Artificial intelligence did not arrive in veterinary medicine wearing surgical scrubs and demanding control of the practice. It arrived quietly. It offered to transcribe our consults, tidy our clinical notes, draft discharge instructions and help us find the polite wording for “your Labrador is still overweight.” Then it started reading radiographs. AI is now appearing in practice-management systems, diagnostic imaging, laboratory analysis, appointment scheduling, client comm

The appointment ended when the client left. The case did not. A standard veterinary consultation is often scheduled for fifteen minutes. This sounds reasonable if you imagine a consultation as a simple exchange: Patient enters. Vet examines patient. Vet provides answer. Patient leaves. Unfortunately, the dog has not read the appointment book. The cat has chosen violence. The owner has brought three concerns, a bag of supplements and a video that begins with two minutes of car

We've been thinking about this one for a while. You already know us for the cartoons, the articles, the socks. But there was something else we wanted to make — something for the moments that don't happen at work. The moments after. The drive home. The front door. The five minutes you take before you go inside and become a person again. So we made you a candle. After Hours White Sage and Lavender. It's calm. It's grounding. It smells like the shift is actually over. We named i

The University of Melbourne handed its teaching hospital to Greencross. I have questions. I want to be careful here. I want to be fair. I want to acknowledge that the University of Melbourne was in a genuinely difficult position — a reduced caseload, staff shortages, falling revenue, a hospital that had become financially unsustainable. These are real problems and they don't have easy solutions. But I also want to be honest about what I think happened, and what it means for t

We Made Grass Seed Socks. You're Welcome They can't migrate if they're on your feet. For everyone who has ever spent twenty minutes with forceps and a very unimpressed patient. If you work in veterinary practice in Australia or New Zealand, grass seeds are not a seasonal inconvenience. They are a way of life. From September through to March, barely a day goes by without at least one presentation that starts with "he's been licking his paw" and ends with a triumphant extractio