“If I could live my life over again, I would have found you sooner so that I could have loved you longer.” In This Issue: Annual PuppyUp Couch Potato Walk Is Back!; A Message From Our Executive Director; The New Book, Be More Dog; Two Stories of Devotion to Inspire Your Holidays; Foods You Should Never Feed Your Dog; Dog Treat Recipe — Gingerbread....

FitBark introduces new device to help keep pets, their owners active   KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As the weather gets colder, it can get harder to stay active for both us and our pets. A Kansas City company hopes its new product can help, while also giving better insight into your dog’s health. When siblings Davide and Sara Rossi launched their company, FitBark, they...

Studies show our four-legged friends can identify more words than previously thought and even help us learn Adam Miller · CBC News You may think your dog can understand you, and in a way, you’re right. New research suggests dogs may actually be smarter than we give them credit for and can also have profoundly positive effects on our health. Researchers from the University of...

When amputation is not an option, please don’t go straight to euthanasia By Phil Zeltzman, DVM, DACVS, CVJ, Fear Free Certified Osteosarcoma of the radius in an eight-year-old Labrador. When a patient is diagnosed with osteosarcoma, we tend to focus on three options: • the “gold standard,” i.e. amputation with or without chemotherapy; • what many call palliative care, meaning pain medication and rest;...

With a better understanding of the aging process in dogs, researchers hope to delay onset of age-related diseases.   By Kim Campbell Thornton   As researchers continue to learn about the aging process in dogs, they hope to delay the onset of age-related diseases. Sophie Cobb, a Shetland sheepdog in Omaha, recently celebrated her 20th birthday. That’s an unusually long life for a dog....

Researchers at Purdue University are looking for ways to circumvent invasive and lengthy bladder cancer treatments. In their recent article, they mobilized the anthrax toxin. Because bladder cancers overexpress epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), the researchers used it as a target. Their findings showed that in as few as 3 minutes, the EGFR-targeted anthrax could send human, mouse, and canine bladder cancer cells into...

Taylor Bennett Purdue University researchers are involved in a national study to examine the general health and wellness of dogs. Purdue veterinary epidemiologist Audrey Ruple says the Dog Aging Project will look at dogs of all breeds and mixes for at least 10 years. “In order to identify the biological and environmental factors that maximize health and longevity within dogs and we will also...

As the popularity of vaping increases, veterinarians are seeing a rise in the number of pets poisoned by liquids used in e-cigarettes, in particular, nicotine and THC E-cigarettes containing liquid nicotine are very toxic to pets due to the high concentration of the drug in vaping products E-cigarettes containing liquid marijuana are also highly toxic to pets, especially dogs, who are up to 10...

by CriticalCareDVM One of the more common reasons patients are presented to me is for evaluation of an new and/or unusual lump or bump under the jaw. Arguably, the most common cause is an enlarged lymph node, but occasionally the problem is an abnormal salivary gland. This week’s post is dedicated to a salivary gland problem called a sialocele, and I hope you find...