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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National Shelter Appreciation Week
This week Pet Camp is celebrating National Shelter Appreciation week with our amazing friends at the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA. Take a moment, grab a cup of coffee or tea (and maybe a tissue if you tend to be the teary-eyed type) and listen to Ken White, President of PHS & SPCA, explain the…
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20 Years – That’s 140 in Dog Years!
It’s hard to believe that Pet Camp opened its doors 20 years ago. In 1997, when we told the American Boarding Kennel Association (what our industry group was called back then) that we wanted to allow dogs to socialize while at Pet Camp, they said we were crazy and almost didn’t let us join the…
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