Last week’s AHD Bulletin –
- Animal Health Digest Bulletin, April 16, 2026. Link.
Most read posts from April 16, 2026 AHD Bulletin –
- When you start to find employee requests irritating. Link.
- The wise leader. Link.
- Credit card surcharges by veterinary practices may not meet resistance. Link.
- How to identify and address grooming neglect. Link.
- Erase 10 years of social media damage. Link.
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Why your dog steals your shoes and other canine behaviors explained
Source: The Washington Post, April 16, 2026. Link. Humans and dogs have lived alongside one another for thousands of years, and our two species get along remarkably well. But there are still misunderstandings.
Adjusting for the hidden transition period; from lactation to the dry period
Source: Hoard’s Dairyman, April 20, 2026. Link. High performance cows need to be managed differently to ensure a safe and healthy transition as dry off approaches.
Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds
Source: The Guardian, April 15, 2026. Link. We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last shared a common ancestor with humans more than 90 million years ago. But the whales’ vocalized communications are remarkably similar to our own, researchers have discovered.
Gertie’s all grown-up! 15-year-old chicken crowned as oldest hen in the world
Source: Guinness World Records, April 14, 2026. Link. (includes video) With her beautiful brown-and-black speckled feathers and her clever demeanor, it may be hard to tell that Gertie – a Golden Sebright chicken – is in the later years of her life.
Also see: NPR, April 17, 2026. Link. (audio + transcript) The world’s oldest chicken, according to Guinness World Records, lives in Portland, Maine. Gertie is 15 years old, blind, and according to her caretaker, Frank Turek, she loves jazz.
This parrot has no beak, but is at the top of the pecking order
Source: The New York Times, April 20, 2026. Link. (video) Bruce, a disabled kea parrot is missing his top beak. The bird uses tools to keep himself healthy and developed a jousting technique that has made him the alpha male of his group.
Also see: How Bruce the parrot landed atop the pecking order, without a beak
Source: The New York Times, April 20, 2026. Link. (video, stills) More detailed information than the video above.
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