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July 2024
At Petersen Pet Hospital, we are excited to remind our clients about a valuable resource that is available to them: our online pet portal. This website was designed to make managing your pet’s health and veterinary needs more convenient and accessible. The portal has been live for a few years and has seen a lot of success, so consider this a friendly reminder! WHAT DOES THE PET PORTAL OFFER? Our pet portal is a comprehensive online platform where pet owners can access updated medical information about their pets. This includes appointment histories, vaccination records, and more. Whether you need to check the dates of your pet’s last shots or book their next appointment, the pet portal is designed to make these tasks quick and easy. HOW DO I ACCESS THE PET PORTAL? Accessing the pet portal is simple. Visit our website at PetersenPetHospital. com , and on the homepage, you will find a tab at the top of your screen in the upper right-hand corner labeled “pet portal.” To create an account, new users must sign up by entering their phone number, email address, and pet’s name. Once your account is created, you will have access to a wealth of information about your pet, including: • Vaccine History: Keep track of all your pet’s vaccinations. This is useful for visits to groomers or boarding facilities, where proof of vaccination is often required. PET CARE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS ONLY A CLICK AWAY!
• Appointment Scheduling: You can book appointments directly through the portal without the need to call, saving you time and avoiding the hassle of phone queues. • Prescription Refills: Request refills for any prescriptions your pet has been given, ensuring you never run out of necessary medications. • Appointment Reminders: Stay on top of upcoming care items or treatments with timely reminders. • Rabies Certificate: Access your pet’s rabies certificate early. This is an essential document for various pet activities and services. • Comprehensive Pet Details: View important information about your pet, including their birthday, weight, and other health details. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF USING THE PET PORTAL? The pet portal offers significant benefits to our clients. It allows you to manage your pet’s health care from the comfort of your home, providing a level of convenience that traditional methods simply cannot match. Here are three key advantages of the pet portal: • Time-Saving: No more waiting on hold to book an appointment or request a prescription refill. Everything can be done online. • Accessibility: You can have all your pets’ vital health information at your fingertips, whether you’re at home or on the go. • Reminders: Never miss a necessary appointment or vaccination with an automated reminder sent directly to you. We want to ensure all our clients know this helpful tool. We will post reminders and information about the pet portal on our Facebook page. We aim to increase usage and help more pet owners maximize its convenience and benefits. If you still need to explore the pet portal, we encourage you to sign up on our website. Our team is always here to assist if you have questions or need help setting up your account. This helpful tool ensures your pet’s health care needs are managed efficiently, giving you more time to enjoy the moments that matter most with your furry friends.
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SAM’S CORNER:
DR. GREEN HELPED DO DOGGY DENTAL WORK DeeOhGee Got the Help She Needs
Hey everyone, it’s me again — everyone’s favorite pup, Sam! I am excited to say that summer has finally arrived, and as I watch all of my doggy friends splashing around in pools and rivers, they are blissfully unaware of the troubles that can come with it. You see, summer is a fun time for dogs with lots of swimming and playing in the sun, but there is something we need to watch out for — summer is a prime time for ear infections in dogs. When I get an ear infection, I can’t help but scratch my ears and shake my head a lot. Sometimes, you will notice a funny smell coming from my ears — yuck! These infections can be caused by yeast or bacteria, and while it’s natural for us to have a bit of yeast, too much of it can cause problems. It is so important for our owners to make sure we don’t have ear infections because they can hurt us a lot! Sam’s Doggy Tips: Sniff Out Ear Infections Before They Start THE DOG DAYS
DeeOhGee is a sweet, 6-year-old Shetland sheepdog who came to Dr. Green and her team for a 3-day history of a swelling on the left side of her face under her eye that was sensitive to the touch. Knowing that her face was sensitive, Dr. Green performed a thorough physical examination everywhere else first, with no concerning findings overall, and then moved on to further evaluate her face and mouth.
Dr. Green could see that DeeOhGee had a ping-pong ball-sized soft facial swelling below her left eye. However, what was more difficult to evaluate was what was going on inside her mouth. After an oral evaluation, Dr. Green found DeeOhGee had grade 2 dental disease, meaning her
gums were more swollen and there was moderate tartar build-up. Then, Dr. Green found that DeeOhGee’s upper right
carnassial tooth had pus draining from the gum, indicating that she likely had a tooth root abscess. A tooth root abscess is a severe infection that develops around the root of a tooth that typically occurs because of bacteria entering through a broken or traumatized tooth.
After identifying this finding, Dr. Green recommended that DeeOhGee return later to have that tooth further evaluated with a dental cleaning, where dental X-rays are performed to better evaluate her oral health and to have any diseased teeth extracted. In DeeOhGee’s case, she had an abscess at the base of the root of her tooth, which is what led to her face swelling. DeeOhGee’s carnassial tooth was removed, she was placed on medications to help with infection and pain, and was fed a soft diet for the week after her tooth was removed. DeeOhGee is now back to her normal self, living happily and pain-free.
