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Over the past week, my social media feed has been flooded with pictures of dogs. OK, I’ll be honest, it’s always flooded with pictures of dogs in general because I’m surrounded by dog people, but it was different this time. They were pictures of dogs with captions...

It’s been a wild few months, to put it mildly. I’ve seen less change resistance in veterinary medicine since March than in the previous entire decade. Some practices are thriving, others are struggling, others are so busy you can’t even get to them to ask how they are...

This week, with the large amount of family time we suddenly have available, my kids and I all sat down and re-watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy. At the very end, when Frodo saved the world and he and Sam were about to be consumed by lava, Gandalf swept in on...

We are in an extraordinary moment in history. The veterinary profession has never been asked to fundamentally change the way we practice in such an immediate and profound way as we have in the past couple of weeks. January: telemedicine is viewed with skepticism....

Last month veterinary medicine was something most clinics just couldn’t conceive of. And here we are. So in the span of just a few days, clinics are having to upend their entire business model, panic-calling telemedicine platforms trying to integrate new apps, and...

Hey, doctor. We need to talk about this coronavirus thing. And by “we,” I mean you. To your clients. It’s now been a week since a dog in Hong Kong tested positive for the coronavirus. Now, as someone in the veterinary field, you can read that sentence, react, and then...

Were you at Western Vet this year? It feels like a year ago even though it’s only been what, a week or two? Vegas will do that to you. Run around like a Tasmanian devil, plow through on sheer adrenaline, then come back and crash for a week.But I didn’t....

When you’re twelve, few things are as terrifying as the bubble-lettered dog eared spiral bound notebook of doom. The slam book, the bane of my generation’s elementary school existence. If you’ve seen Mean Girls, you know it as Regina George’s Burn Book....

There’s nothing you can say to me that I haven’t already heard, no admonition that hasn’t already been served to me like a flaming bag of poop. Alone I sit in a sea of shame, just me and my labradoodle. That’s right, I said it. I own a labradoodle,...