Vet Corner

Protect Your Pet This Holiday Season

It’s that time of year again, when grandchildren visit, families decorate with sparkling lights and dangling ornaments, and the home fills with wonderful aromas...

Recovering from Surgery Let the Healing Begin

It’s 6:00 a.m. on a Monday, and your recently adopted 1-yearold shepherd mix pup Luna is staring at you hungrily from the side of...

Urinary Tract Problems in Dogs and Cats

It’s 7 a.m. and you have gotten very little sleep after letting your dog out into the yard four or five times overnight. As...

Degenerative Myelopathy

by Dr. John Waterhouse You may wonder why you sometimes see corgis with their back legs being supported by what looks like a dog-sized wheelchair....

Bone Tumors are No Treat for Dogs

by Dennis Macy, DVM, MS, DACVIM The most common bone tumor found in dogs is called osteosarcoma (OSA). This bone tumor develops eight times more...

Hidden Household Hazards

Pets look at the world from a completely different perspective than their humans. Lacking the ability to reason out their actions—and designed with the...

Don’t Forget About Lepto

Lepto is the most common zoonotic (transmitted between animals and people) disease in the world, causing illness in 7 to 10 million people, with...

Anatomy of a Veterinary Clinic

Photos courtesy Country Club Animal Clinic Most of the time, when you take your pet to the vet, all you really see is the waiting...

Skin Cancer and Pets

Cancers of the skin are often associated with advancing age, breed genetics, chronic inflammation, sun exposure, secondhand smoke, viruses and hormones. When evaluating skin...

On the Go With Bow: Good health with a side of horse sense

Like many dogs, Bow hates going to the veterinarian. But she’s intrigued by horses, and Sunnycrest Animal Care Center, 951 W. Bastanchury Road in Fullerton,...

What’s for Dinner?

Accessibility to pet food has not always been a short drive or click away. Before commercialization, dogs were left with whatever food families could...

The Stinky Dog

By Lillian M. Roberts, DVM While that may sound like the name of an olde English pub, it’s actually a frustrating aspect of pet ownership...