Dr. Kate Alucard, DVM, MPH, Ames, IA (2025)

10/30/2025

Lead and I follow, follow 🩷

See you soon Aurora ✨

***rVeterinarian

10/24/2025

🚨CALL TO ACTION - NOV 3, 2025🚨

🤝 In collaboration with Dr. Bradley Bishop, DVM, DACVIM - a major leader behind most anti-noncompete information in our profession

The Federal Trade Commission of the United States has made the unfortunate decision to roll back its 2024 ban of most non-competes. This decision was recently voted on in September, but now the FTC is seeking feedback on how non-competes affect people.

It's no secret how non-competes affect healthcare workers, including those in veterinary medicine. Most of us know someone affected negatively by a non-compete agreement. Some of us even know people who have had to move significant distances or even out of the state to continue doing the work that they love.

This decision will affect veterinary medicine in a multitude of ways, including continuing to trap veterinarians in predatory contracts, continuing to financially harm interns and residents, decrease access to veterinary care (including specialty care), and ultimately contribute to the mental unwellness of the profession.

And listen - the FTC knows that these are harmful. They received over 25,000 comments the last time they were trying to act on this that were in support of a ban. So whether they will listen to us or not this time is unclear; but we do have an obligation to try to protect the people in our profession from these non-competes.

You can find a template to use to give the FTC feedback in my bio, or you can directly go to the website which is linked both in the post as well as in the document in my profile.

⚠️ ANYONE CAN GIVE FEEDBACK, THIS IS NOT VETERINARY MEDICINE EXCLUSIVE ⚠️

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***rVeterinarian

10/19/2025

💔 Dr. Mu'ath has been found 💔

Caption by Sulala Animal Rescue:

"We received news this morning that Dr Mu’aths body was found. 😢😢😢 God rest his soul.

He had gone back to his destroyed house in Jalabia on Friday to try to recover some belongings — as he and his wife and two little children had ran under the bombs the last time they evacuated. They had left many things behind. He had looked at the map, and the yellow line, and thought his house was in a safe zone. Unfortunately we soon found out it wasn’t, when contact with him was lost, and everybody who reached the place was shot at. Until this day, everybody who approaches a certain line in Gaza gets shot at. But on Friday, we didn’t know yet where these lines were.

Dr Mu’aths was such a kind person who never asked for help and was always ready to help others. We don’t know how we will recover from this tremendous loss, after working with him every day for almost two years. He was always ready, worked with us 7 days per week in the medical point during the most difficult times. Never asked for a pay raise, never complained, even as he and his family were in the most desperate circumstances.

He is a kind and loyal person who is survived by two young children: Yousef (3 years old) and Talat (1 year and 8 months old) and his wife Rania. We are so sorry for their loss too. God rest his soul."

1. Please continue to tag American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and your other organizations to intervene and do their jobs in promoting public health internationally in this profession.

2. Leave factual comments on AVMA's social media or their locations on Google (in IL) urging them to break their silence.

3. Support Dr. Mu'ath's family during this time. His link is below; his family needs our support now more than ever.
https://gofund.me/d8f73d9d7

4. Amplify and support the work Sulala Animal Rescue does by sharing their page and financially supporting them too.

And above all, don't stop talking about Palestine or the other genocides occuring around the world 💔

***rVeterinarian

10/11/2025

This is pr•paganda.

Do I think that pointing out the Hatch Act is being violated will make a difference in the way this country is operating? No. The US government is still part of the white supremacist, imperialist and colonial machine that continues to harm Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority. I don't think acknowledging the messaging of a hateful government is going to solve systemic issues when the entire country is founded on the subjugation of people.

I do want people to see how this will continue to make animal healthcare and veterinary medicine more white/racist/hateful by specifically pushing a right-wing extremist message about one side of the government. Would you allow this if the party listed was "Republicans"? You shouldn't. I would make this post regardless of which party is named, because these organizations are being used to pit us against one another, while those in positions of power continue to hurt us all.

This marketing of the shutdown is just another way to manipulate people, including those of us in professions that use organizations like the USDA, DEA, CDC, and other partner organizations we work with under a One Health umbrella.

Every day we are passively consuming messaging that influence our perceptions of things around us. The only way to combat pr•paganda and misinformation is to acknowledge it and recognize the harm it will cause. This messaging is designed to coerce and make you feel a specific way without the facts of why the government shutdown. V!olence continues to escalate in this country, for many reasons including the emotional manipulation of the general public.

