{"id":8111,"date":"2011-06-29T21:05:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T03:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=8111"},"modified":"2012-02-16T19:33:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T02:33:09","slug":"bears-veterinary-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2011\/06\/bears-veterinary-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear’s Veterinary Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The week Bear arrived in Montana, so did the first mosquitoes. So, off we went to the vet to get heartworm medication. They do a blood test first. You can see the pink shaved patch on Bear’s “arm”. I hated putting Bear through a vet visit so soon after arrival, but he was a champ and sat still and quiet while they got the bit of blood needed. The prize was the yellow star toy WITH squeaker! – a freebie from Heartguard, the heartwork med company.<\/p>\n

While at Calm Veterinary, Bear got a wellness exam and passed all with flying colors except for teeth… Two molars were questionable, 1 definitely had to come out…bleah! But everyone wanted to give him a bit of time to adjust to all of the changes before a procedure and there was no emergency so we scheduled the surgery for a month later, June 13.<\/p>\n

When the office called on the Friday before to confirm and remind me of no food the morning of surgery, I asked if Bear could be first and if we could get a drop off time very near the start of surgery so that he wouldn’t be too long in a kennel, alone, in a strange place. I was offered the opportunity of a room where I could wait with him pre-op and they would return him to me in the room post-op …if I was ok staying that long.<\/p>\n

Yes-siree I was! I took computer and snacks and set up in a beautiful room with a bay window. Bear impressed everyone by lying down on command and staying still while they inserted the catheter. After, I had him lie down and stay while we waited and I sat on the floor beside him. We had been working diligently on down-stay and it was not only helpful for the prep but was calming as we waited. <\/p>\n

Dr. Calm extracted only 1 molar, cleaned and checked the rest of his teeth and then they brought him back to the room to wake up on a nice foam mattress…with me.<\/p>\n

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Not too bad and none of the trauma of waking up in a kennel! Bear was fairly alert and able to walk shortly after noon and we were on our way home by 1:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

Although, he was tired from all, he did not appear to be uncomfortable….<\/p>\n

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…and the next day resumed his Yoga routine….<\/p>\n

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Well, what would you call it?<\/p>\n

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Looks like yoga to me :)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The week Bear arrived in Montana, so did the first mosquitoes. So, off we went to the vet to get heartworm medication. They do a blood test first. You can see the pink shaved patch on Bear’s “arm”. I hated putting Bear through a vet visit so soon after arrival, but he was a champ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bear"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9949,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions\/9949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}