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🧠 AI in Vet Practices - Smart? Yes. But Ethical? The Jury Is Still Out + Fresh Trends & Jobs

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This Week | AI is rewriting clinical care, but are you ready for the ethical grey zones? Plus, before candidates even start scrolling jobs, many are asking themselves deeper career-fit questions - we'll show you what that means for your hiring. The Vets' sudden shutdown rocks staff, Rover is buying Mad Paws for $62M, and pet cancer screening may soon start with a saliva swab. Roles stretch from a clinic lead in Geelong, Victoria to small animal work in Detroit , Michigan, and a senior surgeon role in Streatham in the UK. Need relief talent? Veterinary Locumotion has locums ready now in Ulladulla, Charlotte, and Basingstoke, and more worldwide. And as always...please take care of yourself; you deserve it, and if you can, someone else too 🤗

🧠 AI in Vet Practices - Smart? Yes. But Ethical? The Jury Is Still Out

AI is no longer hypothetical. It’s quietly reshaping diagnostics, scheduling, patient records, and more. Before it pervades your clinic by stealth, get clear on where it contributes best, where ethics demand caution, and how to lead adoption without losing your practice’s core values...

🔍 Before You Start Searching - What Do You Really Want?

It’s Sunday night. You’re not dreading Monday, but something feels...off. Life is fine, work is fine, but a quiet “is this still working for me?” has started to creep in. Before you grab the iPad and type in “veterinary jobs,” take a beat. This guide will help you figure out what you actually want - before the scrolling begins...

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📲 Scaling Smarter: Tech Moves That Actually Work

A smoother workflow doesn’t always mean hiring more staff. This tech-forward vet clinic grew to 40 staff across 4 states by eliminating low-value admin and embracing operational automation. Here's what worked and how you can replicate it...

🎯 Vet Marketing Myths That Cost You Clients

Marketing isn't just for attracting new pet parents; it's also how you keep the good ones. These overlooked marketing gaps are quietly costing clinics thousands in missed revenue and retention. Here's how to shift your strategy and stop the silent churn...

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🩺Job Of The Week

Veterinarian - Mixed or Large Animal

🔸Bundaberg🔸QLD🔸Australia🔸Ready to do your best work in a role where your skills are valued and your well-being is protected? Join a hospital that prioritises mentorship, professional growth, and gold-standard patient care — right on the doorstep of the Great Barrier Reef. You’re a compassionate, driven vet who’s seeking more than just a job. You want to do work that matters and backed by a team that cares.

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🩺Featured Jobs USA + Canada

Associate Veterinarian

🔸Dothan🔸AL🔸USA🔸We offer a fun supportive environment and focus on mentorship, growth, and work-life balance and wellness. Our clients are second to none in compliance and appreciation for the services we provide. We encourage our veterinarians to practice the basics as well as stretch themselves to learn new skills. Come work where you are appreciated on a daily basis, and enjoy an ideal lifestyle community!

Associate Veterinarian

🔸Detroit🔸MI🔸USA🔸At Greenfield Animal Hospital, we do things differently…and we’re proud of it. We’re a privately-owned, women-led practice that believes modern veterinary care should treat the whole patient, not just the symptoms. That means low-stress handling, fear-free techniques, and a culture of respect for pets and our team members. Join us in making a genuine difference to pet lives each and every day.

Managing Veterinarian

🔸Edinboro🔸PA🔸USA🔸Join our team at Camboro Veterinary Hospital located in Edinboro, PA, just a short distance from the picturesque Lake Erie in Northwest PA. We are currently looking for a dedicated Managing Veterinarian/Medical Director to lead our practice. Joint Ownership is an option for interested candidates. Join us for a fulfilling career in a vibrant community in an ideal lifestyle location.

Small Animal Veterinarian

🔸Newark🔸DE🔸USA🔸Thanks for taking the time to visit our circus🎪 Being a doctor here is a really sweet gig. Two practices right down the road from each other, acting as one integrated team. For those who are production minded, this is a position where you can earn as much as you want - and for those who are all about the medicine, this is a place to carve out your own specialty bringing you career satisfaction.

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🧨 The abrupt collapse of The Vets mobile service left clients and staff scrambling, without warning or notice.

💥 Workplace emotions are signals, not disruptions. This piece shows how trauma-informed leadership changes culture.

🧪 Elitas is building saliva-based screening tools to detect cancer and chronic illness in pets, bringing the 23andMe model to veterinary care.

📉 Wag! is entering Chapter 11 with a pre-packaged plan that hands ownership to secured lender Retriever LLC while operations continue without interruption.

🦴 Rover is buying Mad Paws for $62M in cash, strengthening its hold on the global pet services market.

🔍 Whistle has been acquired by Tractive, signaling consolidation in the pet wearables space.

🐾 Post-pandemic pet spending is now a recession indicator, with budgets stretched even for basic pet care.

🛍️ Pet startups face uphill battles against giants like Mars and Chewy...especially when cash flow gets tight.

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Managing Veterinarian

🔸Oswego🔸New York🔸USA🔸Exciting opportunity for a Managing Veterinarian to join our team! This is a great opportunity for existing managing veterinarians or experienced associates looking to advance into a leadership position. You'll receive support from the Divisional Leadership Team for practice management training and resources to lead a best-in-class clinic. An ideal career opportunity with genuine work-life balance

Lead Veterinarian

🔸Greater Geelong🔸VIC🔸Australia🔸Are you an experienced vet looking for a role that fits around your life...not the other way around? This is your opportunity to step into a clinical lead position with the freedom to shape your schedule, lead a supportive team, and make a real impact in a thriving community clinic. We’re seeking a motivated veterinarian to join our friendly team in Highton, just outside Geelong.

