Animal Hospital

A customer crashed her sport utility vehicle into an East Baltimore animal hospital Wednesday, causing severe damage to the storefront but leaving all of the animals and staff inside unharmed. Mary Hall was bringing her sick dog to Eastern Animal Hospital Tuesday morning. While parking her Ford Explorer, she apparently became distracted and accelerated instead of braking. She broke through a brick wall and a large window and drove into the employees' lounge. She is OK, as is her 8-year-old West Highland Terrier, Katie.

Padma Yadlapalli, D.V.M., recently opened her veterinary practice in the Hickory Ridge Village Center in Columbia. The Freetown Animal Hospital, housed in the vacated Rave Reviews consignment shop, offers care for companion animals - dogs and cats - but Yadlapalli says, “On occasion I see rabbits and ferrets and mice, too - but not too many of those (mice).” Yadlapalli received her veterinary degree in India in 1999, moved to the United States the following year, completing her board certification and required clinical year at Purdue University in Indiana.

A gunman held up the pet supplies section of the Crofton Animal Hospital Monday afternoon, getting away with an undisclosed amount of money.Police said the man walked into the store, in the 1000 block of Route 3 in Gambrills, at 1:20 p.m..The man then walked around the store, looking at merchandise, andthen came back to the clerk, pulled out a blue steel automatic handgun and threw a folded McDonald's bag onto the counter, police said and told her to fill it.Police said the clerk filled the bag with money, and the man ran from the store.

Q: We're thinking of taking our active, friendly dog to doggie day care a couple of days a week. Are there any health issues we should be concerned about? A: For many dogs, a day or two each week spent at a well-run, clean dog day care center can be a great idea and great fun. Benefits include socialization and exhaustion: they get to play with pooch pals all day long, and come home so tired that they fall asleep on the car ride home - and may sleep the whole next day, too. And you'll get a little break from tending to your dog during day care hours.

State police arrested an 18-year-old Eastern Shore man Thursday and charged him in a robbery Feb. 28 at an Eldersburg veterinary hospital.Investigators said they believe two other suspects have fled the state and that arrest warrants will be obtained.Adrian J. Rhyanes of Centreville was arrested about 2 p.m. at his home and taken to the Centreville barracks for transport to Westminster. He was held at the Carroll County Detention Center on $100,000 bond on multiple robbery-related charges.

Two Westminster veterinarians will open a state-of-the-art animal hospital this month on what was once the last county-owned tract at Westminster Air Business Center.The 2.7-acre site, once eyed for industrial use, will be the home of the hospital, which will contain many of the same sanitary features as a hospital for humans. It will be one of two veterinary hospitals in the county that meets the sanitary standards of the American Animal Hospital Association."It's as antiseptic as a human hospital," said Robin Kable, who helped plan the facility and is wife of one of the owners, Dr. John Kable.

Dr. Gary Gross, owner of Hickory Ridge Animal Hospital, is contesting a September decision by the Howard County Board of Appeals, which ruled that the fenced-in area for animals behind the hospital is in violation of zoning laws.The area has long been a sore point with nearby residents in west Columbia's Hickory Ridge village, who contend that the so-called pen or run for animals is outlawed by zoning regulations.Last Tuesday, in response to Gross' contesting the finding, the Board of Appeals decided to detail its definition of a pen or run within the next two months, according to Bill O'Brien, chief of zoning administration.

A controversial proposal to build a large animal hospital in western Howard County appears all but dead after a two-hour County Council work session last night, but the veterinarian who wants to build it has not given up, he said. Councilman Allan H. Kittleman, the western county Republican who represents Glenwood, where the facility would be built, said he does not approve of building the hospital on land preserved as open space by clustering houses on one part of a parcel. "It is not appropriate," he said, adding that he will not try to amend a pending zoning bill to allow the hospital.

PeopleMary Austin, a registered nurse, has been named administrative director of St. Agnes HealthCare's Cancer Services. Austin has been with the hospital since 1990, most recently as nurse manager of Cancer Services. She lives in Ellicott City.Jann Keenan, president of Keenan Group Low-Literacy Specialists of Howard County, was one of a dozen presenters at a Federal Drug Administration hearing on proposed labeling requirements for over-the-counter drug products. Keenan made recommendations based on her experience with low-literacy and her Readability Plus model of communication.

Cooperative Extension to offer course in forest management The University of Maryland Cooperative Extension will offer a correspondence course in general forestry for landowners, farmers and others interested in learning to manage a wood lot for timber products, wildlife and forest health. Registration is being accepted now for the spring 2002 semester. Participants can use their property, a friend's forest or nearby public lands for exercises in forest management and to develop a forest management plan.

A customer crashed her sport utility vehicle into an East Baltimore animal hospital Wednesday, causing severe damage to the storefront but leaving all of the animals and staff inside unharmed. Mary Hall was bringing her sick dog to Eastern Animal Hospital Tuesday morning. While parking her Ford Explorer, she apparently became distracted and accelerated instead of braking. She broke through a brick wall and a large window and drove into the employees' lounge. She is OK, as is her 8-year-old West Highland Terrier, Katie.

