New Mexico offers livestock veterinarians loan repayment programOctober 17, 2025The loan repayment program, which is funded via Senate Bill 8, targets food-animal care shortages in underserved counties, helping veterinarians offset steep student debt.
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West Virginia vet fined $956K over missing opioids, false recordsOctober 15, 2025Between 2021 and 2023, the vet reportedly ordered far more opioids than any other customer—at one point accounting for nearly three-quarters of a supplier’s oxycodone sales.
Cats get a paw up on heart diseaseOctober 14, 2025Check out some takeaways from a feline symposium, where experts delivered insights on screening, diagnostics, therapies, nutrition, and decision-making to improve feline cardiac care.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveReptile basics 101: Tips and veterinary insightsOctober 9, 2025Quite often, a failure in nutrition, environmental conditions, or inadequate enrichment leads to health problems that bring these animals into the clinic. Sadly, routine annual care goes by the wayside, and we often only get to help these species when it may be too late. Knowing some basics and how to educate a new reptile pet owner out of the gate may help prevent numerous health problems down the line.
Rescue animals aid in ER careOctober 9, 2025A collaborative effort uses rescued shelter animals as blood donors, providing lifesaving products while offering these animals rehabilitation, adoption, and a second chance at life.
Working dog teams learn life-saving veterinary skills in recent training programOctober 7, 2025Portland’s DoveLewis Veterinary Hospital is taking veterinary expertise out of the clinic and into the field, training K9 handlers to provide life-saving care to working dogs in emergencies—from opioid exposure to trauma.
Tech solutions strengthen human-animal bond, study showsOctober 7, 2025The study, released by the Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI), in partnership with Chewy Health, explores the challenges pet owners encounter, the potential of technology-driven innovations to address these issues, and the vital role veterinary professionals play in nurturing the human-animal bond.
Jane Goodall, ethologist and environmentalist, passes away at 91October 2, 2025A pioneering primatologist and conservationist, Goodall’s research on chimpanzees transformed animal behavior science and redefined human–animal connections, leaving a lasting global legacy.
Brain Teaser: Can you solve this puzzle?September 30, 2025Presentation: An eight-year-old male intact German Shepherd presents for hematuria.
2025 Vet Box unboxing video with NAVTA presidentSeptember 30, 2025What's in the box? Take a look inside with VPN Plus+ contributor and NAVTA president Beckie Mossor as she shares whthe contents of the 2025 Vet Box. VPN Plus+ annual subscribers received the Vet Box at the end of the summer as a value-add with the annual subscription.
