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Retired Texas vet challenges Internet restrictions
White Plains :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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A retired Texas veterinarian has filed a federal lawsuit challenging state regulations that bar him from evaluating animals and giving veterinary advice over the Internet...Sometimes his clients are overseas with limited access to veterinary services.
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Illinois: No so big on pets
Princeton :: NJ :: USA | 4 months ago
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Sharilyn and Al Davidson pose for a "family photo" with their pets Duke (front) and Molly in their Princeton home...Specifically, Illinois ranks 47th for cat ownership and 40th for dog ownership. Al and Sharilyn Davidson of Princeton said those
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An Age of Endarkenment? The American Veterinary Medical Association and Homeopathy
Ava :: MO :: USA | 4 months ago
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Jan 26 2013 It can be frustrating, and sometimes even a little depressing, to be a skeptic. Promoting reason and science-based medicine often feels like a Sisyphean effort that garners lots of hostility and ad hominem attacks from proponents of
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DAVID DIXON: Kentuckians have soft spot for pets
Louisville :: KY :: USA | 4 months ago
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Not my grocery list that only I can decipher or the "honey do" list that ominously appears on the kitchen counter...Of course, a Top 25 college basketball poll that has Louisville No...University of Kentucky nowhere to be found is not going to be a
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Study: N.Y. Pet Owners Failing to Care for Their Critters
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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Meow. (Getty Images) It shouldn't be raining cats and dogs in New York. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, New York ranks 49 th among U.S. states in pet ownership, with 50.6 percent of households owning at least one pet...Pet
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Activists protest devocalization of dogs
Boston :: MA :: USA | 6 months ago
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Stories Animal activists are up in arms about a surgical procedure called devocalization pet owners are using to get their dogs to quiet down. It's done by surgically removing some of the animal's vocal chords, which alters how sound comes out
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AVMA in San Diego voting on raw food diet for your cats
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
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San Diego this week and one of their agenda items is a vote on a policy against the feeding of raw meat pet food. Council on Public Health and Regulatory Veterinary Medicine will vote to create a policy to "discourage the feeding to cats and dogs of
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Pets can have golden years, too
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 1 year ago
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Going from pup to grandpup doesn't leave much prime time under American Veterinary Medical Association labels that cats and small dogs are geriatric at age 7 and large dogs at 6. But not everyone agrees, and rescuers say those definitions can be a
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Vets say dogs, cats turn old halfway through life
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 1 year ago
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Age may creep up on man, but his best friend gets there at warp speed...But not everyone agrees, and rescuers say those definitions can be a death sentence to older animals in need of homes. I would never consider a person in their 40s or 50s to be
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The Antibiotics You May Be Eating Without Knowing It (PART 2)
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 1 year ago
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March 3, 2012 In 2008, the FDA announced that evidence that extra-label use of these drugs [cephalosporins] in food-producing animals will likely cause an adverse event in humans and, as such, presents a risk to the public health, and called for
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