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Did your job exist one thousand years ago? Disregard changes in technology (i.e. doctors existed even if they didn't practice medicine the same way as today)
Yes
No, but there was a earlier/similar version of it
No, my job isn't analogous to anything that existed 1000 years ago
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The Food and Drug Administration is warning the public to not feed dogs Raaw Energy dog food because samples have shown contamination with m
The Food and Drug Administration is warning the public to not feed dogs Raaw Energy dog food because samples have shown contamination with multiple pathogens that are dangerous to both people and pets. The FDA requested the company recall its implicated products, but the company has not done so. The implicated dog food has tested positive for one or more of the following bacteria: Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella, E. coli O157 and Campylobacter jejuni.
Frozen dog food is contaminated with bacteria that can kill your dog if you feed it to them. And the company refuses to recall their product.
They don't use lot numbers, only manufacture dates. If you have any of these Raaw Energy products in your freezer, with these date codes, throw it out:
Current as of January 23, 2026.
Your dog is a GMO not a wild animal. Don't feed raw.
So I know plenty of vets have the experience of a pet being brought in with very minor symptoms that turn out to be signs of life-ending diseases ("she's a bit more vocal and not eating as much food but otherwise acting pretty normal" -> "end stage cancer, cat is put down that same day") but that's depressing and I'm wondering if you have a favorite story where the opposite happened? as in the owner had what seemed like very valid/reasonable concerns about their animal's condition/activities/whatever (so like, not a "is this a tick!?" *points at nipple* thing) and it turned out to just be completely benign weirdness?
I can’t think of a totally horror turns into yay! One…. But…
We did have a dog, female, not neutered, come in for abdo pain, vaginal discharge and we were all like oh god here we go, it’s a pyometra. Things get worse when we do an ultrasound and it actually looks like her uterus might be cancerous / have a large mass attached to it. Double horror tbh.
Owner elects for surgery and we go in and find a huge, huge mass where one side of her ovaries/uterine horn used to be.
Okay, not great, but eventually removable. Dog is spayed, she wakes up from surgery fine… so then we start looking at this mass and it’s super heavy and super gnarly looking.
We cut into it…. And it’s a teratoma!!!! It’s full of pus, sure, but also cartilage and fat and fur/hair. There’s what I think might be the beginnings of teeth but unconfirmed.
SUPER cool, quite rare! And actually totally benign!
We send it off, confirm no cancer to be seen, dog goes home and basically just gets to recover as a normal spay. Everyone’s happy!
I have had a few genuinely scary for all involved turn out simple and weird, but one of my favorite things is when people come in absolutely panicked about their dog having trouble breathing/choking and they were reverse sneezing.
I have a saved youtube video of a beagle really honking away that I use for confirmation (is it like this?) but usually for my own personal enjoyment first I ask the client to try and explain what the dog was doing just because people can NOT make the noise entirely right but some people really do their best acting. (Also it does help me avoid leading the client if it's something different, but.) Ask 2 people to do their best impression of a reverse sneeze in front of each other and let them argue about how neither is doing it right ONLY if you have a poker face.
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THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING TO GET YOUR MEDS BEFORE THE PHARMACIES CLOSE
they are going to be CLOSED OVER THE HOLIDAYS and so will the DOCTORS WHO SIGN YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS.
if you don't have enough meds to last the next THREE WEEKS, put in for your repeats and refills tomorrow! that's Wednesday! do it! don't go to hospital at New Year because you ran out of stuff!
it's that time of year again! get your meds!
and your pets' medications too!
VMCAS Season!
This is the time of year when prospective vet students are putting in their applications for the class of 2030 for most of the US vet schools. As an alum, I have for the past few years been involved in both the initial (file review) and secondary (interview) stages of application review for my school. I've seen some great and some terrible applications.
In order to prevent people from gaming the system, there's limits to how much you're allowed to share as a reviewer, but I don't think any of this pulls back the curtain too much. Here's a few tips for anyone out there who's working on this, based on what I see on the back end:
What I wish you knew about veterinary medicine:
We're in a suicide crisis.
We have a high rate of professional burnout.
I can't speak for veterinary school, but vet techs learn anatomy, diseases, anesthesiology, surgical assisting, pharmacology, emergency medicine, husbandry, radiology, diagnostic testing, parasitology, nutrition, preventative medicine, and behavior for cats and dogs. Then we do it all again for large animals and exotics.
Nearly all of us experience compassion fatigue at least once.
Please be kind to veterinary staff. We're not in it for the money. We love your animals and want the best for them.
VMCAS Season!
This is the time of year when prospective vet students are putting in their applications for the class of 2030 for most of the US vet schools. As an alum, I have for the past few years been involved in both the initial (file review) and secondary (interview) stages of application review for my school. I've seen some great and some terrible applications.
In order to prevent people from gaming the system, there's limits to how much you're allowed to share as a reviewer, but I don't think any of this pulls back the curtain too much. Here's a few tips for anyone out there who's working on this, based on what I see on the back end:
Treating fleas
Fleas never really stop being an issue in vet med, but as we in the northern hemisphere are rapidly entering summer, it is once more kicking up in intensity.
