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NEWS ABOUT: veterinarian

veterinarian stories: 13 news summaries

 NM Calf Frolics With Fake Legs 

Family pays for prosthetics after adopting frostbitten calf

Nov 4, 09 3:40 AM CST
(Newser) - The first calf ever fitted with prosthetic legs now spends her days frolicking at a New Mexico farm just months after losing her back hooves and part of her hind legs to frostbite. Rancher Nancy Dickenson's step-daughter found the frostbitten black Angus, named Meadow, on a neighboring property and the... More »

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cattle • cows • veterinarian • prosthetics

(Newser) - The Florida pharmacy that prepared vitamin supplements for the 21 polo horses that died last weekend has admitted that the mixture was faulty, the Palm Beach Post reports. Franck’s Pharmacy in Tallahassee said today that the level of one ingredient in the supplement—which the polo team says was... More »

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Florida • vitamins • horse • veterinarian • pharmacy • polo • Victor Vargas • Tallahassee • Lechuza Caracas

 Polo Owner Wept 
 as Horses Died in His Arms 

Tests not likely to reveal cause of deaths for weeks

Apr 21, 09 6:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Devastated polo team owner Victor Vargas cradled the heads of his fallen horses and sobbed as they died in his arms, colleagues said yesterday. The wealthy Venezuelan banker—whose business has thrived despite Hugo Chavez's socialist regime—rushed from animal to animal as 21 suddenly collapsed and died shortly before... More »

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horse • veterinarian • animal • polo • Victor Vargas

Vet Bills Force Families to Euthanize Pets

Tough times make care harder to justify; few have animal insurance

Mar 26, 09 12:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The recession is having some tragic consequences for family pets. Experts say owners are delaying care, opting out of pricey treatments, and putting down pets they’d otherwise save, MSNBC reports. One shelter has seen a 20% jump in admittances. “They come straight from the vet and say, ‘... More »

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pets • recession • veterinarian • Veterinary Pet Insurance • veterinary medicine • veterinary services • Howard Stern Grid

For Fido, Fetch Can Be Fatal

Tossing sharp sticks
at canines not so
smart after all,
UK vet says

Dec 28, 08 1:39 PM CST
(Newser) - Chasing sticks leads to as many doggy injuries as running around on roads, a leading British vet tells the Times of London. With their pointy ends, erratic trajectories, and tendency to break apart, nature's fetch toys can cause all sorts of canine injuries, from stab wounds to paralysis to slow... More »

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infection • veterinarian • dog • pet safety

 Military Opens 
 $15M Dog Hospital 

'Canine Walter Reed' will treat pooches wounded in combat

Oct 22, 08 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - If GI Rover gets injured in Iraq, chances are he'll end up at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, where the "Walter Reed of the veterinary world" has just opened. The base has long been training pups for service in all branches of the military, but its old animal... More »

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Afghanistan • US military • TSA • veterinarian • dog • bomb-sniffing dogs

ANALYSIS

 'Dog Years' Just Don't Add Up 

The '7-year' rule is too simplistic, veterinarians say

Aug 29, 08 4:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A human year is 7 dog years, right? That ubiquitous formula has been driving veterinarians and dog enthusiasts nuts for decades. If it were accurate, some pooches would live to the equivalent of age 150 or so, Carl Bialik writes in the Wall Street Journal. For those who must convert,... More »

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pets • age • lifespan • veterinarian • dog • canines

 Saudi Cops
 Target Flirty
 Dog Walkers

Riyadh officials confiscating pets in public

Aug 13, 08 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Officials in a Saudi province have banned the sale of cats and dogs after complaints that flirtatious men are “using cats and dogs to make passes at women and pester families,” the Christian Science Monitor reports. Although owning a pet isn’t illegal, the religious police say they’... More »

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pets • Saudi Arabia • Koran • veterinarian • Muhammad • religious police

My Beagle
Ate My
Paycheck

Dog ownership turned out a lot pricier than  writer bargained for

Jul 25, 08 9:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - At first, $150 for a beagle puppy and $20 a week for food sounded like a good deal, but it didn't take long to realize dogs are "deceptively expensive," Neal Templin writes in the Wall Street Journal. Vet bills soon added up to thousands after a mystery... More »

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pets • veterinarian • beagle • dog

GLOSSIES

 America: Land of  Doggy Doping 

The business of pet pharmacology is booming

Jul 10, 08 7:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Americans spent $49 billion on their pets last year, with an ever-growing percentage paying for treatment of  behavioral issues with tailor-made psychotropics, reports James Vlahos in the New York Times Magazine. Frustrated owners are feeding dogs drugs like Reconcile—beef-flavored Prozac—-for "mental illnesses that eerily resemble human ones,... More »

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pets • New York Times • pharmaceutical companies • veterinarian • Prozac • pharmaceutical industry • medicating pets

 Doggy Wants
 a Bone...Transplant 

Bone marrow procedure to cost $15K-$20K

May 18, 08 12:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Doggy wants a bone, and he deserves it too. Canines will soon be lining up at Washington State University for bone marrow transplants, enjoying a little payback after pooches made the procedure possible in people, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. But the cancer treatment won't come cheap: WSU will treat man’... More »

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bone marrow • medical research • cancer research • veterinarian • dog • pet hospital visits

Firefighting Is US' Sexiest Job

Personal trainer, CEO and cowboy also turn-ons, site finds

Feb 14, 08 3:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Americans may ogle the celebrities gracing the covers of gossip mags, but firefighter remains the sexiest job title on the books, the Boston Globe reports. Personal trainer comes in a close second, according to Salary.com's Valentine's Day survey. It's the site's first such survey in three years, and though... More »

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nurses • CEO • sex • firefighters • reporter • doctor • flight attendants • lawyer • veterinarian • interior designers • event planners • job • teacher

Vets Pioneer
New Techniques for Limbs

Fusing metal with bone is helping cats and
dogs walk again

Aug 27, 07 3:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cutting-edge vets have developed new prosthetics for disabled animals that could bode well for human amputees, Time reports. The most exciting technique is called osseointegration—a procedure in which a porous prosthesis is inset into the bone, which then grows into the metallic holes, making a strong anchor onto... More »

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prosthesis • amputees • veterinarian • osseointegration • prosthetics • Iraq war • animal

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