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|Videos|September 2, 2022
Honoring a lifetime of feline advocacy
Jennifer Conrad, DVM, explains what winning this award means to her, and her work
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Jennifer Conrad, DVM, the 2022 Veterinary HeroesTM winner for Feline Medicine, sponsored by Zoetis, discusses why she considered winning this award an honor, during an interview with dvm360® at the program's awards gala, part of the
The following is a partial transcript of the video:
Jennifer Conrad, DVM: I have been working for a long time for cats and I have been working for people to not want to declaw them, and my veterinary colleagues were sometimes not happy with me doing that, but I think this is indicative of change and that people really think now that we know better, we can do better.
Learn more about Conrad and her thoughts on winning the feline medicine category in this
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