Archive for the ‘animal welfare’ Category

Gulf Oil Spill: Now Killing Pets Too

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

If the grotesque images of oil-soaked wildlife weren’t depressing enough, now the economic impact of the BP oil spill is landing large numbers of pets on welfare death row. Full article in the New… Read more

Behind a consultation, bigger pictures loom

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Even though the vet consult can be reduced to a customer service interaction, in complex cases, the process of negotiating the best path forward is not always obvious or easy. Both vet and owner… Read more

Internal conflicts – How we discriminate

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Humankind manages to sustain some very contradictory attitudes and beliefs surrounding our relationship with animals. They are our friends, our aides, our test subjects and our sources of food and… Read more