Marvin Mackie, DVM, fixed more than 250,000 dogs & cats in 54-year veterinary career SAN PEDRO, California––W. Marvin Mackie, DVM, 88, remembered by United Spay Alliance cofounder Esther Mechler and much of the rest of the humane community as “a pioneer in the affordable spay/neuter movement, died on September 23, 2025. “He brought so much […]
Can “Berkeley radicals” reform the American Veterinary Medical Association?
AVMA founder Alexandre Liautard would almost certainly be among them BERKELEY, California––Can a handful of Berkeleyans restore to institutional veterinary medicine the concern for ethics advocated by American Veterinary Medical Association founder Alexandre Liautard? Liautard (1835-1918), a 28-year-old French immigrant to the U.S. who had stepped off the boat only three years earlier, in 1863 […]