Pot Bellied pig
Japanese
visitors
Another
enthusiastic group from Hiroshima for their yearly
educational tour from Sharon and Sandra
Birthday Girls
Crystal
Suzanne Pluskat, DVM
Our newest doctor
is now available for evening hours until
midnight 6 days per week.
You can learn more about her by clicking on her
picture below
She did her first late night C-section
Mary took over and started nursing the pup
He was one hungry newcomer
Sharon
turns 50
Yea Sharon!
Lisa and Stefanie at
SCART
The Surf City
Animal Response Team had their 6th annual event
today at Marine Stadium in Long Beach.
Lisa and Stefanie got up early and put in the
effort to staff our booth and answer lots of
questions.
Thanks ladies for all your hard work- hope you win
the raffle.
Baby Finch Fracture
This 14 day old
chick broke his leg. He should heal just fine and
be good-to-go in a few weeks.
Pelican
Visitor
We did some laser
treatments on some of the penguins at the Long
Beach Aquarium. Looks like Harmony made a friend!
Japanese
Technicians
Visit
Its time for our
annual visit from our visitors from Japan
Digital
Radiography
We recently
completed the purchase of a state-of-the-art
Digital Radgiography unit. This computerized
system will
give us greated detail than ever in making a
diagnosis.
Terry's
20
years!
Terry has been with
the Long Beach Animal Hospital for 20 years. She
started as a kennel assistant
and moved up to one of our nurses. Congratulations
Terry!
Hawk Photo by Ailie
Our own budding
photographer Ailie took this nice hawk photo at
Eldorado Park
Birthday Girl
Dr. Seto had a big
birthday recently. We are not allowed to say which
one though...
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!
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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