Guillermo Habacuc Vargas. That’s the name of the Costa Rican artist whose work you may have heard talk of for its incredible depiction of a dying dog in a gallery setting—and for the allegedly posthumous photographs of the stray dog (Natividad) that also became part of the work.

If you’re one of the two million-plus people who has signed a petition to limit this artist’s inclusion in the...

Though blood banks and transfusion medicine for animals seem a wonderful and necessary adjunct to our advances in veterinary care, the back-story behind the products and who gets to use them isn’t always as rosy as the prospect of high end care their presence in the marketplace represents.

Getting blood from dogs? It’s not too tough. But sourcing healthy dogs with the ability to donate...