Featured Book:
Handbook of Behavior Problems of the Dog and Cat, 2nd Edition
List Price: $69.95 VIN Member Price: $62.96
Authors: Gary Landsberg, DVM, BSc; Wayne Hunthausen, DVM; Lowell Ackerman, DVM

This best-selling, practical book on behavior therapy offers easily-accessible information in a user-friendly approach. With this essential handbook, veterinarians don't need to be behavior specialists to provide optimum care for clients with behavior problems. The 2nd edition provides at-a-glance solutions to common behavior problems, offering updated information on preventive and basic counseling advice, as well as new material on the link between genetics and behavior. All treatment protocols have been drawn from and text and compiled into a convenient appendix in the back of the book. Staff responsibilities and the team approach to behavior counseling are also discussed. Find it in the VINstore.

Check out VIN's Student Center!
The Student Center is made possible through an education grant from WALTHAM Diets.

Check out the SNAP Manual
The Spay-Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP) Manual contains the latest techniques, procedures, and policies used by the model SNAP programs. Click here to read the manual.

VP - Clients & Medications
VIN's VeterinaryPartner (VP) has a Drug section that features detailed information on commonly prescribed pet medications. The interested owner can learn how a medication works within the body, how the medication represents an improvement over previously used treatments, and what side effects to be aware of. Understanding a medication and why it was prescribed can help a pet owner understand the goals of therapy as well as possible pitfalls. You and your clients can check out the Drug section at: www.VeterinaryPartner.com

...Newly-Added to the VIN Library:

• Holter Monitoring
• Anesthetic Exposure Badges (OSHA Center)
• Vaccine-Associated Feline Sarcoma (Research Projects)

...Updated!

• Drug Label Database

...New on VeterinaryPartner.com:

• Shed Your Ignorance this Kitten Season
• Crate Confinement: A Good Choice for Your Dog?
• Lymphoma Nutritional Therapy

The use of dextromethorphan to treat repetitive self-directed scratching, biting, or chewing in dogs with allergic dermatitis
Dextromethorphan significantly reduces the percentage of time that allergic dogs spend self-licking, self-chewing, and self-biting.

Intercostal thoracotomy closure: transcostal sutures as a less painful alternative to circumcostal suture placement
Based on lower pain scores, transcostal thoracotomy closure may be preferable to circumcostal closure techniques.

Questions About Enucleation Technique
I routinely remove the lids first to get them out of the way in cats. You are correct, you must remove the lacrimal caruncle and the medial canthus. You can then do the subconjunctival ablation and resection of the extraocular muscles and finally resect the retrobulbar muscles and optic nerve.

Other Doc In Town Refuses To Take Her Clients' Emergencies
Last year, more than 75% of the non-established client emergencies were this other vet's. I do want a bit of a life of my own and I'd rather just see my clients as a service to them. The problem is that sometimes these clients still call me and I have a real case of the guilts as these people are desperate to get some help for their pets.

Dentistry for Veterinary Technicians
Did you know you can increase the profit in your hospital and the utilization of your veterinary technicians simultaneously? Help give your dental patients the best care. Have your veterinary technicians sign up for this online CE course today - Dentistry for Veterinary Technicians!

Upon completion of this course, participants should:

• Understand and recognize the cause, prevention, and treatment of periodontal disease
• Understand the duties of the Veterinary Technician as they relate to veterinary dentistry

Instructor: Steve Holmstrom, DVM, DAVDC

Dates: July 29 - September 9, 2004
Real Time Sessions: Monday evenings 9:00 - 11:00pm

CE Hours: 8 (applied for RACE approval)

Tuition: $128.00 ($115.00 if registered before July 19, 2004). Full time students of an AVMA accredited Veterinary Technician Program receive a reduced rate for this course of $64 (upon verification of student status).

Learn more: Dentistry for Veterinary Technicians

Virtual Coffeehouse
Tuesday, July 20, 9:30 pm ET -
Had any weird cases lately? Stop by and share!
(BTW, we're playing in the new Unity Room, so come by to see what this new chatroom can do!)
Rounds Room

How To Use VIN course: Part 3
Wednesday, July 21, 9:30 pm ET -
Learn how to use VIN's Message Boards. Email Nate@VIN.com for more information about this free, three-part course.
Rounds Room

Sunday AAFP Rounds (SPECIAL TIME!)
Sunday, July 25, 5 pm ET -
Join Julie Levy for this month's AAFP Rounds Feral Cat: Trap, Neuter, and Release. All VINners are welcome to attend.
Rounds Room

Abstract Of The Week:
DNA Testing for Inherited Diseases

What's Your Diagnosis?
Foreign Animal Disease: Case 3

Website Of The Week:
Feline Genetics and more ...

Book Review:
Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infections in Animals -- Third Edition
This resource is available in the VINstore.

eVetsites Tip of the Week:
Optimization Services from eVetsite Systems

Upcoming Conferences
Looking to attend -- or contribute a paper to -- a veterinary conference? Check out the On The Road With VIN folder, or the Press Releases folder, to see what conferences are coming up and to visit their web sites! Links to information about upcoming conferences include: AVMA, NEVC, AAV, CVC, IVECCS, ECVIM, SWVS

Recent Rounds:

• Pleural Space Disease (ACVSc)
• Veterinary Compounding Issues: Creative Medications Strategies
• Diagnostic Testing for Hyperthyroidism and Hypothyroidism
• OSHA Rounds
• Eight Emerging Dermatoses in Cats (AAFP)
• Inflammation and NF-kB

From the Boards:
* What Would Happen If ...
* Temeril-P For Atopy?
* TPLO Certification
* Is This Cushing's?

Urine Luck
As more animals transition into geriatrics, more develop renal disease. While we are continually developing new technology and diagnostic tools to determine the causes of disease, problems in nephrology pose significant diagnostic challenge to the practicing vet.

Our latest CE course addresses a myriad of Nephrology topics, including: diagnostic approach to typical symptoms (PU/PD, azotemia, hematuria, etc.), renal imaging, proteinuria, management of renal failure, nephrolithiasis, ureteral obstruction, tubular disease and pyelonephritis. The instructors will take a case-based review of nephrology cases in the final week of the course. Sign up now for this informative course: Urine Luck: Topics in Nephrology.

Instructors:
Katherine James, DVM, PhD
Craig Long, DVM, ACVR (Radiation Therapy)
Barrak Pressler, DVM, ACVIM (Internal Medicine)
Julie Fischer, DVM, DACVIM
Joe Bartges,DVM, PhD, DACVIM, DACVN

Dates:
August 4 - September 22, 2004
Interactive Sessions:
Wednesdays, 9:30 - 11:30 PM ET

CE Hours: 14

Tuition:
Member/$202, Non-Member/$287 by July 21st;
Member/$224, Non-Member/$319 after July 21st.

To Register: Visit Urine Luck: Topics in Nephrology on the main CE page (www.vin.com/CE) and click on the Enroll now link.

Interested in other online VIN CE?

Scheduled courses include:

• Effective Teaching & Training Work
• ABVP Module C
• Shelter Medicine
• Equine Hindlimb Lameness
• Ferret Medicine

Use the CE button on VIN's main nav bar to learn more about these courses -- and to enroll!

Looking for CE for Your Staff?

Check out the upcoming courses available through VSPN:

• Basic Receptionist/Front Office Skills
• Control of Disease Transmission in Animal Shelters
• How to Team Build and Organize Your Hospital