New Mascot
His name is Sheriff, and
as you can see he took no time making himself home. Next time you come
in you will
see him roaming around. He is quite friendly and petable!
Baby
Birds- it must be springtime!
Dr. P is holding a 4 week old Cooper's hawk that came in to our Wildlife Program.
Tribute to Billie Scheaffer
Dave Thraen of AWRE arranged a well-deserved award to Billie Scheaffer
for her tireless work and
enthusiasm working with our local wildlife.
Present are Dr. P, Dave, Tom Hennessey, Dr. R,BG James Combs, and of
course, Billie.
It
was a fascinating trip. Click on the picture below to learn all the
details.
Masai
Mara 2007 Photography Workshop
Dr
P took 25 people to the Masai Mara in October 2007 to photograph
the wildebeest migration. Join us in the
adventure- click on the wildebeest picture below.
Dr. Ridgeway Neuters a Sea Lion
Follow this
link if you want to see the surgery- Sea
Lion Neuter
Dr. R's Gorilla Trip
Dr. Ridgeway just returned from a trip
to Uganda and Rwanda to observe the mountain gorillas. Check out this
awesome photo he took of the "chairman".
We had a famous TV visitor this
week.
Easter
Parade
Sandra and Andrew were at the
Haute Dog Easter parade in Long Beach this weekend. They answered lots
of questions, and by the smiles on their face their tummies were full
and they were having just too much fun.
New
Extern
Our new extern is Lisa
Hsuan. She is very enthusiastic about her training and has learned many
things in her month with us. You can learn much more about Lisa and her
work with wildlife at our hospital by clicking here
Terri Gets Hitched
Yeah Terri!
Happy Halloween
Time for a little fun break in between clients
Joy Meets
Jane
Joy Schneider, volunteer
extraordinaire, got to meet Jane
Goodall at the Los Angeles Zoo!
 Injured
Owl
An owl came into our
wildlife program with an injured eye. It does not seem the worse for
wear otherwise, so we will send it off to one of our rehabilitators
after we start medical therapy.
Our Wildlife Page has information
on other wildlife we have cared for.
Good Job
Lisa!
Lisa is now a certified
veterinary technician.
Too Much
Fun (at work)
Hurricane
Katrina Rescue
Daisy was rescued from Beaumont, Texas. For more
information on rescuing pets in our local area contact Cathy's K-9
rescue in Bellflower. They are up for adoption at Petco in Lakewood.
Daisy with her proud new momma!
Lions of
Tsavo National Park trip
Dr. P went to Africa in October of 2005 to help an
Earthwatch team research lions. Follow me......
Remodeling
Project
The first two phases are completed, the third and final
phase will be completed in 2007
Bear
Viewing in Alaska with Dr. P
Dr. P went to Alaska the
summer of 2005. Most of his time was spent with the bears of Katmai
National Park. We have an informative page on his
trip.
Our
Biggest Bladder Stone Yet
No doubt about it, this one is a record.
Dr. R did the surgery this week, and so far so good!
If you would like to see the complete surgery on a
different tortoise follow
me.......
Tribute
to Paul Jackson, D.V.M.
One of our mentors, and one of the finest persons we
know, passed away this week from cancer. He was a great human being,
and taught how to give to our clients, their pets, and our community.
This is Paul doing what he did best- teaching. He is
explaining to one of our rehabilitators the medical problem of a hawk
with an eye problem that we sent to him from our Wildlife Program.
Birthday
Girl
It was another milestone for Sandra this week, although
we don't dare ask exactly which one it is.
Wonder what she is wishing for.......probably a personal
assistant or something foolish like that!
Dragon
We love this picture of a Water Dragon that came
in this week.
Baby Time
(or should we say "feeding time")!
Anybody got any chocolate covered flies for dinner? I
like them best when they are nice and crunchy!
Chocolate covered flies? How reptilian! We prefer our
chocolate over almonds.
Lyme
Disease Diagnosis
At the beginning of March we made a diagnosis of Lyme
Disease in a dog that spent time back East. Its a beautiful dog named
Natasha, that was brought to us because of a limping problem on her
right front leg. Her exam revealed no abnormalities to indicate a cause
to her limp. Dogs of this breed and age can have numerous causes to a
lameness. A complete set of radiographs were normal, eliminating many
of these potential causes.
Since Natasha was adopted back East Dr. P recommended an
in house heartworm test. This
test also includes a test for Borrelia, the organism that causes Lyme
disease. He did this also because Lyme disease can cause limping. It
came back positive for Borrelia.
We ran the test twice to make sure there was no mistake.
The two vertical blue dots are a positive response to Borrelia
antibodies. The picture on the bottom is from the manufacturer and
explains the interpretation when two vertical dots are blue.
Natasha is being treated with
doxycycline for one month. Natasha recovered uneventfully and is back
East doing her "Natasha" thing.
Look
what I did ma!
How would you like to come home to this, your lovely
little Jack Russell (why are we not surprised it is a Jack Russell?) on
the wrong end of a bone.
The swelling on the front
part of the lower jaw is obvious in this photo, and will require
sedation of our little friend because we need to cut it off.
After a touch of the old
"happy juice" she was relaxed enough to allow us to get to work. We had
to use the dremel to make our initial cut in the bone.
Once we had one side
partially cut we are able to cut through the remainder with our heavy
duty cutters. You can see Dr. P's hands supporting the jaw firmly
because it took all of our strength to cut the bone, and we did not
want to injure the jaw in the process.
The bone was stuck so
severely, and the jaw so swollen, that we had to cut the bone again in
order to get it off.
Gee, I wonder what I can get into next to drive my mom
crazy!
Japanese
Technicians Visitors
A group of young Japanese animal technicians paid us a
visit. They were on a 5 day whirlwind tour of animal related venues in
Los angeles, and came by to learn about exotic animal medicine.
Their teacher was present also. In this picture they are
learning proper restraint of a large bird, in this case, a Canadian
goose.
Lisa and Dr. Ridgeway demonstrated how to take a
blood sample on a bird.
Chuck
Henry in the news
Our own Chuck Henry (actually Chuck belongs to Rita
Minnell) made it in the November 18th, 2004 issue of Beach Week. Way to
go Chuck!
Dr. R's
africa trip
This summer Dr. Ridgeway went to africa with his family.
He took some fantastic pictures....Can you guess this bird?
Archive
We have an extensive archive
of previous activities at the hospital. There are many pictures in this
page which will take a while to download if you are connecting via
modem.
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