The fifth largest animal health company in the world has acquired biotech firm Scout Bio, a University of Pennsylvania spin-out with particular expertise in monoclonal antibodies.

Project WORMS found 84% carrying out faecal worm egg counts and 40% routinely testing for tapeworm, but a third of respondents routinely treating their horse annually regardless of test results.

Newly published analysis from the Dogs Trust and Oxford Economics found what they call “dogflation” was twice as high as overall inflation last month.

Interim accreditation arrangements will remain in place for the time being, subject to annual review, following a vote of the college’s council.

Welfare campaigners have warmly welcomed new plans that would allow maximum five-year jail sentences for offenders who take pet cats or dogs.

Dogs Trust leaders say financial challenges remain an ‘ongoing’ problem as they reveal more than 45,000 people contacted charity about giving up pets in 2023.

Newly released RVC analysis found four in five pandemic puppy owners had used at least one aversive training measure on their dogs and nearly all those surveyed experienced some form of behavioural issue.

Officials say rapidly rising costs mean businesses should pay more towards a national testing scheme for food products of animal origin.

Edinburgh government says it will introduce the same rules that are currently being implemented in England and Wales, but claims they should not be viewed as a ban.

A new PDSA clinic that will provide treatment to some RSPCA clients is expected to open in the spring.

Academics in Liverpool say a pioneering system of fluid sample analysis showed significant differences between dogs with the injury and those without.

Calls for a new, Britain-wide approach to bTB have been rejected by the department as it maintains its approach is working.

Details of the measures north of the border are due to be outlined by ministers tomorrow (18 January), as charity leaders urge them to learn lessons from England and Wales.

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have worked with Dogs Trust on the GenPup-M system, which they hope to turn into an app for owners to use.

One health conference “Animal health and securing our future – a vital connection” will feature politicians and cover future regulatory framework for veterinary medicines.

Mark Ruskell said legislation was needed to outlaw a sport that he claims is “beyond reform”, while consultations on its future in Wales are also continuing.

The association has welcomed calls for collaboration from a leading critic of the controversial badger cull policy in England, but insists that option should remain open where it is needed.

Most confirmed cases so far have not shown clear clinical signs of the virus, a new veterinary webinar on the outbreak has heard.