by pinpoint | Dec 21, 2012 | Hot Topics!
Your pet ate WHAT? If only you called me sooner! How often I want to say this, but I don’t want my client to feel worse than they already do. Many people think that when a poison is consumed their pet will fall over frothing at the mouth in the first hour. While...
by pinpoint | Dec 21, 2012 | Hot Topics!
The large powerful body of the German Shepherd lay still in the pick up truck bed. Only his rapid shallow breathing and occasional feeble movement let me know he was still alive. “I saw him eat some “rat bait” last week, but he seemed okay, so I figured there was...
by Ovidiu Voicu | Nov 3, 2012 | Hot Topics!
Xylitol? OH NO! It’s in your sugarless gum, sugarless mints, and other diet foods and it can KILL your dog. It’s absorbed quickly and it doesn’t take much. Keep your sugarless products away from pets, beware the purse surfing dog and call your veterinarian...
by Ovidiu Voicu | Nov 2, 2012 | Hot Topics!
Veterinary scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that, like humans, obese dogs can experience metabolic syndrome, a condition that describes multiple health issues that occur in the body at the same time. The condition occurs when a number of health...