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I’d never heard of the Darien Gap; what about you? It’s kind of a unique place on the planet that we and our Central American partners have been able to utilize in the fight against this predatory maggot, the New World Screwworm. It’s the last thing before Colombia,...

Dog food: it might be the single most sensitive topic in the exam room, the “American politics” of pet care. The number of dog owners I meet who are preparing their pet’s meals from scratch is on the rise, and those people usually have pretty strong opinions on the...

Sharing our homes and hearts with dogs and cats, or any other friend that has a shorter lifespan than ourselves, opens us up to repeated attacks of grief and loss as each one moves forward into her final resting place. In the best-case scenario, our pet has by that...

In our last piece, you learned about a plain-looking bug that produces some very aggressive babies, a character that has made many headlines in the last few months as it eyes its old stomping grounds in the U.S.. In 1935, the New World Screwworm had our agricultural...

In a previous piece, we learned about the challenges faced by patients with skin issues, who generally seem destined to form a really close relationship with their veterinarian. It’s the rechecks...all the rechecks…. They’re truly the foundation of successful...