Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Animal Health / March 2005

I just have a question for vets/techs out there.  I was just wondering where
everyone gives SQ injections to cats?  With all the talk about
fibrosarcomas, we're debating to stop scruff injections all together.  One
of our vets was researching fibrosarcomas on the internet and they ...

Have you tried asking your vet for special diet like Hills id or RCW
sensitive control. These are very bland food and somtimes can help if there
problems with digestive system.

I have several male dogs in my house. Unfortunately, one dog keeps getting
more and more aggressive with time, and it causes almost every day fights
with other male dogs. We can't take it anymore, and we are considering
castrating that dog. The problem is the dog is 6 years old, and ...

Question for any DVM's out there.  How excited(concerned), generally, do you
get about finding innocent(grade 1 or 2) murmurs in young puppies?  When I
say young, I mean 7/8 weeks of age.
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A friend of mines German Shepherd has been diagnosed with this, It is
a degenrative disease of the spine.
Does anyone know of a treatment for this ?

My Tom cat's breath smells very bad - like puss and he's dribbling. I tried
to get him into the car to take him to the vets but he ran off.  He often
stays out for days and I'm anxious to catch him soon. Any idea why he would
smell and have a thick mucous drool around his mouth?

Our 15 year old male cat has been succesfully battling
cholangiohepatis, and off and on diabetes for over two years and now
apparantly has pancreatitis as well. His liver numbers are actually
improving over the past few months, but he is decidedly going down hill

I have an almost 3 year old smooth collie, Lucy, who has IBD.  Brief
synopsis: She was born and raised at a breeder who was planning on showing
her. I adopted her at age 23 months. Her pre-spay blood panel showed
abnormally low levels of globulin. Urinalysis showed her kidneys ...

I just took Chloe for a walk and when she pee'd I noticed it looked very
red.  (It was nearing sunset, so at first I thought maybe the light was
playing tricks on me).   I put my hand on the ground where she'd pee'd to
see, and it came up with no signs.  When she squatted to pee ...

I have a cat who needs neutered (and will be shortly), but he is in a
different situation than the prior several cats I have had
spayed/neutered.
We have a separate room, known as "The Kitty Rescue Room", and most of

Greetings everyone;
I was hoping that i might be able to get some information from anyone
out there who's a vet, or a vet tech, or even a well-read cat-lover
with the answers...

My seven year old female greyhound has seriously receding gums on her
very front teeth both top and bottom. They are the teeth between the
fangs in the very front (insiscors?). It involves the very front 2 top
teeth and the bottom 3 front teeth. I have been brushing them with a

Are TradeWinds Tape Worm Tabs for cats (23 mg Praziquantel), FDA
approved for OTC sales? A secretary at the vet's office said OTC
Praziquantel was illegal. I searched on Google and it appears that
these tape worm tabs are legal but I want to be 100% sure. I also

I have a 10-11 year old male Lab.  Prior to minor surgery, the vet did some
blood tests, which show elevated levels of  "Bun" (don't know what that
means0 and "Creatinine."  The surgery has been postposed, possibly forever.
Normal range for "Bun" is 7 -0 27;  the dog's is 40.

I've noticed over the last year that her right eye at times will get droopy.
I even had the vet check it because when it happens the inner lid seems to
curl up some but not over the eye.  They attributed it to her allergies
since it seems worse at times during the year.