January 2024

Vets and owners are being urged to move quickly as a new scheme to offer financial assistance towards neutering costs opens next week.

7 mins

WSAVA’s oncology working group and Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association are making 12 hand-picked articles free to download.

4 mins

Will McFadzean takes over from Nele Van den Steen at Linnaeus-owned centre, and says he is keen to build on the good work of his predecessor.

4 mins

Team at Southfields Veterinary Specialists carry out life-changing surgery on feline patient Sypha after air rifle pellet found lodged in her nasopharynx.

6 mins

Interim accreditation arrangements will remain in place for the time being, subject to annual review, following a vote of the college’s council.

10 mins

Practical management to be covered at event set for 28 February.

3 mins

Team of veterinary professionals from multiple services involved in treatment of cocker spaniel born with rare congenital anomaly – two additional limbs fused together and an extra vulva.

7 mins

Welfare campaigners have warmly welcomed new plans that would allow maximum five-year jail sentences for offenders who take pet cats or dogs.

6 mins

Dogs Trust leaders say financial challenges remain an ‘ongoing’ problem as they reveal more than 45,000 people contacted charity about giving up pets in 2023.

9 mins

A vet who will join a vaccination team in India next month is then planning to get airborne in a different way for the cause when she returns.

5 mins

Newly released RVC analysis found four in five pandemic puppy owners had used at least one aversive training measure on their dogs and nearly all those surveyed experienced some form of behavioural issue.

7 mins

The BVU has urged employers to talk to their staff about security measures after a man who attacked a vet in his own practice was sent to prison.

7 mins

Appointment-based system of appointing council members one of the ideas being considered in a programme officials believe could be necessary as part of the development of new veterinary sector laws.

11 mins

Carlos Millan has joined North Downs Specialist Referrals and hopes to publish clinical studies as part of his work with the Linnaeus-owned organisation.

4 mins

UK specialist vet Jo Murrell is among the clinicians chosen to head up groups, which provide global guidelines and educational resources to help veterinary practitioners.

4 mins

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have worked with Dogs Trust on the GenPup-M system, which they hope to turn into an app for owners to use.

9 mins

The association has welcomed calls for collaboration from a leading critic of the controversial badger cull policy in England, but insists that option should remain open where it is needed.

9 mins

A disciplinary committee said it felt Vlad Butnaru was “making up his defence as he went along” during a hearing into his actions.

8 mins

Proposals are expected to be outlined later this year on an issue that college leaders see as a vital aspect of veterinary legislation reform.

5 mins

Animal welfare commissioners voiced their concerns in a letter released on the same day that Scottish ministers confirmed they would “in essence” adopt the legislation now in place in England and Wales.

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