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Hello everyone, welcome back to The WebDVM, and thank you for joining me. The BP Oil Spill tragedy continues with no real end in sight. The title of today's program is Oil Spill, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Since I like to end my show on a positive note, and since unfortunately there is so much more bad and ugly than good in this debacle, I will start with ugly, move on to bad, and end with good.

The UGLY begins with ugly politics. The newly anointed far right faction of the Republican Party, known as the Tea Party, or my favorite term for them, Tea Baggers, is reacting to disaster by proclaiming the need for, ready for this? Less corporate regulation. Let's start with the pin up girl for the Tea Party movement, Sarah Palin.

On her Facebook page, Palin blamed the BP Oil disaster on environmentalists. Sarah said that the poor oil companies are forced to unsafely drill so deep, because the "greenies" got their way in banning drilling in shallower waters. If this so called energy authority were any more ignorant or stupid, she would be dead.
Known in Alaska for her abysmal environmental policy as Governor, a policy dubbed by environmental groups as slash, burn, kill, and drill and earning her the name, the "Killa from Wasilla," Sarah is, as always, dead wrong. Believe me, folks, if the oil companies really wanted to drill in shallower waters, they would be. They have enough politicians in their pocket, and a nation full of oil addicted gluttons to drill wherever they wanted. The reason they are not drilling shallower, Sarah, you moron, is because shallower reserves in the Gulf are tapped out. Both the oil companies and the government have mutually agreed that shallower water drilling would yield such small quantities of oil at this point, that it does not justify the expense nor the risk. The bottom line is that oil companies do not drill in shallower waters, because they know full well that ship has sailed long ago.

Senator McCain, given your record of service to your country both as military hero and for many years a legislator bound by principle, not strict party ideology or blind loyalty, I can forgive you for your recent shift to the far right to pander to the far right Tea Bagger loons. I can forgive you for the negative tone of your Presidential campaign. I can even forgive you for claiming recently that you never really considered yourself a "maverick." However, I can never, ever, ever, ever, ever forgive you for making this bimbo relevant.

Tea Party favorite, Kentucky GOP senatorial candidate, Rand Paul, was quoted on Fox News calling the President "un-American" for criticizing BP and putting his boot-heel on BP's neck in the midst of this crisis. If that was not enough, he was back on Fox Noise this week, once again defending BP, stating that Americans need to accept the fact that sometimes bad things just happen, and that it is absurd to need a "villain" in this mess.

Well, Mr. Paul, I will venture to say that you defending BP is what is un-America, because they are CLEARLY villian in this incident. They were glaringly unprepared for such an event, quoting CEO Tony Hayward, they clearly did not have the right "tools in the tool box" to deal with this crisis. Their 2009 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill preparedness plan had listed as their wildlife preservation expert, Peter Lutz, Professor at Texas A&M University, a man truly qualified for this post, but with the small problem that he has been dead since 2005! Listed as sensitive biological resources, the plan lists walruses, sea otters, sea lions, and seals, none of which actually live in the Gulf. The names and phone numbers of several Texas A&M marine life specialists are wrong, as are numbers for marine mammal stranding network offices in Louisiana and Florida. BP's safety regulation record in the past decade is known to be among the worst in the industry. And all this negligence and lack of preparedness has now led to this mass defecation of oil on our precious shores, with no success in stopping it to date, nor worthy effort to clean it. Lastly, BP continues to drag their feet and bury people in paperwork for claims submitted for massive amounts of lost fishing and tourism revenue to people who rely on the Gulf for their livelihoods. While they nickel and dime those who have lost their livelihoods as the result of their actions, BP just paid out $10 billion in share holder dividends, while spending $50 million in ads to try to salvage their image. So much are they dragging their feet in paying out claims, that Admiral Thad Allen of the Coastguard, the President's point man in this crisis, has submitted a strong letter to BP demanding more transparency in their claims process. BP is not villain, Rand Paul, they are evil incarnate, and you sir, are an idiot!

For those of you that still feel you wish to take this guy seriously, he also opposes the section of the civil rights act that prohibits discrimination in private establishments. That's right folks, Senate candidate Rand Paul not only wants us to forgive BP while deregulating their industry even more, he wants to bring back our right to discriminate based on race, color, or creed!

Lastly, Sharron Angle, the Tea Party GOP senatorial nominee for Nevada's Senate seat, reacts to this crisis by calling for, you guessed it, less corporate regulation. From her view, government needs to get out of the way to pave the way for corporate progress, even if that progress also creates a culture of greed and self interest that trumps the public good and environmental protection. Apparently, Ms. Angle is not satisfied with just one BP, she would like to have a whole bunch more that operate with impunity and no regard for anyone or anything but their profits. Incidentally, Sharron Angle is so against government intervention in our lives, that she is in favor of re-illegalizing alcohol. I just don't get these Tea Baggers who are all for small government when it favors big business, but all for government being all up in our business socially, even intruding on our right to have a beer!

On to the BAD. BP is collecting 15,000 barrels of oil per day with their latest attempt to stop the leak. Unfortunately, it is now estimated that 40,000 barrels or more have been spewing from the well, making the current efforts still not collecting more than 60% of the gushing oil. But BP seemed to make a nice gesture to donate the proceeds of the sale of all collected oil to the restoration of ruined wildlife sanctuaries, marshlands, and rehabilitation of injured wildlife. Sound nice, right? Well, its BP we're talking about, so not quite. You see, BP's current collection systems are overwhelmed with the amount of oil being collected. Once again, BP is unprepared. Their solution to the problem? Burning off the excess oil that they cannot handle. Burning the oil and polluting the air, but also burning away a large portion of that oil they slated to fund wildlife restoration. And their answer as to why BP has not brought in larger tankers to collect the oil? The Gulf is already too crowded with boats and ships. Really, that was their answer.

