During my recent food animal lectures about urinary diseases, I came to learn that cats and goats have more in common than I would have thought. There aren’t too many parallels between ruminants and feline carnivores aside from the fact that they both fall victim to urinary stones! Urolithiasis is a commonly occurring and life-threatening […]
Holistic Parasite Control
Something that continues to amaze me is the ingenuity fostered by the veterinary community. Take, for example, the approach to parasitism in ruminants. Small ruminants like sheep and goats are especially vulnerable to the effects of intestinal parasites, because the worm burden increases quickly on the close-grazed pastures on which these animals are raised. However, […]
