January 2024

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

6 mins

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.

9 mins

A vet who will join a vaccination team in India next month is then planning to get airborne in a different way for the cause when she returns.

5 mins

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.

7 mins

The BVU has urged employers to talk to their staff about security measures after a man who attacked a vet in his own practice was sent to prison.

7 mins

Appointment-based system of appointing council members one of the ideas being considered in a programme officials believe could be necessary as part of the development of new veterinary sector laws.

11 mins

Carlos Millan has joined North Downs Specialist Referrals and hopes to publish clinical studies as part of his work with the Linnaeus-owned organisation.

4 mins

UK specialist vet Jo Murrell is among the clinicians chosen to head up groups, which provide global guidelines and educational resources to help veterinary practitioners.

4 mins

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.

9 mins

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.

9 mins

A disciplinary committee said it felt Vlad Butnaru was “making up his defence as he went along” during a hearing into his actions.

8 mins

Proposals are expected to be outlined later this year on an issue that college leaders see as a vital aspect of veterinary legislation reform.

5 mins

Animal welfare commissioners voiced their concerns in a letter released on the same day that Scottish ministers confirmed they would “in essence” adopt the legislation now in place in England and Wales.

10 mins

A dog owner has begun a seven-month prison term after he admitted causing actual bodily harm in an attack on a vet in York.

10 mins

Training concerns were raised as a disciplinary committee heard a vet submitted paperwork claiming to have inspected birds at three locations when she had not.

8 mins

Support when human life at risk by an infection unaffected by many antibiotics to dramatically reduce usage on his land.

6 mins

Event from 25 to 27 January in Birmingham will feature a Vet Times Big 6 Live focusing on AI and day dedicated to starting up or expanding a veterinary business.

3 mins

A Peterborough-based veterinary nurse has challenged herself to walk to the highest points in all of England’s counties in aid of Vetlife.

4 mins

Association issues priorities for animal health and welfare – including new Veterinary Surgeons Act – at start of what many expect will be a UK general election year.

9 mins

Ministers at Holyrood say they don’t want the country to become a “safe haven or a dumping ground” for dogs being moved to escape a ban on them elsewhere.

5 mins