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Don DeForge, VMD Silver Sands Veterinary Center Good News and Happy Days 2015 Number One Volume 1 [17Sept2015] Commentary by Dr. Don DeForge In the weeks ahead my new BLOG Good News and Happy Days 2015 will lighten your hearts and bring you hope in a world that is very negative and consumed with NEWS each night about the bad; the ugly; the violent; the criminal; the self-centered; and the pain creators.  You will find none of that in Good News and Happy Days 2015.   In the days ahead, you will read wonderful stores of people helping people; and companions from the Animal Kingdom making the lives of their human caretakers very special.  Why these stories are the minority in television; radio; and social media is quite simple.  They do not sell and are not attention getters!  There are wonderful media outlets where these stories are added to the NEWS of the day.  Unfortunately, they are only "glimpses" or "sound-bites" and not featur...

Donald H. DeForge, VMD  Silver Sands Veterinary Center 12Sept2015 HAPPY DAYS in 2015 On Jan. 15, 1974, "Happy Days" debuted on ABC. The sitcom depicting the lives of the Cunningham family and their friends during the 1950s ran for 11 seasons from 1974-1984.  [from Wikipedia]  Fonzie self-appointed the men's restroom at Arnold's as his "office," where he, Richie, and his friends would gather to work out developing problems. Written on the walls were phone numbers of his many girlfriends (there was a payphone in there, too). On opening night of the newly built Arnold's (after Chachi burned the old one down), Al had a desk set up in the new men's room exclusively for Fonzie. It included a desk telephone and organized pull-down sheet of all the phone numbers Al recovered from the fire. Fonzie's rough past earns him a great deal of respect and fear from more antagonistic characters. Throughout the series he served as defender...

Dr. Don DeForge Silver Sands Veterinary  30August, 2015 Close Your Eyes:  You Cannot Stop Time One of the greatest recent TV series from the UK and seen in America on PBS was the show Doc Martin.  It was the story of a doctor living in pain because he found he had a fear of blood [haemophobia] after becoming a famous surgeon.  He retreats to a small rural village and becomes the local doctor. He is a brilliant diagnostician and t he show revolves around his interactions with the local Cornish villagers. Despite his medical brilliance, Doc Martin is grouchy and bad-mannered, and lacks social skills.  He marries the local school teacher and they have a child.  The baby and his lovely wife become a bridge of love and change Doc Martin as he struggles to find himself. A baby is solely dependent on its parents.  Some individuals have children when they are not prepared to care for themselves.  Others have children to keep relation...

Dr. Don DeForge- Silver Sands Veterinary Center Obesity In Our Pets Are We Killing Our Pets with Love? Are we killing our pets with love?  A recent study shows that 52.6% of our nations 83.3 million dogs are overweight or obese and 57.6% of our 95.6 million cats suffer from the same problem. Dr. Ernie Ward, founder of the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention [APOP] states, "the pet industry is mighty and well-meaning, but it is time we stop accepting the status quo. We must start working together to fight obesity through knowledge and action." The list below is a summary of the most common dog and cat obesity-related conditions: Diabetes Heart and Lung Disease Liver and Kidney Disease Osteoarthritis Slipped discs Knee injury including ACL-Cruciate rupture Hypertension-High Blood Pressure Gall Bladder Problems Soft Tissue injury Bladder and Urinary Tract Infections If someone told you that you could increase your pet's...

Father's Day: That Was the Day That Was!   Don DeForge, VMD Silver Sands Veterinary Center June 21, 2015 ORIGINS OF FATHER’S DAY --from history.com The campaign to celebrate the nation’s fathers did not meet with the same enthusiasm–perhaps because, as one florist explained, “fathers haven’t the same sentimental appeal that mothers have.” On July 5, 1908, a West  Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, but it was a one-time commemoration and not an annual holiday. The next year, a Spokane,  Washington  woman named  Sonora  Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went to local churches, the YMCA, shopkeepers and government officials to drum up support for her idea, and...