You’ve probably noticed that your dog likes sniffing; it’s well known that dogs use their keen sense of smell to understand their world. We humans have been utilising this power for centuries for hunting, search and resc…

Arla, the owner of the UK’s largest dairy cooperative, recently announced the start of a trial, with around 30 of its dairy farms set to feed Bovaer® to their cows in an attempt to reduce methane production. Whilst the o…

Earlier this month, a Coroner issued a Prevention of Future Deaths Report, following the death by suicide of John Ellis MRCVS, a veterinary surgeon. In it, Simon Burge, the Coroner for Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampt…

58% of owners say they do not visit the vet as much as they would like to. What does this mean for cats and how can we change that? The charity Cats Protection recently published their fifth annual Cats and Their Stats (…

In August of this year, new legislation came into force in parts of the UK that made stealing a pet a specific crime, with much of the media praising the law. As with all laws, the government spent a long time investigat…

Everyone loves their pets and wants them to last forever. But as we sadly all know, pets pass on eventually. Many of them do so at their local vet practice via an injection. We call this euthanasia, from the Greek for ‘g…