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When the veterinary clients pup is having poop problems, parasites may be at play. Heres the low-down on this relatively common and very treatable canine condition.

In this Spotlight series, we take a deeper look into your new veterinary clients: Gen Z. Find out why millennials are no longer your main concern, what veterinary professionals should expect to face with Gen Z customers and how to market your practice to this up-and-coming generation.

Anivive Lifesciences starts with unmet therapeutic needs and employs high-tech research methods to identify compounds that could meet those needs.

Are your veterinary patients too hot to trot? Check out these new pet products and help keep those hot dogs cool all summer long.

Your veterinary clients are using social sites like Instagram to gain information on how to best help their pets. This is where you and your clinic come in.

They scoff at physical mail and answering the phone. Theyre also going to make up 40% of all consumers by 2020. Heres what you need to know about marketing to your newest generation of veterinary clients, and how you can change your online presence today.

Theyre the same, and theyre different, and theyre getting ready to invade your veterinary hospital. Get to know them as employees and clients.

Yes. Youre helping the veterinary hospital by getting rid of the toxic team member who brings down the whole veterinary team and sucks the air out of the room.

Every house, and every veterinary hospital, accumulates too much stuff. Join me as I offer the best tips Ive seen practice team members put in place to store things where everyone can find them and get rid of the things you dont need.

Educate veterinary clients on what signs to watch for and some dangers to avoid as they try to prevent or get in to see you faster for possible ulcers, conjunctivitis, glaucoma and more in pets.

Should you buy or start a veterinary hospital? Here are questions to ask to figure it out and resource paths to help you explore your options.

Have we done ourselves a disservice by shielding veterinary clients from the amount of blood, sweat and tears involved in keeping their pets healthy?

Topical treatments can be a useful adjunct in atopic dermatitis, but appropriate veterinary client and patient selection are essential for success.

These telemedicine, client marketing and loyalty program apps help veterinary practices touch base with pet owners with more than postcards.

Japans so-called Queen of Tidy helped me sort my T-shirt drawer, my office and my garage, keeping only the stuff that sparked joy. But I think these lessons offer us veterinary professionals a chance to ask that about every task and everyone in our lives.

Using her work as an associate and then locum tenens, this Hospital Design Competition Merit Award winner knew what she wanted: good-looking and clutter-free, with a much-needed break room for veterinary team members to decompress.

Meaningful personal and professional growth may come at a level that seems easy as pie. Like so basic that surely the veterinary profession succeeds at it already. But no.

The latest generation, born after 1997 and graduating veterinary school in a few years, will have some things in common with millennials (who lived through a recession). Here are the major issues theyre likely to face based on todays economy.

Hiring is hard enough without having to worry about being sued by a prospective candidate. Heres a rundown of the questions you need to refrain from asking during the interview process.

Practice chains are paying many times what the next generation of practice owners can afford for good veterinary hospitals. Associates feel left out in the cold. Find out what expert Karen Felsted, CPA, MS, DVM, CVPM, CVA, says about the alternative: starting up a practice with zero clients when you open your doors.

A veterinary client returns a bag of therapeutic food that their pet refused to eat. Turn it into samples so future clients can test the food out before buying it.

Corporate consolidators are snapping up veterinary hospitals. Associate veterinarians scramble to find good ones left. And practice owners who werent thinking about selling all of a sudden wonder if nows the time. Heres how the process works.

Its time to turn those late-night texts from all sorts of characters who own pets into a lucrative opportunity for your veterinary team. Heres how.

Heres how to use the famed acronym (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) to help your team members pursue professional development at individual and group levels.

As pet owner expectations evolve, veterinary practices have a golden opportunity to provide better pet care and better client experiences while increasing revenue.

When it comes to benefit plan compliance, its often the case that you dont know what you dont know.

No shocker, veterinary students are tired. This new study proves it conclusively and begs this question: Now what?Photographee.eu/stock.adobe.com

If you dread these difficult client conversations, veterinary palliative care expert Dr. Katherine Goldberg has straightforward advice for how to use them as opportunities to discuss goals and ultimately achieve better outcomes for the client and the pet.

When I took a new job as hospital administrator after 26 years at a new veterinary practice, the differences in associate pay, standards of care and geography just didnt work for me.

In addition to its business-related curriculum for veterinary students, Penn Vet is now offering an immersive program for postgraduates to build entrepreneurial skills and affect public health on a larger scale.