QUARTERLY BEAT / JULY 2025
April 9, 2025
May 1, 2025
Learning to Listen to Our Patients by Debbie Martin, LVT, KPA CTP, VTS (Behavior)
• To understand how our patients perceive the veterinary experience, we have to comprehend how they perceive the world. What they see, hear, taste, smell, and feel is different from us. We can adjust the environment to promote relaxation and calm, and minimize potentially startling or aversive stimuli. • The perception of touch is individualized. What one pet might enjoy, another might find unpleasant. Just as with people, some will pay money to receive a foot massage, and others would avoid one at all costs. • Being able to recognize signs of a relaxed or stressed patient is critical to creating a pleasant environment. If we do not recognize what they are saying, we cannot adapt to the conversation. Every interaction we have with an animal should be considered a dialogue rather than a monologue. • Animals are making associations all the time. They might make a neutral, negative, or pleasant association with‚ an environment or event. We have the power to help create pleasant associations for our patients simply by taking into consideration how our interactions and the environment could impact them.
False Pregnancies and Spontaneous Lactation in Goats by Dr. Andrea Mongini, DVM • Spontaneous lactations or precocious udders can occur in both male and female goats. This is a fairly common syndrome that will not resolve without veterinary intervention. • Surgical amputation of the udder is the most effective way of treating extreme cases of spontaneous lactation in goats. • False pregnancy or hydrometra is very common in adult female goats. It does not affect future fertility, but treatment is important for future health and breeding of the affected doe. • Prostaglandin therapy is the most effective means of treating hydrometra in goats.
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