Posts tagged ‘pets’

Arguing With Kids

September 9th, 2009

Kids generally don’t bring their family pet to the animal hospital, but I wish they did.  Children are less likely to question the advice I give them.  I think they’re so used to taking orders from parents, teachers and other authoritative figures that it just comes naturally to do whatever the doctor tells them to [...]

Dogs Are Not Small Humans

September 2nd, 2009

I saw a patient this morning at Levittown Animal Hospital that  reminded me of a few key phrases we learned in our first year of veterinary school:

Dogs are not small humans.
Cats are not small dogs.
Rabbits are kinda like small horses. (But since I don’t work with either of these species, we won’t discuss why.)

The dog [...]

All about Dennis Leon

August 31st, 2009

Ok, maybe not everything about me.  I will assume that you’re not reading this blog because you want to hear about how much I love animals, or that I graduated from Cornell University, or that I support extended interval vaccination protocols for dogs.  That information is easily accessible at my animal hospital website.
For those who [...]

Welcome to the Levittown Animal Hospital Blog.  When I became a veterinarian in 2001, I never thought I would have an opportunity to speak to so many different people on a platform such as this.  Even a few weeks ago I didn’t think that I would want to share what goes on [waaay] behind the [...]