Why a veterinary reference in your own language?
The standard of care should not depend on a clinician's English proficiency.
Most of modern veterinary medicine — its guidelines, its protocols, its product monographs — is written in English. A large share of the world's veterinarians practise in a second language: they trained from partially translated handbooks, they read guidelines in English, they attend congresses in languages they manage with effort. The standard of care for an animal — dog, horse, cow, cat — should not depend on the language proficiency of the clinician treating it. That is the entire reason Lares exists.
The barrier
A language barrier is not a minor inconvenience.
Modern veterinary medicine publishes its guidelines, protocols, and product monographs in English. Occasionally French or German. Far more rarely in the language the clinician actually thinks in. A practitioner in a small-town clinic who wants to check an equine analgesia protocol or consult the WSAVA vaccination guidelines reads them in a second language — or does not read them at all. This is not a criticism of clinicians. It is an observation about a system that treats access to knowledge as a privilege of those who happened to study in the languages the literature is written in, or who could afford training courses with translated materials. The standard of care should not have language barriers. A treatment guideline does not become more applicable or safer because it is read in English. It simply becomes more accessible when it is read in the language the reader thinks in.
In practice
What "in your language" means in practice.
This is not about machine translation of texts that already exist in English. It is about a corpus — organised, cited, and updated — presented in the clinician's own language, with correct veterinary clinical terminology in that language, with doses in the units the clinician actually uses, and with the source attached to every claim. Lares builds that corpus. The sources are international — WSAVA, ESCCAP, EMA, VMD — and the same cited corpus is served through the same interface in each language the app supports: English, Romanian, and Hungarian today, and more can follow. Nobody should be doing a mental translation while verifying a dose at 3 AM.
Consensus
Consensus, not opinion.
There is an essential distinction we maintain carefully: Lares does not produce clinical opinions. It surfaces the consensus of the discipline — what international guidelines say, what the authorised monograph states, what professional organisations recommend. This is not a product limitation — it is its foundation. A tool that would emit its own clinical judgements is not a reference tool. It is something more dangerous. What a veterinarian needs is access to the knowledge that already exists — cited, current, and in the language they think in.
Per scientiam, vigilamus.
Through knowledge, we keep watch.
We watch. We protect. We help.