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  • RVN awareness: promoting the profession

    RVN awareness: promoting the profession

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    It’s almost here again, folks – May is Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month (VNAM), an initiative to raise awareness of the vital role played by veterinary nurses in animal care and treatment. Despite the long title that sounds almost like it’s about our own capacity for introspection, it’s actually a fantastic reason to engage with the…

  • Crufts and conformation: a confession

    Crufts and conformation: a confession

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    Part of this blog went out on my Facebook page on the night of the 2016 Crufts final, fuelled by sadness and prosecco – never a good combo! At the time, I wrote: It’s wrong on all fronts but I’m #eric with #hazel as back up. I’m pondering my relationship with Crufts after the GSD……

  • RCVS council election manifesto: Thomas Lonsdale

    RCVS council election manifesto: Thomas Lonsdale

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    THOMAS LONSDALE BVetMed, MRCVS PO Box 6096, Windsor Delivery Centre, NSW 2756, Australia. T +61 2 4577 7061 M +61 437 2928 00 E tom@rawmeatybones.com PROPOSERS: Roger Meacock, Andrew Stephens 1980s – woke from vet-school induced stupor to realisation junk pet-food industry relies on bogus science and negligent vet “profession”. 1991 – Blew whistle on…

  • Mr T and me

    Mr T and me

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    I’ve had a secret I’ve not told you all – a little project I didn’t want to tell anyone about until it was successfully completed. It’s taken a little longer than planned but, as it is such a cold and wet day, I feel now is as good a time as any to reveal all.…

  • Lost and found: why microchipping is a must

    Lost and found: why microchipping is a must

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    One of our cats – Doogle, a home-loving feline who rarely sets foot outside the garden – recently got himself caught under my mum’s car, only to drop out when she’d driven along a few streets and run, startled, across the fields toward the next village. Posters, local press coverage and Facebook shares resulted in…

  • Barking up the right tree – with Trusty Paws

    Barking up the right tree – with Trusty Paws

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    Originally a charity set up by veterinary students for the homeless hounds of Glasgow in October 2014, Trusty Paws has become incredibly successful and has received a huge amount of public support. This success has allowed the charity to run monthly clinics at the Simon Community Scotland drop-in centre, providing free health checks, vaccinations, microchipping,…

  • Yule be sorry

    Yule be sorry

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    Wow. That was quick, huh? When I was a kid, if you’d told me I would have to wait a year for something, you may as well have told me that I would have to wait until the end of time. Somehow, those immensities of time that years used to be got replaced with fleeting,…

  • Festive threats to four-legged family members

    Festive threats to four-legged family members

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    Now well into December, and getting ever closer to Christmas, there will be an abundance of “goodies” around the house that are not so good for the four-legged family members. Most owners are aware of the dangers of chocolate and so are likely to rush down to the vet on Boxing Day when their Labrador…

  • Prepping for pets: be prepared for anything

    Prepping for pets: be prepared for anything

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    If you haven’t heard the name “prepper”, a whole sub-culture is passing you by. These are the people prepared for an apocalypse, not just some really bad weather. And I don’t just mean they have a few cans of beans and a camping stove set aside – these people are serious. They stockpile enough food…