Veterinary Industry News

Yorkshire-based pet food manufacturer, Burgess Pet Care, is delighted to announce that it has invested in the relaunch of Burgess Excel, its...

Fresh new look for Burgess Pet Care’s Excel range

Burgess Pet Care

Following last week’s half point rise in interest rates, the UK’s leading dog welfare charity has warned that the sky-high cost of essen...

With interest rates at their highest since 1995, Dogs Trust warns of a looming housing crisis for dogs

Dogs Trust

A cat left paralysed in his back legs after jumping off the sofa has made an extraordinary recovery since undergoing life-saving management ...

Vet's lifesaving treatment sees paralysed cat able to walk again

Linnaeus Group

Celebrated infectious disease specialist Professor Joe Brownlie CBE has been confirmed as the keynote speaker at the British Veterinary Asso...

Infectious disease specialist to deliver keynote speech at BVA Members’ Day

BVA

Some 31 veterinary surgeons were informed this week that their applications to join the RCVS Fellowship were successful and will formally be...

31 veterinary surgeons welcomed as RCVS Fellows ahead of this autumn’s Fellowship Day

RCVS

Today, Defra has announced that the Avian Influenza Prevention Zone for poultry and captive birds, introduced to help stop the spread of avi...

Chief Vet urges bird keepers to maintain biosecurity as Prevention Zone lifted

DEFRA

Dechra Veterinary Products has launched a ground-breaking new protein-based strangles vaccine for horses and ponies, Strangvac.Strangvac has...

Dechra launches ground-breaking strangles vaccine, Strangvac

Dechra

A nursing manager at a Cumbrian veterinary referral centre has organised a fundraising event together with her family in aid of the MND Asso...

Kentdale nurse in MND fundraiser after dad's diagnosis

Linnaeus Group

The latest figures from National Pet Charity Blue Cross indicate that an increased number of horse carers may be struggling financiall...

Recession may be starting to impact horses, warns Blue Cross

The Blue Cross

A top vet at one of the UK’s leading small animal hospitals has used a pig’s cornea to save a young bulldog from becoming blind. Th...

Pig's cornea used in surgery to save sight of bulldog

Linnaeus Group

Since its very first day, Noble Futures has been dedicated to supporting those in the animal and agricultural related industries by matching...

Noble Futures Senior Leadership Team Grows

Noble Futures Ltd

The sands of time passed particularly slowly for an African lizard called Zazu who has undergone delicate surgery at a leading Solihull vet ...

608 Vets assess scale of problem in revealing op on African lizard

Linnaeus Group

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Thriving practice in North Oxfordshire appoints new director

XLVets

Hook Norton Veterinary Group in Banbury, a thriving practice with an equine clinic, farm department and three small animal branches, has tak...

7 days ago

Keep your dog cool to be kind - As temperatures soar once more, Dogs Trust, the UK's largest dog welfare charity, urges owners to keep their dogs safe

Dogs Trust

As another hot spell hits, Dogs Trust, the UK’s largest dog welfare charity, is offering top tips to help owners make sure dogs can stay s...

When you’ve anaesthetised a rare giant panda it’s unlikely you’ll face a bigger challenge in your career as a vet.It’s certainly the...

Top appointment boosts anaesthesia team at Paragon Veterinary Referrals

Linnaeus Group

Zoetis has confirmed that all UK veterinary wholesalers have been provided with stocks of the new chewable form of Apoquel® (oclacitinib) w...

APOQUEL® chewable tablets (oclacitinib) are now available from all UK Veterinary Wholesalers

Zoetis

Vets are encouraging all cat owners to check that they are meeting their pets’ welfare needs as we reveal the most pressing welfare issues...

International Cat Day: Stressed and obese - vets report most pressing welfare issues facing UK cats

BVA

On Thursday 28 July, the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) held its first in-person Veterinary Nurses Day for three years at the U...

New VNs and those achieving their DipAVN celebrated at recent RCVS VN Day event

RCVS

The British Veterinary Association (BVA) is encouraging vet teams to embrace flexible working as new statistics show that 44% of vets would ...

Can increased flexible working help fix the profession’s recruitment and retention problems?

BVA

Vita Animal Health has launched their mini-series of feline webinars with sessions covering feline cardiac disease and management of geriatr...

Vita Animal Health launch webinar series on feline health as a resource for vets and owners.

Vita Animal Health

A new report published today by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Animal Welfare (APGAW), reveals that almost a half of councils in Engla...

Animal welfare faces a "deepening crisis" if action isn't taken to improve local enforcement according to new report

World Horse Welfare

The first UK vet school graduates to become Official Veterinarians (OVs) in a decade have joined Eville & Jones.Lucy Blount and Rosanna ...

