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If you have some experience with hair mats, you know their capacity to frustrate and infuriate pet owners and pets alike. Certain breeds are predisposed to this condition because of their coat length and hair texture. The mat itself is a dense blob of fur, and...

Every health professional is destined to spend a certain amount of time reviewing someone else’s work. When a patient has sought help elsewhere before coming to my clinic, conversation in the exam room often revolves around a laundry list of the previous doctor’s...

You got it now, right? Your pet may or may not be welcome in a coffee shop or on an airplane, but either way we agree that he does not have the same thought structure as a human being. Even if he is one of these geniuses that predicts seizures or diagnoses cancer from...

Because my duty to you, dear reader, is so close to my heart, even the simplest, most obvious premises are subjected to meticulous attention and research. In our previous piece, you were advised that “your pet is NOT a human.” Sifting through the internet for...

If you are already an expert pet owner, maybe you don’t need to be reading this! But know that it’s not going to be a lesson on minutes of exercise, access to fresh water, and bathing frequency. That stuff is for tweens coaxing their parents to adopt a pet this...

In our previous piece, a tiny sample of your unidentified “pet lump” was sent off to the pathologist, and you settled in for a fretful week of waiting. Have you thought about how you might proceed once the report comes back? When working with a veterinarian,...

Dog food: it might be the single most sensitive topic in the exam room, the “American politics” of pet care. The number of dog owners I meet who are preparing their pet’s meals from scratch is on the rise, and those people usually have pretty strong opinions on the...

Sharing our homes and hearts with dogs and cats, or any other friend that has a shorter lifespan than ourselves, opens us up to repeated attacks of grief and loss as each one moves forward into her final resting place. In the best-case scenario, our pet has by that...

Screwworms are coming to the U.S. and traveling at an alarming rate to get here. In fact, the journey from their one-time prison in Panama is 95% complete. They will come into the U.S.—it’s only a matter of when. Despite their Latin name hominivorax, which means “man...

I’d never heard of the Darien Gap; what about you? It’s kind of a unique place on the planet that we and our Central American partners have been able to utilize in the fight against this predatory maggot, the New World Screwworm. It’s the last thing before Colombia,...