So be aware, be safe, and create security nets to protect you and those around you.

***rVeterinarian ***r

09/28/2025

Today is World Rabies Day - an important day to bring awareness and education about this fatal disease.

⚠️CW: Slide 8, videos of four animals suspected to have or with confirmed rabies⚠️

Given the intense vaccine hesitancy in veterinary medicine spilling over from human medicine (and not being aided by political clowns in positions of in the US right now), I decided to make a much more in-depth post about rabies, because we are seeing more rabies non-vaccination amongst domestic species and currently there is a multi-state outbreak being tracked right now in the US. I tried to write this for the average person, not just those of us in animal care.

Six people have died from rabies in the US since September of last year, and thousands more in other parts of the world. If vaccine hesitancy continues to worsen, or vaccine rollbacks go into law, rabies could absolutely become more of a problem in the US and other places with regular vaccine access.

If you're worried about a possible rabies exposure, please contact your healthcare provider or your animal's veterinarian to talk about what you can do to keep you and/or your animals safe.

Vaccination saves lives! 🖤

***rVeterinarian (I am tagging the following to increase awareness to my target audience)

09/25/2025

Hey everyone! I'm writing cards again for National Vet Tech Week. When I did this last, I sent over 100 cards to 50 States and three countries and so I can't wait to see just how many I can write. Please interact with and share this post so others can see it!

That being said, at my core I'm
🚫ANTI-celebration🚫 weeks. These weeks DO NOT:

💰 Increase wages to be livable
💪🏻 Address tech utilization gaps
🧾 Resolve lack of title protection
👎🏻 Enact MEANINGFUL CHANGE

So if you (no matter your role) want to get more involved in making this profession better for veterinary technicians:

1️⃣ Join your state veterinary technician group (vets you can do this too!) ✅
2️⃣ Work with legislators to write title protection into law 🧾
3️⃣ Pay your staff a living wage, not in pizza parties 🍕
4️⃣ Financially support them going to veterinary technician school to becoming credentialed (this is the direction the field is going) 💰
5️⃣ and vets, LISTEN TO YOUR TECHS when they bring you concerns, make recommendations, go to CE, etcetera. 🫡

Along with doing the above things, I hope my cards bring you joy, and make you feel valued. It's just one piece of the puzzle to make this profession better 🖤

https://forms.gle/7ETDj96HgNqVjut76

09/21/2025

My friends are so badass ❤️

09/13/2025

IVECCS 2025 ☀️🌊

Took me a hot second to put this all together, but lots of CE and lots of photos later, I had so much fun meeting and hanging out with people. I made myself a jam packed schedule in those few short days, but I truly had an incredible time ❤️

***rVeterinarian ***r

09/10/2025

Forgive me if I was supposed to feel something.

He's the one who said "it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."

Enjoy spending some quality time with Reagan, you absolutely unfrosted pop tart 🫡

***zi

09/09/2025

🚨 IVECCS COVID exposure🚨

This will be a temporary post that I take down in like a week, but in case people are looking to see, yes COVID was at IVECCS 2025. A conference being a COVID hotbed? Who knew.

I'm angry. I did (almost) everything right. But I want people to be safe, so I'm disclosing that I tested positive for COVID coming home from IVECCS. I test before and after every trip I do. And after seeing my positive test, I checked my temperature and realized I had a mild fever.

I recommend that you test yourself before and after you go on a trip or if you ever feel sick. COVID is NOT a cold. It is a vascular illness that can have cumulative effects over time. It can lead to chronic illnesses and further health complications and it is something that I'm legitimately terrified of because what if one time I get infected, I lose my ability to remember something important for my job? What if it permanently disables me and I can't work anymore. What if I infect someone I care about? All of these are real fears.

And please consider masking again for the chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people in your life.

Heartbroken and scared and angry does not begin to cover how I feel right now.

11/21/2024

Facebook notified me that I just reached 100 followers on here! 🖤 I'm so grateful for each one of you, and I had wanted to say thank you for all of your continued support. The world (especially mine!) is so much better with you in it ✨🫶🏼

11/21/2024

Relief vet med world, do not use/recommend/work for Evette. The CEO created a fake profile and impersonated a veterinarian (who is a specialist) to gain access to relief veterinary groups online. Absolutely ridiculous and gross...

Please like/share/save this post so clinics can also know to not use this agency.

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