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Volume 12 Issue 6

November/December 2016

www.PeninsulaVMA.org

Next PVMA Meeting: Tuesday November 15, 2016

This PVMA meeting program offers 1 hour of CE Credit

The meeting will be held at The Vans Restaurant in Belmont located at 815 Belmont Avenue, west off El Camino Real, up the hill. There is

parking adjacent and also across the street to the northwest.

6:30pm for adult beverages - 7:00pm for dinner and program

PVMA members FREE * Life Members $25 * Guests $60

Dr. Lori Drourr is a 1996 Florida grad and worked in general veterinary prac-tice for nine years before returning to academia to achieve board certification in cardiology with the ACVIM. Along the way, Dr. Drourr worked at the University of Guelph, Ontario Vet-erinary College and has lectured at many veterinary meetings including AVMA, AAHA, ACVIM and SFVMA. She now proudly adds PVMA to that prestigious list.

In her mobile practice, Veterinary Car-diology Partners, Dr. Drourr collabo-rates with veterinarians at the San Fran-cisco and Oakland Zoos as well as multiple veterinary practices in the Bay Area. She also makes house-calls to see cardiology patients and provides tele-medicine nation-wide..

Dr. Drourr has authored scholarly articles and contributed to a cardiology manual for practitioners.

In her free time, Dr. Drourr enjoys windsurfing and other water sports.

Cardiology

Presented by

Lori Drourr, DVM, DACVIM

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Dr. Bonnie Yoffe-Sharp (650) 678-2476

Available nights or weekends

Relief or Service ads of 1 or 2 lines are free to PVMA members

For other advertising rates, contact the Editor

Save the Date

Sage Small Animal Symposium

Sunday March 19, 2017

(See new info in Sage ad on Page 6)

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Newsletter Editor Notes

email address is:

PVMAeditor@comcast.net

We welcome submission of

brief articles, news items or

suggestions for topics.

All submissions must be received by

the 20th of the month

preceding publication

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PVMA September Meeting Highlights

Rabies Committee in Action

This could be YOU!

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PVMA Leaders for 2016

President: Dr. Chris Cowing

Past-president: Dr. Chris Cowing

Vice President: Dr. Bev Ort

Treasurer: Dr. Amy Farcas

Newsletter Editor: Dr. Nancy Lerner

Photographer: Dr. Richard Haars

Program Chairman: Dr. Bonnie Yoffe-Sharp

CVMA Board of Governors: Dr. Aleisha Nesset

CVMA House of Delegates: Dr. Jennifer Bolich

Webmasters: Dr. Charlene Edinboro

Dr. Kathy Tyson

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Hold Your Horses

Sharp-shooters on the Open Range

Roughly 90 mustangs roam across public rangeland and a sanctuary in Colorado’s Disappointment Valley. Many were born there. But now their numbers have increased so greatly that their own health and safety is threatened. Nation-wide, an estimated 55,000 wild horses roam pubic rangelands as of this March which is 15% more than last year and more than twice the federally advised number.

In 1971, U.S. legislators passed a law providing for wild horse population management and for decades enough wild horses were adopted to keep their numbers stable. But adoptions have dropped off, causing offi-cials to round up thousands of horses each year using helicopters and trucks. They are held indefinitely in pas-tures and corrals because ranchers complain that mustangs eat the grass on land leased to graze cattle. When food grows scarce, horses starve. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management expects to spend more than $1 bil-lion caring for the roughly 46,000 animals already corralled on public and private land during their lives.

Enter a group of horse-lovers, known as equestrian family planners, whose goal is to rein in this ballooning population of wild horses by using rifle-fired contraceptive darts. A cavalry of more than 100 volunteer darters believe they can control wild horse populations at rifle point. The nonprofit Science and Conservation Center in Billings Montana was established in 1998 to research wildlife contraceptives, chiefly a vaccine called PZP. The vaccine has also been used by zoos for various species. It requires an initial two doses about two weeks apart followed by an annual booster. A skilled darter can deliver the vaccine from nearly 70 yards but accurate record-keeping and horse identification is an important part of the game.

The Center is also hoping to increase adoptions through programs like “Extreme Mustang Makeover” a training competition to convert wild horses into domestic pets. One such program yields about 600 horses each year trained by inmates at prisons in Nevada, Wyoming, Kansas and Colorado.

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Saturn Catches Bald Eagle Humans, cars and property weren’t the only victims of Hurricane Mathew this month. A bald eagle was swept up by the winds and slammed into the grille of this Saturn. Later named after the hurricane, poor “Mathew” was rescued following a 911 call and a Facebook post to the Clay County Florida Sheriff’s Office. Mathew was gently extracted from the grille and turned over to BEAKS, the Bird Emergency Aid & Kare sanctuary. BEAKS owner, Cynthia Mosling, said the eagle is a male about 7 years old. “Mathew is alert, standing up and doesn’t seem to have any serious injuries,” Mosling said.

Mathew was spotted by another driver who chased down the unwitting captor of a trapped bird, then called 911. According to Mosling, the eagle will go back to the sanctuary, receive a checkup and if he’s OK and weather permitting, will be set free.

Mother Hen

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