A new study jointly conducted by Oregon State University College of Veterinary Medicine and the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute may one day help not only our canine friends with cancer, but also people with the human form of the disease.
Forging this unique relationship is OSU veterinary oncologist and researcher Stuart Helfand, D.V.M., [...]
Continue reading about Helping Dogs With Cancer May Benefit People
The growing use of animal dietary supplements has raised several concerns, including the safety of specific supplements and the approaches taken to determine their safeness.
A new National Research Council report, requested by the Center for Veterinary Medicine of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, assesses whether the addition of three dietary supplements — lutein, evening [...]
ANIMAL lovers need to be reassured that student training at The University of Queensland does not involve testing, research or experimentation.
Students perform surgery on animals that previously have been assessed by several agencies, including Brisbane City Council, the RSPCA or the animal welfare league, to be unsuitable for rehoming and are to be euthanised by [...]
Continue reading about Death row pets make graduates work-ready
Dr. Rich Nye is used to tight jams.
He was a steady pitcher for the late ’60s Cubs who faced big cats like Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. But on a slow moving summer morning, the 6-foot-5 southpaw is removing an abscess near the ear of a turtle.
Nye is one of the premier exotic animal veterinarians [...]
Continue reading about Ex-Cub pitches in to give exotic animals a better life
Entering the serene, skylighted oncology suite, I immediately see the goose standing on the tile floor: large, gray, and stately. His bill and legs are orange-hued with subtle gradations to rose, and the slate-colored plumage of his upper body gives way under his tail to bright white. He is elegant for such a full-bodied creature [...]
Continue reading about How Far Should We Go to Save Our Pets?
Sloths live out their lives dallying upside down from the branches of trees. If you are a veterinarian called upon to take a sloth’s pulse, or check its large teeth and sharp, crescent-moon claws, you let it hang around your office.
“It’s not upside down for her. It’s normal,” said Dr. Paul Calle, putting his [...]
Blue leads an active lifestyle: she runs four times a week around an enormous park in her hometown of Memphis, Tenn.; she likes playing Frisbee and loves swimming. But one day last November, Blue started limping — which was odd because the German shepherd seemed fit and was only 3 1/2 years old. “She wasn’t [...]
We’ve highlighted people spending gobs on medical bills for their baby-boomer pets. Now the nation’s zoos are entering a “zone of unknowns” as animals live longer than anyone expected, the Associated Press reports.
While animals in captivity living longer than their wild brethren is nothing new, as that gap in life expectancy increases — partly due [...]
Continue reading about Zoo animals’ twilight years pose new questions
Better preventative care, medicine, vitamins and food are making pets live longer, but leading to one costly side effect: higher medical bills, the Washington Post reports.
Think of them as baby boomers on four legs. They’re older and fatter–just like the country at large. About 44% of the country’s dogs are older than 6, compared with [...]
Continue reading about Pets are baby boomers too–with medical bills to match
The Humane Society of Hall County was forced to euthanize most of the animals in its shelter Thursday in order to control an outbreak of respiratory disease.
Humane society president Rick Aiken said the illness was a contagious but typically non-fatal virus similar to kennel cough, or bordatella. Ironically, the society recently received a grant to [...]
Continue reading about Humane Society forced to enthanize animals to combat disease
