Keep pets safe; warn clients of Halloween hazardsOctober 21, 2024Beyond the well-known risk of chocolate, other items, such as candies containing xylitol, raw pumpkin, toxic autumn flowers, and glow sticks are potential health hazards for pets
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Outpatient treatment may be viable for lily toxicity in cats, study revealsOctober 17, 2024While inpatient cats had a 100 percent survival rate, many cats treated as outpatients still had positive outcomes with 87.5 percent survival rate.
Holiday hazards: 'Tis the season for sharing life-saving tipsDecember 19, 2023Delicious holiday foods are just one of the seasonal pitfalls facing clients and their pets. Help them stay accident-free with hazard management and avoidance tips from emergency, critical care, and toxicology experts and practitioners.
VPN Plus+ ExclusiveGaslighting: A Guide for Burning Your Practice Culture to the GroundNovember 30, 2022This session will discuss if gaslighting is happening within your practice and setting you and your team up for failure. It will talk about how different gaslighting behaviors can create toxicity in the workplace. No matter how much you pay your team members, they won’t stick around with a toxic culture. Our teams are more aware than ever that they are more willing to take a cut in pay or have no pay at all than work in a toxic environment. Listen as Rhonda dives into specific examples of gaslighting in the practice that we are so used to seeing that we don’t even realize it is gaslighting.
Blue-green algae: What it is and why it's so deadlyJune 3, 2020Although commonly referred to as blue-green “algae,” these organisms are not plants. Rather, they are bacteria—cyanobacteria, to be precise. And they are deadly to dogs, cats, and other animals.
Hill's facing class-action lawsuit over excessive vitamin D levelsFebruary 22, 2019A lawsuit has been filed against Hill’s Pet Nutrition for selling dog food containing too much vitamin D.
Hill's recalls canned dog food due to high Vitamin D levelsFebruary 4, 2019Hill's Pet Nutrition is recalling some of its canned dog food over concerns of elevated levels of Vitamin D. The announcement comes after Hill's received a complaint about a dog exhibiting signs of excessive Vitamin D. An investigation by the company confirmed elevated levels of Vitamin D due to a supplier error. The affected canned dog foods were distributed through retail pet stores, as well as veterinary clinics and e-commerce. No dry foods, cat foods, or …
FDA recalls a number of dry dog food products causing vitamin D toxicityDecember 6, 2018The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is adding another recall to its initial two, following an investigation that found elevated levels of vitamin D in a number of goods.
Two food companies issue recalls following customer complaints of vitamin D toxicityNovember 12, 2018Missouri-based pet food companies Natural Life Pet Products and Nutrisca are recalling certain dry dog foods following three complaints from pet owners about vitamin D toxicity.
