Small Animal Topic

Cleft Palate

...trouble eating Have trouble breathing and exercising because of fluid or infection in their noses. Figure 2. Primary cleft palate or “harelip” in a ten year old Cocker spaniel. The...
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News

2025 examination dates announced

...2025 Registration opens May 29, 2024. There are no changes to the reading list. The period for journal articles will be updated to reflect the new three- or five-year period....
Honored Mentor

Mimi Arighi

When I was an intern, figuring out what to do next, Dr. Arighi provided me the early mentorship and training that guided my surgical career for the years to come....
Large Animal Topic

Claw Amputation in Cattle

Claw amputation, is the surgical removal of one of the claws of a cow’s hoof, leaving the animal to stand on the remaining healthy claw. Claw amputation is a last-resort...
Honored Mentor

Harry W. Boothe

Having a veterinarian as a father, I have seen the positive effect of mentorship in the veterinary profession from a very early age. Such mentorship has favorably influenced my experiences...
Honored Mentor

Donald A. Hulse

...as an orthopedic surgeon during my residency at Texas A&M. He always had a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and he pushed me in the right direction. He...
Small Animal Topic

Pyometra

...spayed early in life will not develop pyometra. However, a uterine stump pyometra may occur after incomplete ovariohysterectomy which allows a segment of the uterine body or horn to become...
Large Animal Topic

Subsolar Abscess and Coffin Bone Osteomyelitis

...and often times this occurs suddenly (i.e. they were ‘fine’ earlier today or yesterday). The horse may be trembling or sweating, as some of these abscesses can be very painful....
Large Animal Topic

Bone Sequestrum in Large Animals

...for the sequestrum to appear as a segment of bone surrounded by lysis of the parent bone. This may mean that repeat radiographs 2-3 weeks following trauma are required to...