B Street Veterinary Hospital

08/28/2024

🌈 It's Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day 🌈 Share your beloved remembered pets with us ❤️

08/28/2024

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP! CHICA HAS FOUND A HOME!!! To everyone that has expressed interest, we appreciate you so much and will reach out if anything changes, but we are thinking positive thoughts for Chicas new family to work out for her! 🏠🩷

08/27/2024

Update: Chica has found a home!!!

❤️‍🔥 URGENT ❤️‍🔥
Chica is still in desperate need of a home. She is good with kids, cats, and dogs. She has an award winning smile and loves belly rubs on her polka-dotted tummy! She needs a home ASAP - even if you are willing to foster her and help find her a home in time. PLEASE consider bringing Chica into your home and helping care for her— she needs someone who is willing to medically manage her and keep her healthy! Call, message, or email us if you are interested in meeting this sweet girl!

08/26/2024

It's National Dog Day! Show us your doggies! 🐶

08/25/2024

08/24/2024

“Celebrating the best in pet care” — we’ll take it! 🫶🏼 ❤️ 🐾

08/22/2024

It's Take Your Cat to The Vet Day --- Even if we are booked up on appointments, we are still available for walk-in visits if your pet needs care MEOW! 😸

08/14/2024

Does your dog have a white tail tip?? 🤍

This is a remnant from the times when dogs had to help hunt for their supper and a white tail tip was more easily seen in dry grass. Thus, through selective breeding, we have lots of dogs with white tail tips.

Share your white tipped tail with us!

08/14/2024

We are closing at 2pm today; please visit VCA in Hotel Circle if your pet needs care while we are closed. If your pet is able to wait (only for NON URGENT cases), we will see you tomorrow!

08/13/2024

This is Tobi, a 9 and 1/2 month old male neutered mixed breed dog who is 26 lbs of pure love. He gets along with other dogs and has a lot energy that he would love to expend playing! He is house trained and looking for a forever home. Are you interested? 💙

08/13/2024

Chica is a 4 and 1/2 year old female spayed pit bull mix needing a forever home. Chica is a sweet, loving dog who is good with children, cats, and other dogs. She enjoys going on beach walks, hikes, and car rides. Please reach out if you know a good home for this sweet girl! 🩷

08/11/2024

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08/10/2024

Happy Spoil Your Dog Day! Gidget is a huge fan of her toys 🧸 But she would also like some more.

08/08/2024

"Dachshunds are two dogs long and a half-a-dog tall."

08/08/2024

International Cat Day is one to be celebrated! Show us your fine feline friends! We think they are purrrrfect! 😻

08/06/2024

Bloodhounds -- "The reason their ears are long is to stir up scent towards their nose when they are tracking (think of a human waving their hands above a stove on the pot toward their face)."

08/03/2024

WHAT ARE THOSE BUMPS?!

The bumps or ridges on a dog’s lips are known as ruga, rugal folds, or lip fimbrai. These bumps, which look like a serrated knife but with rounded nubbins instead of sharp edges, are a normal part of the dog’s anatomy and serve an essential function in helping them grip and manipulate their food.

Most dogs have around 15 of these on each side. The serrations protect the dog’s gums from the sharp canine teeth. The upper and lower canine teeth rest on the serrated lip protecting the gums. They may also act as sensors keeping the lip out of the teeth’s way, preventing the dog from biting their own lip.

The rugal folds on a dog’s lip act as a conveyor belt, moving food toward the back of the mouth and helping dogs maintain a secure grip on the food as they chew (like crampons). These folds, which some liken to a series of rounded hills, also help create suction, allowing dogs to drink more efficiently as they ladle water into their mouths with a backward curved tongue. Further, rugal folds keep teeth clean. Frederic Wood Jones, a professor of anatomy, stated the reason for the serrated bumps, along with other elements of a dog’s mouth, was all evolution’s work in keeping the dog’s teeth clean. People who agree with this theory have pointed out this may make sense, as today’s toys claiming to clean dog’s teeth usually have ridges, spikes, bumps, etc., similar to the way those serrated bumps may do so inside of a dog’s mouth.

08/02/2024

In the jungle, the mighty jungle...

