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Everyone’s seen the photos, but not everyone knows the whole story. Read on . . . 

Read all about it in NEWStat ’s exclusive interview with veterinary superstar Temple Grandin.

New research suggests that simple changes in activity levels and diet can reduce free-roaming cats’ predation.

Bravo Packing, Inc., has expanded a voluntary recall of two frozen raw pet food products after samples tested positive for Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes .

An Illinois man who woke up to find a bat nestled on his neck in mid-August has died of rabies. In a bitterly ironic twist, his death was announced on Tuesday—World World Rabies Day.

Last month, Sunshine Mills issued a dog food recall due to high levels of aflatoxin. Yesterday, they expanded the recall. Today, the FDA stepped in.

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.

At the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC) in Orlando, Fla. recently, IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. announced an upcoming kidney function test, symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA). The new renal biomarker identifies the onset of kidney disease months or even years earlier than traditional methods. On average, SDMA detected kidney disease when only 40% of function had been lost and, in some cases, 25% of function. (Typically, a diagnosis is made when 75% of kidney function has been irreversibly lost.)

New Drug Addresses Cellular Role in Obesity

A new study by scientists at the University of Liverpool and Mars Petcare’s Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition showed that the lifespans of overweight dogs were up to two-and-a-half years shorter than those of ideal-weight dogs.