As if cancer isn’t bad enough, chemotherapy decisions are grueling in pet medicine. I guess that’s inevitable. After clobbering the client with the C-bomb, it makes sense they’d shut down all rational faculties and hear the buzzing in their heads overwhelm my well-rehearsed  discussion of treatment options.

Gentle though we vets may think ourselves as we launch into the statistics and the...

I offer you this open letter to the lawmakers of Massachusetts now that this state has been recently targeted by the pet rental service FlexPetz. FlexPetz is a now-national chain providing pet rental services to those who would enjoy a pet but are unable or unwilling to make a firm commitment to one.

I’ve written about this issue before, which is why I was approached by a Massachusetts reader...