December 14, 2021
Homemade ornaments can be toxic to dogs
Salt ornaments are pretty and a staple of preschool holiday craft projects. Children bring them home and give them as gifts. And they’re potentially deadly to dogs.
December 14, 2021
Salt ornaments are pretty and a staple of preschool holiday craft projects. Children bring them home and give them as gifts. And they’re potentially deadly to dogs.
January 12, 2022
The sharpest rise in the Consumer Price Index in forty years is making itself felt in the veterinary space, where inflation has led to increases in lab and vendor fees.
January 26, 2022
While veterinary practices face a unique set of challenges, there are some universal trends to watch.
February 03, 2022
Vaccine hesitant pet owners aren’t necessarily anti-vaxxers—sometimes they’re just pet owners who haven’t made up their minds yet because they’ve been listening to anti-vaxxers.
February 16, 2022
Human medicine has seen a troubling rise in vaccine hesitancy in recent years; the WHO named vaccine hesitancy one of the top ten global health threats in 2019. Then COVID hit, and things really ramped up.
March 01, 2022
Euthanizing patients has always been hard on practice staff. But social-distancing requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic made it even harder, according to a new study.
March 04, 2022
Many veterinarians volunteer for the Iditarod's veterinary corps, but few are chosen. This is the story of one who was.
March 18, 2022
More than 3 million refugees have fled Ukraine since the start of war, roughly half of them to neighboring Poland, some with—and some without—their pets. Now veterinary groups around the world are mobilizing to help both pets and pet owners affected by the crisis.
March 24, 2022
The ASPCA’s Animal Pet Poison Control Center (APCC) has handled more than four million cases of potential pet toxicity since it opened in 1978.
April 14, 2022
Nearly five million people in the US are bitten by dogs each year. In observance of National Dog Bite Prevention Week, here are some tips on reducing the chance of getting bitten—for everyone.