As we begin Vet Tech Week, we ask that you take a minute to watch this powerful celebration of the caregivers who might just love our pets as much as we do. Their work is often thankless and anonymous, and they bear our worries with incredible strength.
While he’s best known as an innovator in veterinary cancer care and an early leader in the field of comparative oncology, Dr. Steve Withrow has a side passion for gardening. When COVID hit, he committed to maximizing the potential of his 27,000-square-foot fruit tree orchard, berry patches, and vegetable garden.
“I think this is a great opportunity to advance animal health. It’s a great way to represent veterinarians and the veterinary profession,” said Yoshua Goodman, one of 15 CSU D.V.M. students who volunteered at the event.
“Science is a very collaborative endeavor. It really takes many individuals, many groups of people with different talents, differing capabilities to come together to solve problems that are of the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic that we’re trying to solve right now." -Ray Goodrich
Melissa King, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVSMR, is an associate professor at the Colorado State University (CSU) Veterinary Teaching Hospital, in Fort Collins, where she specializes in equine sports medicine and rehabilitation. King treated JR, a 16-year-old Thoroughbred who had shown as a four-star eventer.
Separation anxiety isn’t the only kind of stress that a pet might go through as you get busy again. General anxiety due to change is also common, says Rebecca Ruch-Gallie, a veterinarian at Colorado State University’s veterinary teaching hospital: Pacing, lip licking, salivating, and a flat or sunken body posture can all be clues.
In honor of his three decades of animal disease surveillance work, Dr. Mo Salman is the 2020 recipient of the American Veterinary Medical Association Public Service Award.
Since (CSU alumna) Dr. Talia Agone’s arrival, she’s handled a variety of high-level medical procedures including: eye operations with three animals requiring eye removal, 89 dental cleanings with extractions, one animal requiring a feeding tube, three amputations, eight mass removals, five hernia repairs and eight wound repairs.
Johnson said these findings will be helpful for veterinarians and medical doctors who use stem cell therapy.
“I just can’t say enough about the oncology nurses at CSU… I know they treated her with so much compassion and love and that made it easier for me too,” Rachel Askeland says.