Roni Holewinski, CVT Industry Representative Antifreeze poisoning is commonly encountered in veterinary clinics every winter. While there may be a variety of different “antifreezes” used in today’s automotive antifreeze products, ethylene glycol poses the greatest risk to pets and is what we’re discussing in this post. Ethylene glycol is so dangerous that just 2 teaspoons…
Maja Ferrell Customer Service Follow-up Specialist When I adopted my two dogs, Manny and Charles, we were all living in hot and humid Austin, Texas. It is very unlikely that either of them had ever seen or experienced snow prior to our move to my home state of Minnesota a few years later. It was…
Ahna Brutlag, DVM, MS, DABT, DABVT & Renee Schmid, DVM Download a PDF of this article During the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, it is easy to let your guard down when it comes to preventing toxic exposures to your pet. While the holidays bring more challenges to the already difficult winter months,…
By Sharon Billings, CVT Senior Veterinary Information Specialist Well, the excitement of the holidays has come and gone. Now we all just settle in for a winter of shorter, darker days and, for many of us, cold and snowy weather! Ho-hum, hum-drum — it’s not everybody’s favorite time of year! But humans aren’t the only…
By Jo Marshall, CVT Senior Veterinary Information Specialist at Pet Poison Helpline® Recently, we have received some questions on cold weather and safety for your pets so I wanted to touch base on some of the safety concerns that we have with the frequent cold snaps and extreme weather that we have had throughout the…
