Wiseman Animal Hospital & Boarding Kennel

02/21/2021

After 54 years in the same location, Wiseman Animal Hospital will be moving. Our practice will be merging with Eastside Pet Clinic at 7036 East Broadway. The clinic is across the parking lot from the Gaslight Theater near Broadway and Kolb. Dr. Trueba is looking forward to being associated with Dr. Maria Curtis, and seeing you and your pets there. Of course Erika and Jason will be there as well.

Our last day at this location will be February 24th. We will be moving between February 25th and March 1st. We should be available to see appointments on March 2nd. 520 731 1714 is the clinic phone number. Our regular phone number 520 296 2388, should be working there while we move and after we arrive.

02/11/2021

Share to remind your clients to keep the Valentine's Day candy out of reach!
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01/17/2020

12/22/2019

It’s only natural to want to treat your dog to some of your holiday dinner. However, our dog's digestive systems work differently than ours, and there are foods to keep away from your dog this holiday season (and always).

11/25/2019

As Thanksgiving gets closer, we would like to remind you to protect your pup from harm - not all people food is good for them

09/06/2019

Cases of salmonellosis in humans connected to pig ear treats continue to rise and FDA is advising pet owners to take precautions to avoid illness.

08/26/2019

So you feed your dog bones, because the dog likes them and you have fed them a bunch of times and never had a problem. Are you an outdoors person? Go hiking? Ride your horse in the woods? Remember seeing the whole carcass of deer, elk or cow bones? What does that tell you? Coyotes do not eat the bones! Dogs chew bones into chards and those bone shards scrape them from one end to the other. The unlucky ones get a jagged bone caught in the esophagus, and this foreign body must be removed by endoscopy (some are so jammed there that they can not be removed) because surgical removal from the esophagus is almost never possible because it has so much movement that the esophagus heals poorly or not at all.
The bone shards that make it to the stomach are acted on by stomach acid, softening them up to a certain extent. The partially softened shards make it to the colon which sucks water out of the shards, and essentially makes cement out of them. These cement like balls then cause constipation, and the sharp edges continue to scrape the colon. The x ray below shows stool balls which consist of "cement" like bone.
Nothing disturbs a veterinarian or veterinary technician more than being out to dinner and hearing someone at a neighboring table ask for a bag to take the steak bone home for their dog. Remember dog food (not free bones) are a lot cheaper than veterinary care!

07/26/2019

Federal health officials say that 93 people around the country have been sickened, including 20 hospitalizations