The Bird Bath

Dog days of September, what did you miss?

• Walmart enters Pet Services
• Gen Z Spent What?!
• Destination Non-Compete
• Live with Liz Hughston
• Conference wrap up

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Helpful links:

• NATVPU.org
• Join me for a LIVE recording at the Veterinary Innovation Summit

September is rolling, what did you miss?

• Veterinary Shortage Grudge Match
• GoodVets’ new partner
• ABC in USA
• Unionization growing
• Veterinary Innovation Summit

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Helpful links:

• Tackling the veterinary professional shortage
• AVMA is committed to addressing the industry’s challenges
• A proliferation of newly proposed veterinary colleges
• Join me for a LIVE recording at the Veterinary Innovation Summit

September is in full swing, what did you miss?

• Red Raiders are fanning out for clinicals
• Cash coming for Colorado vets
• Consolidator rollercoaster
• Support grows for e-VCPR
• National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 988

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Welcome to September, what have you missed? 

• Non-competes vs. VCPR
• Surprise ER Closure
• Meet Otto
• Vaccinate your dogs
• Room for legume
• Narcan in your cabinet
• AI Collapse

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Helpful links:

• The impact of protein source and grain inclusion on digestibility, fecal metabolites, and fecal microbiome in adult canines
• University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine’s emergency hotline
• Model collapse explained: How synthetic training data breaks AI

August might be ending, but we are just getting started!

• Modern moves
• BetterBusiness
• Insurance and Investments
• Boarding Benchmarks
• Famous Foodies
• Sparking a conversations

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Helpful links:

• Does production pay undermine veterinary team well-being?
• How to pay veterinarians: salary, hourly or on production?

Wild weather across the US, but is vet med wilder?

• O Canada!
• Arizona graduates some new Wildcats
• SYNLAB snapped up
• On your Marks: DEA Compliance
• Go Fetch a good time
• Apple a Day keeps the Elephant away

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Helpful links:

• Foundations Training Program this October by Antelligence
• Join dvm360’s® Fetch Kansas City BLOCK PARTY at Bar K’s
• Monitoring Anesthesia in Elephants by Dr. Fabiola Quesada

Half way through August, what have you missed?

• Non-competes aren’t two by two at Noah’s Animal Hospital
• PTO no shows
• $350M for Zoetis
• Something for Wag! to shake about
• Mobile vets on the move
• Investing in dog parks
• Physical therapy put on ice
• Google’s ELIXIR

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Helpful links:

• Paul Diaz's article in Vet Candy
• Blog article: Multimodal Medical AI
• Webinar: High Tech Mobile Vet Care by Digitail with Dr. Douglas Cifranick

Summer’s still hot, but is vet news hotter?

• “Inspire”ing IPO
• CityVet crosses the Red River
• Insurance is embraced by consolidators
• HelloFresh digs in
• Transparency in food supply
• DEI win
• Heroes in Syracuse

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What’s happening in the veterinary industry to kick off August?

• Numbers
• Big trouble Down Under
• Arkansas State and Mizzou make strides
• CRISPR for the heart
• Fen Vet pulls back the curtain (find the copy of Fen Vet business plan here)
• Petfolk and Airvet pull in the investors
• Barbie mania hits the practice

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What’s happening in the veterinary industry for the last week of July? 

• AVMA Selects their new President-Elect 
• The outgoing President shakes up employee shortage claims 
• hound jumps into Relief 
• Vet schools are growing but is it fast enough? 
• Brief Media’s new name 
• Nationwide uses data…for good? 
• Store-ception 
• ASF Vaccine in Vietnam  

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