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You don't have to know everything! When you play to each other's strengths, you can ease pets' fears more effectively.

Looks matter! Especially when your specialty hospital is built to serve an upscale community on the East Coast. Find out how the team at Gold Coast Center for Veterinary Care channeled their New York state of design.

With exam room conversations about pet obesity, youre playing the long game. It might take a few chats to get a veterinary client on board that theres a problem and then more talking to agree to a plan. Dont get frustrated. Try this.

These trees are no good for large animals. Offer clients this handout and tell them to call you if they suspect ingestion of branches, bark or leaves.

Want to educate pet owners and protect patients? The veterinarians at Pet Poison Helpline have compiled a list of the top 10 most common poisoning cases in dogs and cats. Time to print and share this client handout ...

We know, we know, people are weird. Here are some of the weirder (and sadder) interactions that happen within the four walls of a veterinary practice.

A simple switch of a single word could drive compliance with veterinary clients through the roof.

The good news for new puppy owners, most pups will eat almost anything. The bad news, most pups will eat almost anything. Pass out this guide to optimal nutrition from the start.

For every FAS (fear, anxiety stress) problem, there could be a solution in your exam room, in this handout and the book, or in a veterinary behaviorist's practice. Let's do this.

Its a phrase I often find myself repeating when clients and pets both snap their fangs at the veterinary professionals that serve them. Here are other healthy ways of coping.

There are three things you never talk about online: politics, religion-and apparently pet food.

Fetch dvm360 educators Mike Barletta, Tasha McNerney and Oriana Scislowicz take a full-circle approach to maximizing the effectiveness of local nerve blocks in veterinary practice.

Well, not literally. But much like elementary school, as veterinarians we aren't faced with anything we can't handle, just situations and cases we haven't studied yet.

What should veterinary professionals and pet owners care about in considering pet insurance plans? Here's the latest information from some of the nation's top pet insurance providers.

New owners of kittens need help navigating all those kitten chow choices. Help them with vetted advice from this veterinary nutritionist in this handy client handout.

Veterinary teamthere's more to it than "open door, walk through." Learn the benefits of the nonverbal messages you could be sending.

These bad-boys of the toxicology world are dangerous to pets. Heres how to handle these cases.

Residential lawn care companies heavily advertise treatments purporting to keep fleas and ticks at bay this time of yearbut do they work, and are they safe for your veterinary patients?

Heres how this veterinary practice COO/CFO uses two charts to inspire unmotivated doctors and eager new hires alike.

The my cat doesnt go outside excuse wont cut it anymore. Heres how to convert those resistant veterinary clients.

You think you can do lots of things at once (or your boss thinks you can). But is multitasking in veterinary practice always the right choice? And is hiring people who think they can do five things at once really helping you in the long run?

Expert status isnt a requisite for getting most of the diagnostic information you need, says imaging specialist Dr. Rachel Pollard.

You can't control what a veterinary client says about you, your team members or your practice online, but you can manage the damage. Here's how.

Dr. Dani McVety shares how inspiring young veterinarians reminds her of her own purpose in life.

Companies heavily advertise their flea- and tick-repelling sprays this time of year. Are your clients buying the hype?

Have you heard the one about the veterinary client who pantsed herself in the waiting room? Heres how it happened.

This clinic in Door County, Wisconsin, with its clean lines and creative roofline, would make architect Frank Lloyd Wright proud.

According to this reader, not only is this better for the cat, but your veterinary client retention rates become healthy and strong as well.

Delving into the innermost thoughts of Drs. Codger and Greenskin sheds new light on both sides. Time to learn about the meaning behind their motives.

When veterinary team members are shirking their duties and there isnt exactly a line of applicants willing to replace them, what are you to do? Our practice management expert Katie Adams, CVPM, has answers.