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Veterinary
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THE INFORMATION
LEADER FOR VETERINARY
PRACTICE AND BUSINESS
Volume 26/Number 11 November 2014 VeterinaryPracticeNews.com
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Pet owners often don’t
recognize heat trauma
By Somyr McLean Perry
For Veterinary Practice News
Manage expectations
with feline diabetes
Who says the veterinary businessisstagnant?
Not IBISWorld, an international industry research firm
whose new report on U.S.
veterinary services projects
average revenue growth of 4. 5 percent a year through 2019, more than
double the expected rate of inflation.
A growing U.S. pet population,
heightened interest in pet health insurance and client willingness to pay for specialized treatments are chief reasons for optimism despite a slump in how often individual animals show up
at veterinary clinics.
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Report, Page 16
Pet food, Page 19
Bright future
forecast for
veterinary services
By Ken Niedziela
Veterinary Practice News
By Ken Niedziela
Veterinary Practice News
Three in 10 pet foods tested in a Chapman University study contained a meat source not listed
on the label, raising concerns for
allergy-suffering cats and dogs and a
call for greater oversight.
The study, published in the journal
Food Control, also could not detect
the listed meat in seven of the 52
samples.
Study casts doubt on
pet food labeling
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Demographic shifts
found in survey of U.K.
veterinarians. Page 6
American Humane
Association honors
inaugural ‘Hero’ vet and
vet tech. Page 18
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Compounded drugs are
sometimes used to meet the
By Ken Niedziela
Veterinary Practice News
Fourteen diplomates from the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (feline
practice category) met at the American Association of Feline Practitioners meeting in
Indianapolis to discuss the clinical management of diabetes in the cat.
Elaine Wexler-Mitchell, DVM, of The Cat
Care Clinic in Orange, Calif., invited all
ABVP feline diplomates to participate and to
discuss the apparent disparity in the results
of academic recommendations for managing
diabetic cats and the clinical outcome that
we, as in-the-trenches practitioners, have
experienced.
By Gary Norsworthy, DVM
For Veterinary Practice News
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