Page 10 - Palm City Spotlight - March '23

Page 10, Palm City Spotlight

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Elizabethan Collars Are A times when it is without a doubt essential to your pet’s prevent a pet from reaching most areas of their bodies. Never
Must! (Sometimes) recovery. One of these situations is eye and eyelid surgeries replace an E-collar with a donut collar without consulting
and wounds, when a very fine suture is used and the tissue
your veterinarian. Some pets’ unique body type, size or shape
is thin. A pet can completely destroy a surgery in seconds may require some ingenuity. If a standard E-collar will not
and require a second surgery. Another time an E-collar is fit, we have made our own with plastic radiographs, buckets
necessary is when a pet is a known chewer/licker, witnessed or flower pots, but these cases are rare.
in the veterinary hospital or at home. If your pet is sent home The E-collar may need to be cleaned. This can be done
with an E-collar, use it 24/7 until instructed otherwise. without removing it. Just use a rag or paper towel with warm
Leaving the E-collar on at all times is the best way to get water and wipe up any food or saliva. If it becomes damaged,
your pet used to it and ensure proper healing. If you take it small cracks can be repaired with duct tape, etc. or just call
off, then put it back on when you leave, your pet may take your veterinarian for a new one.
it as a punishment and may try to destroy it and it will take With a little care and patience, you will get your pet
much longer for him to get used to it. Patients can eat, drink, through the short period of healing time when the E-collar
pee, poop, and sleep with a cone on and, absolutely, will get is required.
used to it. Established in 1981, Palm City Animal Medical Center
There are some alternatives to an E-collar such as wearing is dedicated to providing the best possible care for your
a T-shirt or a “onesie” to protect wounds or surgery sites. pets. With focuses on compassionate care in surgery,
An Elizabethan collar, also called an E-collar, lamp shade, But the decision to use an alternative should be made by physical therapy and rehabilitation, preventative medicine,
satellite dish … are plastic hoods or cones placed around your veterinarian not by you. You trusted them to treat or do extensive diagnostics, and emergency service, Palm City
the head to prevent an animal from licking at a surgery site, surgery on your pet, so trust them to know what is best during Animal Medical Center combines exceptional medical
wound or bandage. It is attached to the pet’s usual collar with the healing process. Here is a quick note on inflatable “donut” care with a caring philosophy for pets and their owners.
strings or tabs passed through holes punched in the sides of collars. I like to call them, “Let’s do the surgery again For more information, call (772) 283-0920, visit www.
the plastic or just tied around the neck. Every patient doesn’t collars”! They are appropriate for a very limited number of palmcityanimalmedicalcenter.com or find us on Facebook
need an E-collar for every situation. But there are certain situations and patients (those with short noses) and will not at www.facebook.com/PalmCityAnimalClinic.
aRt Happenings

Kicking Off The New Year At
The Kaleidoscope Opening

Party

By Jackie Holfelder
There w as
no sign of post-
holiday blues at the
opening reception
for Kaleidoscope,
Martin Artisan
Guild’s first exhibit
of the year.
A celebratory
crowd was on hand
on Jan. 4 at the Palm Lynn Morgan and Nancy Turrell
Room Art Gallery Renee Keil and Maria Miele Paula Hundt and Barbara Bucci Mark Thyming and Paul Brown
and Artisans Boutique located at 3746 S.E. Ocean Blvd.
in Harbour Bay Plaza in Stuart.
Music was provided by Chris King and the guild’s sensational
gourmet spread and adult beverages did not disappoint.
Congratulations to Jacquelyn Roesch-Sanchez,
Patricia Pasbrig, and Barbara Bucci, for earning first,
second, and third places respectively in the evening’s
awards ceremony. Each exhibit has an anonymous art
professional judge the show and pick the three top
artworks for recognition.
The exhibit continued until March 4. The Palm Room
Gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday from noon to 6 p.m.
For more information, visit www.martinartisansguild.org.
Photos provided by Martin Artisans Guild

Mallo Bisset and Jacquelyn Roesch- Dinija Berkien and Michaelann
Jeff Fisher Sanchez Bellerjeau

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