Technicians

Patients will tell you plenty about their emotional state if you simply pay attention.

Managers, are you feeling caught in the middle? Teach your team to stop fighting and start talking with this advice to foster open communication in your veterinary practice.

CVC Speaker Ori Scislowicz defines five common toxic team members and gives tips to handle these bad "catitudes."

CVC Speaker Dr. Betsy Charles points to Apollo 13 as out-of-this-world leadership.

This skill centers the pets focus on you and encourages positive engagement.

If you arent training your cat, she's training you. Read on for training tools and the top three behaviors to train first for calmer cats at home and at the veterinary clinic.

You celebrate your veterinary technicians for a week in October. What about the other 51 weeks of the year?

Your emotional intelligence is key to becoming an effective leader at your veterinary practice. CVC Speaker Betsy Charles, DVM, MA, offers steps to get started on your journey.

Here are three sophisticated heat beams we call therapy lasers that we think are well worth your time, and they wont cost you a ransom of $1 million dollars.

No really, it's as simple as clipping your nails.

Educate veterinary clients to help you get to the bottom of cats' behavioral issues by taking advantage of their smartphones. Snapchat filters optional.

They've already done the hard part by getting invested in their pets' diets.

You reap what you sow in harvest and orchards ... and in veterinary practice. The same goes for the thoughts you think and the stories you tell yourself about your strong feelings.

Feline heartworm has been diagnosed in all 50 states, and it was important enough the American Association of Feline Practitioners crafted an entire campaign about it. So why don't veterinary technicians talk about preventive care as much as we could?

Suck that urine up and use it to run urine specific gravity, says Dr. Craig Thompson.

Paying attention to generational differences in your clients is about more than millennials. Take a look at what your older veterinary clients want from you.

Money creates tension in veterinary hospitals between associates and owners. Dissolving that tension is no small feat, but CVC educators Denise Tumblin, CPA, and Ernie Ward, DVM, try in these two videos.

Make your day in veterinary practice and life easier. Get your urgent work reminders, big life projects and personal #goals out of your head and into a reminder and task management system.

Bad holiday dcor choices by equine owners can truly become a matter of life or death. (It's nothing to horse around with.)

If youre a veterinarian curious about pet food formulations, good luck. Vetting companies and the people who design their diets is hard workand its not all in one place.

This veterinary hospital's window decorating contest won them new businessand brought them closer to their clients and each other.

Some veterinary hospitals build hospitality stations with pleasant-smelling extras, and others skip the design and go straight for the smell. Take your pick, just do it. We can smell your hospital from over here ...

Like all small breeds, these lovably feisty companions have a few risk factors that come with the territory.

Use these communication techniques to talk about a chronic but treatable disease like Cushing's.

Top tips for veterinary technicians looking to excel and for equine practitioners looking for star staff.

No one thinks disaster will strike, until disaster is right on top of them. Do your veterinary team members, patients and clients a favor by staying on top of life-saving procedures when disaster hits.

Veterinary anesthesiologist says we have an obligation to use every available tool to comfort patients and clients.

Dying to work with cats, dogs, horses and other animals? Or dying because of them? Consider these strategies to live with your condition and still do the work you love.