If real-life scientists do succeed in bringing dinosaurs back to life, hospital director Dr. Tim Hackett and his trusty sidekick Dr. Matt Johnston, chief of the Avian, Exotic, and Zoological Medicine service, will be ready to care for them.
Colorado State University alumnus and astronaut Kjell Lindgren has donated a CSU T-shirt he wore on the International Space Station to the university.
Researchers from Colorado State University’s Department of Biomedical Sciences and the USDA-APHIS National Wildlife Research Center are collaborating to train rescue dogs to detect avian influenza.
When Fozzie entered the Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital on Tuesday, she was adept at hopping on her front two legs, pulling her paralyzed back legs behind her as she moved. When the young dog left an hour later, she sped out the door on two legs and two wheels.
LISTEN: Stetter said he often consults with School of Medicine at the University of Colorado, because the scarcity of rural vets looks nearly identical to the country’s shortage of rural doctors.
Ideally, companion animal owners should maintain a good relationship with their general veterinary practitioner, who has often known the animal all of its life, and can serve as a partner in dialogue during the trying times when euthanasia emerges as a possible alternative to suffering. -Bernard Rollin
LISTEN: Without vets, farmers and the nation’s food supply are more vulnerable to those disease outbreaks. It also could mean sick and infected animals will increasingly go untested, said Mark Stetter, the dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Colorado State University.
With hot summer months upon us, many of us are eager to take our four-legged buddies with us while we are out and about. Here's how to keep them safe.
The fungus was detected in South Dakota during field examination of live bats using ultraviolet light and swab samples sent to the Colorado State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.