In a perfect world, everyone should have their pets on prevention year-round and we'd never have to deal with them, but that's not an achievable outcome.
If your pet does have fleas, you need to treat all pets in the household with effective prevention for at least 3 months while managing the environment. Let me break that down a little further:
"all pets in the household" means every non-human mammal in the house. I don't care if you're only seeing fleas on your one dog - other dogs, cats, ferrets, bunnies, guinea pigs, etc all need to be treated too. All of them.
"effective prevention" unfortunately at least in the US probably means prescription medication, which means your pets have to have a current (generally within last 12 mo) exam on file with a veterinarian. Frontline and other fipronil- or pyrethrin/oid-based products available OTC have become largely ineffective in the last decade or so. I know it's more expensive to get prescription prevention. But I promise it's more expensive in the long run to spend money on products that don't work well and then still have to buy the good stuff afterwards.
"at least 3 months" is because of the flea life cycle and how prevention works. The stuff you give your pets kills the adult fleas when they bite, so they disappear and stop making more fleas. Flea eggs will continue to hatch for a couple months after that. If you treat for less than 3 months you will have the same fleas again. If you stop treating after 3 months you can get fleas again (just like you got them in the first place) but are not guaranteed to.
"managing the environment" means doing what you can to minimize the number of flea eggs that are around. This helps keep your pets comfortable (less itchy) and healthy (reduced risk of illness from fleas). Mostly I have people focus on good household hygiene like vacuuming and washing bedding frequently. If you do use a flea "bomb" product, read the packaging carefully first - most of these are toxic to pets and so have to keep pets out during and for a period of time following treatment.
reblogging because I set a new personal record this week of five clients back-to-back-to-back that needed the flea talk
I draw goofy ass pictures on the animal's whiteboards at my vet hospital job bc humor is the ultimate burnout defense
Hey if you let your brachycephalic dog (or most dogs tbh) lay in the sun for hours on a 31’C day, they will most probably die.
Even if they go out to the garden to sit out there themselves, BRING THEM IN.
Saw a bulldog yesterday go into multi-organ failure after coming in with a temp of 42.5’C.
We can fix the temperature, we can’t fix complete organ failure.
if you are going to need some kind of sedative for 4th of july fireworks for your pets NOW IS THE TIME TO SCHEDULE THOSE APPOINTMENTS TO ASK FOR THEM
NOT WHEN ITS 2 DAYS AWAY
I feel like to really get this circulating as it should, we need it superimposed over the picture of the turkey going in the fridge. (I can't do it I'm on my phone.)
ask and ye shall receive
wishing all anxious dogs a very merry trazodone!
Hi, you mentioned in a recent post that fleas are becoming resistant to Frontline. We've started to use it recently to prevent ticks (more of a concern Haven't had a problem with either yet but I was wondering if you knew anything about whether ticks were also getting resistant?
Thank you for sharing the flea information!!
I have not heard anything about issues with tick prevention with those products - and a brief review of the available literature as well as some of my veterinary Facebook groups does not show any real indications of a problem. I would guess that because of the nature of the tick life cycle, which is most often not completely within domestic pet species as the hosts, there is a lower selective pressure on ticks than fleas.
Treating fleas
Fleas never really stop being an issue in vet med, but as we in the northern hemisphere are rapidly entering summer, it is once more kicking up in intensity.
In a perfect world, everyone should have their pets on prevention year-round and we'd never have to deal with them, but that's not an achievable outcome.
If your pet does have fleas, you need to treat all pets in the household with effective prevention for at least 3 months while managing the environment. Let me break that down a little further:
"all pets in the household" means every non-human mammal in the house. I don't care if you're only seeing fleas on your one dog - other dogs, cats, ferrets, bunnies, guinea pigs, etc all need to be treated too. All of them.
"effective prevention" unfortunately at least in the US probably means prescription medication, which means your pets have to have a current (generally within last 12 mo) exam on file with a veterinarian. Frontline and other fipronil- or pyrethrin/oid-based products available OTC have become largely ineffective in the last decade or so. I know it's more expensive to get prescription prevention. But I promise it's more expensive in the long run to spend money on products that don't work well and then still have to buy the good stuff afterwards.
"at least 3 months" is because of the flea life cycle and how prevention works. The stuff you give your pets kills the adult fleas when they bite, so they disappear and stop making more fleas. Flea eggs will continue to hatch for a couple months after that. If you treat for less than 3 months you will have the same fleas again. If you stop treating after 3 months you can get fleas again (just like you got them in the first place) but are not guaranteed to.
"managing the environment" means doing what you can to minimize the number of flea eggs that are around. This helps keep your pets comfortable (less itchy) and healthy (reduced risk of illness from fleas). Mostly I have people focus on good household hygiene like vacuuming and washing bedding frequently. If you do use a flea "bomb" product, read the packaging carefully first - most of these are toxic to pets and so have to keep pets out during and for a period of time following treatment.
#that is the most doesn't know what's going on looking dog in the world