Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Animal Health / February 2006

You all might remember me posting about Koko and Kady, Koko with herpes
( maybe not ) and Kady the stray ( now she is a big girl).   Well, it
has warmed
up a little here in Florida, so the doggie Gabby has been spending more

Hi, This is my first post to this group and i was just wondering if anyone
could tell me where i could find useful information on canine epilepsy. My 4
yr old lab x kelpie has just been diagnosed with it.
I have read that certatin diets may help keep his seizures under control but

My 6 year old cat was diagnosed with pancreatitis in the beginning of
January.  He had started slowing down on his activity (he is normally
a very active cat, frequent cat crazies and avid soccer player!) on
Jan 5, until not running around at all by about Jan. 21.  It took

I don't mean to sound harsh here ...but come on...we need a lot more info...
what was the diagnosis of disk disease, where was the lesion (what disk space), how was the lesion diagnosed
what surgical proceedure was performed?, was it a neurologist, boarded surgeon, or other DVM? ...

We take our Black Lab hiking in a remote section of the State Park (FL) area
and he loves to chase the armadillos. It is like a pheasant and rabbit hunt
for him but he never gets one.  Does anyone know what would happen if he
would encounter one?   ~~  He had a great time today and ...

I am devestated...Please someone point me in the right direction...my
10 1/2
yr old baby girl newf walked into the vets tuesday morning...
for back surgery...as of today she has no use of her hind

I have a couple of questions regarding customer requesting copies of records
and masking charges on the records.  Is it legal to hide the prices on the
customers copy ?

Hello all, and sorry for the cross-post. The folks over at
rec.pets.cats.health+behav informed me that this would be a more
appropriate place for my question. I have a situation I'd like to know
a bit more about.

i posted earlier,below about the healing problems of my 31/2 yr. old
female pitbull. yesterday i thought she was out of the woods. today i
checked her and her scare that looked like a small eye socket looked
larger and had something coming out. no bleeding. but,looked sick! took

I get so sick of people putting vets down and talking bad about them! A
vet goes to school for 8 years to det there docters degree and then
what? There clients dont respect then the minuete the client does not
get there way they start talking sh.t about the vet! Vets have one of

The weather here has been brutally cold over the last few days. We give
kitten food to the stray cats who come to our door. Is kitten food
beneficial to these fully-grown, but still young animals?

HOWEDY tommy sorenson aka joey finnochiario aka gentleman
jack morrison aka DOGMAN,
"Handsome Jack Morrison"
<handsomejackmorrison@thedetonatorearthlink.net>

We got a new ~1yr old dog from a rescue organization.  It has had diarrhea
pretty much constantly for 3 weeks.  The vet gave it 10 days of Flagyl and
then 3 days of Panacur.  It still has the runs.  How many days should we
wait before deciding the problem is not cured?

I've been doing as much research as I possibly can on hypothyroidism in
dogs... and I'm fairly certain that my chocolate lab is hypo...but my
vet is insistent that he has 'allergies' and should be tested...for
$200.  I did have labs run to test his thyroid function...based on his

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