Last week’s AHD Bulletin –
- Animal Health Digest Bulletin, October 29, 2026. Link.
Most read posts from October 29th AHD Bulletin –
- Bonded but not booked. Even devoted owners miss vet visits. Link.
- Japanese study reveals why cats don’t finish their food. Link.
- Pet Age’s 2026 State of the Pet Industry report. Link.
- Malone: From team member to team leader. Link.
- Farriers share how often they encounter thrush. Link.
Also see: miconazole resistance; responsible dog ownership; weak-born fall calves
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Wedgewood recalls nearly 4000 compounded veterinary products over drug potency concerns
Source: DVM 360, October 21, 2026. Link. Medications shipped nationwide from February through early October may contain too little or too much of the active drug. The company has reported 98 complaints to date; 7 of them serious. See the dedicated recall lookup page <Link>.
AI tools may make women sound less sophisticated at work
Source: HRD, October 23, 2026. Link. A new study found that leading AI chatbots can produce less formal, less sophisticated workplace writing when prompts contain language patterns more commonly associated with women, such as hedging phrases and collaborative wording.
Bloomscrolling trend could make time online work for us instead of against us
Source: USA Today, October 27, 2026. Link. An antidote to doomscrolling may finally be here. “Bloomscrolling… shifts the focus from how much we scroll to what we’re actually taking in. It recognizes that content matters and that we have more say and control over our feeds than we often realize,” Roy-Greene says.
Why did snakes lose their legs? And nine more animal mysteries
Source: The New York Times, November 2, 2026. Link. Two New York Times reporters share their top 10 enigmas out of the earth’s 1.5 million-plus zoological species. Not only have snakes lost their legs, but sloths still come down from the trees to poop!
Biologist explores deception in the animal kingdom. Does it amount to lying?
Source: Live Science, October 31, 2026. Link. Most deception in nature happens without much awareness from the creature involved. But biologist and author James O’Hanlon turns to tactical deception aimed at manipulating what another animal believes — and whether we can consider this lying.
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