Laurie's Blogs.

GUEST BLOG – by Denise Testa (www.rubyourdog.com) Competitive Edge “Marketing expert Seth Godin writes about finding your purple cow: nobody stops to take a picture of a cow in a grassy field, but everybody would stop to take a photo of a purple cow because it is rem...

This blog is intended to be an inspirational post, and stems from a few different events or things I have heard or read lately.  Firstly, the other day on my way into Calgary to my clinic, I saw 4 coyotes all together in a field.  They were hunting mice.  Three we...

Hi Laurie, I am looking at a dog who had an injured cruciate and tightrope surgery done in summer of 2011 (18 months ago).  She did amazing in her rehab and did beautifully until about 6 months ago.   Upon examination, the patella is now luxating when the leg is i...

Good morning Laurie!!!  I had an observation and was wondering if you have come across this too:  I have 2 dogs right now- Wiggles is 3 months post right MPL revision and Luna is 8 weeks post left TTA (waited 6 months for diagnosis and ultimately the surgical repair). B...

Today’s muse was inspired by a recent research article I read: Freeman LM et al.  Nutritional and microbial analysis of bully sticks and survey of opinions about pet treats.  Can Vet J 54: 50 – 54, 2013. So the article discusses firstly, how “bully sti...

Hi LaurieI have a rehabber-friend that just contacted me about rehabbing a dog with bilateral OCD lesions in his shoulders. A surgeon performed surgery, but did not provide a protocol to follow, and will not return calls to my rehabber-friend either. The owner of the dog and the ...

Hi Laurie, So, it is times like this that I wish I lived there or you lived here...I have a pooch that I’m fostering.   He’s a 1-2 year old boxer that was dumped over a fence into a locked school-yard with a previously (estimating at least 7 weeks prior) bro...

We had a canine rehab intern with us at my clinic this past week.  In the past, I used to feel stress about, and even responsible for, the types of cases that would come in that week.  Despite the fact that it was out of my control, I felt bad if the intern was hoping...

Hi Laurie, One of my techs had a TPLO done on her dog about 8 months ago.  She did rehab on the dog and it recovered well except that when I saw it the other day at a clinic party, I noted that when the dog walks her TPLO leg has internal rotation of the tibia and thus ...

Hi Laurie, I am seeing 5-year-old overweight yellow lab with torn cruciates in both stifles. The injuries happened few years ago. He used to go to day care and run around full force and injured himself there. Both stifles have crepitus but the left is worse than the right. T...