Like a good vet, I spent much of Sunday reading my scientific veterinary journals. True, I love the fluff bits and typically devour these first. If cartoons were included I’d likely read these, too, before moving on to the stiff bits of scientific rigor we’re expected to consume on a regular basis if we’re to be “all that we can be,” as it were.

Though I typically read it first, this past issue...

Here’s a hot button that took up almost thirty minutes of a ninety-minute South Florida Veterinary Medical Association (SFVMA) board meeting last night: Microchipping. Whether ‘tis nobler in the hands of the veterinarian than the shelter worker’s, breeder’s, average owner’s, etc…

A consensus was not reached unanimously. Some felt it was the veterinarian’s duty, responsibility and privilege to...