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Let me first say that I‘m not one of those vets who denies her clients written prescriptions. Nor do I begrudge them a savings on products they can buy elsewhere for less. I do, however, have a problem with unscrupulous merchants who...
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Last weekend kicked off this years’ AVMA (American Veterinary Medical Association) convention in New Orleans. I was...
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A journalist-acquaintance recently accosted me with an unwelcome conversation on the merits of my sideline writing. “And yet,” she lamented, “how unfortunate that your topic of choice isn’t more juicy—marketable,...
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In a recent editorial in Veterinary Medicine magazine, a California veterinarian named Dr. Robert Miller had a thing or two to say about the red-headed stepchild of the veterinary profession that is “behavior medicine.”
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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...
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Front and center (if below the fold) in the New York Times this morning (Sunday!) is a story on the wild mustangs of western American lore. There they are in an accompanying color shot,...
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This is a story of how two consecutive cover stories in Veterinary Economics conspired to boost my ego… and later burst my bubble.

In case you’ve never heard of this...
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Ouch. Hits home on this, my Sophie’s first week of radiation for her brainstem tumor. This article was emailed to me by a dozen or so supportive parties, some shocked, some impressed...
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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...
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It’s perhaps one of the ugliest tumors we see, a knobbly blackish gray multilobulated lump that looks something like the fungal outcroppings your neglected refrigerated foods might suffer. When
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