Catherine Ashe, DVM
Catherine Ashe graduated the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine in 2008. After nearly a decade of working in emergency veterinary medicine, and a few years in general practice, she now works in a hospice/palliative-care practice in Asheville, North Carolina.
Latest Blog
When a Cup is Not a Cup
I’m infamous among my friends and colleagues for asking people if they are aware that their dogs are overweight. It’s because I have seen firsthand how fat dogs suffer in their senior years when they are too heavy to exercise without pain! And their burden of carrying extra pounds makes the ordinary aches and pains of arthritis even worse. AND YET, I have to give myself a stern talking-to from time to time about helping my older dog stay trim.