Broadening your scope of practice to include theriogenology services offers a myriad of advantages. Theriogenology services are profitable, offer new revenue streams, and optimize the use of support staff and hospital. Offering reproductive services sets your practice apart from competitor practices. Breeder clients are demanding but loyal and return for repeat services; they also request and follow recommendations for “high-end” services. Your theriogenology clients often refer locally placed puppies and kittens to you for primary care and you gain new general practice clients. And it is fun!
KEY POINTS
Nutraceuticals are regulated as food products, not drugs, despite their ability to modify an animal’s health beyond meeting nutritional needs.
Before prescribing a nutraceutical or therapeutic diet, veterinarians should review the literature supporting the use of the product and gather information on the functional ingredients, their mechanisms of action, efficacy, and safety.
As with psychopharmacologic agents, behavioral nutraceuticals and therapeutic diets should only be prescribed in conjunction with behavior modification and environmental management plans.
Some nutraceuticals and diets can be prescribed incombination with psychopharmacologic agents, but attention must be paid to the product’s functional ingredients and mechanism of action so that adverse interactions are avoided.
This article compares behavioral characteristics of dogs (Canis lupis familiaris) labeled as hearing and/or vision impaired by their owners with cohort dogs labeled as having normal hearing and vision (NHV) by their owners. The Canine Behavioral Assessment and Research Questionnaire, developed by Hsu and Serpell (2003), was used to survey owners.
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