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Animal Urgent Care Discover exceptional care at Animal Urgent Care in Escondido, CA! Offering top-tier Emergency &

03/06/2025
Congrats to the best practice manager in the world! Enjoy your well deserved maternity leave.
01/29/2025

Congrats to the best practice manager in the world! Enjoy your well deserved maternity leave.

01/01/2025

Happy New Year from all of us at Animal Urgent Care. Wishing everyone a safe and happy New Years Eve. Reminder to keep your pets indoors in a secure location. If you do happen to need us we are open 24/7 for all of your emergency needs.

We've had an eventful surgical start to the month with some interesting and rewarding cases. Can you determine the diag...
12/08/2024

We've had an eventful surgical start to the month with some interesting and rewarding cases. Can you determine the diagnosis off of these single x-ray images?

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Foxtail Season Is Upon Us
Foxtail Season Is Upon Us

This is what we refer to as the "foxtail sneeze", which is due to a foxtail getting sucked up into the nasal cavity and causing significant discomfort for the pet. As opposed to sneezing due to other causes, a foxtail sneeze is much more dramatic and persistent. The nasal cavity is one of the most common locations we remove foxtails from in dogs (in addition to ears and paws). What most people dont realize is that finding these foxtails in the nasal cavity is a lot more complicated than simiply looking straight into the nostrils. This is because the foxtails enter a small opening (meatus) adjacent to the septum and then get caught in a labryth of cartilage making it very difficult for them to sneeze it back out. In order for us to find and retrieve a nasal foxtail, most animals need to be fully anesthetized as the nasal cavity is very stimulating and most dogs will not tolerate us working in there while awake. Once anethetized, we will insert a cone into this small space and look through the magnifying lens to identfy it. Once located, the foxtail is grasped with forceps and pulled straight out. So if your dog begins sneezing like the one in the video, it is best to have them seen right away as delaying treatment may make it more challenging to locate.

Warning! May be too gross for some to watch. Animal Urgent Care has the privilege of working with the Humane Society to provide care to stray/missing pets. This poor girl came in with severe swelling around the face/neck as the result of a huge abscess. Abscesses are one of the most rewarding conditions to treat because you can provide immediate relief with just the poke of a scalpel blade. She is currently feeling much better without that pocket of pus attached to her head.

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Intralipid therapy for marijuana toxicity
Intralipid therapy for marijuana toxicity

1 hour post Intralipid therapy.

Intralipid therapy for marijuana toxicity
Intralipid therapy for marijuana toxicity

Another great example of how effective Intralipid therapy can be for selective toxicities. This sweet boy decided it would be fun to eat an entire marijuana vape cartridge. He presented with classic symptoms of marijuana toxicity: slow heart rate, ataxia, disorientation and urinary incontinence. With the recent legalization of recreational marijuana, we are seeing an uptick in these type of cases so its important to make sure these products are kept out of paw's reach. The video below shows him just prior to receiving the Intralipids and the following video is 1 hour post Intralipid therapy.

Warning! If you have a weak stomach (or are eating lunch) you may want to look away.
Warning! If you have a weak stomach (or are eating lunch) you may want to look away.

Posting this due to popular demand and to show how easy it is for a small cat bite to turn into a baseball sized abscess within days. This is another reason why cats should not be able to roam freely. It also demonstrates why we recommend "exploring" most bite wounds soon after they occur, as most will eventually abscess unless they are aggressively cleaned. The biggest part of treatment is lancing and draining, and this guy was feeling a whole lot better afterwards.

This is your dog- this is your dog on methamphetamine >> She will be fine but really - we have seen two cases of this in the last week at our clinic

Intralipid therapy for marijuana toxicity
Intralipid therapy for marijuana toxicity

This is Stella prior to receiving Intralipids.

Intralipid therapy for marijuana toxicity
Intralipid therapy for marijuana toxicity

Another great example of how effective Intralipid therapy is in treating certain toxicities. This sweet girl accidentally ingested marijuana which is toxic in dogs and can cause extreme lethargy, disorientation, ataxia and even seizures. She came in with a low heart rate and could barely walk in a straight line. Within minutes of finishing the Intralipid therapy, she was back to her old chatty self.

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