The Dog Zombie

Over the last few days I have been privy to what I’ll describe as a “lively discussion” on a veterinary ethics mailing list. One vet on this...

I was really surprised at how interesting I found my ophthalmology rotation. Two weeks of eyeballs should have been mostly boring and creepy...

(Continued from part three .) Below are my musings on some of the talks at the recent conference, The Purebred Paradox: on the health and ...

(Continued from part two .) Below are my musings on some of the talks at last week’s conference, The Purebred Paradox: on the health and w...

(Continued from part one .) I recently attended The Purebred Paradox: on the health and welfare of purebred dogs. These are my musings on...

In 2008, the BBC aired Pedigree Dogs Exposed , a documentary about breeding practices in purebred dogs. The documentary suggested that healt...

Recently we had a lecture from Dr. Gray on production medicine. Before I explain what production medicine is, let me give you a feel for w...

Really interesting article in VIN News: Health credit programs: safety net or predatory lending? Apparently t he New York State Attorney Ge...

I had trouble choosing just one anecdote to relay from today’s lectures, so I’m going with two, and calling this “a day in the life” (of a t...

My “fact of the day” today is just a series of reflections on what was quite a varied day. We started out with two hours of ethics lecture. ...

This is actually the veterinary fact of yesterday. During small animal medicine and surgery, a surgeon was discussing chemodectomas, tumors ...

The American College of Animal Welfare has proposed a new animal welfare veterinary speciality . The creation of a new specialty happens wh...

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with breeding purebred dogs. We breed dogs for work, for beauty, for good companionship, and...