By lunchtime on their first day, your new vet is quietly thinking, "I made the right call." A new vet can be seeing cases on their own within a few weeks, yet feeling truly at home in your practice takes closer to a year. How that year goes shows up in the care your clients see every day, and in whether your new vet is still with you, and glad of it, next November. Here's how to make it a great one...

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Halfway through the interview, it's starting to feel like a yes. The team seems friendly, the medicine interesting and the salary in the ballpark. Now's the time to dig a little deeper and ask some of your own questions. When you ask the right way you will learn how the practice actually works day to day, through the stories its people tell. Discover what to listen for, and why the question they find hardest to answer may tell you the most. Here's what to ask while you're still in the room…

Every practice has clients who rarely come back. New survey analysis puts them at about a quarter of dog and cat households, with the bottom quarter of cat owners spending almost nothing on vet care. The surprise: about three in ten of them earn over $75,000, so discounts alone won't win them. See what might bring them through the door...

Clients are questioning every bill, yet a recent study found just 1.91% of US practices list any prices on their websites. The UK will require 36 services to be priced online by March 2027, and one Denver surgical center already publishes all-inclusive fees. Find out what that did for trust, and what it takes to keep prices right...

🚜 Tractor Supply closed 74 Petsense stores last quarter while its VIP Petcare pop-up clinics now run in about 2,700 retail locations.

🧬 From gene therapies for dogs to new drugs for aging cats, the first Animal Longevity Summit showed pet longevity fast becoming a business.

💳 Checkout in the exam room takes 2 to 5 minutes against 7 to 10 at the desk, and it can cut missed charges and lift forward booking.

🤖 AI-made vaccination records are turning up in Utah, and the clinic whose name is forged on them can be held liable until proven otherwise.

🏗️ Builder, operator, steward: the habits that get a new practice off the ground can be the very ones that hold it back as it grows.

🐴 A horse owner with a doctorate in negotiation says every cost talk is a negotiation, and naming the price before you're asked heads off the doubt.

🕯️ A calmer euthanasia goes beyond the comfort room: no waiting room, payment taken beforehand and a pet never separated from its family.

🎨 Picasso, Hockney and Warhol all loved dachshunds, and a Bremen museum's sausage dog show even lets small dogs in for a look and a sniff.

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