Healthy Eating Ideas & Quick Exercise Tips for Busy Veterinarians
As a veterinary professional, your main priority is the health and wellbeing of the animals that are in your care. This usually means long hours, lots of time spent on…
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Fear Free: A Commitment of Physical and Emotional Care
I grew up on a farm in Southern Idaho and wanted to be a dairy veterinarian from age six. Fast forward 14 years to my first day of veterinary school at…
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Finding Compassion Satisfaction by Reducing Fear, Anxiety & Stress in Pets
The first appointments of the day have arrived. Buffy the “Tech Slayer” Shih Tzu is in room one, Clyde the Siamese cat hides under the chair in room two and…
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Purebred or Inbred? Inbreeding of Dogs Contributes to Increase in Disease
Dog breeds are often recognized for distinctive traits—the short legs of a dachshund, the wrinkled face of a pug, the spotted coat of a Dalmatian. Unfortunately, the genetics that give…
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5 Tools for Addressing Euthanasia Averseness in Pet Owners
As part of our veterinary oath, we promise to use our skills and knowledge for “the prevention and relief of animal suffering.” Euthanasia offers us the unique ability to aid…
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Temple Grandin: Thinking Outside the Box & Inside the Animal Mind
Animals do have emotion, and fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions,” says Temple Grandin, who has been innovating the animal welfare industry for decades with her…
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