Dr Pete Wedderburn BVM&S CertVR MRCVSDr

"Rip-off veterinary fees" were the subject of a recent poll on a vets-only website. In answer to the question "How often does your practice receive complaints about the prices it charges?", the results were: All the time…

Killing is by definition an unpleasant business, with physical trauma to a living creature and spilling of blood. For some individuals, animal slaughter is so abhorrent, that vegetarianism is the only answer (7 - 11% of…

Let's start with the facts about the cats with TB, as reported in the Vet Record: perhaps surprisingly, these have not been published in full in any of the mass media outlets in the past two days: ++++++++++ BETWEEN Dece…

Paul O'Grady, the comedian-turned-dog-advocate, hit the news this week when he talked about spending over £8000 in vets' fees to treat his nine year old Cairn Terrier Olga for cancer of the kidney. The Daily Mail reports…

ASHA gave me the opportunity to give a talk to their community health volunteers about rabies I’ve spent my final day in the slum and it’s time to draw it all together and reach some conclusions. What’s…

I've been busy this evening working through my survey results so that I can give a presentation to ASHA about them tomorrow, so I have not had time to write a blog. But to give a sense of the past day here, I've put toge…