Last year, Ketchikan had several otter deaths that were attributed to the parasite Toxoplasma. Toxoplasma uses cats as an intermediate host, meaning that cats carry it without any signs Several people asked me whether runoff contaminated with cat feces posed a threat to people using area beaches. - Read more...
Monday - November 24, 2003 - 12:15 am

The hardest reality pet ownership has to offer is the fact that we live longer than these amazing animals that agree to share their lives with us. We often get our children a pet, and then are faced with the horrible situation of our child losing their best friend before he's out of childhood. People ask me whether I think they should get another pet to replace the one that died. - Read more...
Wednesday - October 22, 2003 - 12:50 am

So Bayer came out with their product, Advantage®, which seemed to be the answer to all our prayers. It's monthly, easy to apply, noon-toxic to our patients, and best of all it worked. Against fleas. - Click here to read more...
Monday - August 25, 2003 - 12:30 am

The Saga of Monthly Flea Death continues. After the innovation of Program©, the once a month pill that short-circuited the reproductive wiring of the household flea, the veterinary community was reeling. We'd all wished for something like that to simplify the dreaded Flea Talk we all had to give to our clients, fifteen times a day. The one I'm giving you now. - Click here to read more...
Monday - August 11, 2003 - 12:40 pm

Interesting question. You've decided you really like the ease of administration of the topical flea products that you put on the back of Cosmo's neck once a month, and PRESTO! he's free of fleas. But as you start perusing your pet shop's or your veterinary office's varied supply of different monthly flea treatments, your eyes start to cross. - Click here to read more...
Friday - July 25, 2003 - 12:05 am

Cosmo's got fleas. He's keeping you up at nights, scratching at his rear end. You've checked, and sure enough, he's got flea dirt, that stuff that looks like dirt, til you wet it and streak it out on a paper towel, and Voila! it streaks out red. That's blood. Cosmo's blood. - Click here to read more...
Friday - July 18, 2003

Photo: J. Roy Bean is a member of Stan & Sandy Felsman's family...

You've determined that you have fleas, or you're treating Cosmo, so you can eliminate fleas as all or part of his itching problem. So you want to know how to get rid of them.

In order to get a handle on how to get rid of them we had to learn about how they lived. You may not care about that, and if that's the case skip this section and jump right on down to the different kinds of ways to treat for fleas. Or if you're reading this as it's published, you'll have to wait til next week for specific flea treatments. - Click here to read more...
Friday - July 11, 2003

So Cosmo's itching. He's digging at the base of his tail, the back of his hind legs, the front part of his hind legs. And I'm telling you there's a good chance he has fleas. But, you say, you wouldn't recognize a flea if it bit you. - Click here to read more...
Friday - June 20, 2003

Your pet's begun to itch. You know this because he's keeping you up at night with his scratching. You, as a devoted, dedicated, concerned pet owner, are paying close attention to the severity of the itching and where he's scratching. You're being careful to make sure that a secondary bacterial or yeast infection isn't clouding the diagnostic picture. - Click here to read more...
Friday - June 06, 2003

Hello everybody - thank you for your patience, waiting for me to return. Due to some family problems, I've had my hands too full to keep up with the Website. But Dick has been kind enough to save my spot, and you have been such an appreciative audience, I just had to come back. - Click here to read more...
Tuesday - May 20, 2003 - 9:00 pm