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Periodontal Therapy (Oral Surgery) and Dental Radiography Continuing Education

Cat Hospital of Chicago Veterinarians and technical support staff members were fortunate to have had two days of continuing education and training on oral surgery and dental radiography techniques and interpretation from Cindy Charlier, Fox Valley Veterinary Dentistry and Surgery. Dr. Charlier is a veterinary dentist boarded by the American College of Veterinary Dentistry (one of only about 100 in the United States). She assisted us in getting our digital dental radiograph system set up and running. She also worked with out veterinarians in perfecting our surgical extraction techniques, as well as helping our technical staff to enhance patient positioning for faster and better quality dental images. We thank Dr. Charlier, as do our patients!

Dr. Andra McKamey Returns Part-Time to Cat Hospital of Chicago

Many Cat Hospital of Chicago clients and cat owners fondly remember Dr. Andra McKamey from her days as a full-time veterinarian at our practice. Dr. McKamey left us early in 2007 to pursue other interests, including that of providing relief veterinary services to animal hospitals in the greater Chicago area.

Dr. McKamey is now once again seeing patients for a few hours every month at Cat Hospital of Chicago and will be working with us a bit more extensively from December, 2008-March, 2009 while Dr. Czerwonky is out on her maternity leave. We are delighted to have Dr. McKamey and her many years of exclusive cat service with us again, even if only part time.

Cat Hospital of Chicago Is Going Green!

Thanks to the efforts of a few particularly green-conscious staff members (Mara Archer in particular), Cat Hospital of Chicago is doing a great deal of recycling and contributing to the health of our environment.

We have always had separate bins for the recycling of paper and plastics #1 and plastics #2. We have also always recycled our old batteries as well (batteries used to run anesthetic monitoring equipment, our microchip scanner, our ophthalmoscope/otoscopes, scales on which we weigh our patients, etc.). Additionally, we are not new to recycling our used print cartridges. We aggressively recycle canned cat food cans and baby food jars. (We often feed baby food to some of our sick in-hospital cats, especially if they will not eat, or cannot tolerate, regular cat food due to gastrointestinal upset, etc.).

Over the past several months, we now also actively recycle #3, #4, #5, and #7 plastics. Some of our hospital items that fall into these categories include syringe cases, empty intravenous fluid bags, empty pill vials, our vaccine trays, paper towel wrappers, etc. Although these items need to be transported to targeted recycling facilities in the Chicagoland area for appropriate recycling, we are fortunate to have a staff member (thank you, again, Mara!) who is willing to do this for us and for our environment.

For anyone in the Chicago area interested in recycling information, please visit www.chicagorecycling.org.

Meet Bella, Our Resident Hospital Cat

Bella had previously been living with one of our Veterinary Assistants, but was constantly being tormented by other cats in the home. Her stress levels have decreased considerably since becoming a resident at Cat Hospital of Chicago. She has taken over the doctor's office. She loves to sit and look out the window, jump high atop bookcases, etc. She has also become a frequent "meeter and greeter" at the front desk. She spends time as well assisting Ruta managing inventory.

She is always willing to provide services, such as pilling demonstrations, insulin injection demonstrations, and kitty inhaler demonstrations, in exchange for room, board and TLC. Bella is pictured here in one view exercising with Dr. Lederer, and in the other view being weighed by Veterinary Technician Assistant, Rosalie.

Our Digital Dental Radiology System

See our Services page for more information on our new state-of-the-art digital dental radiology system.