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Good stuff in the "Fatherly advice" Mind Over Miller column (Veterinary Medicine, June 2009). As a 40-year-old, I would like to offer a different perspective.

When performing a thoracentesis or abdominocentesis, it is easy to lose track of how many 60-ml syringes of fluid have been removed.

If you have difficulty mixing up amoxicillin, try this method.

An extensive article in a recent issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice presented the answers to 71 of the most common questions veterinarians, staff members, and clients might have about urolithiasis in dogs.

Part four of this step-by-step veterinary pictorial tutorial shows how to use newspaper to make spica, meta and back splints.

This video from BBC News tells the tale of a man and his best friend, Nutty the squirrel.

As preventive medicine catches on and medical therapies improve, cats are living longer and longer.

The AVMA is holding a class in pet insurance basics at their annual convention.

More and more couples getting married are insisting on their pets being involved in even formal weddings.

A vaccine developed by Intervet to help prevent the canine influenza virus H3N8, which has been spreading across the country, has received conditional approval from the USDA.

You can now earn a bachelor's degree in animal studies or animal policy and advocacy from the Humane Society of the United States.

If your clients are traveling by air for vacation this summer with their pets, PetFinder has identified the five airlines that are the most animal friendly.

The Al-Safi dairy in Saudi Arabia, designed in the 1970s based on dairies in California, is struggling to keep its 38,000 cows cool as its water supply dwindles.

A concern that mandatory sterilization might result in avoidance of other routine veterinary care by some pet owners fueled the Animal Welfare Committee's decision, which was among others recently adopted.

Postina, a kitten left in a street corner mailbox in Boston, is a symbol of increasing animal abandonment.

An 18-year-old has been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly killing and mutilating 19 cats in the span of a month in Miami.

Small dogs and cats that fit in a carrier that can be safely stowed under a seat can now fly in the passenger cabin during Southwest Airlines flights for $75.

Although they weren't aware that the wheat gluten was tainted with melamine, a couple is pleading guilty to distributing the wheat gluten to pet food manufacturers even though that they knew it was shipped under false pretenses.

The Ambue Ari Reserve in Bolivia gives untrained volunteers from all over the world the unparalleled opportunity to care for and interact with wild animals, but some feel it is a disaster waiting to happen.

A veterinarian in Maryland has discovered a way to help those who find it financially difficult to spay or neuter their pets: put the surgeries up for bid on eBay.

The human nose is too cold for avian flu viruses to flourish.

A study has found that a snake's scales create friction, which propels the snake forward.

Summer Bird won the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, beating out Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird, who came in third.

A new drug, toceranib phosphate (Palladia--Pfizer), has been approved for treating this common form of skin cancer in dogs.

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Because of possible antitrust issues associated with the merger between Merck and Schering-Plough, Merck is looking into selling either the Merial or Schering-Plough animal product line.

Anecdotal observations and a new study in monkeys reveal that animals may be more aware of their mistakes and experience subsequent regret than previously thought.

A study from the Coalition for Living Safely with Dogs and the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association investigated which breeds bite people or other dogs more often and under what circumstances.