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  • A good Job Decision

    A good Job Decision

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    Dan Amos

    I’m going to end this year’s blogs – my ninth year of blogging coming up in 2021 – with an introduction. I sadly lost Ebony at the end of February this year, and doing lockdown with no pet was very, very hard. But I was choosing to be sensible as I was planning a house…

  • Good intentions

    Good intentions

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    Less than a month into my master’s degree in wildlife health and rehabilitation, and it’s already become apparent that a vast array of misconceptions are held by the public concerning local wildlife. I’m already armed with far more wildlife facts than I ever thought my brain had room for. For example, did you know that…

  • Connection: steps five and six

    Connection: steps five and six

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    The right intentions, a friendly smile, a warm introduction and appropriate touch – four easy ways to help you foster connection with your clients, as described in the previous post. This part will look at two more common-sense strategies to help you forge fast bonds with your clients and ensure problem-free consults: finding common ground with your…

  • Starting to take on students again

    Starting to take on students again

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    Kele Harris

    While this year’s new graduates have been dealt a particularly bad hand, students who aren’t as far through the veterinary course are also affected in a number of ways. Those in clinical years have had their clinical EMS requirements reduced by up to half – and while this takes the pressure off individuals to secure…

  • What would you do?

    What would you do?

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    Kele Harris

    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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    Dan Amos

    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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    Kele Harris

    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…