I am beginning to see a trend in the Door County medical field. Saturday morning I tried to go to the Aurora Nor-Door Clinic that was supposed to be open from 9:00-noon on Saturdays, but they were closed. Today we needed a vet for Kimba and I called one whose advertising said he’d make house calls — in fact the name of his clinic is Pets-At-Home — but he asked us to come to his home. Ah well, you do what you have to do!
We were concerned about Kimba because for the last three days she has thrown up everything she’s eaten within a few minutes of eating it. Dr. Johnson lives in Fish Creek in an old farm house. He told us to look for the white picket fence:
Note the “Pets-At-Home” shingle under the house sign.
A house with a white picket fence; the sign on the gate says the clinic is in the barn.
Inside the barn door is a mobile clinic where Dr. Johnson takes care of sick pets.
Dr. Johnson directed us to step into his van which was parked inside the barn. The first thing that greeted my eye as we brought Kimba’s cat carrier in was a newspaper article about Pet’s-At-Home proudly displayed where you couldn’t miss it.
The article is the one at the bottom of the page with the big picture of Dr. Johnson. The article title highlighted the mobile vet service.
Dr. Johnson seemed to be a kindly man, which was reassuring, and he started a card for Kimba with information we provided.
Taking down information on a 5×7 card.
Kimba was so scared she was shedding profusely.
Dr. Johnson commenced with the examination, which didn’t exactly thrill Kimba.
He decided to give her an IV of liquid in case she was dehydrated from throwing up so much.
Kimba saw the two needles and I could just hear her thinking, “Oh-oh! What does he think he’s going to do with those?” She found out within the next couple minutes!
After treating Kimba, Dr. Johnson told us to try adding water to her canned cat food for several days, to put Vaseline on her paws once a day for the next week and two or three times a week after that, and if she doesn’t improve or she gets worse to bring her back. He said he was being conservative in his treatment of her today, but if she gets worse it may call for more drastic measures. She’s been home for about six hours now and so far hasn’t had any problems, so we’re hoping everything that was done for her today will cure her.
All done!