Veterinarians
Veterinarians
Seagull Kip
When you are looking for a vet for your new puppy, please consider weather or not they LIKE Jack Russell's! If they don't like JRT's, please for your pet's sake, stay away from that facility.
It is your right to interview a prospective Vet, just like you would interview any caretaker. Ask them questions, until you are satisfied and feel comfortable that they and their staff, have your dogs (or horse) best interest at heart.
The following are a listing of a few Vet's that our Seagull Owners like and use:
Dr. Valerie Plaseke
Hwy 77 & CR 230
South of Cameron,TX
254-697-4737
Small Animal Specialist - Valerie has the most modern equipment you will find available anywhere. She and her support staff have excellent bedside manner. They love our dogs and treat them with respect.
Dr. Chris Kawcak
7801 SW Frontage Rd.
Ft. Collins,CO 80528
970-204-1663
Kara is a small animal and homeopathic medicine specialist. Chris is a world renown equine surgeon that also looks at the complete picture to regain the horses total health. Both have an excellent feel for an animal and perform magic with their skills! Your animals are well cared for by an extremely competent staff, at a state of the art surgical and rehabilitation facility.
Dr. Tom Gary
Dr. Leslie Easterwood
PO Box 5
Milano,TX 76556
512-446-3070
Tom and Leslie are experienced horse people that use common sense and technical expertise to provide whatever it takes to make you and your horse comfortable! (No, they don't deal with Jack Russell's!)
Dr. Christina Freeman
Wellborn Road Vet Clinic
College Station,TX
979-695-VETS
"Always available for questions, will see clients from 7AM-8PM, makes time for clients on weekends...VERY straight forward..."
Dr. Richard Baker
Dr. Burl Cline
281-585-8153
281-331-8153
Alvin,TX
"If anyone ask you for a vet from the Alvin/Pearland area.
Dr. Richard Baker and Dr. Burl Cline are great. And they treat large animals too. They are on business 35 across from Delia's Mexican Food in Alvin. Their phone numbers are easy to remember too. 281-585-8153 and 281-331-8153
They are open 7 days a week. There have been several times it has been minutes before closing time when I have called with an animal emergency. They tell me to come on in and they will wait for me. And they always have. You know me, we don't take our babies to just anybody."
Jo Ellen Armstrong
Stuebner-Airline / Champions Veterinary Hospital
16116 Stuebner Airline Road
Spring, TX 77379
phone 281-376-2505
vets: Jack. W. Withmore, D.V.M.
P. Max Heimlich, DVM
B.E. Schmitt, DVM
"As we did mention in the Paulien-story, we are very pleased with them, especially doctor Jack Withmore and the nurses. So far, we have no experience with the other doctors, although we know that doctor Heimlich has done an excellent job on Deux Coups (removing tumors). They were great with Paulien when she was spayed and they don't just care about the animals, but about their parents as well.
Paulien hopes that we will meet soon, so she can, at last, give you the little present that she's got for you. "
Groetjes (=Best Regards)
Anneke, Ron & Paulien
Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists
Surgery and Orthopedics
Dr David Fowler
Dr Jennifer Warnock
1111 West Loop South suite 160,
Houston, TX 77027.
Ph 713-693-1122
****They are not regular vets, they are specialists and accept patients only on a referral basis. Office hours are
8am-6 pm and they are open Mon-Fri.
Seagull Oscar
receiving great care
Dr. Jennifer Warnock
Gulf Coast Vet Specialist
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Van Maanen,
Here is a picture of your adorable little boy!
He is our favorite patient!
Cson Johnson shares this breeders information site:
"I have downloaded this successfully and it looks good though, I haven't figured out how to really use it yet! you can also download a users manual! "
http://www.geocities.com/willowind_dals/pedigree.html
Cson Johnson
Debbie,
Thanks for the talk last night, we are all feeling a lot better about
Oscar's condition today- hopefully he just keeps on improving. Anyway, I am sending the picts of him in intensive care, the nurses fashioned a sling to carry him around as they worked. Hopefully we'll have some better picts of
him after he gets out of hospital.
