Pine Tree Veterinary Hospital

220 Western Avenue
Augusta, ME 04330

(207)622-6181

www.pinetreevet.com

What do we Tell the Kids?

A fragment of conversation anchored my feet to the floor, over-filled laundry basket perched on my hip. My two oldest children were playing with their plastic ...

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Heart Murmurs in Dogs and Cats

My Pet Has a Heart Murmur – What Does This Mean?A heart murmur is one of several types of abnormal sounds your veterinarian can hear when listening to your pet ...

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Flabbalanche! Obesity Impacts Pets, Too

Remember those old ‘disease of the week’ movies from the 70s and 80s, each week highlighting some obscure condition that has only happened five times since the ...

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IMHA: Four Letters You Never Want to Meet

Most of the diseases that we see and treat in the ER can be pretty easily comprehended by non-medical folks: trauma, infection, cancer – all of these seem to ma ...

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The Best Things in Life

“But it was a free kitten!”Substitute dog, horse, rabbit, chicken, hamster, goat, or narwhal for “kitten” and you will have one of the most common responses hea ...

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No Guarantees

Medicine is a strange service. When I pay for a coffee, I feel entitled to a reasonable certainty that I will be provided with coffee – not tea, not water, and ...

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