Latest articles by Robyn Lowe
Diet
Pet owners today are more informed, more conscientious, and more invested in their animals’ wellbeing than ever before, especially when it comes to nutrition. With countless brands, feeding styles, and marketing claims c…
Diet
Pain management in veterinary medicine is evolving rapidly, and one of the most powerful - and often underused - tools we have is nutrition and weight management. This article explores why weight and nutrition matter so…
News and Comment
There is a wide range of helminths (parasitic worms) including roundworms (nematodes), tapeworms (cestodes) and even flukes (trematodes) that can infect dogs and cats in Europe. Commonly we hear about intestinal worms su…
Medicines
Recently in the Vet Record there was a bold title! ‘Pot for pets: group launched to promote cannabis use‘: a new veterinary group interested in promoting the ‘appropriate and safe use of medicinal cannabis in pets’ has b…
Complementary Therapy
A recent article was encouraging owners to hypnotise their pets, by putting them into a state called ‘tonic immobility’. This state is best described as motor inhibition in response to restraint. The article read: What w…
Cats
Although the ingredient lists have been shown to be one of the most common ways that owners decide on their pets’ food, we are also enduring a cost-of-living crisis in the UK and pet owners are feeling the pinch. The ing…
