Veterinary Blog

Pets, dogs especially, are notorious for eating things they aren’t supposed. Whether it’s socks, garbage, or things off the counter, these ingestions have the potential to be anything but benign. Many

While vets will regularly tell owners “Feeding your dog people food can make them sick”, we rarely follow that rule ourselves. My dog, Joe, will attest that he gets a little bit of almost anything I’m

For the next three months, I will be talking about different treatments we use on pets based on using light. Many folks are already aware that we use a powerful laser in place of scalpels for our surg

Our second stop on the nasty tick disease tour is with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Before Lyme, this was the scary tick disease everyone worried about in New England. That said, it wasn’t that commo

In my recent article about pet poisoning, I mentioned toxicity in dogs after eating grapes and, even worse, raisins. To my surprise, many people have expressed shock to me about this. Seeing as so man

I’m not quite sure why, but we have had a resurgence of clients asking about or already feeding raw diets to their pets. This was a trend that surged in the early 2000’s and then went away. Frankly, I

As I continue through my series on aging in pets, I’d like to focus on chronic pain and how it is often missed by pet owners. When I diagnose a likely painful condition in an animal, especially during

In my previous article, I discussed why so many dogs tear the cruciate ligament (the doggie ACL…). As I mentioned, it’s the most common orthopedic injury in dogs. As such, repairs of this injury are a

I keep talking to people that are planning road trips this year to avoid air travel and many are taking their dogs along for the ride. As someone who takes his dog everywhere with him, I love this ide

This article is the first of a three part series on allergies and the problems they cause. Today’s will focus on airborne allergies and their rleated skin diseases. It has already been a bad summer fo

As we continue talking about modern therapies using light, I like to remind folks that there aren’t just medical therapies that can benefit from this. Surgical techniques and their success have greatl

A client and I recently chatted about how so many dogs in her walking group get ear infections in the summer. While some of the dogs swim, most of them didn’t. So, she wondered why they were all getti