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FROM FINGERS TO FORKS
If we pups get an ear infection, the treatment plan usually involves using a special ear cleaner and giving me ear drops or other medicine to ensure we return to normal as fast as possible! It can take up to at least three days to return to normal. To prevent these pesky ear infections, owners should clean our ears right after we get out of the pool! Trimming the hair around our ears in the summertime also helps a lot.
THE EVOLUTION OF DINING ETIQUETTE
So, while the summertime is such a blast with all the swimming, playing, running, and jumping, keeping my ears clean and healthy means I will have an even better time! By taking these simple steps, you can help prevent ear infections and keep me feeling my best. Let’s ensure every splash and play session is as fun and carefree as possible.
Have you ever feasted on chicken wings, your hands stained with barbecue sauce, and thought, Why don’t we just eat everything like this? As it turns out, we did — people only started eating their meals with cutlery fairly recently. Many cultures around the world still eat primarily with their hands. So, why are placemats adorned with forks, spoons, and knives commonplace today? To find out, we have to get our hands dirty — because the history of cutlery, much like the history of civilization, is complex, nuanced, and full of gossip.
BIG SPOON LITTLE SPOON Perhaps unsurprisingly, spoons are the oldest examples of cutlery people used consistently for millennia. After all, what good is a fine pot of communal soup without a spoon to eat it with? Likewise, knives have always been used to cut up meat and prepare our meals, but only the advent of individualized meals rather than buffet-style brought along the advent of dinner knives.
Forks, however, are an altogether newer invention. Although large serving forks can be traced as far back as ancient Egypt, the individual, smaller version has its roots in the Byzantine Empire. Around 1,000 year ago, the Byzantine noblewoman Theodora Doukaina brought a golden fork to her wedding feast in Venice. It became quite controversial among the Italians, with many shunning the novel tool as posh and overly decadent. However, as royals began to intermarry, the fork gradually caught on. Royals increasingly ate with cutlery and became weary of dirtying their hands with their food. By the 1800s, cutlery was widespread in the Western world, and today, most people and establishments serve meals with silverware! ANTIQUITY — MAKING A COMEBACK There’s a reason movie theater popcorn doesn’t come with a popcorn spoon and your favorite burger joint doesn’t offer sporks; some food is meant to be eaten with your hands. While most sit-down meals will always be the domain of the cutlery-wielding elite, finger food isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and if history has any say, it never will.
INGREDIENTS • 4 cups water • 2 3/4 cups uncooked brown rice • 2 whole carrots, diced • 1 cup green peas, diced • 1.2 lbs canned or deboned salmon DIRECTIONS 1. Boil water, then add brown rice. Cover and cook for 30 minutes, adding the carrots and peas after 20 minutes. 2. Preheat oven to 350 F. Wrap salmon in tin foil and place on a baking sheet. Bake salmon in the oven for 15 minutes, then add the baked salmon to the rice. Mix well. 3. Turn off the heat and let rice mixture cool completely before serving.
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Inside This Issue
Use Our Online Pet Portal for All Your Pet’s Needs
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Helping a Sheepdog Stay Sweet
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Protect Your Puppy’s Ears This Summer
The Fascinating History of Cutlery
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Salmon Fried Rice for Dogs
PMS292 How a Cat Saved an Army Veteran in Need PMS5635
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Fluffy’s Heroic Deed Saves a Veteran In 2020, Ron Williams, a Korean War veteran in his mid-80s, lived alone. His only lifeline was his Life Alert, a small device designed to alert health care officials if an emergency occurred. That was until he was gifted a black-and- white spotted cat named Fluffy. From the moment they met, it was clear the two would make a perfect pair. But what Ron didn’t know was that he had been given more than a companion — he had been given a savior. FELINE FRIEND While Ron did not have many people to talk to, he did have Fluffy. The two shared mostly one-sided conversations, likely interspersed with the occasional meow. Whenever “I just fell in love with him,” Ron said of Fluffy in an interview with FOX17 in Michigan. As it turned out, Fluffy loved him back. FLUFFY TO THE RESCUE One fateful day, at around 8 a.m., Ron slipped and fell on his way out of the shower. He landed on his arm, which became pinned under him. His Life Alert, which he had relied upon for situations like this, was charging in the other room. His cell phone, his only other means of calling for help, was on the bathroom counter, out of reach. The hours ticked away, and Ron lay in agonizing pain on the bathroom floor. At just past midnight the next day, Ron had an idea. Fluffy had wandered into the bathroom to check on his friend.
“Ring-a-ding,” Ron told him, and Fluffy knew to retrieve his phone and bring it to him. Ron was able to call for help in time to save his life. Fluffy’s quick thinking prevented tragedy. This heroic
Ron received a call on his cellphone, he got in the habit of saying, “Ring-a-ding.” While the
act is a great reminder that our pets care — and listen — more than we may ever give them credit for.
two shared a deep bond, Ron never considered that Fluffy was actually listening.
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