"A human will know to stop after one gummy bear, but a dog will eat as much as they can, and then they come in with a range of systems from mildly impaired to unconscious and barely able to breathe. For the most part, they recover pretty well." -Dr. Tim Hackett
Dr. Kelly Hall, associate professor of critical care in the Department of Clinical Sciences, is the recipient of the 2021 Jack Mara Scientific Achievement Award, from the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care.
Throughout spring and early summer, the emergency and urgent care service sees on average two to four cases per week of puppies with parvovirus, a virus that can be easily avoided by regularly vaccinating your dog.
During the first several of the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders throughout the world, the Recover Initiative extended a free training offer to students of registered universities and colleges, including CSU, with veterinary training programs.
Dr. Christine Klippen studied nursing at George Mason University but opted for animals, earning a veterinary degree from Colorado State... “Bye-bye, ventilator,” one veterinary staffer at CSU said as a doctor wheeled its machine out the door, loaded it into a pickup truck and delivered it to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins.
Times may be weird and unnerving right now due to the coronavirus, but when my dog needed emergency care this week, you were able to get him in within the hour, and begin to treat him for his injuries immediately.
VIDEO: Skye had emergency surgery at Colorado State University on Wednesday. By Friday, Skye was already feeling better. "You see them start to come back to life, that’s when it’s all worth it,” said Dr. Valerie Johnson.
"The other place that I’ve recently become involved with is 'Colorado State University of Veterinary Medicine' in Fort Collins. I happened to be there visiting friends on the way to California and my dog Kona, my Golden Retriever, would have died, because he had cancer in his heart. But they took him in and saved his life." -Tanya Tucker
Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital staff found Skye had a hernia in her diaphragm, which allowed her intestines to enter her chest cavity. Left untreated, the condition is fatal.
The James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital asks that the public take healthy stray animals to the Larimer Humane Society, not the hospital.