The Many Gifts of Keanu
Photos courtesy of Arles Hendershott Love When Joe and Arles Hendershott Love adopted Keanu in 2011, the first order of business was simply to nurse her back to health. The Border Collie, underweight at only …
March 12, 2025
Studying Dogs with Neurogenerative Diseases: Findings Contribute to Understanding of Human Neuropathy
In humans, peripheral nerve degeneration can cause progressive muscle weakness, foot deformities, and sensory deficits. One way to learn about human hereditary peripheral neuropathy (HPN) is to study domestic dogs with neurodegenerative diseases. For example, …
March 12, 2025
Poppy Captures Hearts at UWVC and Around the World
When Lisa Edge first met Poppy Grace, she knew she’d become part of her family. Poppy, an American Bulldog mix, was found by Edge’s daughter on the Iowa County Humane Society’s website last summer, having …
October 15, 2024
Community, Service and Unbreakable Bonds: K9 Law Enforcement Dogs Protect Wisconsin Citizens and Officers
“You saved dad, and we have to save you.” These chilling words were captured by the body camera of Deputy Blaine Evans, Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office, just moments after his K9 partner Iro, …
September 26, 2024
4-Year-Old Entlebucher Lost Both Eyes to Glaucoma, but… Finn Still Loves to Fetch
(L-R) Finn was by all measures a healthy and happy dog until he very swiftly developed symptoms of glaucoma and lost sight in his left eye at age four. Watching Finn and Luka, two beautiful …
July 9, 2024
Legacy Continues for Dog Whose Cancer Treatment at UW-Madison Inspired Millions
Long after the last play was called in the 2020 Super Bowl and fans and players left the stadium, an amiable golden retriever named Scout, who appeared in a 30-second commercial during the game’s second …
February 10, 2023
Place for Practice: Gifts Enhance Educational Spaces and Learning Tools
William and Shirley Maeck’s impact on the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine continues to live on in the Maeck Clinical Skills Training Center. This bright and inviting state-of-the-art teaching space, which opened five …
November 28, 2022
Record-Setting Research Portfolio Embodies One Health Approach
Would you expect scientists studying influenza, human respiratory disorders, multiple sclerosis, cancer treatments, and more to be based at a School of Veterinary Medicine? Every day, faculty, staff, and students within the University of Wisconsin …
November 15, 2022
New Genetic Test Identifies Dogs’ Risk of Common Ligament Rupture
By looking at him, you might not know Thabiso had two ruptured cruciate ligaments. “He was a massive dog, 125 pounds,” Allison Smith says about her beloved Labrador Retriever. When Smith got Thabiso in 2010, …
September 13, 2022
Understanding the Human-Animal Interplay of COVID-19 and Other Diseases
Tony Goldberg knows that most human diseases, like COVID-19, don’t start — or end — with our species. These diseases are really a part of our whole ecosystem, and that includes the animals we interact …
March 30, 2022- See more of the School of Veterinary Medicine's impact