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Vet P.O.V. Strange bedfellows and reluctant crusaders after Eight Belles' finishWere you one of the recipients of PETA’s email missive on the subject of Eight Belles? Here’s my receipt from the “PETA Action Center:” Dear Patty: May 7th, 2008 11 CommentsVet P.O.V. Fear is a veterinarian's friend (your pet spay fears, redux)Last week I posted on the cost of spays and neuters in veterinary practice. In the comments below the post, it became clear that concern for the risks the procedures entail, particularly for the intra-abdominal spay, run high among you. No matter what we veterinarians may say to calm your fears it’s true. Every surgical procedure has its risks. And while a spay is a surgery we may perform... May 6th, 2008 11 CommentsVet P.O.V. Boycott the Triple Crown: Eight Belles’ Kentucky Derby finish, reprisedI’ll confess to having reacted viscerally to the news of Eight Belle’s euthanasia after her second-place performance in yesterday’s Kentucky Derby. Last night’s late post found me at a loss for words to express the confusing emotions I’d experienced after my boyfriend’s “I have bad news” phone call reached me in advance of a few others. Nonetheless, I’ll not rescind my call to boycott the... May 4th, 2008 20 CommentsVet P.O.V. Poisoned heparin in pet medicine? How would we ever know?Is it possible? Might Baxter’s poisoned heparin trickle down to pets? Why not? And how would we ever know? In case you haven’t been made ware of the problem through your media sources, here’s a wrap-up: Tainted heparin, a blood-thinning medication, was manufactured by drug company Baxter after using ingredients sourced from—you guessed it—China. As far as I know, no one’s tried to send me an... May 1st, 2008 6 CommentsVet P.O.V. On DNA Day, Cinnamon and Tasha and the Florida LegislatureFifty-five years ago the now-ubiquitous double-helixed DNA molecule made its debut on the world stage. In 2003, a group of US scientists and educators declared April 25th National DNA Day by way of commemorating Watson and Crick’s discovery of the molecule and simultaneously uncorking the champagne after the success of the Human Genome Project. We who love our pets and follow science should... April 25th, 2008 6 CommentsVet P.O.V. TeleVets beats Teletubbies any day of the week for this veterinarianOK so it’s a silly post title. But it’s true. I can’t stand those smarmy Teletubbies. That’s why their UK compatriots at TeleVets beat ‘em hands down. It's not just the smarm factor, though. I'm also gratified to see someone outside the US get into the veterinary website biz on a bigger scale than…well…a lowly blog's. Founded by two upstart British veterinarians looking to leverage their... April 23rd, 2008 4 CommentsVet P.O.V. Bagging the tagging: Pet license hell in my municipalityI don’t know how it is where you live but in my county in Florida (Miami-Dade), licensing your dog is a bureaucratic nightmare that makes my work far more stressful than it has to be. Here's their policy. In the wake of annual licensing hassles my staff and I have been treated to a number of time-sucking, blood pressure-boosting stressors we could have lived without, courtesy of our incensed... April 23rd, 2008 15 CommentsVet P.O.V. Keeping monkeys as pets: The AVMA just says no!Increasingly, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) is taking stands on animal welfare issues and I, for one, am gratified to see our professional organization acting in ways I believe are consistent with our larger mission as animal health professionals. But safeguarding animal health and welfare doesn’t stop with household pets like dogs and cats, of course. One area in which... April 20th, 2008 51 CommentsVet P.O.V. On the cruelty of shock art like Vargas'—one vet’s unabashed condemnationGuillermo 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... April 16th, 2008 14 CommentsVet P.O.V. Oops!…They did it again: Footage of animal cruelty among US military personnel surfacesInexplicably, YouTube generation military personnel just can’t seem to get it right. Why’s it so hard to understand that what makes it onto film has a way of staying there? As the Abu Ghraib defendants learned the hard way, it also has a way of coming back to haunt you. What now? Footage of a puppy being launched off a cliff into the desert by Marines in Iraq has made the rounds on YouTube. It... April 10th, 2008 21 Comments |
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