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Brain Teaser: Can you solve this puzzle?

Test your veterinary knowledge with our monthly challenge, featuring a three-year-old male intact Beauceron presenting for six hours of lethargy, non-productive vomiting, and restlessness.

Continuing Education

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Updates on Spay/Neuter Recommendations

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n this session: The World Small Animal Veterinary Association published Reproduction Control Guidelines in 2024. These guidelines included decision-making recommendations for reproduction control in dogs and cats that differ from the traditional recommendation to prepubertally spay/neuter. Michelle Anne Kutzler, BVS, DVM, PhD, MBA, focuses on the decision-making recommendations in light of the most current research related to some of the long-term adverse health effects of gonad removal.

Small Animal

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Putting the 'Fun' in Fundus: Examining the Posterior Segment of the Eye

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In this session: Anne Metzler, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVO,  describes techniques for examination of the retina and optic nerve with a goal of differentiating pathologic changes from normal variations. A brief overview of species-specific variation in retinal and optic nerve anatomy is also provided.

Practice Management

Hell hath no fury like a vet with 'senioritis'

"To some extent, this version of volunteerism, what I’m alternatively calling “veterinary senioritis,” is possibly why so many veterinarians have turned to relief medicine. The power to say “no” is a tremendous antidote to what ails many in our profession."