Pet Care Articles

River Ridge Veterinary Hospital

6790 River Center Drive
Clemmons, NC 27012

(336)712-3413

www.riverridgevet.com

Clostridium difficile Becoming more Common in North America

What Is Clostridium difficile?Some strains contain genes that allow them to produce toxins. It is the toxins, not the bacteria themselves, that make a person o ...

Plague and How Avoid It in You or your Companion Animals

In April 2011, a dog in New Mexico’s Sante Fe County was diagnosed with plague. Many people think plague is a disease that was only present hundreds of years ag ...

IMHA: Four Letters You Never Want to Meet

Most of the diseases that we see and treat in the ER can be pretty easily comprehended by non-medical folks: trauma, infection, cancer – all of these seem to ma ...

Monitoring Horses with Cushing’s Disease

Monitoring Horses with Cushing’s DiseaseCushing’s Disease, correctly called pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction or PPID, is common in older horses, but monito ...

Three Tips to Reduce Barking in Your Dog

Tip 1: Block the View But not the Light“Out of Sight, Out of Mind”There are many different sights and sounds that stimulate barking out the window. Your dog is ...

Lab Values for Dogs and Cats

Because normal laboratory values depend on the diagnostic method used, the normal variation in species/breed/age test results, and so on, we won't provide a num ...