What is a Veterinary Professional Associate?
The role of veterinary professional associate might offer one possible solution to problems with access to veterinary care for pets. What is a veterinary professional associate? Let’s take a look.
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French Bulldogs Disaster
Now that French Bulldogs rank number one in popularity in the USA in 2022 (according to AKC stats) a real disaster will get much, much worse. Here’s why (with data) from Nationwide’s Veterinary Analytics team that released chunks of new data and analysis about brachycephalic dogs earlier in 2023. The medical risks due to selective breeding for weirder and weirder faces in these dogs are simply too high, leading to death due to pregnancy (mom and puppies) and rampant, lifelong suffering and death of the puppies who survive birth. It isn’t just breathing problems. Several other health risks in extreme brachycephalic breeds, including French Bulldogs, remain scary high. Lovers of Pugs and English Bulldogs will also find relevant stats and charts.
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Dog Broken Leg Cast Tips
Starting with our very broken first foster puppy (now family member) Mr. Stix who arrived at our local shelter with 15 fractures — all four legs, his hips and his tail, we started specialize in fostering dogs who’ve likely been hit by a car or similar vehicle. For example, with Mr. Stix, we wonder maybe something more like an ATV since clearly the wreck didn’t kill him or cause any internal organ damage (that we know of). As we learned, though, from the unexpected death of foster puppy Dream from an undetected internal injury, no guarantees about how a dog broken leg situation will turn out. With so many injured dogs and puppies in our experience bank, I figured I’d share a few dog broken leg cast tips. Yep, that’s a keyword. Sorry it’s weird.
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Dog Not Eating – Sudden Dog Food Aversion
What. A. Week. Non-stop snow and wind and cold (and work deadlines). Then, Clover stopped eating. It happened once before during a lengthy false pregnancy. Don’t miss myths and facts about dogs who won’t eat from back then. This time, it turns out, the situation started with 1 or potentially a confluence of 3 things. Let’s take a look.
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Veterinary Noncompete Clauses and You
After my recent post about corporate veterinary consolidation and my concerns, I got a tip about about the related problems of veterinary noncompete clauses and how they affect veterinarian’s career options. It affects you too, as a veterinary client. Let’s take a look at how and even what the Federal Trade Commission may do about it.
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Coughing Dogs
Sometimes a cough is more than a simple cough. It seems easy to chalk coughing dogs up to so-called “kennel cough,” but veterinary researchers continue to find additional and more complicated ways dogs end up coughing and coughing and coughing for longer than you’d ever expect.
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How We Know Dogs Smell Stress
A recently published study reported that dogs smell stress on us. Yep, we kind of stink in different ways when stressed, and our dogs know that. Let’s go beyond the headlines and look at the canine scent work strategies researchers used to figure this out.
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Dogs That Bite Other Dogs
I’m extra interested in this new study about dogs that bite other dogs. It looked at demographic details of the dogs that bite other dogs, the nature of those bites, and the impact of those bites (such as needing veterinary care). The study did not look into motivations or triggers. As Stanley Coren wrote in his recap of the study, “In other words, attempting to answer the questions who, what, and where, but not why.”
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Conditional Approval of Drug for Pancreatitis in Dogs
Breaking News !! Just in time for the 2022 holiday season, when dogs often accidentally get into rich foods and trigger an acute pancreatitis attack, the FDA gave conditional approval to Panoquell-CA1 for 1 year, with the option for 4 additional annual renewals. The drug meant for injection during hospitalization for cases of pancreatitis in dogs has been approved in Japan since 2018. It’s made by Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha Ltd. Below, you’ll find some FAQs about this new medication and canine pancreatitis in general.
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Dog Anesthesia Risks of Death
Researchers looked at more than 157,000 cases of dogs needing a general anesthesia / sedation events between 2010 and 2013 and reported on the dog anesthesia risks of death. The published study includes insights into relative risks based on age, health status, type of procedure (including spay/neuter), and even length of dogs’ noses. It’s meant to be reassuring, but even an experienced Dog Mom like me learned a few things. Don’t miss the context and caution about possible overestimation of risk at the bottom of the page.
