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86% of surveyed pet owners say they'd return to a vet who speaks directly to their pet
A Vet Record study of 400 pet owners found that when veterinarians speak directly to the animal during the exam, 86% of clients reported being more likely to return.
3 min read · Sep 14
NC State guarantees vet school seats to undergrads who shadow equine practitioners for 10 weeks
The program, created in 2024, addresses a documented shortage: fewer than 4% of veterinary students nationwide choose equine medicine.
3 min read · Sep 9
Minnesota Urolith Center analyzed its 2 millionth stone sample after 45 years of Hill's funding
The center receives nearly 100,000 submissions annually and provides analysis at no cost, supported by an educational grant from Hill's Pet Nutrition.
2 min read · Sep 9
Estrus heifer platelets doubled embryo hatching rate in lab IVF trial
Platelet lysate from a single estrus heifer delivered faster hatching and comparable yield to fetal serum across five IVF sessions.
4 min read · Sep 7
Your client's phone says the dog is declining. Your exam says he's fine. Which one do you chart?
Continuous data from smart collars and litter boxes is exposing subclinical decline single visits miss, and creating a new liability question practices haven't answered.
6 min read · Sep 3
The K9 handler training program that turns ER downtime into a referral engine
DoveLewis trained ATF handlers in field stabilization, and demonstrated a model emergency hospitals near federal facilities should watch.
2 min read · Sep 1
Hill's just made the CKD diet compliance problem optional
ActivBiome+ Kidney Defense targets uremic toxins without requiring owners to switch foods, a bet on the gap where diet recommendations fail.
3 min read · Sep 1
The Vegas CE monopoly everyone accepted until Viticus Group just split it
Viticus Group launched WVC Nashville with 400+ hours of CE and a permanent facility. The question: does the model work twice?
2 min read · Aug 31
The Oregon AI Misdiagnosis Suit Shows Why Expertise Still Gates Technology
A recent case raises the question practices using AI tools haven't answered: who validates the output when the algorithm is wrong?
2 min read · Aug 31
The first aid advice you give on the phone just got an evidence base
RECOVER released evidence-based first aid guidelines for the window between recognizing an emergency and reaching care.
2 min read · Aug 31
The probiotic timing question every associate gets wrong
Concurrent or post-course? The answer changes what you're actually trying to prevent, and most products don't support either claim.
4 min read · Aug 27
The psychedelic-therapy survey: what 87 vet students expect, and what shapes those expectations
A cross-sectional survey of 87 veterinary students found that positive attitudes toward psychedelics showed stronger associations with favorable treatment expectations than factual knowledge alone.
3 min read · Aug 21
The rodenticide number that changes the IV vitamin K call
A teaching hospital gave IV vitamin K to 58 poisoned dogs and cats and recorded zero adverse reactions. The survival data changes the plasma call.
3 min read · Aug 20
The surgical drape that peeled less in a spay trial
A prototype with a more flexible base film peeled less in a 90-cat randomized trial. The material change that might finally solve the curl-away problem.
4 min read · Aug 20
The venous lactate number that correlated strongly with arterial, and when it didn't
A 90-dog study found venous lactate correlated strongly with arterial values, but the correlation weakened in normolactatemic patients.
3 min read · Aug 20
The 3866-dog study that says high lactate doesn't mean acidosis, and what that changes in triage
A university teaching hospital study of 3866 dogs found metabolic acidosis in only 37.5% of hyperlactatemic cases, the rest had different acid-base disorders or none at all.
3 min read · Aug 19
The ear-infection study that drops the antibiotic
A hydrocortisone spray alone matched a three-drug gel in 200 dogs with erythemato-ceruminous otitis externa.
5 min read · Aug 19
The copper-colored eyes that finally named the shunt nobody could find
An internal medicine specialist saw what a year of general-practice visits didn't: the eye color that tracks with a rare liver defect.
3 min read · Aug 17
Ohio State is recruiting large animal vets in high school now, and that timeline tells you something
Sixty-two high school students got hands-on large animal rotations this summer. The timeline shift matters more than the headcount.
3 min read · Aug 17
The glaucoma surgery that works better from the back of the eye, and why almost nobody does it
Pars plana endocyclophotocoagulation shows superior IOP control in humans and the one published canine case, but the skill set and equipment keep it scarce.
6 min read · Aug 13
The Cytology Slide You Used to FedEx Is Now Read Before Lunch
Zoetis's point-of-care AI reads blood smears in minutes. The add-on expert review costs extra. Here's the liability math nobody wants to print.
4 min read · Aug 11
Mid-femur carries the muscle mass, and the 0-6 palpation score that tracked it
A Korean university scanned 76 hindlimbs to find out where muscle mass concentrates, and whether a standardized palpation score tracks what the imaging shows.
4 min read · Aug 11
The sepsis call that just got harder to make in the exam room
A consensus panel redefined sepsis in dogs and cats, and the threshold you learned in school just moved.
3 min read · Aug 11
POCUS Found Pneumothorax in 5 of 14 High-Rise Cats. Radiographs Caught Three.
Five cats had pneumothorax on ultrasound; thoracic radiographs identified three. The miss happened in cats with normal vitals.
3 min read · Aug 11