Veterinary Blog in Gilbert

Celebrate Walk Your Pet Month with PPH

January is Walk Your Pet Month, and PPH is celebrating by hosting three group dog walks in and around our neighborhood in Gilbert. Join us at 10 am on the following Saturday mornings to enjoy a walk with your dog, meet neighbors and PPH clients and friends, and burn off some holiday calories. No special training…

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Dogs Understand Fairness, Get Jealous, Study Finds : NPR

“That’s not fair,” you  might be thinking as the government doles out billions of dollars to rescue one company after another. But did you know that your dog might detect a sense of inequity as well? Sure, Bailey doesn’t care a bit about Lehman Brothers or the Big Three, but a recent study in the Proceedings…

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Evian anyone? Cats snub filtered water in favor of the tap.

Some time ago, we noticed that when we filled our recirculatling kitty water fountain with filtered water the cats would seek out the dog’s water dish full of tap water.  When we switched over to tap water in their fountain, they stopped drinking from the dog’s bowl.  A recent study proved exactly what we had…

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Scrapology Hosts another Dog-Related Event

Our friends at Scrapology are at it again, with a holiday-themed class that will help you make handmade gifts using scrapbooking techniques. Lessons Learned from Dogs and  Lessons Learned from Cats  were both a big hit, and we’re still looking for a few of YOUR photos to include in our scrapbooks. Scrapology is offering another class…

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Stupid Pet Tricks

A recent post on the Veterinary Information Network (VIN, the world’s first and largest online community for vets) “Humor in Veterinary Medicine” message boards led me to this fun site, produced by Merial, a manufacturer of veterinary pharmaceuticals.  I was thrilled to see that our little friend on the site doesn’t know “bow,” which is…

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Mars Petcare announces voluntary recall of Pedigree, other brands

On September 12, Mars Petcare, manufacturer of Pedigree, Ol’ Roy, and numerous other pet food lines, announce a voluntary recall of products manufactured at a Pennsylvania facility.  Production at the facility was stopped in late July when Mars was alerted to a possible link between the dry pet food and two isolated cases of Salmonellosis…

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Internet hypes "new" strain of Parvovirus

What started last week as a well-intentioned press release from a Michigan animal shelter is rapidly developing into a full-blown case of internet hysteria in the dog-owning community.  This press release has morphed into an email containing a numer of inaccuracies and describing an “extremely fatal,” new variant of canine parvovirus.  Many of you will likely find a…

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Wanted: Your Photos

As you’ve heard, Lessons Learned from Dogs was a great success.  The scrapbook Dr. Burns created, however, is currently devoid of pictures!  While she enjoys scrapping about our pets, we thought it would be fun to ask all of you to contribute photos so we can create a book that everyone can share at the hospital.  The format of…

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I'm Famous!

OK, maybe not famous, but I did get my photo on AZCentral.com along with my friends Keegan and Lulu!  Mom, dad, Rana and I, along with our friends Rose, Falcor, Coach, Maggie, Sadie, and all their people, spent last Friday evening at downtown Mesa’s Dog Days of Summer Friday Night Out.  Too bad news of this…

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Calling All Scrapbookers!

We’re excited to announce that Dr. Burns will be joining instructor Georgia Hauglid at Scrapology, a scrapbook and paper crafts store located at Williams Field and Lindsay in Gilbert, for a special scrapbooking class on August 9th.  “Lessons Learned from Dogs” is a 2 1/2 hour class beginning at 10:30 am; participants will create a…

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