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It had been a long night for Avery’s owner. Avery is a 7 year old Bichon Frise that went from the picture of health the day before to having profuse, watery, bloody diarrhea throughout the previous night. As Avery was losing all the fluids in the bloody diarrhea, she tried to drink enough to make […]

Recently, my family experienced the anxiousness associated with a missing pet. Our youngest daughter recently graduated from high school and with that came us frantically attempting to get a long “to do” list done around the house preparing for a graduation open house. One of the items on the list was doing some repairs on […]

I graduated from The Purdue School of Veterinary Medicine in 1989. There have been a lot of changes since then in the veterinary care we are able to provide for pets. Many diseases and conditions that were commonly seen back then can now be easily treated or prevented because of development of new drugs, vaccines, […]

I have been writing articles for this pet column in The Lima News for quite a few years. It is very common for pet owners and other people I know to comment on them, but I have never had a response as big as I got after I wrote about my daughter’s dog, “Brantley”. I […]

After being a veterinarian for 25 years, it is pretty uncommon to come across something that really creeps me out, but I understand how pet owners can get pretty disgusted when they find a tick on their pet. This discovery usually results in a hunt for ticks on all pets and humans in the house. […]