5 Toxic Holiday Plants!
It’s the time of year when we decorate our homes with all sorts of wonderful plants. These plants bring color and fragrance to our homes making a joyous time of year even more wonderful. That said, some of the most common holiday plants are not so wonderful for your pet. There are 5 common holiday plants…
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Tufts Says Leave Your Dog at Home – We Say Have Fun!
Your Dog, the monthly newsletter from the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, recently had an article suggesting that we (meaning pet parents) are taking our dogs to too many places and that our dogs would be better off if we just left them at home. The crux of the article was that…
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The Ethics of Enrichment
I was reading this month’s DVM360 magazine’s front page article entitled “The Ethics of Enrichment” wondering the entire time, “yeah, so this is news?” The premise of the article was that companion animals (which you and I might even call our pets) deserve more than merely the absence of pain, more than merely access to…
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Happy Thanksgiving from Pet Camp
Two short days till we get to stuff our faces with all our favorite holiday foods. If your camper is spending the holiday at Pet Camp, no doubt they’ll be enjoying our pet friendly holiday meals (turkey, mashed potatoes and green beans for dogs and salmon pate for cats). But if your camper is spending…
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My Takeaways from the Feline Science Symposium
After spending 10 plus years of observing cats in veterinary hospitals, I was very confident in my cat knowledge – but some continuing education refreshers never hurt. With that in mind I attended the Feline Science Symposium presented by the San Francisco SPCA. Sure I walked away thinking about some things, but more importantly, I…
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FTC Gets Involved in Veterinary Care
For some time we’ve been posting about the amount of equity capital getting into pet care and both the consolidation and corporatization of pet care. While this issue was resonating on our radar, we assumed this was just the wandering thoughts of a small business believer. Turns out that others were watching too. The Federal…
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