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DAISY
 Hi Folks, I
appreciated the call today to inquire about Daisy after her emergency
surgery Mar 19. I thought these photos would show you surgery has not
impeded her new duties as a mom.
The bruising
has nearly disappeared now, and the kitten, with no competition for food,
is growing furiously. I'll call to set up a March 31 appt for sutures
removal and vaccinations.
BIONICAL BEAR
WHAT IS YOUR
DIAGNOSIS????
 “Bear”
is a 1 ˝ year old Yorkshire Terrier brought to the Clare Animal Hospital
in November of 2007 with owners concerned about several episodes of
weakness and shakiness as well as poor appetite and some vomiting over the
past few days. There were no problems prior to this other than an episode
of very rapid heart rate while under anesthesia for neutering. His owners
had also noticed some episodes of rapid heart rate at home over the past
few months.
His physical exam
was normal except for a very slow heart rate. Blood test were
normal. An ECG was taken and showed abnormal results: a very slow heart
rate with large, abnormal electrical tracings. The ECG’s was faxed to
“Cardio pet” a specialty service that provides diagnostics interpretation
and treatment advice to referring veterinarians with challenging cardiac
cases. They were unable to provide diagnosis in Bear’s case and we decided
to refer her to Michigan State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine
for further evaluation.
The MSU cardiologist
diagnosed bradycardia (slow heart diagnosed) caused by total sinus arrest
and possibly third degree heart block. Bear received a pacemaker and is
doing much better now!
Our
beloved Bear, who was almost 2 yrs old, developed complications and
finally left us on Sunday April 20, 2008 (we miss him very much but we
know he is waiting at the Rainbow Bridge). When the Cardiologist put the
pace maker in he explained it would only take care of the heart problems.
(Dr McNeilly harvested the pace maker to be sent to MSU and hopefully help
another dog in need).
We can’t say THANK YOU
enough to Dr. Shepperley, Dr. McNeily and all the STAFF at the Clare
Animal Hospital for all the care and concern you showed for Bear. We
couldn’t have asked for a better group to help look out for Bear.
THANK YOU
Roger and Maggie Carey and
Jazz
MR. KITTY
One morning, I let Mr. Kitty
go outside and run around like he usually did. Mr. Kitty used to like to
go up the road to a neighbor's house ... where there were female cats. He
would normally be back by the next morning. Well, this time Mr. Kitty did
not come back in the morning. We didn't think this was overly strange as
he had stayed gone once or twice in the past. So we just kept an eye out
for him.
3 days later, Mr. Kitty came walking across our backyard toward the
house. He was limping which was normal (Mr. Kitty only has 3 1/2 legs). I
walked out to him and picked him up, and it wasn't until I did that I
noticed he had been shot and had a hole on the inside of his left leg. I
turned and told the kids to get dressed cuz we were taking Mr. Kitty to
the Vet's. 
When we got there, Doctor McNeilly looked at him right away. At that
time Doc found another hole on the outside right leg. Apparently the hole
on the outside right leg was the entry wound and the one on the inside
left leg was the exit wound. Because Mr. Kitty had been gone for 3 days,
the wound had become infected. Doc immediately put Mr. Kitty on an
antibiotic and cleaned and dressed the wound. We took Mr. Kitty home.
Once home, we couldn't get Mr. Kitty to eat and his wound wasn't
getting any better. We took Mr. Kitty back to the Doc's on Monday and Doc
put him on another antibiotic as well as putting a drainage tube in the
wound and kept him overnight. The next day we took Mr. Kitty home again
and would flush the wound every couple of hours as Doc suggested. Mr.
Kitty still would not eat and would no longer drink water. At this point
he started to lose weight .... a lot of weight. Also the wound was STILL
not getting any better.
We took Mr. Kitty in to see the Doc again on Wednesday and the Doc
put him on another antibiotic
and put in an IV line for fluid. We took him home again. Every 2 hours we
would hook-up the IV so that Mr. Kitty could get fluid. We did this until
Saturday morning. The wound was healing, but we still could not get him to
eat or drink. We called Doc and he told us to bring him in Saturday
morning so that he could take another look and determine if there was
anything else that could be done. We sort of understood that this might
mean having to put Mr. Kitty to sleep.
 Saturday
morning came and I took Mr. Kitty in my arms and walked out to the edge of
the woods so that he could see them again. Then we went to Doc's all the
while thinking that we would probably put Mr. Kitty to sleep.
Mr. Kitty at this point weighed about 3 pounds. Doc looked at the
wound and said that it was healing well and there is no reason that he
shouldn't be eating and drinking. So Doc said "Let me try one more thing."
He gave Mr. Kitty a shot of Valium (this makes animals hungry) and
force-fed Mr. Kitty some moist cat food. Mr. Kitty started to eat at that
point. Actually since then, he hasn't quit eating. Mr. Kitty now weighs
about 23 pounds and is in great health. He has a large bald spot on one
side from what we think might be nerve damage, but he is here and
head-butting me everyday thanks to Doc McNeilly and the Clare Animal
Hospital Staff who worked so hard on his behalf.
Mr. Kitty is still allowed outside, but only for a little bit and
seems to always come right back. He especially comes back if someone fires
a gun in the area.
THANKS TO ALL OF YOU
FOR SAVING MR. KITTY!
Mark and
Steph AND Mr. Kitty - Farwell
BABY SHEA
Dear doc
McNeily,
I'm sorry it took so long to send this letter, but I wanted to thank
you for the wonderful job you did sewing my eyelid back together. I will
pursue my career in modeling as planned.  I
am also going to enter beauty pageants. Picasso, Bruiser and Hidoggo all
want to marry me, but I fear they are just too big for me, even though
they would all make great fathers. I think it best to stay within my
breed, don't you? My parents said to say hello and to thank you from them.
Mom was pretty scared when she saw my eye. So from the whole Shea family
THANK YOU very much. No offense, but I hope I won't be needing to see you
any time real soon.
xoxoxoxoxoxo
Baby Shea
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