pet health
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Vet Topics (Summer 2018) now online
The Summer 2018 issue of Vet Topics is now available online. Click here to download a PDF version of the issue that includes the following stories: Eye-catching research: Marina Leis and her team at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) has been investigating the bacterial community found on the surface of dogs’ eyes. This groundbreaking research recently earned international …
August 17th, 2018 Full story »
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Vets for Pets good medicine for everyone
The man standing in front of Dr. Jane Vermeulen was well groomed, neatly dressed and articulate. When he asked her for a specific flea treatment for his two cats, she assumed he was a staff member from Our Place — an inner-city transition shelter in Victoria, B.C. Our Place is also home base for “Vets for Pets,” a free veterinary clinic …
May 04th, 2015 Full story »
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CFI invests in pet health project
Two researchers at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) are among a group of University of Saskatchewan scientists who received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). U of S researchers will share a total of $844,000 from the CFI for wide-ranging research. The four U of S projects were announced January 20 on the U of S campus by Ed Holder, …
January 27th, 2015 Full story »
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How Joey got his bounce back
Linda Jensen knew it was bad news when her veterinarian called her on a Sunday night. Dr. Bernard Chapuis, a practitioner in Jensen’s home town of Prince Albert, Sask., had recently removed a lump behind the left front leg of Jensen’s Airedale terrier Joey. “The pathologist at the university [Western College of Veterinary Medicine] had sent back the results and …
January 10th, 2015 Full story »
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Community clinics fulfil vital health role
Out on the hockey rink’s cement surface, a masked, blue-gowned veterinary student carefully unwraps a package of sterile surgery equipment. A veterinarian, also in surgical scrubs, gives her directions. Six identical tables are prepped and waiting for their feline and canine patients. Soon after, there’s a quiet flurry of activity as the weekend’s first wave of spay and neuter surgeries …
October 24th, 2014 Full story »
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Spay-neuter clinics address pet health issues
It’s a Saturday morning in May, and my lab mates and I arrive early for the Canine Action Project’s (CAP) spay-neuter clinic at the elementary school in Little Pine First Nation — a community about 80 kilometres northwest of North Battleford, Sask. I’m helping out with the clinic, but I’m also here to collect dog poo. It’s part of my summer …
October 13th, 2014 Full story »
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Pigmentary uveitis remains a mystery
My eyes burn and it feels like I haven’t blinked for days. I’ve been sitting for hours, sifting through case files in the records office of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine’s (WCVM) Veterinary Medical Centre. I let out a sigh that erupts a plume of dust: I’ve hardly even made a dent in the mountain of paper before me. …
September 30th, 2014 Full story »
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Can your pet get sunburned?
As summer continues, people and pets alike flock outdoors to enjoy the warm weather and sunshine. We take along sunscreen, hats, sunglasses and clothes to protect our skin from the damaging ultraviolet (UV) light of the sun — but what do we do to protect our pets? If you’ve never thought about this before, don’t worry – you’re not the only …
September 02nd, 2014 Full story »
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CAHF Research Grants: 2014-15
Metformin: a new potential cancer drug for dogs? Drs. M. Casey Gaunt, Charlotte Johnson, Valerie MacDonald Dickinson and Trisha Dowling, WCVM; and Ryan Dickinson, Prairie Diagnostic Services Metformin is a drug that has been used to manage type-2 diabetes mellitus in humans. Recent studies have shown that the drug may also have the ability to decrease the incidence of — …
August 03rd, 2014 Full story »
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CAHF and EHRF support local research
Two research funds at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) have awarded over $146,000 to University of Saskatchewan researchers who are investigating critical health issues in horses and pets. The Companion Animal Health Fund (CAHF), which supports pet health research, granted nearly $76,800 to six research teams that include 22 researchers. The Equine Health Research Fund (EHRF) awarded nearly $69,700 toward 19 scientists …
July 11th, 2014 Full story »
