Category: AHVMA LECTURES

🐾 SHE WAS STILL NURSING HER PUPPIES WHILE HER OWN BODY WAS STRUGGLING. 💚 Nessa had severe anemia, repeated nosebleeds, and positive tests for Lyme and anaplasmosis. Yet she kept mothering her puppies. As a breeder, that story got me. Then came Calle, whose owner struggled to believe her abnormal bloodwork because she seemed perfectly…

I am home from AHVMA, and I would like to tell you that I came through the door, unpacked everything, organized my notes, and got right back into the swing of things, but let’s not get carried away. I am tired. My brain is still somewhere between a lecture on cancer metabolism and a slide…

✈️ I am writing this on the airplane home from AHVMA, with a notebook that needs its own notebook, a phone that is threatening to become a veterinary textbook, and dogs at home who are probably wondering why I had to fly across the country to learn how to take better care of creatures who…

I heard her speak at last year’s AHVMA, and I have been using mistletoe with my own dogs for a couple of years now, so this wasn’t an introduction for me. I went back because experience gives me MORE questions, and I wanted to understand the preparations better, hear how she makes decisions for different…

Some years I have newborn puppies on the ground while I am saying goodbye to an old dog, and let me tell you, there is no nice, organized way to do that. There is no announcement that says, “Everybody settle down, Timea needs a few days to get her heart back together.” The puppies are…

Day two at the AHVMA conference, and I spent a good part of today taking notes and wondering how we can talk so much about keeping dogs healthy while giving so little attention to what happens when we permanently change their hormonal system. There were wonderful veterinary speakers today, and I have plenty I want…

🐾 I PROMISED TO KEEP MY PEEPS UPDATED, SO HERE I AM, ONE DAY INTO AHVMA AND ALREADY WISHING I HAD PACKED A SECOND BRAIN. My dogs probably think I have gone to California to find more food, and considering what happened when I entered the vendor hall, I cannot entirely fault their reasoning. I…