This may seem a self-serving post that’s soooo off topic you might not want to stay to read it, but I’ve got a story to tell. Strange as it may sound and non veterinary though it may be, I speak so much about my personal life on Dolittler that it seems natural to tell it here.

Almost twelve years ago (on February 24th of 2006) my uncle was killed by the Cuban government. He was in one of two...

Interestingly, the AVMA (American Veterinary Medical Association) has issued a policy statement on the ability of municipalities to pass laws which regulate veterinary activities. 2005’s West Hollywood legislation prohibiting declaws and 2007’s Norfolk City, Virginia’s ban on non-veterinarian cosmetic procedures were perhaps the impetus for such a decree.

Both laws impinged on the state’s...