Bruce’s Blog

Dr. Bruce Fogle sits in a wooden chair holding a small white and brown dog. He wears a navy blue vest over a light blue shirt, with a stethoscope around his neck. Behind him, a sign reads 'Dr. Bruce Fogle Veterinary Surgeon,' and shelves stocked with pet supplies are visible in the background.
In this short but powerful discussion, Bruce and David explore the growing tension between ethical veterinary care and the increasing commercial pressures in today’s corporate owned clinics. They remind us that while everything is possible, not everything is probable

On my first day at the Ontario Veterinary College in 1963, the President of the Veterinary Student Union gave us a “Welcome to OVC” talk. Carlton Gyles lectured us on the importance of arriving at lectures and labs in white

When I was a young boy in 1940s Toronto, and cats were still second class citizens, our neighbour’s cat Tiger had an unauthorized litter and my parents adopted two of them, a girl they called Tabby (or Tabitha when my

Do you remember 40 years ago when the style of wearing baseball caps backwards spread around the world in a year? Ideas spread unseen, just like viruses do. Paleolithic diets for us and raw diets for dogs are one of

Cats don’t tell us when they have joint pain. They hide it and simply sleep more or get more irritable or reduce their activity. We wrongly conclude that these behaviour changes are just normal parts of aging but they’re not.

CANCERS FOLLOW RULESCANCERS ARE ‘NORMAL’ The lump on 12 year old Marnie’s back is a rare, very fast growing tumour called a myxoma. It was removed a few days after this picture was taken. Cancers will never be completely prevented