Blog: Interesting Cases
Ear Mites in a Cat’s Ear
The picture to the left was taken through the eyepiece of our microscope. It shows a group of ear mites taken by a swab of a cat’s ear. The arrows are pointing to some. They are so tiny; magnification is needed to see them. The brownish debris seen near...
How many puppies can you count on this dog’s radiograph?
A full-term pregnancy for a dog usually lasts 63 days. At 42 days of pregnancy, the skeletons of the fetuses start to calcify and can just be seen on a radiograph (“x-ray”). By 50-55 days of pregnancy, they are sufficiently visible to be able to count skulls and spines to try...
Foreign Object in a Cat’s Intestine
This cat started to vomit and did not want to eat. His owner brought him in within 24 hours of this happening, and we examined him and took abdominal radiographs (“x-rays”). The brighter white irregular object outlined by the circle in the radiograph to the left turned out to...
Water Intoxication in the Winter
Jet is an active dog. She was having a grand old time chasing the snow coming out of the snowblower one February day while her owner cleared the driveway. After a couple of hours, both went indoors. Her owner immediately recognized something was wrong with Jet. She was drooling, unsteady,...