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You get what you pay for – pet health care is no exception

Transcript of personal comment of this episode of The Web-DVM: In my personal comment today, I want to touch on a recent clearly evident shift in veterinary medicine, where we are finding ourselves increasingly less involved in preventive health care, with the paradigm having moved to where sick patients are representing a much greater percentage of our overall caseload. In a...

Way to go Philadelphia Eagles

From this week’s episode of The Web-DVM: – From cat food recall story, date codes for Premier Edge cat food brands recall: RAF0501A22X 18lb RAF0501A2X 6 lb., RAH0501A22X 18 lb. RAH0501A2X 6lb. – Transcript from personal comment: In my personal comment today, I just want to say, “Way to go Philadelphia Eagles!” And I do not say that in any...

Home construction encroachment into wildlife habitats displaces animals and puts people and pets in danger.

Transcript of personal comment from this episode of The Web-DVM: My personal comment tonight has to do with the abduction of Jessica Simpson’s dog by a coyote, an occurrence that is becoming increasingly common in California. In addition to California, we are seeing attacks by wild predators to pets and small children in residential neighborhoods all over the country....

To whoever gets my dog

Transcript from today’s episode of The Web-DVM: We have a change in our usual program format today, which is the fault of my Brother-In-Law, John. A couple of days ago, John sent me an e-mail of a short story written in the first person by a young man who had just adopted a dog from a local shelter. The story moved me in such a profound way, that I decided to share it...

Pit Bull ban punishes dogs and people for the crimes of bad owners

Personal comment transcript from this episode of The Web-DVM: My personal comment this week has to do with the results of our most recent web poll about what the future fate of pit bulls should be in this country, posted in the wake of several counties across the nation imposing bans on ownership of pit bulls. The choices regarding their fate were 1.) Pit Bulls Are inherently...

The Complete Singles Guide To Being A Dog Owner

Personal comment transcript from this episode of The Web-DVM: In my personal comment today, I have just recently finished reading a lovely little book titled, The Complete Singles Guide To Being A Dog Owner. As a former single dog owner myself, I found this book tremendously helpful in preparing for the responsibility of dog ownership for single people – I certainly wish...

Web-DVM TV takes the place of Pet Chat Radio; first episode discusses new insights on canine and feline intelligence

In place of Pet Chat Radio, Web-DVM decided to go in another direction with an Internet television show, called “The Web-DVM,” which like Pet Chat Radio is hosted by me. The format remains the same with some news, anecdotes, and commentary, only the new visual media provides visual aides to augment the content (and viewers will now have to actually look at me as I...

Shelters overwhelmed by pet abandonement due to economic hardship

During my perusing of the Internet for relevant animal news to report on Pet Chat Radio and this blog, I stumbled across an article by a local Nebraska newspaper, called the Beatrice Sun that inspired today’s final news story and personal comment. The article is titled, “Animal Shelter Sees Boost In Cute and Cuddly.” This title refers to Summer being...

Should Michael Vick have been allowed back into the NFL?

I want to start today by dedicating this blog post and this week’s Pet Chat Radio broadcast to our late beloved Devon Rex cat, Mariano, known affectionately by family and friends simply as Mo. Mo was just shy of two years of age when just last week, he became very ill with a disease that affected his liver, but whose cause could not be confirmed until after we lost him...

Win Without Competing!

Hey folks, I am not posting anything new this week, as I dedicated the early part of the week preparing for my interview on the Blog Talk Radio show, “Win Without Competing,” with host and author, Dr. Arlene Barro. She asked me some really neat questions about my life’s path that got me to where I am and what I am doing today. The broadcast aired live earlier...