Archive for March 2015
Congratulations Victor Gallegos, RVT
One of our outstanding team… On behalf of the staff of the El Segundo Animal Hospital, I wish to congratulate ESAH’s Victor Gallegos for passing his national Registered Veterinary Technician boards. He passed both the California State exam and National boards on his first attempt. Victor’s accomplishment comes nearly three years after joining the staff at…
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Dangerous Foods for Pets
No coffee, no wine, no chocolate. The website Mom.me has a comprehensive list of foods our dogs and cats should not be eating. Some may be a surprise… by MARIE CUNNINGHAM Watch your plates! According to the U.S. News and World Report, the following “people” foods are the most toxic for dogs and cats. Click through to see…
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Pets in Literature:
Set in a hard-boiled pet-noir world of cats and dogs, “The Unscratchables” by Cornelius Kane spins the yarn of homicide detective Max “Crusher” McNab, a bull terrier who teams with siamese cat Cassius Lap, an agent working for the Feline Bureau of Investigation. Their goal, find the serial killer cat that’s targeting dogs… from KIRKUS Pseudonymous Kane’s debut shows what…
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Pet Spotlight: March
WYLIE! Five year-old Wylie is a 49 pound Wheaton Terrier from Manhattan Beach.
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Pet Toxins
March is National Pet Poison Prevention Month… from ASPCA In 2013, the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) in Urbana, Illinois, handled nearly 180,000 cases about pets exposed to possibly poisonous substances. Topping the list for the sixth year in a row are prescription human medications. Nearly 20% of all calls were from owners whose…
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Dogs in Film
“Our Gang” (1922) In the 1920s, 30s and 40s, Our Gang was a series of 220 “two-reelers” (shorts that ran about twenty minutes) and one feature film that created perhaps the most famous dog character in cinema, Pete the Pup, a Staffordshire Terrier, known for the trademark circle around his eye. a list of websites dedicated…
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Pet Microchips
by ANDREW M. STREIBER, DVM Q: My cat is missing and is micro-chipped. How does that work? Is it a tracking device or do they scan the cat once found to identify the owner? A: Despite the various microchips available today, they all work on the same basic principle – (passive) RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). In…
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