“Sometimes you just can’t legislate common sense,” is what some dog owners are saying in response to the driving safety legislation making its way through many states’ legislatures. Some of these bills would specifically ban dogs from riding in the driver’s seat with their owners. Others mention...

A vet can learn a lot from her clients. All she has to do is ask the right questions. In this case it’s about saving money—this time on your pharmacy bill. In this post my clients pony up on how they save big $ on their Rx’s. So if you spend any money on pet prescriptions you’ll definitely want...

When bad things happen at the vet’s, the groomer’s, doggy day care, etc., most of the time the establishment gets blamed for its lax protocols. That’s my take, anyway.

No, I’m not just referring to things that happen at our place. It’s also my experience that animals arriving with wounds from...

Every once in a while (OK so more often, recently) I like to write about veterinarians in my specific employment circumstance. That is, I get a hankering for telling stories out of school on the realities of working for a practice I don’t own. But it’s not always all about me. To that end,...

I know this doesn’t seem a very veterinary topic, but stay with me now…

You know the lolcats, right?  They’re the silly, sad and sometimes frustrated cats (and other creatures) pictured with cartoonish captions to indicate their inner thoughts…as we mere humans might interpret them.

In case...

It’s well known that precautions can be taken to mitigate the potential havoc anesthesia can wreak on any given patient, human or animal. In human medicine, safety measures are governed by scrupulous standards, which are the result of meticulous research.

The veterinary profession has learned a...

Sadly, everyone knows someone whose pet has died mysteriously under anesthesia. This disturbing knowledge, second-hand though it may be, makes even the most rational among us cringe when it comes to having our own pets anesthetized.

It’s one thing to know that emergencies must be dealt with...

After the ratting-on-a-vet post from earlier this week I received an interesting story courtesy of a fellow vet. It detailed the subject of his own brush with a nearby state’s Veterinary Board a few years ago. Here’s the story, paraphrased, with some identifying details altered:

Vet sees a new...

Lots of breeders and regular pet owners give their own vaccines as a way to save on multi-pet care. Many of them do research on the vaccines, ask their vets for advice, buy the vaccines online, store them properly, administer them carefully and keep excellent records.

I have no problem with this...

Let’s say there was a way for you to spay your cat without surrendering her to surgery. Would you do it? Would you neuter your dog via pill or injection?

If you’re anything like me (as I suspect you are) you’ll wait a few years once this currently non-existent technology comes to market before...