Animal welfare

“IMPROVED animal welfare cannot be achieved by constantly preaching to the converted. The profession must find a way to contact those pet owners who don’t understand their responsibilities to their an…

CATHERINE-MARY HOWARD believes veterinary professionals should play a key role in helping to change the mindset of owners through education on obesity recognition, diet and exercise

ANDREW KNIGHT recently found himself in church for the first time in living memory, for the RSPCA service for animals in the historical setting of Westminster Abbey

Dr JO MURRELL, KATE WHITE and Dr KRISTA VISSER ’t HOOFT present part two in the three-part series on identifying and dealing with chronic pain in dogs.

REMOTE monitoring over the internet of the activities in an abattoir can help ensure that livestock are humanely treated before slaughter, welfare scientists were told at a meeting in Portsmouth in Ju…

JOHN BONNER reports on a conference called to discuss ways of improving animal welfare and how to overcome the ‘cognitive dissonance’ which has harmful effects

THE second set of results from a survey of 1,048 dog owners, carried out in March by petbuzz on behalf of Vétoquinol, has highlighted owner attitudes to pain and painrelieving medications. The depth o…

DEBBIE GRANT reviews some of the latest developments in controlling pain, from electroacupuncture to progress with both anaesthetics and analgesics

Dr JO MURRELL and KATE WHITE begin a three-part series on identifying and dealing with chronic pain

Dr SHAMS MIR summarises the Vets4BVU response to the Royal College’s draft health protocol

DICK LANE reports on some of the papers presented at this year’s AIHAIO conference in Stockholm

LIBBY SHERIDAN reviews the contrasting presentations in dogs and cats

ANDREW KNIGHT reviews the Home Office figures for last year and the likely effects of the updated European Directive

DEBBIE GRANT reviews a highly unpleasant cause of suffering

MARION McCULLAGH reports on apaper presented on BSAVA congress satellite day on the use of needles and gold in various species

Veterinary Practice reports on a recent European symposium on pain management.

“ANIMAL health has ceased to be a priority for Animal Health,” said Iain Richards in his final remarks as the president of the Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons. Earlier, in the Dunlops Questi…

DAVID WHITE summarises some of the take-home messages from an evening on small animal pain relief.

Vetinary Practice reports on last month’s conference run by the Society for Companion Animal Studies

AS I mentioned last month, one of my goals for this year is to reestablish vets as the leading voice on animal welfare. So when I received an invitation to speak at the AWSELVA (Animal Welfare Science…