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  • Professor Edward Coleman

    Professor Edward Coleman

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    Dan Amos

    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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    Dan Amos

    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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    Kele Harris

    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…

  • New Year’s resolutions

    New Year’s resolutions

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    Kele Harris

    According to a study conducted by the team behind fitness app Strava, the day people are most likely to give up on their New Year’s resolutions is 19 January. I’m not usually one for resolutions; I’m more inclined to give something up for lent, because that has a finite time period – unless, like last…

  • A Merry Christmas for all the family

    A Merry Christmas for all the family

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    Little things you don’t consider until you spend every waking moment looking at, thinking about, or learning about animals, is how one of our favourite times of year might impact the smaller members of our families. Awareness is rising on just how traumatic Guy Fawkes night can be for our furry friends, but there is…

  • With teeth marks

    With teeth marks

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    Dan Amos

    Christmas blog number two, and what is there left to consider after the chocolates of last time? Well, this is going to focus on the issues around turkeys. Huge, frozen turkeys – the symbol of all that is wrong with the festive season. A species defined by a single day. As I write this, thousands…

  • The Twelve Days of (Vet) Christmas

    The Twelve Days of (Vet) Christmas

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    Kele Harris

    For those on call at Christmas time, you may feel like you’re playing out-of-hours bingo with the usual emergency scenarios, as well as the the additional festive dangers. Instead of bingo, I have revised a familiar Christmas song to reflect what we are likely to be seeing over the festive period…     On the…

  • Two cats: a tale of diametric treatments

    Two cats: a tale of diametric treatments

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    I thought I would take well to emergency work; I’m a night owl, and when animals crashed or bled in general practice I kept my cool and worked logically, but quickly, to discover the problem and fix it – or at least, attempt to. I had recently left my post as clinical director, and picking…

  • The only way is ethics: neutering

    The only way is ethics: neutering

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    I thought now would be a good time for a brief reprise on my series about ethical dilemmas involving animals, and not because I like the pun in the title. Okay, a bit because of that… In the UK and US, at least, we regard the neutering of canine and feline patients as routine (as…