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Tag: Lameness

  • The dangers of casts and bandages

    The dangers of casts and bandages

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    Casts and bandages are frequently used to treat orthopaedic conditions, especially in situations where clients have financial constraints that rule out surgical treatment. However, these techniques have an extremely high probability of complications, including: malunion, delayed or non-union fracture disease – which refers to joint stiffness, muscle atrophy and disuse osteopenia associated with prolonged casting…

  • Do I have a hound or a horse?

    Do I have a hound or a horse?

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    The longer I live with a greyhound, the more I recognise similarities between owning a greyhound and owning a horse. I’m not quite at the stage where I’m considering a stable for Joey, but there are definitely personality traits and physical needs that are very similar between equids and hounds. Plastic bags Ah yes, the…

  • Eat, sleep, vet, repeat

    Eat, sleep, vet, repeat

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    Many aspects of lockdown are similar to being on-call: travel is restricted to staying in your local area, and, apart from shopping for food or exercising (especially with the weather still feeling rather wintery), most people are largely house-bound. That’s not to mention the fatigue and constant low-level anxiety – so trying to find things…

  • Pitfalls of pet insurance

    Pitfalls of pet insurance

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    Nowadays, insurance is not the be all and end all. It is no longer the all-singing, all-dancing green light to work up a case to “gold standard” without financial restraints. So many companies are out there with so many variations in policies that it’s seemingly impossible to keep up. The question “is he insured?” is…

  • Resilience training

    Resilience training

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    I went on a resilience training session this week. I’m going to preface this by saying that I am very lucky that where I work allows us access to “soft skill” and managemental CPD – it’s not all advanced ultrasound and cattle lameness, you know! I’ve made peace with the fact I suffer sporadically with…

  • Mega dairies: intensive farming? Or just efficient?

    Mega dairies: intensive farming? Or just efficient?

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    Delegates who participated in the farm stream at the 2016 Association of Veterinary Students (AVS) Congress in Liverpool (myself included) had a visit to a so-called “mega dairy”. The herd we visited had around 1,000 milkers, which seems large when compared to the UK dairy herd average of 123 (according to AHDB Dairy). Yet, in…