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Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

Flagstaff, Arizona
My blog, Questions On Dogs and Cats, is written from the perspective of Helpful Buckeye, who, in... Full Bio
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10 MOST COMMON DOG CONDITIONS by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Ever since David Letterman popularized his "Top Ten" lists, just about everybody with any kind of a forum of interest has jumped into the fray.  Some of these list ... Read on »
4TH OF JULY, OSCAR, BASEBALL, DRANO, AND MARTHA STEWART.... by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Even though the 4th of July doesn't really mark the actual mid-point of summer, it seems to be viewed that way by most people.  Memorial Day weekend is only a memory by now ... Read on »
A DOG'S HEART AND A VALENTINE.... by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Helpful Buckeye has been preparing an overview of heart problems for pets and this week, with Valentine's Day coming up, seemed to be an appropriate time to run this is ... Read on »
A DOGGY SUMMER.... by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Hooray!...in some parts of the USA it's still springtime (northern Arizona), while elsewhere, it's making the transition from spring to summer, and then there are the folks ... Read on »
A SUMMER SONG AND PETS ON VACATION, PT. 2.... by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Judging from the e-mails received after last week's issue about "Pets On Vacation," many of you will be doing just that in the next several months.  This week's ... Read on »
A SUMMER SONG AND PETS ON VACATION.... by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Memorial Day weekend...signifies a couple of things to most of us.  With the armed forces of the USA deployed in hot spots around the world, it's even more impor ... Read on »
A VEGAN DIET FOR MY PETS? by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Well, so much for spring arriving!  Helpful Buckeye shoveled 12" of "springtime" from the driveway yesterday morning and right now (5 AM Sunday morning), the temp ... Read on »
A ZOOLOGIST'S DREAM? by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health HOLY WEATHER CHANGE, BATMAN!!!  ...as we used to hear in the old Batman and Robin comics, TV series, and movies.  Helpful Buckeye was able to take 3 long bike rides ... Read on »
A ZOOLOGIST'S DREAM? PT. 2 by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Helpful Buckeye received a lot of e-mails about last week's issue, A Zoologist's Dream?  Most of them expressed a fair amount of interest in the fish, amphibian, reptile, a ... Read on »
ALL SUMMER LONG.... by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Since Helpful Buckeye and Desperado are on the road this week in Pennsylvania, the format of this week's issue will be a little less structured so that our readers can sit ... Read on »
ALL THE SENSES OF A CAT.... by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Cats can hear sounds that we can't hear, see things that we can't see, and smell and feel the world around us in ways that we can never grasp. These amazing abilities act ... Read on »
ANOTHER (DOG) PARK, ANOTHER SUNDAY.... by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Making the transition from Chicago to the Doobie Brothers shouldn't be too difficult.... They both had big hit songs in the 1970s about going to the park.  In last week's ... Read on »
ANOTHER DAY (YEAR) OLDER.... by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health "Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt" go the words to an old Tennessee Ernie Ford song, titled Sixteen Tons. The song became a national #1 hit in 1955-56 and you can enjoy th ... Read on »
ANOTHER NASTY HABIT, VITAMIN D, AND DOG COLLARS.... by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Wow, Helpful Buckeye received a lot of e-mails after last week's discussion about coprophagia. Every response indicated that this is a very common problem for dog owners. H ... Read on »
ANTIFREEZE CAN KILL YOUR PETS.... by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THIS BLOG MAKES PEOPLE FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE WITH THEIR PETS The American Veterinary Medical Association would like all of us to remember ... Read on »
ARE CATS CRAZY, GOOFY, OR JUST DIFFERENT??? by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health No, it's not that Helpful Buckeye isn't fond of cats...although our cat-loving readers may have concluded that from the lead-in line above.  Really, when you stop ... Read on »
ARE CATS CRAZY, GOOFY, OR JUST DIFFERENT??? (PT. 2) by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Did any of the information on a cat's body language help you understand what a cat might be thinking?  You, neither, huh?  Well, don't feel too badly about it...that ... Read on »
ARE CATS CRAZY, GOOFY, OR JUST DIFFERENT??? (PT. 3) by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Helpful Buckeye apologizes for the omission of last week's issue of Questions On Dogs and Cats.  I had prepared a new issue for publication but, due to confusion on my part ... Read on »
ARE CATS CRAZY, GOOFY, OR JUST DIFFERENT??? (PT. 4).... by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary MedicineHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Well, it's been almost 4 weeks since Desperado and Helpful Buckeye left home for our funeral trip to western Pennsylvania.  We finally got home a few days ago.  A ... Read on »