For millennia, the olive has been used by God as a symbol. When Noah sought confirmation that the great flood waters were abating, he sent out a dove. The dove returned with an olive leaf in her beak. A symbol that God had prepared a place for Noah and his family and that everything was […]
There has been a lot of discussion and excitement over a new Coronavirus that has popped up in China recently. Theories abound about it being a genetically-engineered bio-terrorism weapon developed in the Chinese Wuhan BSL4 laboratory. This idea is the result of a research paper posted to the internet in which scientists from India reported that this new Corona virus […]
The saying goes that there is more than one way to skin a cat. I have no idea where this saying came from. As a veterinarian, I speak cat fluently and work with cats all day…but they never want to talk about it. What it means to humans (not cats) is that there are often […]
In the early seventies musicians Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were at the peak of their career. They were traveling a lot and performing all over the country. As inevitably happens, their chaotic and careless lifestyle lead to choices that would impact their health. When performing at a fair in Scarborough, New York, the balance […]
Brethren, do you hear the call? Do you feel the inescapable power drawing you forth? Resistance is futile! The call must be answered. As surely as wildebeests know that it is time to gather in enormous herds and move to other feeding grounds each year, as surely as blackbirds flock together in their thousands […]
By Dr. Patrick Jones Juno is a little American Eskimo. Her favorite part of the day is when “Dad” comes home. In her enthusiasm to greet him one day, she didn’t wait for the car to stop in the driveway and got trapped beneath a wheel. Juno was rushed to the vet and x-rays showed her […]
Many years ago I was in bed with my wife. She had a sore shoulder. In fact, it was so sore it was making it really hard for ME to sleep. She was tossing and turning and fussing all night. At about three in the morning, she got up to use the restroom. I called out; […]
Between 1918 and 1920 an estimated 500 million people contracted an influenza virus no one had seen before. Debate as to its origins continue to this day. Some hypothesize that it started in the Far East. Others say the first case was in Kansas or in a US Army camp in France. Pathologists and epidemiologists agree […]
Warning! This Article Contains Graphic Wound Images. Viewer Discretion Is Advised. Meet Reggie. He’s one of those cats you just have to love. He’s a neutered male about three years old. He has a really great, laid back personality. He lives out in the country in a nice little house with several of his employees. […]
It was 1991 and I was a senior veterinary student at the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine’s Large Animal Hospital. I was standing in a stall “attending” the birth of a foal from a thoroughbred mare. She had been working on things for a bit and was making good progress. Suddenly she gave a […]
