What are your differential diagnoses for an 8-year-old spayed female domestic longhair cat that was presented with a 2-month history of ulceration of the right lower eyelid? 🐈 Full case: jav.ma/catulcer

Simple, intentional kindness behaviors, from agenda-setting and low-stress handling to teach-back and team debriefs, may reduce stress, build trust, and support better decisions and care in veterinary practice.

Open access article: jav.ma/kindness

Oral trazodone, given alone or with gabapentin, may help reduce stress-related behaviors in dogs during veterinary visits and procedures.

Learn more: jav.ma/gabatraz

Patients colonized with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales can silently spread it to others and are at higher risk of developing a serious infection themselves. 💊🐕🐈 Learn more: jav.ma/CRE

Electrochemotherapy was feasible, safe, and effective for prolonged local control of mammary adenocarcinoma in an Asian elephant, supporting its potential role when conventional modalities aren’t an option. 🐘

Open access article: jav.ma/elephant3

Adoptive T-cell therapy was well tolerated, and while survival outcomes varied, a subset of dogs achieved prolonged survival. Open access article: jav.ma/actchop

Penetrating thoracic trauma is often more severe than routine imaging and examination suggest. Higher animal trauma triage scores were associated with nonsurvival, so close postoperative monitoring is essential.

Learn more: jav.ma/att1

In cats with vertebral fractures or luxations, surgery is an effective option when there is spinal instability or cord compression, provided nociception is intact. 🐈

Learn more: jav.ma/spinalfx

Novel serum musculoskeletal biomarkers show promise as indicators of altered bone remodeling. If confirmed in prospective studies, monitoring them could prompt timely clinical examination and advanced imaging, before serious musculoskeletal injury occurs.

Open access article: jav.ma/msktb

In healthy horses, a novel water additive led to significant and consistent improvements in voluntary water intake compared with both water flavored with sweet feed and plain water. Open access article: jav.ma/vwi

Limited lab access in the field? 🐴 Serum amyloid A can be a practical addition to preanesthetic screening, used alone or with other systemic inflammatory markers. Open access article: jav.ma/saa1

Our top trending #JAVMA article last week was "Evaluation of the risk of endocarditis and other cardiovascular events on the basis of the severity of periodontal disease in dogs": doi.org/10.2460/javm...

Consumer polyacrylamide-based hydrogel products can contain variable levels of residual acrylamide monomer, a neurotoxin, making them a potentially life-threatening source of toxicosis. Open access article: jav.ma/polyacrylamide

A new Viewpoint draws on 15 years and ~350 students trained through FARVets International to make the case for international service-learning as an essential, underrepresented part of veterinary education. Learn more: jav.ma/farvets @cornellvet.bsky.social

Clinicians can reliably tell nasopharyngeal from laryngopharyngeal collapse, with strong intra- and interrater agreement. Classifying by functional anatomy may reveal what really drives pharyngeal collapse. 🐎 Open access article: jav.ma/npclpc

What are your differential diagnoses for a 6-year-old female mixed-breed dog that was presented with a 1-week history of intense sialorrhea and regurgitation of tubular-shaped undigested food? 🐕 Full case: jav.ma/regurg

Discover the key priorities for a unified approach to veterinary well-being from the inaugural Veterinary Wellbeing Collective roundtable. Open access article: jav.ma/wellbeing1

JAVMA's impact factor rose from 1.8 to 2.3 and AJVR's climbed from 1.4 to 1.6 in the latest Journal Citation Reports. Thank you to the authors and readers who made this growth possible! 📈🐾 Hear more from Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Lisa Fortier: jav.ma/IF

Antibiograms suggest folate-pathway inhibitors, or high-exposure IV amoxicillin–clavulanic acid where available, are effective, stewardship-friendly empiric choices for perioperative pyometra treatment while awaiting susceptibility results. 🐕 Open access article: jav.ma/antibiogram3