Sincerly,
Melissa Dumble
Hi Debbie,
We were able to take Oscar home last night from the hospital. He's doing well, he's doesn't have the painful episodes any more and is mostly a normal puppy. He still has difficulty lifting his head up and prefers to sit on his behind to see up. The doctors are still unsure of what happened. We saw the CAT scan 3-D image of his skull. He has about 7 small congenital holes in the back of his skull that shouldn't be there. They are calling his condition "occipital malformation". They don't think the holes caused the symptoms but that maybe if he got a hit to the back of the head (after falling over the baby gate) his head was more susceptible to the blow. These holes have never been documented before, so they are really unsure the problems they may cause, if any.
The vet was interested when I told her about your two litters (that had to be put down) that had a degenerative ataxia, as Oscar showed signs of ataxia also. She though maybe Oscar may have had a milder form of what you saw in those two litters- although this is impossible to know without having seen the litters (and having done CAT scans on them!)?? Anyway, she said you are welcome to Oscar's medical charts if you wish to see to CAT scan and show your vet for your own interest. She also said Oscars condition was similar to something called Chiari-like syndrome, where the animals have a "key hole" like hole in the back of the skull, but he didn't seem to have that condition.
Anyway, I hope all that was understandable- hard to explain these things over email. Our vets name is Dr David Fowler (although we worked with a vet he has working for him Dr Jennifer Warnock). He's at the "Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists" in "Surgery and Orthopedics". They are not regular vets, they are specialists and accept patients only on a refferal basis. Their address is 1111 West Loop South suite 160, Houston, TX 77027. Ph 713-693-1122. Office hours are 8am-6pm and they are open Mon-Fri.
I will keep you up to date with Oscars condition and hopefully he'll just continue to improve and we won't see anything like this in him again!
Melissa Dumble
NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby-hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombasa, officials said.
The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsumani waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.
"It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park, told AFP.
"After it was swept and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatised. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added.
"The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added.
"The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years," he explained.
How Many Dogs Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb
GOLDEN RETRIEVER: The sun is shining, the day is young, we've got our whole lives ahead of us, and you're inside worrying about a stupid burned-out bulb?
BORDER COLLIE: Just one. And then I'll replace any wiring that's not up to code.
DACHSHUND: You know I can't reach that stupid lamp!
ROTTWEILER: Make me.
LAB: Oh, me, me, me!!!! Pleeeeeeze, let me change the light bulb! Can I? Can I? Huh? Huh? Huh? Can I?
GERMAN SHEPHERD: I'll change it as soon as I've led these people from the dark, checked to make sure I haven't missed any, and make just one more perimeter patrol to see that no one has tried to take advantage of the situation.
TIBETAN TERRIER: Let the Border Collie do it. You can feed me while he's busy.
JACK RUSSELL TERRIER: I'll just pop it in while I'm bouncing off the walls and furniture.
POODLE: I'll just blow in the Border Collie's ear and he'll do it. By the time he finishes rewiring the house, my nails will be dry.
COCKER SPANIEL: Why change it? I can still pee on the carpet in the dark.
DOBERMAN: While it's dark, I'm going to sleep on the couch.
BOXER: Who cares? I can still play with my squeaky toys in the dark
CHIHUAHUA: Yo quiero Taco Bulb.
POINTER: I see it, there it is, there it is, right there....
GREYHOUND: It isn't moving. Who cares?
AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD: First, I'll put all the light bulbs in a little circle...
OLD ENGLISH SHEEP DOG: Light bulb? I'm sorry, but I don't see a light bulb.
CHESAPEAKE RETRIEVER: What's a light bulb?
HOUND DOG: ZZZZZZzzzzz.z.z.z..z..z..z...z
CAT: Cats do not change light bulbs. People change light bulbs. So, the question is: How long will it be before I can expect light?
ALL OF WHICH PROVES, ONCE AGAIN, THAT WHILE DOGS HAVE MASTERS, CATS HAVE STAFF.
