Why did skeleton cross road?

When Mallory asked me that this morning, I thought it was to get to the other side.

To get to the body shop!

Halloween is here and we have a lot of fun dressing our pets in costumes - sometimes even the dogs like it. :-)

One thing to be aware of, the sugar free treats should be kept away from your dogs. Specifically, the gum and candy containing Xylitol. It is most commonly found in "Orbit" gum, but in other gums and hard candies that are sugar free.

What happens is the dog's body does not realize it is not sugar, and their body mistakenly drops the blood sugar to dangerous levels, and many dogs have to be on IV sugar solutions for 24 - 48 hours .

On another interesting note, Nonprofit research group called Healthystuff.org found that 50% of tennis balls contain detectable lead levels. Balls intended for pets were much more likely to contain lead, while sport tennis balls contained none!
Check the web site for a more complete list.

And Joe had this additional observation about the skeleton:
Why did the skeleton not ask his girlfriend to marry him?

He didn't have the guts!
See you online next week. :-)

Thanksgiving Thank you

Hello everyone,

Halloween is a fun time to dress up, have the pets dressup or the children. It is a time to imagine being someone special. I remember dressing as a kid as a football player (back in the day), a ghost (cool to walk through doors), and one of my hero's The Lone Ranger.

We are always looking for something else at times, yet we also learn to appreciate what we have. And that is what Thanksgiving is all about.

And we are going to have a Thanksgiving Thank you to all our clients, and invite you to an open house at the clinic. We will host it at a special day and time: Saturday, November 21 from 9 am - noon.

We will have some set up items in the x-ray room, in surgery we will have a demonstration of the CO2 laser, in the treatment room we will have a teeth cleaning demonstration, in the boarding section, we will have some other fun things.

And we encourage you to invite a friend to come. We will have some prizes- still working on details, but they will be something that will benefit all of our clients, and something for everyone who attends.

Why?
Because we want to say Thank you to all of our clients who have made it possible for us to provide veterinary services for the entire community. We look forward to moving here (if our house will ever sell) and being part of the community. But this is a way to say 'Thank you' in advance.

Calling for animal pictures of Halloween

Hello everyone,

I have been talking to clients about their pets 'dressing up' for Halloween. We realized, we should have a place to post those pictures.

So send us your pictures of your pets in Halloween costume - to staff@LakeviewVeterinaryClinic.com and we will put them here in this Blog, and share them with everyone.

Our pets bring us so much joy, it is hard to imagine not having them around, isn't it?