Vet School 101 Through a Dog’s Ear: Music therapy goes to the dogs

You heard right. It’s music arranged for dogs and orchestrated to ease their stress. It’s being employed specifically in veterinary settings where barking dogs, discomfort and pain are the rule. Psychoacoustic researchers and holistic veterinary practitioners swear by it.

An interesting collaboration between a sound researcher Joshua Leeds, a veterinary neurologist Susan Wagner DVM (no...

April 13th, 2008 14 Comments

Pet Economics 101 Diversion: No walk in the park for the veterinary industry (and what that means for your vet costs)

“Diversion” is a fun term we in the retail industry use to describe the re-selling of products purchased by one legitimate retailer to another, illegitimate retailer.

Often, it’s illegal. And almost always, it’s unethical. Some vets play this product-swapping game to make an extra buck. And other vets bristle—sometimes Halloween cat-style—when they do. (Read the Veterinary Practice News cover

April 13th, 2008 10 Comments