Dr Erik Johnson - Veterinarian
Companion Animal & Fish Health
Dental disease tends to center around the carnassial tooth which is the large tooth up under the eye. Pull the lip way back to see this tooth. The gumline may recede ahead of infection or tartar. Exposing the roots.
The luxating patella can be the result of stretching or breaking of one of the patellar collateral ligaments, meaning one of the four suspensory ligament that hold the patella or kneecap in place. If the kneecap tends to stay out of place a lot, it may actually fuse or adhere in that position which makes … Read more
This is especially useful in tanks where you don’t want a column of bubbles, also useful in retail facilities when viewed from above because it does last to distort the view of fish for sale. This brings a column of water from the deeper strata, ensuring fresh water with lots of oxygen gets down … Read more
Sometimes you get fish shipped to you especially in the warmer months, or if the bags are over packed, or if there has been a delay, and the bag is a disaster. If fish are dying in the bag, it is advised that you do not go through any lengthy procedure to get the bags … Read more
If you are diabetic dog has sebaceous warts on it, those are excellent places to get blood samples for glucose testing at home. There are no nerves in a sebaceous wart because they are made of purely sebaceous gland tissue and not the nerves that go with that. The blood in a sebaceous wart is … Read more
A keratin cyst is a little pocket of wax under the skin. There is a small thin capsule of tissue around it that keeps it from bursting. Sometimes they burst out of the skin which is fine. Other times they burst under the skin which creates a massive immune response and a festering sore. Very … Read more
