Emily Brill

About Emily Brill

Emily Brill is the executive editor and founder of The Canine Review. The Canine Review is a subscription-only, independent online news service whose readers include thousands of veterinary professionals, pet industry leaders, journalists, and dog fanatics. As the pet industry’s only independent watchdog news service not beholden to advertisers, TCR provides much-needed accountability and greater transparency for this fast-growing, dynamic sub-sector of the economy which, until TCR, had not yet faced frequent and high-impact checks on its powerful institutions and stakeholders. A native New Yorker, Emily grew up in a media startup world and preferred newsrooms to playgrounds and classrooms. She has worked everywhere from Fox News Channel during its early days with Shepard Smith to Charlie Rose to CNN to CBS News’s Beijing Bureau (she lived and freelanced in Beijing for two years). Before founding TCR, her reporting as a freelancer was published in The New York Times’s China edition, The Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, The Atlantic, Chinafile.com, The South China Morning Post, and the Columbia Journalism Review.

Posts by Emily Brill:

July 31, 2020

A California vet has his license revoked, along with his premises license to operate. The practice is still open, and he’s still working there. What can you or the vet board do?

Asked about the enforcement process and how the Board implements its orders, Cave explained, “Because California is a huge state, the [VMB] can’t be everywhere at all times.” Cave added that if a person is aware of a veterinarian who is operating on a revoked license, that person should file a complaint as a way of alerting the [Vet Board] to the possible violation. “And, then, what the Board has at their disposal is either to send out an inspector or, at the Department of Consumer Affairs, we have our own law enforcement unit. They’re called the Division of Investigation (DOI). They’re actually peace officers, but they’re under DCA.” Cave says these officers are able to set up undercover sting operations depending on the severity. “If the board is tipped off, then they definitely move on those quickly.”

July 31, 2020

Wisconsin vet says officials forced shut down after employee tested positive for Covid. Health Dept tells a different story.

In America’s heartland, a new and unlikely participant has joined the debates that have defined so much of the COVID-19 pandemic: Wisconsin veterinarian and practice owner Kristie Ponce of Wisconsin Rapids, where the local economy is being ravaged by the pandemic. Dr. Ponce and her practice started attracting media attention earlier in July when, according to Ponce, she and her staff were ordered by local health department authorities to quarantine at home after one employee tested positive for COVID-19.

July 30, 2020

NYC Family Dog Dies Weeks After Becoming America’s First Confirmed Canine Covid Case

A family’s beloved 7-year-old German shepherd dog “Buddy” was euthanized earlier this month, 41 days after becoming the first confirmed canine case of COVID-19 in the United States. Buddy’s owners, Allison and Robert Mahoney of Staten Island, New York, have provided a gut-wrenching account of what they and Buddy endured during his final weeks.

July 27, 2020

California Vet Board Revokes DVM and Hospital Licenses. Two weeks later, the hospital remains open and he continues to work there, a local paper reports.

The Mountain View Voice is reporting today that although California veterinarian Tejpaul Ghumman’s license was revoked by the state’s Veterinary Medical Board (VMB) earlier this month along with his ‘premise license’ to operate Alta View Animal Hospital, which he co-owns, Alta View Animal Hospital continues to be open for business and Ghumman is continuing to work there.

July 27, 2020

Add ‘Rat Hunting’ To List Of Things To Do With Your Dog — Only In NYC

Only in New York City. Today’s Wall Street Journal has a must-read profile of NYC owner-dog dynamic duo – and avid rat hunters – Elias Schewel and his mixed breed dog, “Sundrop.” Mr. Schewel is part of a group called the Ryders Alley Trencher-Fed Society (yes, R.A.T.S.), according to the profile.

July 15, 2020

Vet hospitals report more parvo during COVID – – but pet insurer Trupanion says they don’t see it

Last week, high-end specialty and emergency veterinary hospital network BluePearl announced in a press release that, based on data from all ninety of its hospitals throughout the United States, there had been a 70% increase in canine parvovirus cases during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the same period in the previous five years.

July 14, 2020

VIN News Refuses To Issue Correction

TCR is requesting a correction or clarification in a VIN News story by reporter Edie Lau. Lau has not yet made any changes to her story, nor has she responded to TCR’s most recent e-mail. TCR is publishing the exchange with Lau in full:

July 14, 2020

BluePearl Reports 70% Increase in Parvovirus Cases During Pandemic

BluePearl, a high-end network of specialty and emergency veterinary hospitals, announced last week that its hospitals have seen a 70 percent increase in parvovirus cases:

July 9, 2020

Covid Dog in Georgia Died From Brain Tumor, Not Covid, Georgia Dept. of Public Health Tells TCR

The Canine Review has learned that a dog confirmed to have tested positive for COVID-19 last week in Georgia — this was the fourth confirmed case in a dog in the United States — did not die as a result of coronavirus. Georgia Department of Public Health spokesperson Nancy Nydam told TCR in an email today: “The final necropsy results confirm the dog’s cause of death was a brain tumor. The other dog in the home is not ill and tested negative for SARS-CoV-2.”

July 2, 2020

UPDATED *** A DOG IN GEORGIA TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19, EUTHANIZED AFTER ‘SUDDEN ONSET OF NEUROLOGICAL ILLNESS.’ NOT KNOWN IF COVID PLAYED A ROLE.

A six-year-old mixed breed dog in Georgia has tested positive for COVID-19; however, the dog was not showing any signs of respiratory illness, according to Georgia’s Department of Public Health. The dog “developed sudden onset of neurological illness which progressed rapidly over the course of a couple of days, and was humanely euthanized,” Georgia’s Department of Public Health said in a statement on Monday.

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