First UK vet school graduates to join Eville & Jones in a decade, to become OVs

Eville & Jones

Burgess Pet Care is delighted to announce that the Burgess Excel Vet Awards will return for a third year running, to celebrate the dedicatio...

Burgess Excel Vet Awards return for third year!

Burgess Pet Care

If you are a budding equine photographer, now’s your time to showcase your talent; the National Equine Forum is running a special co...

National Equine Forum launches equine photography competition to find programme cover star

With budgets being stretched all ways during the recession, the team at SPILLERS™ is giving horse owners a helping hand with the cha...

Makers of SPILLERS give horse owners a helping hand during recession

Spillers

A Staffordshire vets is encouraging clients and staff to ‘bee friendly’ and help boost the environment. Lead nurse Joanne Waldron i...

D&T team buzzing after bee-friendly initiative really takes off

Linnaeus Group

BEVA has introduced a Recognised Internships initiative as a part of its drive to ensure new veterinary graduates get the best start i...

BEVA introduces Recognised Internships

BEVA

VETPARTNERS CEO Jo Malone and her family joined the parents of a Scottish vet who died by suicide on a leg of his epic 1,200-mile walk from ...

You’ll never walk alone: VetPartners CEO joins family of much-loved vet on epic trek

VetPartners

Vets and animal welfare organisations have issued an open letter to Warner Bros following the UK release of its animated children’s film, ...

Vets and Animal Welfare Organisations Pen Open Letter on Release of Dc League of Super-pets Due to Ear Cropping Concerns

The Kennel Club

With just one month to go until nominations close for the British Veterinary Association’s (BVA) 2022 Young Vet of the Year Award, a farm ...

First ever winner of prestigious award encourages others to nominate dedicated young vets after it ‘boosts’ her career

BVA

See full video case study at https://vimeo.com/731671889Tilly is a three-year-old Springer Spaniel living on a farm with her two brothers.Wh...

Wound Management: A Canine Case Study - By Christine Talbot, Lymphoedema, Bowen and Deep Oscillation Practitioner

PhysioPod UK Limited

A young German Shorthaired Pointer has made a miraculous recovery from what vets described as one of the worst cases of the potentially-fata...

Wakefield animal hospital saves dog in "one of the worst cases of parvovirus we've ever seen"

Linnaeus Group

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) will be undertaking a new programme of engagement with the professions as it rolls out a ser...

RCVS rolls out new programme of virtual and in-person question times with the professions

RCVS

Researchers from Mars Petcare, including Waltham Petcare Science Institute and Banfield Pet Hospital, developed a quality of life (QoL) asse...

Mars Petcare Researchers Develop New Quality of Life Assessment to Evaluate the Wellbeing of Dogs

Following successful pilots, two training courses for referral Registered Veterinary Nurses (RVNs) at veterinary group Linnaeus will run aga...

Training success leads to more referral nursing courses

Linnaeus Group

Applications are invited from individuals with an interest in influencing the future direction of veterinary leadership to join the boa...

Veterinary Management Group Seeks New Directors

Veterinary Management Group

The expertise of a specialist vet at one of Scotland’s top animal clinics has saved the life of a dog which had swallowed rat poison.Bramb...

Inspired call by VSS specialist saves life of poisoned pet

Linnaeus Group

The UK’s largest dog welfare charity, Dogs Trust, has welcomed guidance produced alongside the Domestic Abuse Act formally recognising cer...

Dogs Trust Welcomes Inclusion of Abusive Behaviour Towards Pets Linked With Domestic Abuse in Act Guidance

Dogs Trust

Burns Pet Nutrition and The John Burns Foundation are delighted to announce that John Burns, MBE, BVMS MRCVS, Veterinary Surgeon and founder...

Burns Pet Nutrition founder receives Honorary Fellowship for outstanding service to the Community at the University of Wales Trinity St David

Burns Pet Nutrition

What does it look like when you have 80 vets and industry professionals working in teams to turn scrapheap content into an engineering work ...

XLVets celebrates a positive future at AGM like no other

XLVets

The RCVS Knowledge Awards, which celebrate achievements across the professions for initiatives that contribute to advancing the quality of v...

RCVS Knowledge introduces new categories for 2023 RCVS Knowledge Awards

RCVS

The Kennel Club has announced tickets are on sale for its first Health and Welfare Conference, bringing together dog health and welfare expe...

Kennel Club announces inaugural health and welfare conference

The Kennel Club

International animal welfare charity, The Donkey Sanctuary, has developed a pioneering suckling system to help the natural development of or...

The Donkey Sanctuary uses pioneering feeding aid for orphan foals

The Donkey Sanctuary