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Issue #187

May 9th, 2025

Quick Hits:

👍 Tractive launches next-gen health monitoring

🏥 USA TODAY ranks America’s best veterinary hospitals

🇨🇳 An airport in China has just unveiled an exclusive new terminal for very special passengers

🇨🇭 Should you have to pass an exam before you get a dog? Switzerland seems to think so

👃 Just how good is a police sniffing dog? The answer: extremely good!

🗣️ Are we finally able to talk to dogs, or is the whole thing fake?

🐱 Cat jumps into the Guinness World Record book

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Wednesday

• Vetr secures $21M for pet meds - Vetr announced that it received a strategic investment of $21 million from Palehorse Capital.

• Climbing Higher, Clinging Tighter - Koala Health announced the closing of a $20 million Series B funding round led by Valspring Capital.

• Expanding the portfolio - PBI-Gordon Companies, Inc. has acquired TriviumVet®.

• Amazon unleashes pet prescriptions - Amazon is allowing pet owners to order prescriptions online through a new partnership with VetSource.

• Shutting down - A popular 40-year-old New England brand has quietly decided to close 13 stores in CT & MA.

• Investing Lokally - Argentine co-op enters pet food market with Lokal brand, backed by $6M production site.

• Going Dutch - PetMeds has entered a strategic partnership with Dutch to expand its provider ecosystem.

• Cleaning shop - Uproot Clean has partnered with Pet Food Express

• A game changer - Royal Canin’s new $450 million facility in Dayton, Ohio, is turning heads and tails.

• Hitting the spot - Spot Spot Drives 22% of the U.S. Pet Insurance Market's New Pet Growth in 2024.

• Real Value - Pat Valu Q1 profits rise.

• Beagle lab finally closes - The NIH shuts down experimentation lab accused of brutally killing thousands of beagles for 40+ years.

• Woof woof means what? - New Chinese AI technology can supposedly help you understand your pets.

• Cash prize & bragging rights - Nominations are open for the 2026 Farm Bureau Farm Dog of the Year Contest.

• Road to recovery - The impact of facility dogs on patient recovery is meaningful.

• Did we just become twins? - Are dogs and owners starting to look more alike?

• Breakthrough in cancer research - Israeli researchers have developed a method for detecting cancer by training dogs to identify the disease through scent.

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• Senior Category Manager at Chewy

• Marketing Coordinator at Dandylion

• Director, Growth Marketing at Barkbus

• Sr Content Strategy Manager at Embark

• VP of Marketing at Veterinary Emergency Group

• Vice President of Marketing at Embrace Pet Insurance

• Senior Manager, Lifecycle Marketing at The Farmers Dog

• Buggin’ out - New research suggests insect protein has benefits for dogs.

• Turning “waste” into dog food - This catering company found a creative way to make some extra income.

• Dinner Time - A survey of 2000 dog owners found that nearly half of dog owners say their pet has a “meal ritual”.

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• 4th Annual Fairfield Dog Days in Fairfield, Connecticut

• Puppy Palooza in Spanish Fort, Alabama

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