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Dr. Patty Khuly’s Top Five Pet-Related Resolutions for 2014
Every year it’s the same thing. You attempt to shape up, slim down, spend less, live more or quit something for good. So how about this year you resolve to do something you’ll easily achieve? For all...
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Drug Wars: Is the Fairness to Pet Owners Act Truly Fair?
How much do you pay for those drugs your pets need? Whether it’s dog- or cat-specific insulin for her diabetes, pills to keep those pesky bugs at bay or her really expensive arthritis medication… it’s...
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Dr. Khuly’s Top 10 Gifts for Animal Lovers
Books make great gifts, as my recent post on the subject attests, but not everyone’s a book lover (though I may never comprehend this, it’s nonetheless true). That’s why I’ve put together this fun...
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Donating to Animal Charities: Where Will You Give?
If you’re lucky enough to be one for whom end-of-year charitable giving makes your tax burden more bearable come this April, this post is for you! After all, what could be more fun than shopping for...
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5 Tips for Pet-Safe Holiday Air Travel
For many of us, the Thanksgiving holiday is an annual act of endurance. After all, the pilgrimage to the family table is fraught with no small measure of stress –– and that’s infinitely more likely...
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Dr. Khuly’s List of Best Animal Books for Holiday 2013
I think books make the best gifts, don’t you? There’s something about a book — e-book, paperbound, coffee table or otherwise — that’s smart, imaginative and personal all at once. Nothing says “you and...
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Chef Home Cooking: Eating Dinner With the Dogs
Do you know who Georges Perrier is? Although he’s the original celebrity chef, you’d be forgiven for not knowing how brilliant he is. But I do. Which is why when I was asked to write an introduction...
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Chicken and the Egg: Why I Love Keeping Backyard Hens
Ever thought that you might want to spread your wings and try something new in the world of pets? If so, maybe you should try your hand at chickens! I’ve been keeping chickens for the past five years...
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Confessions of a Not-so-dutiful Veterinarian
My Cuban mother is fond of a little truism she likes to trot out whenever I fail to resupply her dogs’ monthly heartworm and flea meds in a timely fashion: En casa de herrero, cuchillo de palo. It’s a...
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Cute vs. Cruel: Why This Vet Can’t Stand “Ugly Dog” Contests
The Bay Area in Calfornia is renowned for its progressive pet culture and its forward-thinking ways. How then to explain the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif., as proud host of The World’s Ugliest...
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Does Paying More for Vet Care Alter Your Perception of Its Quality?
In the realm of marketing, pricing is one of the principal ways a company signals that its product is better than another's. So it should come as no shock that this approach also comes into play in...
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Dogs Eat the Darndest Things!
A veterinarian friend once asked me for some advice. He was getting close to proposing to his sweetheart, and he’d been pondering all the cool ways that he might pop the question. Since his soon-to-be...
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Why Veterinarians Love Lists
In case you haven’t already noticed from my frequent application of the top-ten format in my posts, I love lists — all kinds of lists. I wouldn’t think of going to the market without a checklist nor...
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Why Flying With Snub-Nosed Dog Breeds Is a Lose-Lose Proposition
Got a snub-nosed breed? You know the ones. They’re the dogs who look like they’ve been chasing parked cars. Smushy-faced and adorable, these dogs are more popular than ever. And since traveling with...
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Pot for Spot? Medical Marijuana Is Not Just for Humans
Medical marijuana is a hot topic these days. But the increasingly relaxed environment with respect to marijuana doesn’t just affect just Homo sapiens. It’s given to our dogs and cats, too. In fact, a...
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Pet Lemon Laws: Designed to Help Consumers and Pets
It happens at least once a month: A new client will come in wondering what to do about a purchased puppy who won’t eat, never stops coughing or suffers from one of many more common signs of illness....
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My Top 6 Holiday Gift Picks for Pets
I know you’ll be inundated with gift ideas this holiday season, but after sharing my ideas for gifts for your vet, I couldn’t resist offering a few of my own favorites for the year. 1. Crypton Fabrics...
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Keep Your Cats Indoors! Do It for the Birds!
Is it wrong to let your cat roam free? Dr. Marty Becker tackled that quandary a couple of weeks ago in his post on barn cats. His take was that house cats should always remain indoors for their health...
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How to Find a Great Groomer: A Vet’s View
I know this great groomer. He comes to my mother’s house once every month or so to handle her two wild ones in all their furred unruliness. With a steady hand and an even steadier way around a nervous...
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Forensic Pathology? Bioterrorism Prevention? 7 Surprising Veterinary Specialties
Vet medicine is advancing by leaps and bounds in all kinds of fields. Advances in technology, changes in cultural norms and alterations in the economics of animal health care have precipitated a...
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