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Tag: Cats

  • What would you do?

    What would you do?

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    Having returned from an equine visit, I clambered out of the car in the practice car park and started gathering some equipment that needed cleaning. A few parking spaces over, one of our other vets was stood with her back to me, sporting a visor, deep in conversation with a client via a rolled down…

  • Makes Me Smile

    Makes Me Smile

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      VN Times calendar competition 22 voting – terms and conditions: From all of the photos submitted as part of the VN Times Makes Me Smile calendar competition, 30 entries have been shortlisted by our panel of judges. We are now asking readers of VN Times and Vet Times and users of vettimes.co.uk to vote…

  • A nervous generation

    A nervous generation

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    I read somewhere in the early days of lockdown that several rescue shelters have been experiencing 100% empty kennels for the first time since opening. This was truly heart-warming to hear, and seemed at first as a small silver lining around the dark clouds of the pandemic. However, it shortly came to light that demand…

  • Crazy pet myths

    Crazy pet myths

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    I’m hoping to move home soon, but it’s been a long time since I moved with a pet. I’m considering Prof Edward Coleman’s feelings in this far more than my own; he likes to wander to other gardens and, although he settled quickly here, I’m moving nearer a busy road, so I’m thinking of ways…

  • Feline fine in lockdown

    Feline fine in lockdown

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    Since the start of lockdown, I’ve been seeing a lot of cats in practice – not that I’m complaining, as a self-confessed “crazy cat lady”. A lot of these cases have been geriatric cats – many of which presented with chronic vomiting or reduced food intake (with various aetiologies). However, when we tore through our…

  • Eosinophils: worms, wheezes, and weird diseases

    Eosinophils: worms, wheezes, and weird diseases

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    Unless you’re a parasitic nematode (and I suspect the majority of you reading this aren’t) or suffer from an allergy (probably a bit more likely), it’s hard not to be a little bit excited when you see an eosinophil. Just like their brothers-in-arms, the neutrophils, eosinophils are part of the front-line defences of the immune…

  • Professor Edward Coleman

    Professor Edward Coleman

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    Am I really already writing my blogs for the halfway point of the year? It would seem so, and I’m having a look back at an earlier blog from this year. In March, I wrote about “nurse pets” – those missing the parts other pet owners would expect as standard, but that we nurses don’t…

  • Tips for studying in self isolation

    Tips for studying in self isolation

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    I feel the phrase “the show must go on” is going to apply heavily to the student community over the coming months – vet students included. Universities across the country are moving their teaching and examinations to an online platform, which means that for a lot of young academics, come rain or shine (or, it…

  • Nurse pets

    Nurse pets

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    After my recent blog about Ebony, I’m here to be brave and say that I’m single. In every way, I am foot loose and fancy free. For the first time in 16 years I have no pets. Ebony and I had been a little team since early last year, and now it’s just me. It…

  • Sustainable pet ownership

    Sustainable pet ownership

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    Pet owning is carbon costly – not just in terms of veterinary care and treatment, but also due to their diet and the products we buy for them. But if we look at the bigger picture, we may find that pets could, in fact, reduce an individual’s carbon footprint due to the type of lifestyle…