Humans have a long history of using acupuncture to treat animal diseases. Early acupuncture was used mainly to treat equine diseases, but was also commonly used to treat farm animals and companion animals. One of the earliest records of veterinary acupuncture appeared in Ge Hong’s “Post-Elbow Preparedness and Emergency Formula” in the Western Jin Dynasty, where he used acupuncture to treat horse diseases. Animals also have meridian points on their bodies. Modern veterinary acupuncture encompasses the use of acupuncture, moxibustion, acupoint injections, low-volume radium, magnets, and a variety of other techniques to test or stimulate acupuncture points on the animal’s body and thereby diagnose and treat a variety of diseases in animals. In clinical practice, acupuncture has been successfully used for musculoskeletal, neurological, dermatological, cardiovascular, reproductive, and analgesic disorders in animals. In Singapore, zoo veterinarians have helped about 200 animals, including giraffes, elephants, horses, pythons and sea lions, overcome their illnesses with “acupuncture-herbal combination therapy”. The zoo’s senior veterinarian said that although Western medicine is still the zoo’s veterinary hospital’s “main cure,” but when Western medicine can’t help the animals get rid of their illnesses, Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture have become important alternative treatments. Veterinarians have helped to alleviate a variety of pains, including swelling after fractures, by applying needles to “sick animals. Although it is difficult to give elephants acupuncture: only those huge stainless steel industrial needles (about 20 cm long and more than 0.6 cm in diameter) can penetrate the 2.5 cm thick skin and more than 10 cm thick muscles of elephants, but veterinarians are happy to help them recover as soon as possible. In Japan, acupuncture has been applied to food. To make the world’s most delicious sushi, the Japanese give tuna acupuncture. A company in Osaka, Japan, demonstrated the technique of giving acupuncture to tuna at the Japan International Seafood Exhibition, and has applied for a patent. The company claims that acupuncture can calm the tuna and make its blood more pure and its meat more delicious. Moreover, the tuna that receives acupuncture does not need to be fed with drugs, and the meat can be kept fresh after transportation. The company says it will next test acupuncture on salmon. Although, acupuncture has amazing effects in treating animal diseases, it is not advisable to use acupuncture before diagnosing the disease. This is because acupuncture may mask some symptoms afterwards, thus making diagnosis difficult and delaying the disease. Acutely ill, life-threatening animals should not be treated with acupuncture. Also pregnant animals, animals with heart disease and arrhythmia are not suitable for acupuncture therapy.