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Question About Chewing Sticks

Question: Hi. My parents occasionally watch my dog for me when I need to go out of town and they have a huge fenced in back yard with lots of trees. My 9 month old dog will grab sticks around their yard and chew them and sometimes eat them. She has thrown up stick pieces [...]

Bad Breath in Your Pet

My pet has bad breath. He’s obviously not painful or he wouldn’t eat. Answer from Dr. Bolynn: True, some dogs and especially some cats will stop eating when the periodontal disease becomes bad enough. However, when it’s that bad we almost always have to extract some diseased teeth. Pets have such a strong instinct to [...]

…Your Questions

Older Pets and Dental Anesthesia

My dog is 13 years old. I’m afraid of the anesthesia. Answer from Dr. Bolynn: Years ago I’m sure you heard horror stories of senior dogs going under anesthesia and not waking up. If I were in your shoes, I’d still be haunted by those stories too. But times have changed and so has veterinary [...]

Why the Cost of a Dental Cleaning?

Question: It does not cost this much to get my teeth cleaned. What’s the difference? Answer from Dr. Bolynn: The list of differences is long. But here are the highlights. First of all, consider the amount of tartar and periodontal disease present in your mouth versus that of your pet. There is very likely an [...]

Our Favorite Pets

Kenzie – the Lost and Found Story of a Rescue Dog

My Kenzie was a rescue pup and I got her 8/24/2010. We think she’s part dachshund and part Italian greyhound. We think she’s about 3 years old now. She weighs about 25 lbs. On a December Saturday, we were visiting, for the first time, new friends who live an hour away and we all went [...]

Reunited: A Dog’s Tale with a Happy Ending

Bella’s family loved to spend winter months in Florida and summer months in North Carolina. One sunny day in Florida, Bella and her papa were walking along when a particularly feisty Floridian squirrel stole Bella’s attention. Although Bella was usually a level-headed Golden Retriever, she temporarily lost her head and bolted while a stunned papa [...]