Well I for one avoid doctors even more than I do vets - I worked with them for nearly forty years!
Annette ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Trunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 7:56 PM Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] vets > For those who don't believe in annual checkups on your dogs--how often do > you go to the doctor for an annual checkup on yourself? > > Dogs age more quickly than we do. An annual complete examination is more > like one every 4 or 5 years for humans. I could never let myself go 4 or 5 > years without a complete checkup! So I believe that an annual examination > for dogs is essential! It is the minimum I should do for my dogs. > > I don't know why, but something in my Cavaliers faces just makes me want to > treat them more like human children than livestock! Maybe I'm weird or in > the minority, but that is how I feel. So all my dogs get an annual complete > checkup and all of them have bloodwork done at some point between birth and > 4 or 5 years of age because I want to know how they are truly doing. They > get a somewhat similar level of care as my children do--on a much more > simplistic level--but still a good level of care. I KNOW dogs hide pain and > so I want to have them checked out regularly to make sure something isn't > amiss. I was at the vet today and I saw a beautiful Mastiff bitch who had > had emergency surgery for bloat last night. They were cleaning her up and > getting her ready to go home. She stood there so calmly, wagging her tail. > There is no doubt in my mind she was in pain. She had had somewhat > extensive surgery to save her life and I could see the extensive incision > spots and all the sutures. Yet she didn't act like it at all. Not on my > life would I look for my dogs to tell me they are in pain--that they have a > problem of some sort--as I know they wouldn't unless they were REALLY in > pain. > > Laura Lang > Roycroft Cavaliers > > ========================================================= > "Magic Commands": > to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL > to start it up gain click here: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. > Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > > All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author. ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
