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A veterinary blog for pet lovers, vet voyeurs and the medically curious...
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A journalist-acquaintance recently accosted me with an unwelcome conversation on the merits of my sideline writing. “And yet,” she lamented, “how unfortunate that your topic of choice isn’t more juicy—marketable,...
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In a recent editorial in Veterinary Medicine magazine, a California veterinarian named Dr. Robert Miller had a thing or two to say about the red-headed stepchild of the veterinary profession that is “behavior medicine.”
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It’s that time of year again. Every summer, usually mid-sizzle, I write an article about my first Frenchie, Marcel, and his accidental death in a swimming pool.
I really don’t need to say much beyond the basic fact of...
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Front and center (if below the fold) in the New York Times this morning (Sunday!) is a story on the wild mustangs of western American lore. There they are in an accompanying color shot,...
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This is a story of how two consecutive cover stories in Veterinary Economics conspired to boost my ego… and later burst my bubble.
In case you’ve never heard of this...
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Ouch. Hits home on this, my Sophie’s first week of radiation for her brainstem tumor. This article was emailed to me by a dozen or so supportive parties, some shocked, some impressed...
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In a country in which supposedly 93 percent of pet owners describe their pets as members of the family, where 70 percent of its pet-owning citizens sleep with their dogs and 78 percent with their cats, in which almost three out of four married...
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It’s perhaps one of the ugliest tumors we see, a knobbly blackish gray multilobulated lump that looks something like the fungal outcroppings your neglected refrigerated foods might suffer. When
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Spain may soon become the first nation to elevate the rights of some non-human primates to that of some humans. It’s a big deal, this seemingly sudden move of the Iberians, not least because Spain doesn’t seem the likeliest...
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Help! I need to find some way to get my Sophie to and from her radiation appointment every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the next six weeks!
The one-time gamma knife procedure...
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