When I was a child, my parents didn’t especially want the responsibility of a cat or a dog, but they did allow me to have a rabbit as a pet. My first rabbit was a gentle, affectionate female, but when she reached sexual maturity, at around the age…
Spay / Neuter
Hurricane Katrina animal rescue, 10 years ago: what have we learned?
None of us can forget the televised images of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Among those images are video clips that showed people being evacuated from their homes in boats, their dogs trying to swim behind the boats, and the people crying and screaming at the dogs to go back….
Why We Do Not Declaw Cats
At the Clinique vétérinaire des petits animaux de l’Estrie, we do not declaw cats. This has been our policy from the very start of the clinic, back in 2002. Calling the procedure a declaw is actually a misnomer, since it involves the outright amputation of the last phalanx (one of…
Should I have my dog sterilized?
In this post, we answer the questions we hear most often from our clients: Should I have my dog sterilized? Why? and When? Why should I have my dog spayed or neutered? Canada’s shelters are filled with dogs and cats that have been abandoned because of overpopulation, unwanted litters,…