Moose gained five pounds!!!!!!!

Everyone who is caretaker to a creature needs a good vet. They can be supertough to find; veterinary medicine these days is as much about drugs and profit as human medicine. If it says anything, you can currently buy insurance for your pet (and it sucks just as much as human insurance!!)

I have been exceedingly lucky to have found an excellent vet, Dr. Linton Dangar, who currently cares for my creatures Moose and Billy. Dr. Dangar has my respect for many reasons, among which are his 40 years of experience and his preference for home-remedies and conservative treatment. Some things to make you think:

- His treatment for Moose's pancreatitis last xmas was a fast, a few (six) pills, and a food switch. Worked like a charm. Alternative: MRI, biopsy, exploratory surgery.

- Moose's cancer: He counseled me to not bother with an expensive pathology report and chemotherapy; he has seen her type of cancer so many times, he already knows the prospectus. Alternative: obvious.

- Moose's nosedive in August: he gave me a straight-up and realistic assesment, and told me how I can improve her geriatric years. I can't tell you how much I love that my vet told me to feed Moose yogurt, after her antibiotics, to help her immune system. And scrambled eggs. Which Moose totally digs.

- Today's checkup: he checked out her paw, and told me to not worry about her toesie bc it's an arthritis flare (suggested ibuprofin); for her bilateral ear infection, he told me to wash her ears with Selsun Blue then do a white vinegar rinse every day for a week. I'll post how that works; as a biochemist, I can tell you right now, DUH!!!!! Of course it'll work!! Alternative: xray of foot ($$$), ear flush and meds. Having done this no less than a dozen times, I can tell you that ear infections and their purportedly requisite drugs get expensive. Vinegar. Flippin' vinegar. OMG.

And today he didn't charge me a dime for the checkup. What kind of vet does that?

Answer: A good one who is really in it for the creatures.

He has had a successful business for 40 years. Because he knows, his happy patients will refer more. As I have referred four others to him.

This is my kind of business model :)