I taught a “Positively Perfect Patients” workshop at the Randolph Animal Hospital on March 10th.

When I was planning the workshop, one thing I hadn’t planned on was the opportunity to practice all of the skills I intended to teach – over and over again, with a dog who once had to be sedated for anything more than the most basic of vet exams. (more…)

Midnight on Friday saw Paul and Nico and me down at the Animal Emergency Center in West Bridgewater, MA.

Nico has been pretty sick lately (we thought we’d have to put him to sleep a few weeks ago). It turns out he had Idiopathic Sterile Nodular Panniculitis — inflammation of the subcutaneous fat tissues, with no known cause. (The “nodular” part of the disease presented as swellings all over his neck and sides, some of which necrotized and burst.) (more…)

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