Fall 2024
A life of saving animals
Many dogs and cats can thank Jane Wardrop for starting a blood bank for pets. » More ...
Veterinary Teaching Hospital
Fall 2024
For creatures—small to large
Washington State University Veterinary Medicine celebrates 125 years of taking care of animals. » More ...
Fall 2024
Veterinarian voices
The Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine, founded in 1899, is the fifth oldest veterinary college in the country. It turns 125 this year. To celebrate, Washington State Magazine asked a couple of alumni to reminisce. Here are their stories.
Linda Lee H. Wood ’76 DVM
I’m from Idaho Falls in southern Idaho so the WICHE program helped me be able to go to veterinary school in Washington. When I was looking at schools to complete my undergraduate studies, I spoke with Floyd Frank, who was head of the veterinary science program at the University of Idaho. He … » More …
Winter 2017
Dog gone day
Our boy Mic’s symptoms were so subtle and their onset so gradual we didn’t initially see them. In fact, our other dogs noticed them first.
Mic, a Pembroke corgi then 12, had always embodied good “dog manners.” He’d never met a dog who didn’t like him. Suddenly, he was enraging his packmates. We sympathized; his nighttime barking was fraying our nerves, too.
A number of vet visits and lab tests revealed nothing, and Mic continued to decline. But when his spatial perception deteriorated, we realized he was acting like some elderly people and concluded, almost tongue-in-cheek, he had “doggy dementia.”
Turns out we were right.
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