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May 2nd 2024
The Veterinarian of Record Program will also improve relationships between veterinarians and animal rescues
Helping hands: Florida vet aids homeless
July 10th 2009With an SUV stuffed with medicine and food, Dr. Anne Scholl-Mealey pulls off an Orlando highway and stops at a clearing. She walks carefully through the sticky swamp and clouds of mosquitoes until she finds what she's looking for -- indigent animal owners.
AVMA again backs fish-throwing program despite PETA threat
June 24th 2009Schaumburg, Ill. -- After AVMA reiterated its decision to move forward with a motivational fish-tossing presentation by the Pike Place Fish Market fishmongers at the AVMA convention next month, PETA threatened to "out" those in attendance.
UC-Davis system starts welfare advisory council
June 20th 2009Davis, Calif. -- An Animal Welfare Advisory Council has been formed at the University of California-Davis to review welfare issues related to food animals and to promote science-based recommendations to improve the welfare of livestock and poultry.
AHC plans wide-ranging forum on horse safety, welfare
June 7th 2009Washington -- The American Horse Council (AHC) is putting together what it believes will be "the most inclusive presentation on safety and welfare ever assembled" June 16 at its annual National Issues Forum, focusing on "Welfare of the Horse."
Live-animal surgery comment stirs uproar at Oklahoma State
April 1st 2009Stillwater, Okla. - It began with the college newspaper's interview with a philanthropist who said she wanted to redirect her $5 million gift to Oklahoma State University's Center for Veterinary Health Sciences because of the way animals used in teaching and research there were treated.
Horse-sanctuary offer would be costly, DVM says
March 11th 2009Reno, Nev. -- An offer from Madeleine Pickens to create a million-acre sanctuary for up to 30,000 wild horses could cost the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) more than it presently pays for long-term holding facilities for horses removed from public lands, according to the veterinary representative on the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board.