Last week’s AHD Bulletin –
- Animal Health Digest Bulletin, 2023. Link.
Most read posts from the December 7th AHD Bulletin –
- Pay attention to others. They’re not thinking of you. Link.
- Lapsing client numbers increasing. Link.
- The average pet owner has 72 “pet panics” per year. Link.
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Top 10 veterinary medicine legislative issues in 2024
Source: The Bridge Club, YouTube, December 12, 2023. Link. The Animal Policy Group’s Mark Cushing and Loren Breen discuss the issues veterinary medicine faced in 2023 and share the top legislative issues for 2024.
Fears of canine respiratory illness may be overblown
Source: Veterinary Advantage, December 2023. Link. Experts in canine infectious respiratory disease are urging caution as a mysterious canine respiratory disease with no known pathogen continues to make headlines in the United States. Because the U.S. has no robust surveillance system for infectious disease in dogs, it’s hard to track these cases and discern whether anecdotes and scraps of data add up to widespread and concerning patterns according to an NPR report.
Once they were pets. Now giant goldfish are menacing The Great Lakes.
Source: The New York Times, December 8, 2023. Link. Inside a fishbowl, the goldfish – a species of carp native to East Asia, bred for aesthetic delight and traditionally believed to bring good fortune – is hardly more than home décor . . . But released into the wild, the seemingly humble goldfish, freed from glass boundaries and no longer limited to meals of flakes, can grow to monstrous proportions.
Killer kitties: cats are eating 2,000 species, including hundreds that are at risk
Source: The Guardian, December 12, 2023. Link. Cats may be adored human companions, but they are also highly effective killers, according to a study that shows they eat more than 2,000 species globally – including hundreds that are of conservation concern.
Retail trends for 2024
Source: Inc, December 6, 2023. Link. The retail landscape is continuing to transform relying on technology and consumer behavior to improve not only what they sell, but how they sell. Joel Goldstein shares 10 trends to watch for in 2024.
Doritos flavored liquor? YHTBK!
Source: Food and Wine, December 12, 2023. Link. Is Doritos-flavored booze a thing? Apparently so. Doritos and Empirical Spirits collaborated and apparently it tastes just like the iconic nacho cheese tortilla chip but with an 84-proof kick to replace the crunch.
