The Dog Zombie

Next week I'm giving on a webinar about puppy vaccine schedules. I'm aiming the webinar at people who have to explain to puppy owner...

Last week I worked in a kitten nursery — a small building off of a larger shelter, full of underage kittens (mostly orphans, some with moms)...

The dog was on his back, sedated on a table. I was not wearing a surgical cap or a sterile gown. I held the first testicle between two fing...

A few months ago I was watching a general practice veterinarian perform a dog spay. And I was surprised by how slow he was. He seemed hesita...

Mostly, when I took my cats to the vet, I would cram them into a carrier while they protested and drive them to a clinic. It was a rough tri...

Researchers at a veterinary hospital were studying the prevalence of particular diseases in different breeds of dogs, and owner recognition ...

Spaying of dogs and cats is such a common and important procedure that it is the only surgery you are guaranteed to get to do all by yoursel...

Surgery: Get yelled at if you hold your hands below your waist, even for half a second, while you are sterile Ambulatory: Perform surgeri...

The first dog I ever tried to spay had no uterus. ( She had already been spayed. ) And the first cow I ever did a reproductive exam on had n...

I was really surprised at how interesting I found my ophthalmology rotation. Two weeks of eyeballs should have been mostly boring and creepy...

Not just every puppy has two daddies. How would it happen? It’s a long story, so stick with me. Let’s say you’re deeply involved in the do...

When I was on my small animal medicine rotation a few months ago, I had a patient with bad kidney disease. This little dog was sixteen years...

One of my patients on my Large Animal Medicine rotation had a very sick eye, for which he needed approximately 9187346 medications every few...

I recently spent two weeks of elective time at a shelter medicine externship at a different vet school. Half the time was spent in academic ...

It was 6:30 am on the last Saturday of my small animal medicine rotation. I had one patient in the hospital to care for that morning, but I ...

Euthanasia is so depressing that at my school, they just teach you about it all in one day to separate it from the rest of the curriculum. A...

Yesterday we had a lecture on osteosarcoma, a cancer of the bone. Osteosarcoma is not a good cancer, guys. It is liable to occur in younger ...

Bovine procedures lab today and yesterday! (Why do they schedule these outdoor labs for the middle of the winter? Thank god for my insulated...

This morning as I was walking out the door on the way to Lottery Day , I looked over at my golden retriever Jack and observed that he was ha...

I’m learning about urinary tract problems at the moment. I love this section, because the guessing game of finding out where the problem is ...