05/21/2025
About my amazing wife:
I have been blessed for many years as the spouse of an amazing veterinarian who has dedicated her life to providing quality care for her patients. Among those are our own pack of dogs who share our lives and our home. I think, sometimes when you see someone do extraordinary things on a regular basis it is easy to take them for granted. However, every now and then I will witness something that may be subtle but amazing.
One such event happened this weekend. I was in the house relaxing and our senior Walker C**n Hound, Guisseppe, came to me holding his front leg in the air and limping badly. I called out to my wife to say that something was wrong. Guisseppe was obviously in pain and needed her assistance.
But when you have a family of seven very nosey dogs, taking care of just one is a major event. They all knew that something was going on with Guisseppe and wanted to be in the middle of the action.
When my wife (Dr. Mar Doering) got down on the floor to see what was going on with Guisseppe, the rest of the pack circled her and were very anxious and intrusive. However, using one of the calming techniques that she regularly teaches her behavior clients, she was able to calm down the pack as well as Guisseppe and able to take care of the problem that he was having with his paw.
It turns out that one of his toenails was twisted and caught on another causing him great pain and needed to be separated and trimmed. Doing so would have been very difficult if she had not used her skills and abilities to put him and the rest of our family of dogs at ease.
-Dave Doering
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