People often wonder what the benefit is of sterilizing your new puppy or kitten. Is it a necessity? Will there be side effects from the sterilization? Are you doing the best thing for your animal by having them sterilized? When is the best time? There are many good...
IT’S ALL ABOUT THAT COUGH! Coughing in animals can be caused by a variety of conditions including heart conditions, certain parasitic infections and primary lung problems. A cough will necessitate a visit to the veterinary clinic to figure out which one is the cause...
We as veterinarians regularly get asked the question: “ When is my dog considered old, and what should I be looking out for?” These days our animals live much longer than they used to, this is in part due to better nutrition and advances made in veterinary medicine....
Rabies is a contagious viral disease causing damage to the brain and spinal cord and is uniformly fatal. It affects both animals and humans and is caused by the rabies virus. Although rabies can be found in domestic and wild animals most cases of rabies in humans are...
Meet Spot, a three month old Jack Russel cross. Spot broke her leg only two weeks after being adopted from a shelter while playing with her not so tiny sibling, a Great Dane. It was a very unhappy puppy that was brought to our clinic in January with a dorsal short...
