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Live coverage from CVC Kansas City

Live from CVC: Get rid of phone failures at your veterinary practice

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Tips for teaching your team members phone skills that work, from Dr. Amanda Donnelly at CVC Kansas City.

Photo gallery: What I loved best about CVC Kansas City

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We asked attendees to tell us why they love CVC Kansas City and to share their favorite parts of the convention. Check out what they had to say!

The top dogs of CVC Kansas City 2012

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Veterinarians, technicians, and team members say goodbye to their beloved pets for the weekend and travel from all over the globe to attend CVC Kansas City. Luckily there are plenty of pooches to pet and snuggle in the exhibit hall. Check out this photo gallery to ooh and aah over our new four-legged friends.

Live from CVC: Website and e-mail tips: Marketing your veterinary practice in the digital age

VETERINARY ECONOMICS

At CVC Kansas City this week, Dr. Dave Nicol, author of the e-book The Yellow Pages Are Dead: Marketing Your Veterinary Practice in the Digital Age, presented to an eager crowd some website and e-mail strategies to help you market your veterinary practice. Here are his top tips.

Video: An exciting development in shelter medicine

VETERINARY MEDICINE

Dr. Kate Hurley discusses the implementation of guidelines from the Association of Shelter Veterinarians.

Proceedings - Feline Medicine

How to identify inappropriate feline elimination

Part one of a two-part series on dealing effectively with clients' concerns

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The most common concern expression by clients about their cats' behavior involves inappropriate elimination.

Disk disease: It's not just for dogs

When her cat became sick, this technician discovered that she had a lot to learn about feline lumbosacral disease. Now she recounts her cat's experience so others can learn from it.

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Follow Pollux's tale, and discover more about disk disease in cats.

Feline pancreatitis (Proceedings)

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Cats have a different embryological development and anatomy of the pancreas from other species. In cats, unlike other species, the pancreatic duct is the main functional duct; the accessory pancreatic duct usually does not persist. In dogs the pancreatic duct is of minor importance and may be absent.

Proceedings - Dermatology

Food hypersensitivity in the dog and cat: now what do I feed? (Proceedings)

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Food hypersensitivity, food intolerance and other adverse reactions to food (ARF) could be the subject of a carrier of study. Food hypersensitivity in the dog and cat can cause a myriad of effects on several different systems of the body, with the integument and digestive system being most commonly affected.

Skin infections, MRSI, perpetuating factors,topicals, antibiotics and more (Proceedings)

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Skin infections with bacteria (pyoderma) or yeast (Malassezia dermatitis) often are found in dogs secondary to other diseases such as seborrhea, endocrine diseases and allergic diseases.

Proceedings - Dental

Digital dental radiography (Proceedings)

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Dental radiography is an essential component in the delivery of high quality dental care for dogs and cats. This seminar will focus on the value of taking dental radiographs, how to take digital dental radiographs, special features available with digital dental radiographic units, advantages and disadvantages of digital dental radiography, indications for taking dental radiographs, positioning for optimal dental radiographs, critiquing dental radiographs and the importance of recognizing dental radiographic lesions.

An update on periodontal disease in dogs (Proceedings)

CVC IN SAN DIEGO PROCEEDINGS

Periodontal disease is probably the most common disease in dogs.1 Most dogs greater than 5 years of age have significant periodontitis.

Managing challenging oral cases in dogs: part I (Proceedings)

CVC IN SAN DIEGO PROCEEDINGS

Two basic techniques for the repair of palatal defects are most commonly utilized. The first technique involves removal of the epithelium from the edges of the defect and complete periosteal elevation of the palatine mucosa bilaterally on each side of the cleft.

Tick Toolbox: Tick-wise Practice Tips for Protecting Pets (Sponsored by Bayer)

Real World Performance of Flea Control Products (Sponsored by Elanco)

Advances in the Management of Otitis Externa (Sponsored by Virbac Animal Health)

Current Challenges and Strategic Solutions for Today's Veterinary Practice(Sponsored by Elanco)

CATS are not DOGS: Applying oral assessment, treatment, and prevention specifically to feline dentistry (Sponsored by Feline Greenies)

Ticks, Disease and the Attraction of Repellency (Sponsored by Bayer)

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Part 1: Raise clients' awareness of pet weight problems

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Part 1 of a six-part online learning course about making successful pet weight loss recommendations.

Part 2: Prepare your team

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Part 2 of a six-part online learning course about making successful pet weight loss recommendations.

Part 3: The perfect weight-loss appointment

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Part 3 of a six-part online learning course about making successful pet weight loss recommendations.