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Growing Demand for Accessible Pet Care Shines in PetWellClinic’s Q2 Brand Expansion

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Published: Jul. 25, 2023 at 8:52 AM CDT|Updated: 6 hours ago

Emerging Veterinary Pet-Wellness Concept Enjoys Continued Growth Alongside Shifting Consumer Preferences

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — PetWellClinic, one of America’s fastest-growing veterinary pet-wellness franchise brands, enjoyed a second quarter that demonstrated the growing significance and demand behind one of their founding tenants; that convenience and accessibility are increasingly top-of-mind for pet owners looking to care for their animals.

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As American communities continue to turn their attention away from traditional veterinary practices and associated sky-high patient

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New gene therapy offers hope for sterilizing female cats without surgery

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Cathy M. Rosenthal

Dear Cathy: I am the birth-control advocate. We have had birth control for the human species for over 50 years. Why don’t we have effective non-surgical sterilization for our beloved dogs and cats that suffer so in most parts of the world? — Francine, Killingworth, Connecticut

Dear Francine: Researchers have been trying to develop a pill or injection to address pet reproduction for more than 20 years now. Dogs’ and cats’ reproductive cycles are uniquely different from humans’, so coming up with a solution has been challenging. Some previous efforts have led to severe side effects.

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Finding pet care could become easier with these solutions

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Pet owners face a potentially big problem as the veterinary field deals with a growing shortage of veterinarians.

Researchers at Mars Vet Health claim a boom in pet adoptions, especially during the COVID pandemic, and the retirement of approximately 2,000 veterinarians each year have combined to create that shortage.

They now estimate that nearly 41,000 additional veterinarians will be needed by 2030 to meet the growing demand.

Currently, some pet owners said they were already seeing delays in getting appointments with some practices booked weeks and months in advance.

With all this in mind, the Solutionaries team investigated possible solutions.

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Omega-3 Pet Supplement Recall Affects More Than 60 Different Brands Because of Possible Vitamin A Toxicity

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A Florida company is recalling omega-3 supplements for dogs and cats that were sold across the country under numerous brand names, saying the product could contain dangerous levels of vitamin A.

Stratford Care USA announced its voluntary recall Friday after receiving one “serious adverse event” report from a customer whose dog showed signs of vitamin A poisoning. The company didn’t disclose the dog’s condition but said in a news release that it was the “only adverse event to date” and none of its other

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Salticidae – The Charismatic Spiders

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Jumping spiders! Salticidae is the largest family of spiders, containing approximately 5,500-6,000 species, which accounts for around 13% of all spiders. These species are divided into 600+ genera, are typically small in size and famed for their incredible jumping abilities. Along with their impressive number of species and awesome acrobatics, they also possess some of the best eyes in the invertebrate world. These large forward facing eyes, that allow them to accurately hit their prey or landing site, are up there as some of the best eyes in the invertebrate world. In fact it is thought that these eyes beat

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Beavers – The dam builders

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Beavers – The Dam Builders

There are two living species of beavers, the Eurasian, Castor fiber and the North Americans, Castor canadensis. Beavers belong to the mammalian family Castoridae of Rodentia that evolved in the Oligocene epoch but the genus Castor evolved much later in the Pleistocene, about 2 million years ago.

The two living species are genetically different and have a different number of chromosomes (48 in the European and 40 in the North American species). The two species are also not known to hybridize and produce viable offspring. Beavers are famous for building large dams across rivers in northern Canada by falling large

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Are Tarantula Spiders? A Glimpse at Spider Evolution and Phylogeny

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Are tarantula’s spiders? Short answer… yes, they are indeed spiders. Any of you who follow me on social media will know that I own a few tarantulas, and this is where this post comes from. The last few times that I have visited an exotic pet shop and asked to see their spiders, I have been met with the response “we don’t really stock any spiders, but we do have a few tarantulas”. Furthermore, I have seen a couple of social media posts and YouTube videos from tarantula keepers in which they state that tarantulas are not actually spiders. This

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Assassin bugs, worthy of the name (Part 1)

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The world is full of charismatic predators; big cats, wolves and crocodiles, which are commonly the focus of TV shows and documentaries, but some of the most interesting and successful predators are often overlooked. As far as numbers go, the predatory beetles are the most successful terrestrial predators, but we’ll forget that for a moment as they are not the focus of this post. Instead, we will be looking at the fascinating variety and ingenuity of the hugely successful predatory Hemipteran group: Reduviidae.

The bugs belonging to the Hemipteran family Reduviidae are commonly known as assassin bugs and this is

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