Liz Buchanan BVSc MRCVS

Nematodes are the most abundant animals on Earth (according the Encyclopaedia Britannica)   Trees have them; soil has them; the insides of animals have them..... And so, of course, do people and their pets.   But w…

Our planet has a wealth of habitats. There are the icy poles; there are equatorial rainforests. There are peat bogs and tundra, mountain and desert, city and moor. Life, however, has developed ways of surviving in almost…

I’m no historian, but rumour has it that the origins of St. Valentine’s day are quite unromantic. Valentine was a Roman guy who helped Christian couples to get married. This was frowned upon in Rome at the time so the Em…

My cat is squatting repeatedly in his litter tray as though he's trying to urinate, but he doesn’t seem able to go. What can I do? Right, this one is serious - see a vet as an emergency. Cystitis in people is often an u…

I am a veterinary surgeon and a feminist. Feminism is an ideal that men and women should be treated with the same amount of fairness. But even I have sexist brain-cells. Don’t you?…