Next year, I will likely purchase some meat goats for raising, breeding and eating. My plan currently is for 4-8 Boer goats, which gain weight quickly and allegedly pretty even-tempered. I'm looking for hints and tips for what I should know. [more inside]
posted on Aug 23, 2007 - 19 answers

In Ontario, can an animal be euthanised without the owner's consent? [more inside]
posted on Aug 8, 2007 - 5 answers

What is this strange growth on my dog's chin? [more inside]
posted on Jul 7, 2007 - 11 answers

The skin on my puppy's little pink belly seems to be turning blackish... [more inside]
posted on Apr 13, 2007 - 24 answers

What is it like to be a large animal/rural veterinarian? [more inside]
posted on Jan 2, 2007 - 5 answers

Dog needs TPLO surgery, but I can't afford it! What do I do?! [more inside]
posted on Oct 10, 2006 - 6 answers

Why is my cat's ear all messed up? [more inside]
posted on Jan 25, 2006 - 5 answers

How much money should we allow for cat veterinary emergencies? This is for our cat sitter or vet to spend to fix up our cat, without contacting us, if we're incommunicado. We're putting together a letter of consent for the cat sitter and vet. [more inside]
posted on Jan 22, 2006 - 15 answers

Has anyone ever known a cat who liked to eat wool? Was it a medical or a behavioral issue? Was it ever possible to discourage this behavior? [more inside]
posted on Jan 5, 2006 - 16 answers

My dog cut his leg last night and had to have surgery on it. My vet was closing at noon today but he and his staff are staying open late to fix the leg. I'd like to get them something to show my appreciation. Please help me think of something really great. This is the friendliest most caring veterinary clinic I've ever seen. [more inside]
posted on Dec 31, 2005 - 18 answers

Last week my wife put one of those toilet cleaning puck things - 2 discs, one blue and one white (a type of chlorine bleach, I think) in the toilet tank. Apparently one of us or our houseguest left the toilet open and one of our two cats - the stupid one - drank a quantity of the water, even though he had a big bowl of fresh water by his food (yes, we're now being very careful to leave it closed). My questions: 1) did he drink it because it tasted good, the way some animals will eat antifreeze, and 2) is he gonna be OK? He's acting a little odd - staring at his own shadow and attacking invisible things, growling at nothing, but then again he's kind of brain-damaged anyway (flea anemia as a feral kitten). He's 9 yrs old and otherwise in good health.
posted on Oct 25, 2005 - 15 answers

How do I trick my cat into peeing? [more inside]
posted on May 3, 2005 - 10 answers

At what age should a cat's gender be obvious to a vet? {mi}
posted on Feb 10, 2005 - 13 answers

Someone at work has just asked me a bizarre question that I can't find an answer to - can horses (and in fact any other animal) actually throw up? (+)
posted on Jan 11, 2005 - 30 answers

Kitty has diarrhea, and has had it for about four days. It it is now abating, but not completely gone. We (forcibly) gave her bismuth, but not for two days and it seems to be drying up on its own (from great pools of near-liquid to soft stools that probably wouldn't seem suspicious without the forerunners). She's otherwise completely normal and we seem more concerned about it than she.

Getting her to the vet is a PITA. Is there anything else OTC we can give her to speed up the correction before one of us takes time off, schedules an appointment and pays the vet for the priveledge of giving advice that I might get here?
posted on Dec 6, 2004 - 20 answers

Cats and Cataracts. Does anyone have any experience or expertise in regards to cats with cataracts?
posted on Sep 7, 2004 - 6 answers

Yet another dog question. My wife's dog is a shepherd-dobermann cross and so old that she's technically dead - about 16 years old. She's mostly incontinent, and scooping up turds and mopping up pee is a daily and sometimes hourly chore now - I've taken up all the rugs, and she sleeps at night on a foam cushion protected by a vinyl shower curtain. I think her kidneys are failing, but very very slowly. So she drinks a fantastic amount of water and voids it randomly about the house. My wife and I take turns letting her out out night, but she's excessively nocturnal (she's a dog) and this, combined with the incontinence and her tendency to get jammed into odd spots and whine until rescued is degrading our sleep. My wife's very attached to the dog - who otherwise isn't really suffering and is even happy - but our lives are slowly coming to be dominated by the dog. Yet....neither I nor my wife believe in killing pets or other creatures for mere reasons of convenience. Any technical advice on managing this situation until the creature dies a natural death?
posted on Dec 29, 2003 - 13 answers