Critter News
MARCH 16, 2009
Here is an article about the high cost of vet care and the ethical questions of how much do you spend. Do you ask the vet to euthanize the animal? I measure our cat Charlotte (pictured above in the masthead) in 42" HDTV's. She's at about 3 at the moment. Maybe 4 with all the meds and followup visits.
Animal Person
JANUARY 20, 2010
We have a request, and it's an issue I've written about a handful of times but never had this particular question answered by readers: How do you talk with your vet--who is against feeding your dog vegan food--about your choice to do so? I'm fortunate to have a regular (non-specialist) vet who has no problem at all with a vegan diet for dogs.
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Animal Person
JULY 21, 2010
I somehow became the non-vet, go-to person regarding dogs and diabetes, I suppose due to my frequent blogging about Violet Rays (left), my greyhound who has been through diabetes, blindness (then cataract replacement), glaucoma and retina detachment. My vet's other clients, however, often had the opposite problem, and hypoglycemia resulted.
Animal Person
SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
The vet did give me a hard time about the dogs' animal-free diets (my traditional vets don't, ironically), and my response was that unless she could show me some research that his particular type of injury needs animal protein to heal, I wasn't going to change anything. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.
Animal Person
JANUARY 1, 2010
One of those is vet bills, which of course aren't deductible, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't know the total. who chooses not to take in animals because he respects them, and I agreed theoretically. The real question for today, though, is whether you think it's not vegan to keep nonhuman animals. Do you agree with that?
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 22, 2009
Dr. Newest Vet sent this to me from yesterday's day at "camp" for Charles. Next, to today's New York Times and Gary Steiner 's fantastic Op-ed called " Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,"which begins with: "LATELY more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised." (Try
Animal Person
DECEMBER 4, 2009
No, because their entire business is based on using animals. But there are other scenarios, such as some that PCRM has suggested in the past, that do make sense; where the goal is to alter policy within a company regarding, say, research using animals when that's not required. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics.
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