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Pet joke of the week: Mommy's Night Out
Personal comment: Shame on you Walmart!

Transcript of personal comment from this episode of The WebDVM:

My personal comment tonight stems from a work related experience I had last week, when a canine patient came in with sore hips. Her owner informed me that she had been giving the dog "doggy" aspirin that she got from Walmart for the past week, but that it did not seem to help. In response to that, I asked, "are you sure it was aspirin and not a joint nutritional supplement?"

"No," she said, "it is aspirin, here is the bottle." Then she proceeded to pull out a bottle of Pro-Pet aspirin, labeled for use in dogs for joint and arthritis pain. The best part?? the label read, "Veterinarian Approved."

Folks, I cannot tell you how infuriated this makes me, not at the owner - she was only trying to help her dog - but at Walmart for selling this stuff over the counter to pet owners that have no idea how harmful this can be to their dogs. Most of us are quite aware that regular taking of even enteric coated aspirin has the potential to irritate our stomachs, often leading to ulcers of the gastrointestinal system. In dogs, this potential for GI ulceration is far greater than it is in humans, owing to the exceptionally high incidence of vomiting and stomach ulcers developing, often after only a few days of aspirin administration.

I have seen it all too often. Dog comes in vomiting blood. I ask the owner if he has been on any medications and they inform me that the dog has been on nothing but the daily dose of aspirin they decided to give him for his arthritis. Some of these dogs I can treat as outpatients with antibiotics and GI protecting medications, while others are not so lucky. Some end up with ulcers so bad that they have to be hospitalized, some need surgery to repair a perforating ulcer, and others die despite our best efforts to save them.

You see, aspirin is in a class of drugs called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, called NSAIDs for short. Other examples of human drugs in this class, no less toxic for dogs and perhaps even more harmful, are ibuprofen, acetaminophen, and naproxen, commonly known under the labels Advil, Tylenol, and Aleve, respectively. They work by inhibiting an inflammatory enzyme in the body known as a COX enzyme, responsible for reactions that lead to pain and inflammation. This helps to reduce pain, swelling and fever, making these medications very helpful. But unfortunately, not all COX enzymes are bad. In fact some are important in helping to protect the stomach, liver and kidneys. This is where these drugs are potentially harmful, because while inhibiting the bad COX enzymes helping the patient on one hand, they also inhibit the good ones, leaving the body at risk for GI, liver and kidney disease. Therefore, the best NSAIDS available, are ones that selectively in inhibit only the bad COX enzymes, while preserving the good ones. For people, Advil, and Naproxen are more selective COX inhibitors than aspirin, owing to the movement generally away from aspirin use in favor of these other drugs in people, with aspirin now being used only under very specific circumstances.

In dogs, as I have already explained, aspirin is terribly toxic to the canine GI, but other human NSAIDs, even the more selective COX inhibitors, are liver and kidney toxic. For this reason, there are veterinary labeled NSAID medications that we can prescribe, such as Previcox, Deramax, an Rimadyl. Even with these canine labeled NSAIDs, there is potential for adverse effects, which is why we have to be very careful with their use and these medications can only be purchased by pet owners by prescription only while a patient is under the care of a veterinarian.

So you can see that Walmart's decision to sell a dangerous NSAID like aspirin over the counter, labeled for use in dogs and touted to be "Veterinarian Recommended," is not only appalling, but also unethical and most likely illegal. I do not know one vet that would recommend that aspirin be sold and labeled this way, when there are much more effective and safer prescription options for dogs in pain. I will go so far as to say that any veterinarian that does recommend this, should have his or her license to practice taken away. There are only a few circumstances in veterinary medicine where treatment with aspirin is indicated, and only under the close supervision of an attending veterinarian, certainly not as an over the counter product for the general pet owning population to decide how and when to treat.

Back to the dog I saw that alerted me of this situation, luckily, she had not yet had her stomach cooked by the aspirin she was receiving. But as it turned out, she did not have any hip problems as the owner thought, she had a slipped disc in her back, which was not only causing pain, but also some neuromuscular dysfunction in her rear limbs. What she needed what not an NSAID at all, but a steroid. Unfortunately, I could not give her a steroid right away like she needed, because of the aspirin that was in her system. The combination of the two would have virtually assured her a gastric ulcer that to date she had luckily escaped. Instead, I had to put her on a narcotic pain reliever to control her pain and have her strictly confined, while we waited 3 days to begin the steroid she so desperately needed to alleviate the root of her problems - the pressure of a disc compressing her spinal cord. So this patient may have escaped injury from the aspirin she was being given, but because of that aspirin I was forced to delay necessary treatment, prolonging her recovery. Nice job, Walmart, hope the 5 bucks you made off the bottle of pills was worth it!

On my end, I have begun to draft a letter to the Florida State Veterinary Board, on which I am compiling signatures of as many veterinarians in my area that I can get to sign it. You too can help to force Walmart's hand to stop their practice by writing the veterinary board of your state, as well as alerting your veterinarians of what they are doing so that they may act as well.

That is our show for this May 8, 2010. Happy Mothers day to all mommies out there.

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