Dr. Joel Conn is featured on the KCOY CBS 12 Morning News with Dave Alley and Cassandra Jones. April is Heartworm Awareness Month. Dr. Joel talked about this serious disease that is very easily prevented.
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Category: Ask the Vet
Dr. Joel Conn is featured on the KCOY CBS 12 Morning News every other Monday at 6:45am with his segment “Ask the Vet”
Ask the Vet: Gopher Bait Toxicity
Dr. Joel Conn is featured on the KCOY CBS 12 Morning News with Dave Alley and Cassandra Jones. The topic was Gopher Bait as well as other rodenticide toxicities and several serious safety issues that all pet owners should be aware of.
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Ask the Vet: World Spay Day
Dr. Joel Conn is featured on the KCOY CBS 12 Morning News with Dave Alley and Cassandra Jones. The topic was World Spay Day and why spaying and neutering is so important.
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Ask the Vet: Dental Disease in Pets
Dr. Joel Conn is featured on the KCOY CBS 12 Morning News with Dave Alley and Cassandra Jones. The topic was Dental Disease in Pets: why dental care is so important even in young pets!
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Ask the Vet: Understanding Pet Food Labels
Dr. Joel Conn’s segment, Ask The Vet, aired Monday at 6:30am on KCOY CBS 12. Dr. Conn talked about how to interpret and understand pet food labels. Specifically, did you know that if food name has the word “Formula” it has to contain at least 25% of the ingredient listed in the name? Click the video below:
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Ask the Vet: Intestinal Foreign Body and Obstruction
Dr. Joel Conn’s segment, Ask The Vet, aired Monday at 6:30am on KCOY CBS 12. Dr. Conn talked about intestinal foreign body and obstruction. Dr. Joel discussed a few success stories and some interesting cases. Check out the video below:
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Ask the Vet: Frankie and Coping with Blind Pets
Dr. Joel Conn’s segment, Ask The Vet, aired Monday at 6:30am on KCOY CBS 12. Dr. Conn brought on Frankie the dachshund as his special guest!
Some of you might remember the story of Frankie: he was brought in for euthanasia due in part to his blindness in 2010 and Drs. Joel and Sarah decided to allow the owner’s to surrender him for re-homing.
Frankie came on “Ask The Vet” nearly three years ago and we realized that we never provided any followup. About 3 months after his surrender, Drs. Joel and Sarah found Frankie a loving “forever” home with an amazing local family. He is thriving in his new home and his blindness has never slowed him down!
On the segment today, Dr. Conn discussed a few things that can help owners to better care for their blind companions. See the video below:
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Ask the Vet: Holiday Pet Safety
Dr. Joel Conn’s segment, Ask The Vet, aired Monday at 6:30am on KCOY CBS 12. Dr. Conn talked about Holiday Pet Safety. Check out the video below:
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Zuzu
Meet Zuzu, our Pismo Beach Veterinary Clinic Pet of the Week.
Zuzu is a 5 year old, female, gray kitty. Zuzu came in to see D
r. Noppinger for a hacking cough. Radiographs taken of her chest were quite shocking. Zuzu had fluid filling the right side of her chest, compressing her left lung lobes (see the first xray below where one side of the chest has a lot more white than the other side). Carefully tapping her chest with a needle, we were able to remove about a cup of white, milky fluid known as chyle.
This is a condition most commonly seen in young cats that sometimes results from previous trauma to the chest among other causes (Zuzu had been picked up and shaken by the family dog a couple months prior that appeared to have been a minor incident at the time).
Because the fluid kept recurring every couple of weeks in Zuzu, she ultimately made a trek to the University of California Davis veterinary hospital for surgery. She underwent a thoracotomy (open chest surgery) to tie off the potentially leaky duct (see the second xray below where the white fluid is gone but there are bright white staple-looking things inside it – these are the surgical wires used to tie the ducts).
Zuzu recovered well from surgery and went home after 2 days in the hospital. Six weeks later, she has not had any signs of fluid build up and is doing great.
Ask the Vet: Coping with Pet Loss
Dr. Joel Conn’s segment, Ask The Vet, aired Monday at 6:30am on KCOY CBS 12. Dr. Conn talked about coping with pet loss, pet loss support services, and other factors to be considered when dealing with the passing of a beloved pet. Check out the video below:
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