Get an older animal and chances increase you'll have to spend time and money dealing
with veterinary problems, as well as having to suffer the grief of losing a friend.
Faculty in the Department of Clinical Sciences are engaged in research programs exploring the causes and treatments of
important veterinary problems as well as conducting basic research into underlying processes.
To the unwitting consumer, this situation frequently means buying a puppy facing an array of
immediate veterinary problems or harboring genetically borne diseases that do not appear until years later.Sadly, some dogs are forced to live in puppy mills their entire lives.
Action: An appropriate «consensus» reply was generally given with the additional proviso that, when the query referred to
a veterinary problem, the correspondents were informed that they should contact their veterinary surgeon for specific advice.
The dogs will spend two weeks undergoing treatment for
any veterinary problems, acclimate to their new environment and begin a behavior modification regimen to help socialize the fearful and shy dogs.