Animal hygiene can be a touchy subject–as can personal hygiene, but this is the Pet Column so we don’t have to go there… [caption id="attachment_50305" align="aligncenter" width="539"] Pacha after[/caption] Some pet parents like to bathe their dogs (and cats!) on a weekly basis. Some can go years between...
I love puppies. I love their roly-poly little bodies, their teeny, tiny, waving tails, and their milky sweet puppy breath. So seeing them in the Critical Care Unit at CSU when I did my clinical rotation always made my gut hurt. There were only two...
In my experience, most Western slope dogs are “fit." They walk, run, swim, bike, ski and hike with their owners. They have great circulatory systems, well-toned muscles and admirable respiratory capacity. However, there is a myth circulating about that as long as pets get lots...
Living here in the mountains our pets tend toward the healthy side: they typically get lots of exercise, sunshine and fresh air. But they are also exposed to wildlife, which, as addressed in previous Pet Column, poses some risks - even if your pet never...
One of the questions that I get asked the most as a vet is how to tell when a pet is in pain. Our pets are our loved ones that we spend a great deal of time with and yet because they can't just pipe...
Believe it or not, there is actually a chapter in most Veterinary Internal Medicine books that is entitled "HBC -- for Hit By Car." As a profession, we refer to it like a major disease: Osteosarcoma, Congestive Heart Failure, Hit By Car. These are conditions that...
This week’s Pet Column contributed by Second Chance’s resident veterinarian Michelle Dally of Dally Veterinary Medicine, who wanted to educate our Pet Column readers directly from her experiences with the pro bono veterinary treatment she provides on regular basis here at Second Chance Humane Society. ...
It’s easy to say we want to keep our animals comfortable and pain free. For physical trauma, such as a broken leg or a surgical incision, we use pain medications. Although few argue that that is the right course of treatment it becomes harder, yet...
