MSU Feline Club held a cat-themed movie event to allow members time to unwind as well as practice their physical exam skills on friendly feline patients at the Constellation Cat Cafe.

A foster kitten in search of a home found just that at the MSU Veterinary Medical Center when undergoing surgical repair for a heart defect.

With firsthand knowledge from the frontlines of biomedical research, this year’s commencement speaker brought a unique perspective shaped by his distinguished career in veterinary pathology.

Duck was a four-month-old foster kitten when he presented to the MSU Veterinary Medical Center’s Cardiology Service for evaluation of a heart murmur. An echocardiogram confirmed a grade V left basilar continuous murmur, a loud murmur often associated with a patent ductus arteriosus.