Never mind all the naysayers who say newspapers are only good for kitty litter. From Annapolis comes proof that papers are also good for murder investigations, albeit by way of the litter box. On Monday, workers at an Annapolis animal hospital were shredding The Capital to fill kitty boxes - try doing that with the Internet! - when one of them spotted a photo of a missing SUV. Police were looking for it because it belonged to a man found murdered in Davidsonville last week. Looked just like the green Hyundai that had been sitting in the lot for the past week.

Arc board re-elects Schnorf as president Cole Schnorf, senior vice president, director of development and partner at Manekin LLC in Columbia, has been re-elected president of the board of the Arc of Howard County. He is a resident of Ellicott City. Newly elected board members include Vincent Grauso of Dayton, director of operations at SAFE Operations Inc., an information security consulting company, and A. Michael Klatzkin, a certified public accountant in Howard County. Hostetler, Kelehan on Grassroots panel N. Douglas Hostetler, a resident of Ellicott City and principal of Hostetler Church LLC, a financial services firm, has joined the Grassroots Renovation and Expansion Campaign Committee, which is engaged in raising $5.5 million to expand the crisis intervention center and shelter.

KENNETT SQUARE, PA. -- Ten years ago, Barbaro would not have left Pimlico Race Course alive. Many feared that the Kentucky Derby winner would die at Pimlico when a tarpaulin was brought onto the track after he suffered three catastrophic fractures and dislocated a joint in his right hind leg seconds out of the starting gate in the Preakness Stakes. But Barbaro was rushed to the George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals at New Bolton Center. Housed on a former farm property, it is the closest major veterinary hospital to Baltimore and to home for the horse, trainer Michael Matz and the owners.

Awards The Mid-Atlantic offices of Trammell Crow Co. received four awards from the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, Maryland Chapter. Trammell Crow won trophies for Best High-Rise Office; Best Industrial Build-to-Suit; Best Interior-Public Common Area and Best Once in a Lifetime Transaction. Paul Reed Smith Guitars' PRS 513 model was named Best Electric Guitar of the Year and was awarded a Musikmesse International Press Award for the second consecutive year. The American Animal Hospital Association honored VCA Lewis Animal Hospital in Howard County for its 25 years of commitment to excellence in small animal care.

After decades of writing about medicine, I finally found the (nearly) perfect hospital. It was a gloomy Sunday afternoon last month. My little guy couldn't tell me what was wrong, but his breathing was labored, he wouldn't eat and he could barely walk. I took him to the emergency room, where the young doctor left no doubt that he was dying. Congestive heart failure, she said. Pneumonia, too. They took him straight to the intensive care unit. His cardiologist, Dr. Nancy Laste, began giving him oxygen, antibiotics and diuretics.

Rocky is alive -- so his owner is suing the Westview Animal Hospital and the two veterinarians who billed her for killing her seriously ill Doberman pinscher last December.After arranging to have her companion of 10 years put to sleep, rather than undergo expensive surgery that might not have saved him, Cheryl Dabney of Baltimore said she received a condolence card with a handwritten note: "Rocky was a neat dog & a friend that we will all miss," from veterinarian Kathleen Lackey in late December.

Awards The Mid-Atlantic offices of Trammell Crow Co. received four awards from the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, Maryland Chapter. Trammell Crow won trophies for Best High-Rise Office; Best Industrial Build-to-Suit; Best Interior-Public Common Area and Best Once in a Lifetime Transaction. Paul Reed Smith Guitars' PRS 513 model was named Best Electric Guitar of the Year and was awarded a Musikmesse International Press Award for the second consecutive year. The American Animal Hospital Association honored VCA Lewis Animal Hospital in Howard County for its 25 years of commitment to excellence in small animal care.

`Columbia Matters' chosen as name of cable TV show The Columbia Association has selected Columbia Matters as the name for its new cable television program about Columbia and its residents. The winning entry was submitted by Cindy Jones of Kings Contrivance. Twenty entries were submitted in the naming contest. The program will air on HCC-TV cable channel 71, starting in January. Information: 410-715-3120, or CATVshow@columbia association.com. Columbia Association gives $25,000 to Office on Aging As part of a new partnership with the Howard County Department of Citizen Services' Office on Aging, the Columbia Association has contributed $25,000 to the department's Home Accessibility and Repair Program.

They were pummeled with shovels, smacked by snowboards and snowplows, lost for hours in snowdrifts and even shot. In the frenzied days of the recent snowstorm, man's best friend didn't fare so well. Local animal hospitals reported a surge in cases of frostbite, lacerations and paw wounds - made all the more painful because of the salt on the roads. A few had surgery for fractures or breaks. Such was the fate of Julie, a shepherd mix who suffered deep lacerations and a broken leg when her 15-year-old owner, John Doyle, snowboarded over her while on a daring jump on Ruxton's Circle Road last weekend.