Published on April 4, 2023
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HAPPY (almost) THANKSGIVING! We love to include our furry family members in our celebrations - here`s how to do so:
❌ DON`T: Give pets fatty scraps like gravy, turkey or chicken skin, oily or greasy side dishes, or other rich foods. These can lead to severe digestive tract upset in our pets.
✅ DO: A small bite of most people food is not dangerous, but do your best to keep people food and pets as separate as possible.
❌ DON`T: Pets should never eat food or food containing the following popular Thanksgiving ingredients: bread dough, chocolate, raisins (or grapes), onion, garlic, walnuts, nutmeg, mushrooms, sage, raw or undercooked meat.
✅ DO: Make your pets tasty treats just for them! We`ve put together a couple recipes that are safe for our furry friends with vet-approved foods like pumpkin, peanut butter and tuna.
Looking for additional tips on how to introduce your pets to guests or travel with pets? Read more using the link in our bio.
A BEAR PREPARED: Earlier this fall, veterinarians and technicians from #NCStateVetMed visited @museumoflifeandscience to ready this nine-month-old American black bear cub to join the Museum`s black bear enclosure. Wildlife officials found the Museum`s newest resident abandoned by his mother this spring and determined he could not live independently in the wild. Our team performed a physical exam that included vaccinating and neutering the cub so he can safely join the other three bears in an enclosure that replicates their natural habitat.
We`re grateful for another opportunity to provide expertise through our longstanding partnership with the Museum and work together to educate the community about North Carolina`s only native bear species. Visit the Museum`s page to see Tiny Baby Bear in his new home!
TALKING TURKEY: With Thanksgiving around the corner, we`re highlighting a turkey-focused research project out of #NCStateVetMed that hopes to protect these fowl from a fatal re-emerging disease.
Clostridial dermatitis, or CD, causes severe skin lesions in turkeys and is often deadly. Controlling it has proven challenging as the bacteria behind the illness develop antimicrobial resistance in response to antibiotic overuse, and there is no known effective non-antibiotic method to prevent it.
Supported by a @usdagov grant, researchers at the CVM and @ncstatecals are teaming up to change that. They`re developing a probiotic oral vaccine for CD that can be easily given to large turkey populations and provide long-term immunity against the disease. Lead researcher Dr. Ravi Kulkarni says the team hopes the vaccine will also boost turkeys` gut health to prevent other major intestinal infections, too: "It`s a `two birds, one stone` approach," he says.
Read about this groundbreaking research at the link in our bio.
THE OATH IS OUT! At #NCStateVetMed, we offer world-class education to the next generation of healers, expand the limits of medicine with our research and provide unparalleled patient care, all the while giving back to those who make our work possible. This edition of The Oath magazine highlights the myriad ways we contribute to North Carolina’s economy and strength by improving the lives of its animals and people. Find a link to the magazine in our profile. #vetmed #vetschool #innovators #problemsolvers #lifechangers #healers #communitypartners
CHECK OUT THE CHECKUPS. #NCStateVetMed partners with the @museumoflifeandscience in Durham in caring for the animals there, and it was time for checkups for Tater the opossum and Apollo the milk snake on our campus this week. We share our exotic, zoo and wildlife animal expertise and equipment with partners and the community every day. #partnerships #lifechangers #vetschool #veterinarians
OUR REMARKABLE REACH. In the 40 years since #NCStateVetMed dedicated its main facility, the college has repaid the state’s continuing investment by, among other life-changing things, becoming a generator of graduates schooled in the latest cutting-edge care and a hub of transformative research into animal and translational medicine. We are committed partners with state agencies and our community. #problemsolvers #lifechangers #innovators #communitypartners Read more about our economic and problem-solving impact at the link in our profile.
WELCOME TO OUR CVM CRIB! Our #NCStateVetMed community recently told us their favorite places here at the #NCState College of Veterinary Medicine, and now we’re sharing them with you! Second-year DVM student Isla Farrow took us on a tour of these places and, of course, showed us her favorite hangout, too. Got a spot we didn’t mention? Share it with us in the comments!
POULTRY PARTNERS. #NCStateVetMed professor Rocio Crespo organized NC Poultry Health Day at the @NCAgriculture Rollins Lab to keep poultry health clinicians and officials up to date on things such as vaccination trials, antimicrobial strategies and control options for bed bugs. Dean Kate Meurs and pharmacology professor Ron Baynes, interim head of the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, shared updates from the college, including the number of new and energetic faculty members ready to contribute to food animal health in North Carolina. Strengthening partnerships, particularly with state agencies, has a new emphasis in #NCStateVetMed`s new strategic plan. #vetschool #innovators #problemsolvers #lifechangers
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