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How Much is Your Animal Worth?

Critter News

Here is an article about the high cost of vet care and the ethical questions of how much do you spend. Do you ask the vet to euthanize the animal? I measure our cat Charlotte (pictured above in the masthead) in 42" HDTV's. She's at about 3 at the moment. Maybe 4 with all the meds and followup visits.

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On Talking With Veterinarians About Vegan Food

Animal Person

We have a request, and it's an issue I've written about a handful of times but never had this particular question answered by readers: How do you talk with your vet--who is against feeding your dog vegan food--about your choice to do so? I'm fortunate to have a regular (non-specialist) vet who has no problem at all with a vegan diet for dogs.

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On Taxes, Veganism and "Pets"

Animal Person

One of those is vet bills, which of course aren't deductible, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't know the total. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters Language. This necessary task is often illuminating as there are some expenses I'm reluctant to tally in my head as the year progresses. Do you agree with that?

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Diabetes and Vetsulin Recap

Animal Person

I somehow became the non-vet, go-to person regarding dogs and diabetes, I suppose due to my frequent blogging about Violet Rays (left), my greyhound who has been through diabetes, blindness (then cataract replacement), glaucoma and retina detachment. My vet's other clients, however, often had the opposite problem, and hypoglycemia resulted.

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Smattering Sunday

Animal Person

Dr. Newest Vet sent this to me from yesterday's day at "camp" for Charles. And the "strict ethical vegan" to come.) Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Greyhound Matters Language. CharlesCamp1 from Mary Martin on Vimeo (which it looks like I'm going to have to upgrade to improve the picture).

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On Charles and Project Treadstone

Animal Person

The vet did give me a hard time about the dogs' animal-free diets (my traditional vets don't, ironically), and my response was that unless she could show me some research that his particular type of injury needs animal protein to heal, I wasn't going to change anything. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. been there.

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Why I'm Not Giving Up On Capitalism

Animal Person

Boone's wife) was largely responsible for Oklahoma State University canceling its planned anthrax experiments on baboons after she threatened to cancel the Pickens' $5 million donation to the university's vet school. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. Here 's a local news article about the situation.)