Theresa L. DePorter DVM, ECAWBM, DACVB

11/21/2025

FREE WEBINAR ON CHARISMATIC CREATURES

presents🦎 Clinical Medicine of Bearded Dragons 🦎

Register Today for the FREE LafeberVet webinar which is RACE-approved for 1 CE hour

📅 Wednesday, December 10
🕑 2 PM EST (UTC -5)
🎓 Presented by: Grayson Doss, DVM, DACZM - Clinical Associate Professor of Zoological Medicine, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine
🔗 Register via the LafeberVet website https://lafeber.com/vet/clin-med-bearded-dragons/

This live, interactive session offers a practical review of bearded dragon medicine for veterinarians and veterinary technicians.

Register today.

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11/21/2025

11/19/2025

Go Green!

Go Chase!

Meet Chase, a very good boy and the newest member of MSU's comfort canine team.

Working alongside MSU Police and Public Safety Detective Sydnee Zienta, Chase supports Spartans, providing comfort and compassion to those navigating challenges such as medical leaves, conduct processes or personal distress.

“A student was deciding whether to go to Counseling and Psychiatric Services,” says Zienta. “With Chase’s help, she decided to go. We walked her there, stayed as she filled out her paperwork, and she later requested to see Chase a few more times. It left a lasting impression on her — and on us.”

11/18/2025

11/15/2025

New research reveals that dogs have been wildly diverse for far longer than we thought — long before modern breeds of Kennel Clubs ever existed.🐩

A groundbreaking study published in Science analyzed more than 600 modern and ancient dog skulls, spanning 50,000 years, to trace when domestic dogs first began to vary in shape and size. The results? Distinct dog forms emerged at least 11,000 years ago, soon after dogs diverged from wolves.

That means humans were living alongside everything from wolf-like hunters to smaller, more specialized pups thousands of years before the first purebred lines were established.

By showing that canine diversity stretches deep into prehistory, the research reveals how human culture, environment, and evolution have long shaped the dogs we know and love today.

It is proof that humanity’s best friend has been adapting and evolving with us since the very beginning.

11/13/2025

For trainers, celebrating use of shock collars, here's still yet more evidence, as Radio Systems is found to be guilty of false claims that their e-collars are safe and harmless in a $1.9 million class action suit. Shock collars are NOT safe and harmless, as I've been saying for years. Read the court results and my story here in link in comments - and this important to spread the word!

11/06/2025

What Dogs Do

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11/03/2025