My blogging career has been kind to me. As well as being invited to express my opinions, for what they are worth, on this website twice a month, I receive intermittent offers to write blogs for companies or to cover pet-based events.
Emma Baker is surveying UK vets on cat and dog behaviour after a media project interview helped her consider animals’ mental well-being, as well as their physical health.
Karen Perry discusses and evaluates some of the novel treatments available for dogs suffering with osteoarthritis, including platelet therapy and the use of stem cells.
Helen Sumner describes the diagnosis and treatment of a young female dog with renal failure and the efforts of a veterinary team to give her some quality of life.
Samantha Taylor describes the diagnosis and treatment of commonly reported – and more unusual – objects swallowed by cats, as revealed in an International Cat Care survey.
Hany Elsheikha explains how immune boosters, chemotherapy and vaccinations help manage a disease spread by the bite of certain types of sandflies, in the first of a two-part article.
Vanessa Biggle describes the signs, treatment, prevention and associated conditions of this tick-borne disease, which appears to now be a danger to non-travelling dogs.
Lee Meakin and Sorrel Langley-Hobbs discuss growth plate fractures that affect the spine and hindlimb bones of young canine and feline patients, in the second of a two-part article.
Professor Susan Dawson admits to Rebecca Hubbard that she is "excited and nervous in equal measure" at taking on the role of BSAVA president for 2016/17.
Nigel Dougherty reviews a case of a dog, from diagnosis to postsurgery, treated following a pig tusk-induced perforation, including managing septic peritonitis.
Alessandro Conte reports on an eight-year-old male boxer that presented with a history of progressive forelimb lameness of eight weeks’ duration, in the latest in the Case Notes series.
Ross Allan highlights signs, investigation strategies and therapy methods associated with a complication occasionally seen with neutering in canine and feline patients.
Antonia Mavropoulou summarises the clinical signs of this condition in cats and dogs before outlining common treatment medications and an approximate dosage for each.
