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Monday Pro · 3/23/2026 · Issue #319
Quick Hits

🦃 Oma’s Pride CEO follows fast food CEO playbook: eat your own product, pet edition

💊 VANE backs NanosVet’s needle-free drug delivery for pets

🥶 Australian man traveled 10,000 Miles and spent nearly $40,000 to cryogenically freeze his dog

💰 New study shows that pet spending surges even in a rough economy

🧘‍♀️ Doga goes mainstream, pet yoga market heats up

😤 39% of dog owners agree that this is the most important thing when owning a dog

🛫 The rise of pet-friendly travel

🐴 Terramed acquires Palm Beach Equine Clinic property for $9.27M

🐱 Scientists uncover new physics behind cats’ midair rotation

🇬🇧 In the UK, pet tech adoption remains low

😮 Condé Nast sues Dogue, a small fashion magazine just for dogs, over Vogue-style name

INTERVIEW
Why Layout Shapes Care
Morgan Valentino explains how openness, layout, and repeatable design systems help VEG scale faster while improving care, culture, and communication.

As Vice President of Design & Construction at Veterinary Emergency Group (VEG), Morgan Valentino has helped scale the organization from a small number of hospitals to a national footprint. In that process, she has developed a distinct approach to veterinary hospital design — one that integrates real estate, design, and construction into a unified operating model, enabling faster execution, stronger site selection discipline, and more consistent experiences across markets.

In our conversation, she explains why openness serves as the guiding principle behind both physical layouts and communication practices, how repeatable design systems reduce friction as organizations scale, and why hospital environments directly shape team performance, customer trust, and patient outcomes.

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