On to the vet.

"Visiting a new vet."

Jennifer and I had been taking our dogs to the same vet here in Raleigh for the past 10 years. For maintenance, they seemed to be pretty good and even the K9 officers take some of their dogs there. We just felt that this group of doctors did not take the time to get a good diagnosis.

For example, with our first dog Gambit. He started having these head-tilt episodes for a few months before we found out that he had a brain tumor. Our regular vet had seen him twice and kept insisting it was an ear infection. That made sense to us, he was always having dirty ears from laying in the dirt all day especially in the summers. Finally when we took Gambit to NC State the neurologist immediately told us that she thought Gambit had a brain tumor and it turned out that she was right!

Well, here we go again... we had just had Gaby into our regular vet for a checkup. Out of all of those 10 years, I don't think these vets gave our dogs a good, hands on exam. Both times when we found out that our dogs could possibly be cancerous, it was diagnosed by a hands-on exam!

If there is anything that I can convey, it is this.... if your regular vet does not perform good exams just rubbing all over your dogs body with just their hands, go directly to another vet.

It's that simple.