Vetcetera My sponsor is here! Give it up for Dolittler’s first foray into the world of professional blogging!

OK so it’s not exactly the most modest statement I’ve ever made but I’ll say it anyway:  I’m so proud of Dolittler! Lookie here, right under my logo is a beautiful banner belonging to perhaps the most intelligent sponsor in the pet world: Good News for Pets!

It's a milestone for sure and the culmination of lots of stresful legwork for this vet, as those of you reading Dolittler for a while will...

April 7th, 2008 8 Comments

Vetcetera Charitable veterinary giving via Internet and Dolittler’s conundrum

Here’s a post where I ask you, my dear readers, to please help me out on an issue that’s been dogging me these past couple of weeks.

Remember Dusty, the sweet, sickly, tick-ridden  Ehrlichia girl of a Virtual Vet Hospital post? One of you, yet again proving your individual and collective wonderfulness as readers, offered to contribute financially to her care. Given that her owner is unable to...

April 7th, 2008 11 Comments

Vet P.O.V. Follow-up appointments and veterinary client responsibility...to their pets

Last week’s post on fat dogs and legal remedies occasioned a comment on the hypocrisy involved in prosecuting owners for negligence and cruelty when prosecuting veterinarians for similar lapses happens so infrequently.

I’d argue both scenarios are as rare as your average male calico cat. (For the record, that's about one in 3,000.)

OK so my stats may be a little fuzzy here, but given that vets...

April 7th, 2008 26 Comments