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Equine welfare: UC-Davis plan calls for network of community shelters for horses
January 1st 2009Davis, Calif. - A faculty organization at the University of California-Davis has come up with a proposal for dealing with unwanted horses and intends to create a template that communities anywhere in the country could follow.
U.S. agency receives private offer to create wild-horse sanctuary
January 1st 2009Reno, Nev. - Thousands of unadoptable wild horses in U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) holding facilities could be saved from possible euthanasia or slaughter if the agency decides to accept an offer for a sanctuary.
Instinct: a powerful force, even for pet owners
January 1st 2009The natural history of mankind in general, and veterinary medicine in particular, may need to be rewritten. Arnie and I have uncovered dramatic new evidence indicating that the formal practice of veterinary medicine may be as old as the use of spoken language.
Cornell students organize zoonotics symposium
January 1st 2009Ithaca, N.Y. -- The College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University will host a Zoonotic Diseases Symposium Feb. 6-8, and the featured speaker will be DVM Lonnie King, director of the National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Idea Exchange: A greener use for refrigerator magnets
January 1st 2009Over the years, I have received many promotional magnets. Rather than throwing them away, I reuse these magnets by copying the lists that used to be attached to the refrigerator door to card stock and taping or gluing the lists to the magnets.