxygen. She needed an emergency blood transfusion.
Continue reading “Blood Donor Saves American Bulldog Puppy's Life”
Without kind rescuers, even if they cannot keep a kitten in their home for a variety of reasons, and benefactors to provide supplies and healthcare, and a generous nurse who fosters the kitten as her own, a street kitten has a very short expected lifespan. Especially if the kitten has a paralyzed leg.
Continue reading “Rescued "3-Legged" Kitten Healed by Kindness and Time”
16 week old male puppy 16 pounds. Scooter. Breed analysis test sent out today. Fur is wiry, slightly curly, with tightly curled black and white whiskers. He is sweet, friendly, and smart.
What’s your guess?
At our hospital, we pitch in guesses about how the test will come back. Breeds 12% or more, included in the approx 200 in the database, will show on the test. Results will be in around January 11, 2010.
16 week old male puppy 16 pounds. Scooter. Breed analysis test sent out today. Fur is wiry, slightly curly, with tightly curled black and white whiskers. He is sweet, friendly, and smart.
