Vet Talks

It’s always very difficult when our fur babies are diagnosed with cancer. I personally had many of my pets with this terrible disease, and it was always so hard to decide which was the best course of treatment for them. Chemotherapy on pets with cancer is one of the main therapeutic approaches to combat the...

We have all heard of hernias in people, but did you know that hernias in dogs are a lot more common than you think? Hernias can develop without you even knowing as they are internal. We put together some symptoms and signs to help you when diagnosing your pup with a hernia. What Are Hernias?...

Feline Coronavirus (FCoV) is a common viral, but highly contagious intestinal (enteric) infection in cats. It can be asymptomatic but may cause a few problems, like diarrhea in most infected cats. In some cats, however, the intestinal form of FCoV mutates and turns into feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a disease that is generally fatal. Two forms of...

This is a love story between pets and humans that goes beyond scientific explanations. I was returning home after a long night working in the vet hospital and I remember being very tired that day; I had many patients in critical condition that day. I was driving straight from work to the university, as I had to...

Feline panleukopenia virus is a species of parvovirus that can infect all wild and domestic members of the feline family worldwide. It is a highly contagious, severe infection that causes gastrointestinal, immune system, and nervous system disease. What is Feline Parvovirus (Panleukopenia)? Most people are familiar with canine parvovirus, feline panleukopenia is very similar to...

One problem that pet parents are struggling more and more with is an overweight pet. Cats are particularly prone to being obese. In fact, it’s estimated that 25-50% of cats are overweight in the United States. Obesity in cats is associated with health risks such as cardiovascular diseases, bladder, and mammary cancer, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, anesthetic,...

You may have heard different stories like pets can only see in black and white, a warm nose means the pet has a fever or eczema in pets. To clarify some of these myths surrounding our fur babies, in this blog, I will help pet parents bust 8 common myths in the animal world! 1....

In my practice, I see anemia frequently as I deal with senior pets, and terminally ill dogs and cats.  Anemia is defined as a decreased hematocrit (HCT) or hemoglobin. Packed cell volume (PCV) is the same definition as hematocrit which is a calculated value from the mean cell volume and red blood cell count and...

A diagnosis of diabetes mellitus in your cat can be overwhelming. Diabetes changes your day-to-day life with your cat dramatically. New routines can be stressful to both humans and pets. In developing these new routines it’s helpful to understand exactly what is going on in your cat’s body when they have diabetes, so you can...

Alimentary lymphoma, or what is commonly known as Gastrointestinal lymphoma, is one of the most common kinds of lymphoma that I have seen in cats. It is always so difficult for me to talk about lymphoma, after losing my own kitty, Frederico to lymphoma a few years ago. My experience with lymphoma brings together what I had...