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How can we fight the veterinary suicide epidemic?

January 8, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

New CDC study confirms soaring vet suicides, especially among women ATLANTA–– American female veterinarians are five times more likely to commit suicide as other American women,  while American male veterinarians are “only” twice as likely to commit suicide as other American men,  according to a newly published study of 36 years’ worth of veterinary death data. […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Asia/Pacific, Feature Home Bottom, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Pacific rim, Shelters, Taiwan, USA Tagged With: Jeffrey Proulx, Kelly Ann Rada, Merritt Clifton, Shirley Koshi, Sophia Yin, Suzanne E. Tomasi

Many human casualties in global shelter “culture war”

May 26, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

“Animal care-workers are pain-saturated people” Part II of a three-part series Part I:  Taiwan shelter director suicide illustrates global crisis. Part III:  Shelter culture war:  “Heal.  Then get up to fight the next battle.” Taiwanese animal shelter director and veterinarian Jian Zhicheng,   who killed herself on May 12,  2016,  was only the most recent […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Pacific rim, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Taiwan, USA Tagged With: Aimee St. Arnaud, Bowette Indrathana Thera, Jeffrey Proulx, Jian Zhicheng, Kelly Ann Rada, Merritt Clifton, Shirley Koshi, Sophia Yin, Wang Pei

Sophia Yin, DVM, 48, animal behaviorist

October 4, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

           Sophia Yin, DVM, 48, died on September 29, 2014 from self-inflicted “asphyxiation by hanging” at her home in Davis, California, reported Yolo County chief deputy coroner Gina M. Moya. A 1993 graduate of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis campus, Yin later returned to Davis to earn a master’s degree […]

Filed Under: Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Training Tagged With: Sophia Yin

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