Scrub a dub your dog, hot veterinary news and a manatee

Just a fast post from Orlando, where I'm heading home to San Francisco after a week at the massive North American Veterinary Conference.



I've got tons of news -- a new treatment for feline asthma, 0ne of the most interesting shelter medicine presentations I've ever seen, updates on treating canine skin disease (and yes, I got the list of products that Dr. Fadok recommends that you were all asking me for!) -- but it will have to wait for me to be home where I can sort through my notes. I'm literally writing this on my lap at the Orlando Airport.



In case you're wondering what's up with that photo, I spent hours looking for a stuffed manatee for my nephew Ronan, and I found one at the airport gift shop.



Oh, and my column on SFGate.com ran this morning -- it's a much longer exploration of using frequent bathing to treat canine skin disease. I think I answered some of the questions you all asked when I teased the topic in a recent blog post -- check it out! And, you know, share it on Facebook and stuff -- these geeky health topics never so as well as I think they should, and I honestly believe this information is going to help a lot of dogs!



The 'killer app' for canine itching and skin infections



"See" you all soon!

Comments

[Dorene]

Orlando has great stuffed animals -- I got a walrus once that I still treasure. The manatee is way cute -- your nephew should love it.

[Gina Spadafori]

And I'm commenting from the Denver airport. Christie will be here a few hours after I am.



Yes, it's an incredible amount of information we have stuffed in our brains, our laptops and in our baggage. So much that it will take us a while to decompress it ... like downloading a .zip file.



At this point, after six days of seminars and meetings, all I can tell you for sure is that we were in Orlando, and I will be home in a few hours.



Everything else is kinda vague right now ...



Cool manatee, Christie!

[Glenye Oakford]

Very jealous you got to attend the conference and learn all this stuff! And get a manatee, too.