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Fear, anxiety and stress walk into any veterinary setting alongside pets. Heres how to reduce pets stress during rehabilitation.

OK, not a house, but a two-walled exam room courtesy of Animal Arts that stands up beautifully in a veterinary conference exhibit hall. See the photos and read on for some advice from Dr. Jonathan Bloom, who demonstrated a few Fear Free exams at the most recent Fetch dvm360 conference.

Your veterinary client is becoming fearful of her dogs food-based aggression. Heres a handout to explain what food guarding is, how they can make it better and what might make it worse.

Veterinary professionals, you have a finite amount of time in this lifewhy are you spending it on other peoples priorities? Sit down, write out these two lists, and rejigger your commitments.

If your veterinary hospital is like most, its not full of mercenary pirates looking to swindle pet owners. You care about pets, and it costs money to run your hospital. My pitch? Take the veterinarians out of these money chats and empower the nonmedical team to step up.

The bacterial disease is widely contagious and can kill entire hives.

If motivating your team to stay engaged with the veterinary profession both inside and outside your practice walls is giving you grief, Katie Adams, CVPM, has a plan to replace your tears with tiers.

Have you noticed that pet foods are starting to look and sound like your own favorite foods? Theres a reason for that.

As a veterinarian, I firmly believed only in what science could prove. Until I met Rachel.

A new online program aims to make it easier to prepare for the certified veterinary practice manager exam. Get to cramming now

Practice owners and staff: Get on the same page. Huddle. Compare notes. Just communicate, would ya?

This veterinary hospital owner says his 67-year-old associate is slowing down and needs to consider retiring. Is he out of line? Dr. Rosenberg weighs in.

Probably not, but it does reinforce the importance of personal protection equipment in veterinary dentistry, expert says.

Let your veterinary practice software sleuth out this possible money leak.

Or: How can 19th century human medicine influence modern veterinary thinking?

When you go to a veterinary conference to get smarter, make sure you share your journey on social media.

No, not with paint. Veterinary architect and green machine Heather Lewis has ideas to make your veterinary practice friendlier for the environment, your patients and, yes, you.

Offering prepaid veterinary services via wellness plans and loyalty programs can be like converting cash into casino chipswith money out of sight, clients are able to better focus on their pets care. But which one is more likely to yield higher winnings for your practice?

When you're the veterinary practice owner and the landlord.

Considering a retail price of $10,000 to $15,000 more than most other chemistry analyzers on the market, look before you leap into Zoetis' Carysta. Here's what their chief medical officer has to say about their products positives

Katie Adams, CVPM, counsels a veterinary team member concerned about threats to the practice's pharmacy business.

Watch for these signals dogs might be giving in the veterinary clinic.

Is your question best posed to a veterinarian or veterinary technician? Here's a handy flowchart to find out.

There are two periods lying in wait to sting your veterinary clinics coffers.

The death of a veterinary patient can lead to guilt, grief and even secondary trauma. Fetch dvm360 conference speakers Tasha McNerney and Dr. Hilal Dogan offer support to reduce the clinical risks and manage the repercussions when a patient dies under anesthesia.

At Fetch dvm360 conference in Virginia Beach, Drs. Dani McVety and Andy Roark offered advice on how to regain perspective and really love veterinary medicine.

Anesthesia nerd Tasha McNerney serves up tips for effective anesthesia and analgesia.

Whether you have a positive or negative culture at your veterinary practice may be traced back to how closely youre sticking to your core values.

Sometimes we need to embrace "I don't know" and move forward.

At Fetch dvm360 conference, Dr. Betsy Charles uses radiology to help veterinarians reflect on their feelings and experience in veterinary practice.