Friday, November 26, 2010

Black Friday

I can not believe it!! I made it through the whole day with out having to take an emergency! Our Thanksgiving Day was fabulous here at home. We had a combined day with my family and Charles' family for a total of 13 adults and 4 children. After our huge lunch the men, of course, watched football and the women sat on the patio and watched the kids play in the back yard. They attempted to play baseball, but my black Lab, Ransom, kept retrieving the ball. Unless they hit the ball out of the Invisible Fence line, Ransom would pick the the ball up and run the bases for them. It was great fun to watch. He is such a ham. Skeebo just watched and barked her fool head off! That's about the only thing she is good at!

Now it's time for some Black Friday deals on this dreary, rainy day!

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving to all our followers! Remember that your Thanksgiving meal is intended for you and your two legged family members only; it does not extend to the four legged members. My rule of thumb... only those who sit in a chair at the table get to eat from the table!! I don't want to be up at the office treating any dogs for vomiting or diarrhea on Thanksgiving Day!!

Also, remember to watch dogs and cats scooting out the door as family and friends come in and out the doors. Animals can easily be left unattended in the yard and find their way to the road, which does not make for a Happy Thanksgiving.

I hate to be pessimistic, but in my eight years of seeing emergencies during the Holidays these are the most common emergencies, so consider it friendly advice. And once again, Happy Thanksgiving!!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

New blog ideas

Now that our calendar is completed and has gone to print, I can get back to blogging. The calendar took up a lot of time, but hopefully it will be worth it. I hope it is a HUGE success and is something we do year after year. Assuming we do a 2012 calendar, it is my good intent to get started much earlier. Maybe I will start after the first of the year.

As I read back over the blog last night, I realized that it was not exactly a "fun" blog; it really did not have a lot of laughing in it. Although I feel the stories on there are great and worthy of being told, they probably just make the reader say "Awe, how sweet," instead of "Man, that was funny!" Nor do I find the blog all that informative. So, today I am turning over a new leaf on the blog. I would like to keep readers more informed on what is going on at Leesburg Animal Hospital. Mostly it will be animal related, but it may also have just some news updates and such. Like this news... we have had three babies at LAH, human babies that is...the two legged kind. Over the past five months we have have not been at full staff, someone has been out either about to deliver, delivering, or on maternity leave. First Mindy had a little boy named Daniel back in June. Next Dr. Shannon had a little girl named Kinley in August and then a few days later Georgette had a little girl named Hayden. So since June we have been short one or two people, but finally our family is back together again.

Other news... we are hard at work on our float for the parade. This will be our first year in the Leesburg Christmas parade. Our theme is....are you ready? Get this......"Fleas Navidad!" Get it?? Isn't that funny! We are so excited about it. Prentiss and Dr. Shannon have been hard at work putting it together, so ya'll come out and support Leesburg and Leesburg Animal Hospital Saturday, December 4th. It is going to be be a fun time. Oh, and also, after the parade there will be a festival and this year Leesburg Animal Hospital is supporters of the first annual Doggie Fun Zone. So, bring your dogs with you to the festival there will be lots of activities for the them at the Doggie Fun Zone. But please, please, please, keep your pooches on a leash! I don't want to be sewing any dogs up on Saturday.

That's all for now. I will post pics of our float soon!

New Toys at Leesburg Animal Hospital

We are excited about new "toys", as I refer to the them, at Leesburg Animal Hospital. Recently we purchased a Surgical Laser and a Therapy Laser. Both are fancy smancy machines we are using to make our patients feel better. Our surgical laser is a machine that essentially replaces the scalpel blade. We will use it from now on in all of our surgeries. The benefit of using the surgical laser is that it create less pain. Anytime an incision is made into the skin, whether it be for a spay, castration, mass removal, etc, it causes a release of "things" into the bloodstream that cause pain. By using the surgical laser it will hopefully reduce those pain "things" and thereby reduce the patent's discomfort. Another great advantage of the surgical laser is for the surgeon. It provides great hemostasis (hemo-blood; stasis-staying/stopping). In other words there is much less blood in the incision site and the surgeon can see what she is doing.

Our next new toy is a laser as well, but a different kind. It is a therapy laser. A therapy laser is exactly that...a therapeutic laser. We are using it to treat pain associated with osteoarthritis, wound healing, wound contamination and many other types of inflammatory problems. So far we are having great results with both or our machines.

Soon I will post a picture of our fabulous new toys. Feel free to drop by and see them and ask questions.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

2011 A Mutt-A-Month Calendar

All of us up here at the office have been very busy working on an idea of ours. We are so thankful the Fifth Friday Foundation Lee County Animal Shelter has opened and know of the costs in keeping a facility like that up and running, so we wanted to help offset some of the costs. Soon we will have the "2011 A Mutt A Month" calendar available. The calendar will feature twelve animals who are not pure breeds (i.e. mutts)who have touched our lives this year. It is our hopes to have this calendar printed and ready to be sold shortly after Thanksgiving. The only qualification for being considered for the calendar was to not be a full blooded breed...in essence a mutt. We are selling the calendars for $10 and 100% of the proceeds will go to the shelter. Calendars will be available at Leesburg Animal Hospital and the Lee County Animal Shelter. So come pick up a calendar and support your shelter. Also, when you consider purchasing a pet as a Christmas gift this year, please visit your local shelters and see what loving, needing animals are available there. Who knows, they just might make the 2012 "A Mutt a Month" calendar!