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Owners exercising with their pets not only improves the health of both but can strengthen the human-animal bond.

Oklahoma City, Okla. -- New veterinarians who devote 30 percent of their practice to large animals now will be eligible for the Oklahoma Agricultural Linked Deposit Program.

Roseland, N.J. -- Veterinarians can help fight rabies in Africa between now and the end of the year through a special program backed by Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health.

Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) cases during the first eight months of 2009 already have surpassed last year's total in the United States.

Assuming H1N1 will be found in swine herds by fall, USDA is working to speed production of a vaccine for pigs.

Washington -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened the new Reportable Food Registry (RFR), an electronic portal that food-industry officials are now required to use to alert the FDA when they have reason to believe their products might sicken or kill humans or animals.

North Grafton, Mass. -- A new six-stall equine isolation ward at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University triples the capacity for patients at the infectious-disease unit.

Sacramento, Calif. -- A California bill requiring all dogs and cats to be spayed or neutered by 6 months of age has failed -- again.

Manhattan, Kan. -- This year's World Rabies Day National Symposium, set for Sept. 19 at Kansas State University's Alumni Center, will feature a discussion of the One Health Initiative in addition to presentations on rabies prevention and control.

A massive public-service advertising campaign will be unleashed Sept. 21 to spur pet adoptions.

New York -- The nation's 2010 Thoroughbred foal crop is expected to be the smallest in more than 30 years, according to the Jockey Club's annual projection.

Horse deaths at racetracks declined only slightly in 2008, despite efforts to raise standards.

Seattle -- The Student American Veterinary Medication Association (SAVMA) ponied up $25,000 from its reserves to help fund the 2010 Veterinary Leadership Experience (VLE). The next day, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) cut $300,000 in VLE funding for the next four years.

Schaumburg, Ill. --Dr. Roger Mahr, former American Veterinary Medical Association (AMVA) president, has been named chief executive officer of the One Health Commission.

Bethesda, Md. -- Scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, say they have unlocked the key to the differences in dogs? coats.

National Report -- The U.S. Drug Enforcement Admininstration (DEA) reports the veterinary dewormer levamisole is showing up in seized street cocaine.

Student debt and starting salaries are up, but new DVMs are still opting to stay in the classroom longer.

An equine practitioner from Queensland, Australia, has died after contracting the Hendra virus from a horse.

California -- Fire season has begun on the West Coast and, though wildfires around Los Angeles are being brought under control, mandatory evacuations are still in place so many shelters and hospitals are opening their doors to displaced pets.

Denver -- A new program from Pfizer Animal Health and Morris Animal Foundation aims at putting practicing veterinarians back into fields of scientific research.

Kerrville, Texas -- A six-year study by the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is good news for veterinarians who've seen Lyme disease outbreaks, that eventually wind up in dogs, among their local deer populations.

If horse owners and groups allied to them were to contribute money, as many who took part in a recent online survey indicated they were willing to do, they could make a substantial impact toward solving the nation's problem of unwanted and neglected horses.

Despite a GAO report critical of its choice, the Department of Homeland Security remains committed to the Manhattan, Kan., site it chose for a new national bio-defense research laboratory and says it won't re-open the selection process.

Washington, D.C. -- Ericka Caslin is the new director of the Unwanted Horse Coalition.

Fort Collins, Colo. -- Could your kitchen hold the cure to feline cancer? Possibly.

Kansas City -- Popular pet-book author, columnist and TV personality Dr. Marty Becker urged veterinarians at CVC Kansas City to rekindle their love with the profession and the animals they have taken an oath to heal.

Fort Collins, Colo. -- Could your kitchen hold the cure to feline cancer? Possibly.

From a pain practitioner's standpoint, it's much better for a practice to provide more service to existing clients than try to compete for new ones when patients die before their time. That was one of two key take-home points Robert M. Stein, DVM, Dipl. AAPM, pain specialist and president of the International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management (IVAPM), offered CVC Kansas City attendees Sunday morning during his presentation, "A day in the life of a pain practitioner," part of the IVAPM Symposium at CVC Kansas City. Stein practices in suburban Buffalo, N.Y.

Dissecting a state-board investigation can go a long way to easing fear and stress.

Kansas City -- According to preliminary estimates, more than 6,000 attendees converged on CVC Kansas City this weekend.