Animal Chat

Pets

  • Pets The Up and Up on Hind Legs

    Reason for hind leg issues in animals

  • Pets Chemotherapy for Pets

    The two most dreadful words in the English language are often used in the same sentence, cancer and chemotherapy. Both strike the soul with dread and despair. People often speak of chemotherapy as one [...]
  • Pets Reportable Diseases

    Human and animal health can collide with certain diseases.  Learn more about reportable diseases and why they matter.

  • Pets Bladder Stones

    Quick, name something that dogs, cats, turtles and iguanas all have in common. Without having to give it much thought, you probably came up with the correct answer, bladder stones. What are bladder [...]
  • Pets Tapeworms

    Tapeworm infestation in pets is very distressing for owners.  Learn more about this parasite and how to control it.

  • Pets Traveling with Pets

    When traveling with pets, it is important to understand the health requirements of your destination.  

  • Pets Rabies: Is The Risk Real?

    What do the movies Old Yeller, To Kill A Mockingbird and The Story of Louis Pasteur have in common? At some point, in all of them, a rabid dog becomes the dramatic part of a scene. Rabies has [...]
  • Pets The Benefits of Pet Ownership

    Pets do their part to keep their human companions healthy.

  • Pets Sneezing

    Everybody does it. That is the common defense by most kids to their parents. This argument never gets a kid very far but kids will always try it. There is something in the animal kingdom that [...]
  • Pets Mythbusters

    Mythbusters   Let's spend this month busting some popular myths about animals. Here is a myth that nearly everyone believes. Coral snakes have to hang on and chew to envenomate. While this is [...]