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Tag: husbandry

  • The lost art of tortoise husbandry

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    In the role of client, I found myself praised and then shamed in equal measure when taking my tortoise for a check-up this week. Being a paranoid RVN pet owner, I was getting a bit worried because Bridget seemed considerably smaller than a friend’s female tortoise of the same type. After being quizzed on her housing, feeding,…

  • Cute, stubborn and very high maintenance

    Cute, stubborn and very high maintenance

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    Due to a change in my mobility, my dog Hollie is getting a lot more short walks close to home. She’s not bred for long distances so she doesn’t mind this, and our local streets are nice and relatively quiet. My main problem, however, is that everyone I encounter stops to comment on how cute she…

  • Obesity: facing the big dog in the room

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    Obesity is a huge welfare problem that is rapidly increasing. We all know this. That owners with obese animals are guilty of neglect is obvious[1.yes, rarely there can be endocrine or metabolic problems], as is the state of their animals, and they don’t need a vet to bring this up in a consult – all…

  • Exotics and the last-gasp presentation

    Exotics and the last-gasp presentation

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    For the first part of my career my “special interest”, and something I became gradually better known for, was exotics. However, in my first jobs, getting the bosses to take the specialty (and me) seriously was tough. At first they couldn’t see the attraction of these “novelty species”, as one old timer put it. Then…