Michelle Gerhard Jasny V.M.D.
Visiting Vet: It showed up in the eyes first
Harmonia, a 60-pound middle-aged dog, has had her share of mishaps and ailments over the years, but over all has been a happy, healthy...
Visiting Vet: Feline asthma
Prince Hal is a handsome middle-aged long-haired cat. Other than recurrent bouts of urinary tract issues in his youth, Hal has not had much...
Visiting Vet: Behavior questions
“Oh, by the way,” the owner said as she was leaving with her cat at the end of their 20-minute annual appointment for physical...
Visiting Vet: An outside cat brings home the bunny
Sylvester is a handsome adult cat who lives in a rural, wooded area of West Tisbury. Like many country cats, Sly goes outside and...
Visiting Vet: Taking the hunt to your indoor cat
When I was a child, my family had cats. There were Puss, Eloise, Gorilla, and Stinky. There were Pywacket, Farfel, and Nobody, and others...
Visiting Vet: The cat and the carrier
It’s one of life’s little mysteries — the fact that cats love to explore, investigating every tiny hidey-hole they can find, crawling inside paper...
Visiting Vet: Fear-biting and ways to address it
Merlot is a scrappy little dog, born feral on a tropical island. The papers that came with him from the Caribbean animal shelter say...
Visiting Vet: Feline chin acne
Minato and Umaki are two sweet but sometimes shy siblings. Born feral, this brother and sister pair were taken in as kittens by a...
Visiting Vet: Urinary stones
Early one morning, Balboa, a 5-year-old male shih tzu, was let outside to powder his nose. OK, dogs don’t powder their noses. Even people...
Visiting Vet: Was it GME?
The first episode happened when Tidbit was 2 years old. In the middle of the night, the young Labrador retriever was jumping off an...
Visiting Vet: It wasn’t an easy birth
All I remember is she was a very big dog. A Great Pyrenees or Saint Bernard. It was back in the day when we...
Visiting Vet: When chocolate isn’t sweet
It all started with a small tropical tree indigenous to South and Central America, Theobroma cacao. This tree grows big red fruit pods. Inside...
Visiting Vet: Cats and dogs
Sprinkles is a sweet, petite, 8-month-old cat who shares her home with her sister Sprocket, and her “cousin” Pippa, a 6-month-old Labrador retriever. Despite...
Visiting Vet: Senior animals
It’s one o’clock in the morning. I can’t get comfortable. I have bursitis in my hip, and it hurts. I toss and turn. If...
Visiting Vet: Connections
“Do you carry electric blankets?” the voice asked when I answered the office phone. For a moment I was confused. Veterinarians use a variety...
Visiting Vet: Happy holidays
Deck the Halls
(Please sing out loud to your pets for full effect . . . with apologies to Scottish musician Thomas Oliphant, 1862, who...
Visiting Vet: Help is here
Two o’clock in the morning. The telephone rings. A dog vomiting repeatedly. Sunday afternoon. The telephone rings. A limping cat. Halfway through dinner. The...
Visiting Vet: Bones are not humerus
Three families. Four dogs. A whole lot of short rib bones. The first people were not regular clients, but referred to me as “the...
Visiting Vet: Greylock’s case
When Greylock arrived for his appointment, his owner and I spent some time chatting on the porch. The handsome grey middle-aged cat had originally...
Visiting Vet: ‘My dog is choking!’
“My dog is choking!” I get these frantic phone calls way too often. Sometimes at two o’clock in the morning. Or the time I...