This week: Not all service dogs make the cut, active dogs are less fearful, and veterinary students in Georgia will learn to care for bees.

Unruly behaviors cause significant distress between clients and their pets, and can significantly increase the risk of relinquishment. But common unruly behaviors can be addressed by interventions and are often easily treated in compliant households.

Despite the CDC’s recommendations, the majority of Americans plan to take at least one road trip this summer. Many clients plan to bring their pups with them—but there are risks they need to know about.

This week: Coronavirus hampers help for feral cats in Canada, buying drugs on Facebook’s black market, and AAHA’s only accredited zoo tests a gorilla for COVID.

In a profession predisposed to problems of burnout and compassion fatigue, the extra stress involved in seeing patients during a pandemic can be dangerous. And while most AAHA-accredited hospitals are grateful to be busy, they acknowledge that the pandemic is taking a toll.

It might seem counterintuitive, but the current pandemic could be your chance to snag the perfect employee. Human resources specialist and author Karen Parker, DVM, tells you how.

As stay-at-home orders ease and social distancing policies begin to relax, hospitals need to figure out which strategies to keep and which ones to adapt.

As stay-at-home orders ease and social distancing policies begin to relax, hospitals need to figure out how to recover lost patients, finances, and production. Here's how.

Each month in NEWStat , we highlight an article from the upcoming issue of Trends magazine.  Although telehealth and virtual care are now on clients’ radar, and in the veterinarian’s toolbox, the key is to get clients to actually take advantage of these services and allow practices to care for their pets in this “new normal.”

This week: Dogs could suffer when quarantine ends, there are roadblocks in the way of finding a coronavirus vaccine, and a rare species of dog fights for survival in the Amazon.