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Shelter Medicine Information Center
Let the Shelter Medicine Center rescue you with information on:

• Animal care and husbandry
• Disease recognition and treatment
• Management and personnel issues
• Legal and regulatory concerns
• Spay/neuter programs
• Non-profit organizations, and
• Much more...

The Shelter Medicine Center can be reached through the Specialty Centers section of the VIN Library and the About Page of the Shelter Medicine folder.

Track ALL of Your CE - VIN and nonVIN - with MyCE
See the whole picture! Improvements to MyCE allow you view your entire CE history with a few clicks. Add non-VIN courses and create summaries of the CE credits you've earned.

Take a look at the updated help document for more information.

NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK and discuss;
News reported for YOU...

• Golden Retriever Lifetime Study takes off
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Judging merits of veterinary homeopathy not an AVMA objective
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Bid to end foreign veterinary accreditation dies at AVMA meeting
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• AVMA to debate homeopathy, jerky, foreign accreditation
  Public | VIN | Discussion

Be a VIN newshound:
The VIN News Service (VNS) is here to give you a voice and report news that is important to you. Have an idea for a story? Have a story that needs covering? Email News@vin.com.

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New and Revised Articles to Share With Your Clients!

Veterinary Partner

• Hemorrhagic Gastroenteritis (HGE) revised

Texas Farm Radio

• Cold Therapy to Prevent Laminitis

VetzInsight

• The Nightmare of Colic

Seasonal pasture myopathy/atypical myopathy in North America associated with ingestion of hypoglycin A within seeds of the box elder tree
For the first time, seasonal pasture myopathy has been linked to a toxin in seeds abundant on autumn pastures whose identified metabolite is known to cause acquired multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, the pathological mechanism behind seasonal pasture myopathy and atypical myopathy.

Veterinary attitudes towards pre-pubertal gonadectomy of cats: a comparison of samples from New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom
Most respondents believed pre-pubertal gonadectomy was either entirely or 'sometimes' desirable (556/621); few thought it was undesirable (65/621). Minimum age at gonadectomy was significantly affected by country surveyed and provision or non-provision of services for pounds.

Evaluation of clinical and histopathologic prognostic factors for survival in canine osteosarcoma of the extracranial flat and irregular bones
Controlling for ALP elevation, dogs with osteosarcoma located in the scapula had a significantly greater hazard for death (2.8) compared to dogs with tumors in other locations. Controlling for tumor location, every 100% increase in ALP from normal increased the hazard for death by 1.7.

Individual Retirement Account (IRA) Contributions Are Deducted From My Paycheck, But Not Put Into Retirement Fund
The important thing that you need to determine is if it is an accidental administrative error or if it is being done purposefully and dishonestly. Either one demands action.

Generalized Subcutaneous Emphysema Resulted In Dog's Death (Photographs)
He started turning blue as the tissues in his mouth continued to swell and we were unable to intubate him.

Small, Infarcted Testicular Remnant Found In Cryptorchid Dog
Found the vas deferens, and followed it in a cranial direction into a clumped/possibly-scarred area of omentum. The vas then disappeared into this omentum.

Dog With Massive Oral Hemorrhage After Extraction Of A Mandibular Molar; Hemostatic Techniques For Oral Hemorrhage
Chances are, when you pulled the tooth root out, some of the granulation tissue came too -- and took a piece of blood vessel wall with it.

Tuesday, January 28- 9:30 p.m. ET - Venting over a Venti
Need to vent? Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP, MA, and other colleagues are here to lend an ear.

Wednesday, January 29 - 9 p.m. ET - VIN/VSPN Rounds
Join Tony Johnson, DVM, DACVECC, and Brenda Feller, CVT, VTS Anes, for AAHA's New Fluid Rate Therapy Recommendations.
Invite your entire team to attend! Your support staff can access the session on www.VSPN.org.
This will be a 2 hour session.
This session will feature audio. Take the readiness test before attending.

Sunday, February 2 - NO ROUNDS
Apparently, there is a fairly important football game tonight in the US.

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Funny And Depressingly Bad Resumes

This wasn't a resume, but a job interview. I was looking for a part time afternoon kennel person and asked the high school if they had a work program. They sent me this nice young man for an interview. I asked him if he had any animal handling experience. He answered, "I ride my pig."

Book Review of the Week
Urban Wildlife Management, Second Edition
Catch up on previous Book Reviews!

Website of the Week
Academy of Veterinary Nutrition Technicians

What's your Diagnosis?
Archives of the Challenging and Fun Cases
Ophthalmology Fun 169 - opened 01/21
Equine Fun Case 58 - opened 01/21

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 websites! Links to information about upcoming conferences include: WVC, SAVMA, Voorjaarsdagen, and BSAVA.

Don't let echocardiograms break your heart! Update your interpretation know-how with the Animated Left Ventricle designed by VIN Cardiology Consultant Mark Kittleson, DVM, DACVIM, PhD.

NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!
Click on the links below to see the details, register, and find more upcoming CE.

Neonatal Wildlife Medicine
February 5 - March 15, 2014

The primary purpose of this course is to provide a basic understanding of the principles of care for neonatal North American wildlife. The course will include details on the common syndromes and diseases with which orphaned or abducted wildlife patients present to a clinic, the approach to triage, emergency treatment and monitoring of the wildlife patient, the most notable infectious and non-infectious diseases of wildlife, and the public health and legal implications of treating wildlife.

NAVLE® Review and Preparation
February 7 - April 9, 2014

Organized by species, each Real Time Session will highlight the "Top 20" diseases and conditions encountered by practitioners in the U.S. and Canada. topics not covered in the "Top 20s." The last session will include a mock examination.

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