Showing 23 posts tagged with "veterinarian"
Here’s a household pet hazard that — dastardly as it is — you don’t hear about too often.
But first the moral of the story: If you have a pet at home, or a child for that matter, don’t ever leave your paper shredder on automatic.
The owners of a mixed breed dog named Diamond found that [...]
A University of Cincinnati researcher says the canine hearing aid he is developing may be ready for the market by the end of this year.
Pete Scheifele began working on a hearing aid for dogs after his own 17-year-old dog — a miniature pinscher/beagle mix — lost his hearing.
The highly trained dog has appeared on television [...]
In the foreword to “The Complete Healthy Dog Handbook,” author Betsy Brevitz, DVM, mentions a few of the new veterinary tools, treatments and procedures that — while rare five years ago — have become commonplace since then: CT and MRI scans, joint replacements, radiation therapy and a host of new drugs and vaccines.
All those advancements in veterinary medicine [...]
An oldie but a goodie:
A woman brought a very limp duck into the office of a veterinary surgeon. She laid her pet on the table and the vet pulled out his stethoscope to listen to the bird’s chest.
After a moment or two, the vet shook his head sadly and said, “I’m sorry, ma’am, your duck [...]
A “bad” dog, an “ugly” dog and a gaggle of “unwanted” beagles all prove that, deep down, they were not those things at all in the season premiere of “DogTown” Friday night.
All three stories show the benefits of looking a little deeper than the surface, but it’s the tale of Aristotle, a scab-ridden and a hairless mutt, that’s going [...]
