What affects us affects cats
Your cat has been energetically using her claws scratching your brand new furniture. What originally was a beautiful couch now looks tacky, your carpet is threadbare and your curtains have been shred to ribbons. You’ve become increasingly frustrated with your cat’s destructive and unacceptable behavior as you watch your expensive furnishings going down the …
Traditionally, women are the nurturers and men are the hunters. It seems that those roles are cast in concrete. These roles go back to the beginning of homo sapiens. The roles are alive and well today. Perhaps men are deliberately ensuring that these specific roles remain in place because it suits them. It is …
Summary: cat owners don’t take their cat to the vet enough and vets could do more to encourage them to do so. Apparently, feline visits to veterinarians decreased by 14% between 2001 and 2011, while at the same time the domestic cat population increased by about 5%. This rather upsetting information for the vet …
This article could be titled Vets Turning Away Patients Who Can’t Pay Upfront. Or, perhaps, a better title would be Vets Use Tough Methods To Ensure Payment. This appears to be a US discussion. I live in the UK and the vets I have used have always expected payment on completion. There is never …
Every child should be like this child. That is a bold statement and it is unrealistic. The world would be a lot better, however, for animals and therefore for us as well, if every child was like this child. I am writing about an eight-year-old American girl whose name is Jordan Lansing. For her …
By William Long There are more than 84,000 veterinary technicians in the U.S., reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and they estimate this field to grow by 30 percent through 2022. With so many people entering into this field, how do you know if the people taking care of your cat are qualified? The …
Some veterinarians, pressured by the need to meet overheads and their substantial salary (which of course they deserve), either willingly or because they feel they have to, do the kind of selling in their clinics that is pretty much an exact replica of the person serving you at Macdonald’s when you order a burger. …
I allege that many tens of thousands of American veterinarians regularly lie to their customers about the operation called onychectomy, the scientific term for declawing which is a highly misleading word for the removal of the last phalange of the toe – a severe mutilation. However, the lie is not in the use of …
