“Clear-cut” results from University of California, Davis study recommends – in dogs that will be more than 20kg bodyweight as adults – neutering should be delayed until they are at least one year old.
YouGov poll for The Donkey Sanctuary showed donkeys were UK’s second “favourite farm animal” after horses, but majority still wrongly believe they are stubborn.
VetPartners operations coordinator Kayley Metcalfe beat 12 other hopefuls who each had to raise money for Zoë’s Place Baby Hospice to enter the competition.
Majority of owners of flat-faced dogs would opt for same breed again, according to research by RVC, The University of Edinburgh and Nottingham Trent University.
Study by Purina Institute and Mayo Clinic in US finds people with fibromyalgia experienced a more positive emotional-physiologic state after single session with a therapy dog.
Association develops comprehensive new policy with 67 recommendations to improve welfare of animals at slaughter ahead of upcoming review of regulations in England.
Seven-year study sheds new light on how NSAID carprofen, commonly used in cats and dogs, could be repurposed in fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis.
“I feel humbled by the efforts of all speakers, facilitators and organisers made over these two days to make this conference truly remarkable and inspiring” – Issa Robson, British Veterinary Ethnicity and Diversity Society co-founder.
“These findings may function as a guiding rule… by providing an intraoperative measure of how likely re-obstruction and stricture formation is to occur” – Journal of Small Animal Practice editor Nicola Di Girolamo.
Roslin Technologies, the UK’s agri-tech venture builder, is developing a unique vehicle to deliver vaccines to sheep and goats that uses a single-cell parasite found on a remote North Atlantic island.