a Broken Blood Feather If you’re an avian vet like me, ‘broken blood feather’ are one of the most common and frankly, pet owners’ scariest emergencies. The scene: you cockatiel is preening merrily and then boom! all hell breaks loose with a splash of red on a feather. Suddenly, you’re in emergency mode! That’s okay…
if Your Pet Rabbit One of the most frequently occurring and the most tragic of the rabbit emergencies, the “just stopped eating rabbit” comes in all too regularly in practice. In the realm of rabbit medicine,a rabbit refusing food is Code Red! The failure to eat, a seemingly small symptom of just failing to put…
Changing the dog’s paw bandage, a complicated procedure may become hell when the bandage gets wet. A wet bandage implies that a risk not only to the ease of the caregiver but also, and more important to the wound’s cleanliness, allowing bacteria to grow. When a Wet Bandage is a Danger: The Critical Risks A…
Signs of Wound Infection After that you’ll find your anticipation of getting your best companion home soon far transcends and changes in to a second probability; a second possibility that you are going to absolutely know what your pet appears to be while it’s resting from operation, after mass removal. It’s fortunate for a lot…
After Leg Surgery Once your puppy comes home from leg surgery, will bring relief, relief, and another measure of sheer panic, all at the same time. A recovering patient, it turns out, happens to be a puppy, and your vet’s directives are one word, rest. It is, for a normally energetic dog, about as difficult…
Signs of Wound Infection Bringing your dog home after mass removal surgery is both a relief and the start of a new responsibility. While most surgical sites heal without complications, knowing how to spot the early signs of wound infection is crucial for your dog’s recovery. As a veterinarian, I want to empower you with…
I am an exotic pet veterinarian, and there is one question asked by worried ferret owners that I encounter far more than any other. \”Why is my ferret losing her fur?\” You might recognize the syndrome: A ferret developing a rat-like, thinning tail and the shedding hair, moving up the ferret’s lower back. This is…
Incision Welcoming home your cat after her spay surgery will be a relief for both of you, but this starts a very important stage of monitoring her recovery and health. Some reddening, swelling, or bruising around her incision wound are also extremely common sights, and can be quite alarming. Some reddening or bruising and swelling…
Cone As a veterinarian, I’ve witnessed firsthand more than a fair share of pets and their parents vexed by the ubiquitous plastic “cone of shame”or the Elizabethan collar, as it’s formally known. There’s no denying that a sturdy plastic cone is highly successful at preventing dogs from gnawing at, picking at, and irritating any wounds…
Discovering that your dog has injured its paw and seeing a bandaged limb come back to you especially one found later that’s wet is worry. An event found to be of an actual wet bandage is reason for real concern and panic and that even more so, because a wet bandage is actually a bacteria…