This little shih tzu pretzeled himself when Doc Truli scratched his tail base.
How to Tell if Your Dog Secretly Itches
This little shih tzu pretzeled himself when Doc Truli scratched his tail base!
Category: Dogs
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Border Collie Needs a Good Home
This fantastic 3-year-old male Border Collie needs a new home. His Australian Shepherd friend moved the Argentina to herd sheep.
He currently lives in Miami. He’s a working dog used to herding sheep and cattle on a Texas ranch. Obedient, friendly, healthy.
If you believe you are a wonderful, loving, active home for him, contact Doc Truli at VirtuaVet and I’ll pass along your information to his family.
Sheltie Mix Anterior Lens Luxation
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.
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Yorkshire Terrier Puppy Freezes
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.
Parsons Russell Terrier Glaucoma
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.
8-Week Old Lab Mix Puppy Fights Pneumonia
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.
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Top Ten Breeds Commonly Mistaken for "Pit Bulls"
“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!
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Blood Donor Saves American Bulldog Puppy's Life
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.
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Would You Call This a Pit Bull?
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.
Lyme Disease Mini Manifesto
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.
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