Dr. Sandra Truli Springer, Holistic Vet House Call Services
Truli Holistic Veterinary Services: 877-DR-TRULI
It was also my first time seeing a grown man cry. I didn’t know whether to ignore it and let him keep some dignity or hand over a box of tissues. I forked over the Kleenex.
I thought Lyme disease in dogs was complicated! Then I read that Lyme disease goes undiagnosed, denied, or poorly treated in humans.
Continue reading “Lyme Disease Mini Manifesto”
“She’s in ‘prayer position.’ It’s a sure sign of abdominal pain.”
Every once in a while a patient breaks the rules.
Dolly was a small, 2-year-old long hair little cross between a dachshund and maybe a chihuahua or a third tiny cocker spaniel, maybe. She had flappy little ears, a long fringed tail, and feathery fur on her legs and belly.
Her dad had taken her to 6 doctors with no answer. His friends in police Canine told him to come see me. Continue reading “Mystery Weight Loss Traced to a Toy”
Hypoallergenic, easy to digest treats for dogs can be made fresh and healthy at home!
Oatmeal “Cookies” Continue reading “Treat Recipes for Dogs With Sensitive Stomachs”
Brandy survived two days with a wooden spike digging into her back from the inside!
Doc Truli answers the phone on an autumn Saturday night.
“Is this the Doc?”
“Sure is, how can I help you?”
“Brandy’s panting real hard, standing in one spot, and hasn’t wanted to eat or drink all day. She’s a big, fat yellow lab. She usually loves to eat.”
Did you know there are no “airline approved” pet carriers? Read more…
“This book is dedicated to all of you pet lovers out there traveling during the holiday season, have a safe and memorable Holiday with your furry family”
-Doc Truli
In This free E-Book I Cover:
1. The International health certificate
2. Information you need to bring to the Vet’s for the International Health Certificate
3. The true reasons why authorities bother you with the health certificate
4. Why anti anxiety medication is different, and better, than sedatives for your pet
5. Be Secure or Be Dead: Pet Carriers
6. How to Check Airline Pet Death and Injury Reports
7. Pet Airline Travel Scams
Click Link To View E-Book or Right Click Link To Download: Thanksgiving e-Book-” Airline Travel With Your Pet”, By Doc Truli
Removal of dental tartar on the visible surfaces of the teeth has little effect on a pet’s health, and provides a false sense of accomplishment. The effect is purely cosmetic.
I’ve noticed many people are looking for dentistry information for their pets. There is one board certified dental society, the American Veterinary Dental College in the United States, and a second Academy of Veterinary Dentistry, which has less stringent membership requirements. Both are sources of official information about dentistry.
There is a practice which concerns Doc Truli greatly, so-called Non-Anesthesia Dentistry. This is an evil wrong perpetrated on pets, sometimes under the roof of an animal hospital. The American Veterinary Dental College has issued a position statement speaking out against this practice. I have included the text at the end of this post, in its entirety, or you can go to the Academy site and read it there.
Here’s how Doc Truli first learned of this “practice:”
My assistant was gently holding him, when a crack opening up in his skin over the shoulder on the left, and the skin just slid back 4 inches like cellophane pulling off a loaf of bread.
Sometimes I must treat a patient without knowing the exact diagnosis. Sometimes thongs go upsettingly wrong.
When we started Nicco on the prednisolone and antibiotic, I still did not have a diagnosis why he was jaundiced, anemic, attacking his own blood, and many, many tests had come up negative or inconclusive. With the prednisolone, Nicco ate better, felt better, the anemia started to resolve, the jaundice resolved. We were on to something good!
If I am right, prednisolone (steroid) will save him. If I am wrong, and it is an unidentified infection, steroids could kill him.
Nicco was anemic, jaundiced, dehydrated, lethargic, not eating, full of fleas, and generally looking like crap. (Yes, that’s the official scientific term.)
So, the quest for the reason began. First, I determined Nicco’s Minimum Database Laboratory, which at my hospital consists of a complete blood count, with microscopic cytologic examination of the blood, 12 chemistries of the blood, including liver enzymes, kidney-related toxins, electrolytes, proteins, calcium, sugar, a urinalysis chemistry and microscopy. In this case, we also checked for diseases that ticks spread, because many of those disease can cause bleeding internally, anemia, and jaundice.
No feline leukemia or feline AIDs on his tests. Continue reading “Treating a Sick Cat With No Diagnosis”
…without figuring out the underlying cause of the jaundice, we were doomed to fail.
Nicco was a very sick kitty cat. Thin, dehydrated, yellow with jaundice, fleas running everywhere, Nicco, the white short-hair golden eye wonder at could barely manage to croak a little meow of confusion as I lifted him out of his cat carrier and onto the hospital scale.
Of course, disconnecting dogs entangled at the neck is dangerous and difficult. That is why preventing the accident becomes paramount.
At the end of a busy Friday, a red Porsche convertible screeched to a halt and a frantic guy came running into the animal hospital.
“Help me, you gotta help me, my dog, my dog is choking to death! I just went to pick him up at the kennel and this other dog’s stuck on his choke collar! Help me, please, he’s dying!”