What you can do to Protect your Veterinary Practice
Despite weakness in the overall economy, spending on pets, veterinary services, and related products remains strong and at record levels compared to ten or even five years ago.
However, despite this good news, veterinarians face a number of new competitors seeking to peel away significant amounts of revenue [...]

As with human healthcare, the cost of veterinary care is increasing, which in turn is leading a number of pet owners to choose what is termed “economic euthanasia.” Essentially, the cost to treat the illness or injury is more than the owner can afford.
To help prevent pet owners from falling into such a situation, there [...]

Despite a serious downturn in the economy, pet ownership and spending continues to grow. However, competition within the pet market is also growing. On one side is the growth of big-box-like pet outlets while on the other is retailers adding or increasing the number of pet and pet-related products they sell.

Clients are more concerned about fees than ever before. In fact, you may be finding even some of your best clients are putting off non-emergency treatments for things like chronic conditions until they’ve got more cash in their coffers. Ignoring chronic conditions may end up costing them more in the long-run, though. Veterinary Pet Insurance [...]

It’s the first day of spring and many of your clients’ thoughts are turning toward planting gardens and sprucing up their yard now that all the snow is gone. That means you may start getting more questions from clients about how dangerous cocoa mulch is for their dog. Around this time each year, various email [...]

As Oprah goes, so goes the nation, and veterinarians may start getting a lot more questions from clients about parvovirus. Why’s that? News broke yesterday that Ivan, one of the two golden Cocker Spaniel puppies Oprah Winfrey adopted from the PAWS Chicago animal shelter, died over the weekend from parvovirus.
Winfrey introduced Ivan and his littermate, Sadie, [...]

You and your clients know that pets occupy an increasingly important place in the family, but in the legal realm, lawyers and judges view pets more like a car or refrigerator than a family member. Last year’s settlement for the 2007 Menu Foods pet food recall compensated pet owners for everything from medical treatment and [...]

Amidst all the gloomy economic news from across the world, there’s at least one silver lining: people are still spending a lot of money on their pets.
In a report from the Global Pet Expo in February, Dr. Marty Becker and Keith Turner from Pet Connection wrote that consumers spent more than $43 billion on pet [...]