A veterinarian can’t be all things to all people (I’ve said this before many times and many ways on Dolittler). And this little ditty rings especially true on holidays.

We’ve all been there…a sudden bout of vomiting…a lacerated leg…a cat bite abscess that rears its ugly head…or, in today’s...

I live in Miami, but every year the immediate clan and I spend Thanksgiving with my sister in New York’s East Village where my sister's family resides. Before that it was in remote, upstate New York on a stunning tract of land she and her husband helped preserve with the Open Spaces Commission....

Spied in The Miami Herald Online yesterday: State inspectors in Florida will be on the lookout for non-compliant pet shops across the peninsula in advance of the annual puppy shopping extravaganza occasioned by the Holidays.

Here’s the scoop:

“State inspectors will conduct a sweep of pet...

Last week one of my nineteen year-old patients died. Or rather, as the euphemism goes, I put him to sleep. In truth, it was a race. If I’d been a few seconds slower he would’ve beat me to it. Such was the extreme of his advanced decrepitude.

Foxy had been blind, deaf, chronically disoriented,...

Last Monday the AVMA (American Veterinary Medical Association) issued an important position statement on tail docking and ear cropping. Stronger than the 2005 version, which frowned upon the practice without showing any teeth, this statement still stops short of opposing ear crops and tail docks...

You wake up groggily one Saturday morning—admittedly a bit on the late side—and you suddenly realize how it is you managed to sleep in. Your ten year-old kitty companion is nowhere to be seen. She’s typically right there, meowling and staring at you plaintively so you’ll get up and fill her food...

“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,...