Recent posts on muzzling and vet-client divorce have led to comments that intimate the desire for veterinarians to treat their cats in feline fashion—not as small dogs, as some practices tend to do.

Veterinarians can’t always love all species equally. It’s sort of like saying you really don’t care if your bedroom is painted red or blue. Everyone’s go an opinion on which they prefer, right? I...

At least two or three times a week I’m finding it necessary to ask my clients to get more technologically savvy when it comes to their pets. No, it’s not about the novel drugs and specialty veterinary services. Not this time. Instead, this post is about PetCams and other high-tech means of documenting pet health concerns.

But you think these PetCam gadgets are kind of hokey, right?

Sure, it’s...

No doubt the pet insurance world is hoping their business is recession-proof—perhaps even recession-fueled.

It’s clear that having less money with which to pay for your vet expenses must leave lots of pet owners standing outside their vet’s place, credit card statement in hand, echoing Scarlett O’Hara’s immortal sentiment: “God as my witness, I will never let Fluffy live without pet insurance...

Ten years ago pet owners had only a handful of sites to choose from when it came time to research a variety of medical conditions their pets might confront. Renal disease, diabetes, hip dysplasia…these biggies always had an online presence. But lesser known pet health concerns were relegated to the very few sites attempting an encyclopedic approach to pet healthcare.

Fast-forward to 2008 and...

You’ve heard about the five Boogers right? No, it’s not the opening line of a coarse joke. I found it in this week’s dog news:

There are now five Booger’s because Booger #1 was the pit bull who saved her mama’s life and consequently sent this owner scrambling, post-mortem DNA sample in hand, to South Korea for a chance at the litter of her dreams: Five Booger clones!

God help me if I know why...

Going over my expenses today, searching frantically for something worthy of the axe, I reached my blogging expenses and looked extra-carefully for something to cut out—but I knew I wouldn’t find much there.

Sick to death of the bugs you, my die-hard readers, know too well, I just recently blew a wad on Dolittler’s rewrite. Gone, soon, will be the unmanageable, Cold Fusion core of the site. In...

I’ve been asked on several occasions to lend my veterinary skills to the cause of pet wellness in an online Q&A format. I’ve also seen numerous announcements looking for vets to fill this function on several “ask the expert” websites.

In these cases I invariably ask myself, “Why would anyone like me do this?”

So you know, it doesn’t pay dividends in bucks-per-words. The biggest return is in...

It’s that time of year again. Every summer, usually mid-sizzle, I write an article about my first Frenchie, Marcel, and his accidental death in a swimming pool.

I really don’t need to say much beyond the basic fact of his death (at a barbecue with over ten people in attendance, poolside) to hammer home the point that dogs die in pools every day—even when people are watching, playing with them,...

In a country in which supposedly 93 percent of pet owners describe their pets as members of the family, where 70 percent of its pet-owning citizens sleep with their dogs and 78 percent with their cats, in which almost three out of four married pet owners claim to greet their pet before their spouse at the end of a long day, I say…where’s the humanity?

No, I’m not complaining about the high...

With today’s post Dolittler turns 1,000!—measured in posts, that is. Considering that my average post is about 600 words long that’s 600,000 words, all submitted in your honor, my Dear Readers.

To celebrate this milestone I’d like to thank my most influential readers, supporters and other helpers-along-the-way:

PetConnection: No single entity has contributed to the success of Dolittler as...