it is like having a physical exam between your 72nd and 80th birthday!We find so many little things that greatly benefit our senior patients; no segment of our animal population benefits more from routine visits. But every so often, even we are surprised by our findings.
Take this handsome senior. On routine evaluation of his cardiac system we saw something quite suspicious - but not in his heart - in his stomach. It seems this good looking fellow was hiding a new trick; eating huge rocks! And
this sweet dog never complained about a tummy ache, but there is no way this rock was not making him uncomfortableThis was one of the largest rocks we have ever seen a dog swallow. Fortunately we removed the rock with one of our advanced endoscopes. That means we negotiated this rock out without a single incision, making his recovery much more comfortable, safer, and pain free.
