Veterinarian and Assistant are Found Guilty of Animal Cruelty

This is a veterinarian who should never have been a veterinarian. He was a failure from the beginning as far as I am concerned. This veterinarian worked in the United Kingdom. He is Gary Samuel, 49, and his assistant is Rochelle McEwan, 28. Both have been found guilty of animal cruelty offences after police …

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Should It Be Illegal to Declaw Your Cat?

Photographed after the declawing operation at the clinic referred to on this page.

The New York Times asks the question in the title in a short post in which they refer to the bill going through New York state’s legislature which intends to ban declawing in that state. It is being debated. The vets are against it as they would be. They say that the decision to …

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How You Can Reduce Your Veterinarian’s Bill Provided He Cooperates!

This is about prescriptions written by American veterinarians and it is not hot off the press news. It is a reminder of how pet medicines are dispensed. We know that in nearly 100% of cases your veterinarian’s prescription is dispensed by the vet’s clinic.  The dispensing of medicines is kept in-house for obvious reasons: …

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How to Avoid a “Bad Veterinarian”: Listen to your Inner Voice

Bad Veterinarian?

Those of us whose cats are under the care of top notch veterinary practitioners are indeed extremely fortunate. It can be very difficult to find a veterinary practice that is both feline savvy and which employs staff who know how to relate to and to appropriately handle kitties. In fact, following our move from …

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Heroic Veterinary Medics at Middletown Animal Hospital Continue To Treat Victims of Wildfire

The headline news about the California wildfires have subsided but the work to treat the animals who miraculously survived, some with severe injuries, continues and will do so for months to come. Middletown Animal Hospital is in Lake County, California and a wildfire in that area which started on 12th September consumed 76,000 acres …

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UK vets to improve their knowledge of cat behavior

UK vets are to improve their understanding of cat behavior in order to better serve their clients and their patients.  This is a Royal Veterinary College (RVC) initiative in partnership with Ceva Santé Animale (a veterinary health company). A new online resource to help veterinary students, practitioners and pet owners better understand, and deal …

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