08/01/2024

THE NOSE KNOWS:

Humans mostly use our eyes to take in the world. Dogs rely on their noses; their sense of smell exceeds ours by a factor of between 10,000 and 100,000. Research also suggests they sniff five to 10 times per second, while we sniff about once.

However, for the other two smells (the veterinarian’s sweat and adrenaline), that perhaps may not be quite as welcome to a dog, the dogs always smelled them with their right nostril.

Even though the smell of the vet would be as familiar to the dogs as perhaps dog food or the smell from a female dog, it could be more stressful to the dogs (as any dog owner knows, taking it to the vet generally is not a relaxing event for anyone involved).

The fight-or-flight response is mainly dealt with by the right side of the brain.

Therefore, even though these smells became as familiar as the other ones did, they elicited enough strong emotions, such as fear, to continue being processed by the right-side of the brain (and, therefore, the right nostril).

07/31/2024

It's National Mutt Day! Show us those mutts who stole your hearts! 💕

07/30/2024

It's International Friendship Day! Who else is making friendship bracelets?!?! 💎

07/29/2024

The vast majority of people greet pets incorrectly. Most people do this when greeting a dog: a) walk up to the dog, b) have prolonged, direct eye contact, c) loom over the pet, d) stick their hand or fist in the pet’s face.

Here is how you SHOULD greet a dog: a) let the dog come to you, b) glance at dog but avoid prolonged eye contact c) turn sideways, or better yet, take a knee to reduce your size, and d) pat the side of your leg and call the dog over to you.

07/27/2024

PUT 'ER THERE! Dogs can be right- or left-pawed. 🐾

Just like humans are right- or left-handed, dogs are right- or left-pawed. The right side of the brain controls more negative emotions, such as fear, aggression, and taking flight in response to a perceived threat, whereas the left side of the brain is associated with more positive emotions that include feelings of love, safety, attachment, and comfort.

This may relate to paw preference in that for people with right hand preference, the left side of their brain controls their dominant hand, which also may influence an increased likelihood for being in a positive emotional state.

Or, oppositely, with the right brain dominant in the leftie, this also increases the likelihood of right brain emotions taking precedence; meaning, a more negative state of mind is likely.

Another study with guide dogs shows the decreased likelihood of “lefties,” or dogs with left paw preference, passing the guide dog program, with only 38 percent passing the training. In comparison, 64-68 percent of righties and ambidextrous dogs passed the guide dog program.

Such findings may correlate with other research2 showing “leftie” animals were likely to demonstrate higher fear and increased likelihood to withdraw in the face of the novel and new.

07/26/2024

It's National Dog Photography Day--- show us what you've got! 📸 Lights, camera, woof, smile!

07/25/2024

Do we have any clients who are in need of a doggy wheelchair for their medium-sized dog? Reach out to us if you’re interested. We’d love this to go to a good home. 🦽

07/24/2024

NOT JUST A TALL TAIL:

Research shows the direction a dog primarily wags his tail in, either to the left or the right, can actually speak to how the dog feels about the individual they are facing.

If to the left, this signals greater likelihood of fear, anxiety, uncertainty, and concern, and indicates the dog may want to move away.

If primarily wagging to the right, it indicates expectation of a more feel-good, happy, relaxed encounter the dog wants to be a part of.

Even more amazing is how watching the tail wag direction moving more to the right or the left was a difference that was noticed by other dogs that responded with increased anxiety and heightened heart rate to dogs with tails wagging more to the left and remained or relaxed, or even attempted to approach, when another dog’s tail wagged more to the right.

07/22/2024

💦 How to Test Your Dog for Dehydration 💦

1. Test Skin Elasticity
2. Gum Check
3. Capillary Refill Time (CRT)

07/20/2024

Thanks, Oracle, for the purrfect Saturday joke 😹

07/20/2024

HAPPY PRIDE, SAN DIEGO! Be aware, be safe, be kind, stay hydrated, tip your bartenders, and HAVE FUN! If you see any pets out there, make sure they have shade, water, and a safe place to rest. Pride is a marathon, not a sprint! 😉🥵🌈🦄❤️🧡💛💚💙💜✨