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Check out the most common nutrition questions pet owners ask at big box stores.

Veterinary parasitologist Richard Gerhold sets the record straight about monthly preventive medications and the possibility of pets still picking up parasites.

A new book from AAHA Press highlights the design of some of the nations most important buildings. (Hint: We can all agree thats your veterinary hospitals, right?)

A path to build wealth. A willingness to learn to be a better delegater and leader. A calling to provide a healthy place for veterinary professionals to bloom. Thats all possible as the owner of a veterinary hospital.

Youre not "in it for the money" in veterinary medicine, but neither can you ignore it. This year, make a New Year's resolution (or two or three) to better manage your personal accounts, your career and your practice finances this year.

If a new graduate wants to to spread her wings in a structured learning environment, the cost of delayed earning may be too highunless she plans to transform into a specialist.

Free vaccines! Loyalty points! Dental care discounts!

Fetch speaker weighs in on new ways of learning and new ways of teaching.

Your ship-er, practice-is run with all types of personalities from different worlds-baby boomers, Generation X'ers and millennials. They can all work together to boldly care for a pet as no pet has been before.

When the threat of a corporation buying the practice from Dr. Codger is impending, will Dr. Greenskin fish or cut bait?

Concrete results speak to the power of positive training in the veterinary hospital.

When veterinary clients and internet trolls gang up on private practitioners, the effects can hurt business, harm reputations and damage psyches of those on the receiving end of cyberbullying. In this series, experts share tools and plans to help avoid internet rampages, deal with them when they crop up, and help make veterinarians and veterinary team members more resilient when people go on the verbal attack.

Practice pride keeps teammates satisfied.

Just one team member can spark a full on conversion in the clinic.

I learned firsthand this year how hard these injuries are for pets and their owners.

Can a simple safety checklist reduce veterinary surgical complications?

We dont want to be corny, but the team at Care Animal Hospital of Pleasant Prairie opted for high-quality materials and carefully planned details that show they care about clients when it came to their new hospital's veterinary design.

Warnings wont cut it, says resident CVPM advice guru Katie Adams. Creating an improvement plan with coaching sessions is crucial if youre not ready to fire the toxic veterinary team member.

A new online program aims to make it easier to prepare for the certified veterinary practice manager exam. Get to cramming now

From real-world clinical knowledge to soft skills, we investigated what you had to say about what may have slipped under the radar in all of those classes.

While DVMs were in veterinary school, who was teaching you how to run one of these crazy animal hospitals? Hey. Well help.

It was a challenging and inspiring wake-up call. I needed to come to the conference, but I might wait a little longer before I build for the first time.

Feeling like you made a mistake becoming a veterinarian? Youre not aloneand youll get over it.

Corporate medicine, client interactions and stress management: Three Fetch dvm360 speakers have some strong opinions about what the nations veterinary schools could be doing to prepare their graduates for life on the outside

I had the passion for animals, the smarts to manage, and the education and business savvy to own. So I bought a hospital. You can too.

Some schools are upgrading their curricula to teach technical skills from day one and make soft skills mandatory. Is it enough to bridge the gap between ivory tower and the practice trenches?

Actually, you need a mentor no matter what. If you already know it all, guess whatits your turn to mentor someone else (and youll probably benefit from coaching).

Take heart. Its your turn to be the mentor you want to see in the veterinary world.

Sure, the younger generation relies on technology and constant communication, and these qualities are a huge asset to your veterinary team.

Specialty hospital group aims to address shortage of emergency veterinarians for itself and profession.