Lead Veterinarian

🔸Central Coast🔸NSW🔸Australia🔸We are seeking a lead veterinarian with aspirations for greater responsibility that is rewarded and recognised. As the Lead Vet, you will be involved in a mix of consulting, surgery and leading a wonderful team of passionate vets and nurses. Lead a team of like-minded veterinary professionals delivering personalised and dedicated veterinary care to our local patients and owners.

Internal Medicine Specialist

🔸Sydney🔸NSW🔸Australia🔸We are looking for a caring and professional Internal Medicine Veterinary Registrar/Specialist to join our growing team located in in the beautiful Eastern Suburbs area of Sydney. You will be working closely with a supportive and professional team of specialists, interns, and nurses with advanced specialty training, working in a dynamic, fast-paced, satisfying, and collaborative team environment.

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🩺Featured Jobs UK + Europe + Worldwide

Lead Veterinary Surgeon

🔸Streatham🔸Greater London🔸UK🔸We are seeking a strong all-rounder vet to play a crucial part in our team. Exceptional care is at the heart of everything we do. That’s the care for our patients, our clients, and for each other – we really want to make a positive difference through every interaction we have. Join our warm, welcoming, talented, and highly collaborative team and enjoy working in an ideal lifestyle location.

Veterinary Surgeon – Weekend

🔸Sutton🔸Surrey🔸UK🔸Whether seeking a supplementary role, aiming to enhance your ECC skills, or to re-enter the veterinary world, our practice awaits. If you are looking for one shift a week, or one a month, we will be guided by you in how to make your weekends work. Along with being supported in clinic with committed colleagues, our central support teams are here to help too. Discover more...

Referral Veterinary Clinician

🔸Hull🔸East Yorkshire🔸UK🔸A unique opportunity for an experienced vet with a strong interest in dentistry to lead our dental team. Our Group is a six-site practice with a Tier 3 veterinary hospital at its core. This opportunity will give the right candidate a chance to walk into a fully functional bespoke dental branch that is already running staged dentals and continue to develop the service we are offering to clients.

Small Animal Vet

🔸Chippenham🔸England🔸UK🔸We are looking for a new Small Animal Vet to join our team in Chippenham, Wiltshire. With a couple of years of experience under your belt, you know what matters in your career - a sense of teamwork, support and a chance to take your career to the next level. You have exceptional organisational, communication and customer service skills, and a commitment to gold standard veterinary care.

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📍UNITED KINGDOM - BASINGSTOKE, England

🏥 NEEDED ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinary Surgeon

We have been caring for the pets of Basingstoke and Tadley for nearly 70 years, giving us strong traditional values within a modern and forward-thinking practice. Our Veterinary team aims to provide the best possible treatment for all pets in a pleasant, friendly, and helpful environment. We offer great...

📍USA - CHARLOTTE, North Carolina

🏥 NEEDED ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinarian - GP

We’re committed to reducing pet overpopulation by providing accessible, low-cost spay and neuter services to underserved communities in and around Monroe. Our clinic offers a compassionate, high-quality surgical environment focused on prevention and public health. Our team is highly skilled...

📍AUSTRALIA - ULLADULLA, New South Wales

🏥 NEEDED ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinarian - GP

A long-established part of the local community. Mixed animal hospital with a small animal bias - a small animal locum would suit us fine as a valuable addition to our team as 2 of our full-time vets are going on maternity leave at the same time. Skilled tech, nursing, and client care staff...

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📍UNITED KINGDOM - MELTON MOWBRAY, England

🩺 AVAILABLE ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinary Nurse

My name is Ellie, I qualified as an RVN in 2015 and attained my BSc in 2016. I have been a locum RVN since 2018, so I have a wealth of experience under my belt to be confident in a wide variety of practices and environments. I have certificates in Anaesthesia and Surgical Nursing. I work through...

📍CANADA - COLLINGWOOD, Ontario

🩺 AVAILABLE ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinarian - GP

My Name is Cáit. I am a 2017 graduate of University College Dublin with over eight years of experience in veterinary medicine, and I am currently seeking locum opportunities in small animal practice across Central Ontario. Having spent the last five and a half years working in ambulatory equine practice...

📍AUSTRALIA - MELBOURNE, Victoria

🩺 AVAILABLE ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinarian - GP

My name is Yoke and I’m a small animal GP veterinarian. I enjoy building relationships with clients and take pride in simplifying conditions to help clients understand what is going on with their animal. I always strive to provide the highest standards of care whenever possible. I enjoy getting to know...

Veterinary & Pet Company
Share Prices

Company

Loccation

Code

Share Price

Chewy

USA

$CHWY ( ▼ 0.22% )  

USD 36.70

Elanco Animal Health

USA

$ELAN ( ▲ 2.03% )  

USD 13.68

IDEXX Laboratories

USA

$IDXX ( ▲ 27.49% )  

USD 534.31

Trupanion

USA

$TRUP ( ▲ 2.36% )  

USD 47.41

Zoetis

USA

$ZTS ( ▲ 3.01% )  

USD 145.79

Animalcare Group

UK

ANCR

GBP 270.00p

CVS Group

UK

CVSG

GBP 1228p

Pets at Home Group

UK

PETS

GBP 229.80p

Apiam Animal Health

AU

AHX

AUD 0.56

Wellard

AU

WLD

AUD 0.18

Prices as of noon GMT on Wednesday, 30 July 2025 - Source Google Finance

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