Pet Surgery Topics

Pet Surgery Topics is a website I created to give pet owners a resource to learn about topics about veterinary surgery.  As a veterinary specialist in surgery, I find that owners will often times try and research more about their pets condition either before or after visiting a specialist.  Often times, this means turning to the internet to find out more.  This is not a bad thing and I always like an owner who has come in after looking up what their pet has been diagnosed with to learn more about the condition and to try and be more prepared when I meet them.  It means you care and you want to know the best treatment and be informed about what you are preparing to do for your pet.  Let’s face it, they are one of the family and their care is just as important as anyone else in the family. 

The problem I have found though is that there just isn’t that much good information on the internet for pet owners.  Often, what I see on the internet is negative things, or people who had bad experiences, since let’s face it, those are the people who would take the time to write something out on the internet.  So, my goal with this site is to try and provide a knowledge-base for pet owners from a specialist in veterinary surgery.  My goal is not to diagnose pets with disease over the internet or to contradict what you have been recommended by your veterinarian.  I just want to give pet owners a place to read about topics in veterinary surgery and become more informed about what options are out there.  Veterinary surgery is a constantly changing field, just like human surgery.  There are constantly new things coming up and new techniques for treating diseases which makes this such a great field.

This probably leads to the next obvious question, “Who are you and how can we trust what you say?”   Good question.  My name is Rob Vonau and I am a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons.  I live in Denver, CO and run a mobile surgery practice in the suburbs of Denver.  I have been a boarded veterinary surgeon since 2002.  If you would like to read my whole story, check out my “about me” page.  As far as what is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgery stuff, read on in the next post to find out what it means to be a veterinary specialist. 

I’m very glad you found my website and I hope you find the information here informative.  This site is very new and I will try and post as often as I can but do have to work as well.  If you like what you read, you can subscribe to my RSS feed or just bookmark this page and check it often.  I have a lot of topics to discuss already but if there is anything in particular you would like to know about, drop me a message and I will try to post about it.  Remember, I specialize in cat and dog surgery so there will be a fair amount of medicine topics that I may not have the answers for.  Thanks again for stopping by and I hope you enjoy Pet Surgery Topics.