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When you bathe your new kitten, Don’t be surprised if there are several hundred fleas!
Cats do not require too many baths. But, when you find a kitten on the street and take the little tyke home, you need to bath away the fleas and grime, maybe lice and ticks, too.
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Would you know if your cat was in pain?
Holly, a seventeen-year-old domestic short-hair cat came to see me for weight loss and not wanting to eat for 3 days (we call this symptom anorexia in veterinary medicine, but I prefer the term inappetence, because it does not resemble the psychological and physical disease many people suffer by the same name.)
She gradually lost weight over the past 6 months. Holly was 11 pounds in June, and only 5 1/2 pounds when this picture was taken in the hospital.
Holly died the following afternoon.
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This little shih tzu pretzeled himself when Doc Truli scratched his tail base!
This little shih tzu pretzeled himself when Doc Truli scratched his tail base.
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.
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.
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“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"”
