We have finally cleared the end of 2020, a year I am sure most of us will be delighted to see the back of. There are so many reasons for wishing this year away: its unpredictability and disruption, the limits on freedoms, the fear, loneliness, stress, loss of employment, loss […]
Eagle Post: Tom Donnelly reports from the US
In my last Eagle Post of August, I reported how veterinarians appear to have been run off their feet with increased demand for veterinary services during the pandemic. American corporate earnings updates support this trend. VetSuccess, a Toronto, Canada based veterinary metrics company, uses their Veterinary Industry Tracker to show […]
Pigeon Post: Ian Neville reports from the UK
Eight months into the coronavirus pandemic the UK is no longer the ‘sick man’ of Europe. A slew of European nations including Spain, France, Belgium, Sweden, Austria and The Netherlands now have higher infection rates. Of course that may change as winter advances; the flare up in Victoria has taught […]
Vet Ethics: Taking protection against infection … from animals
Knowledge of the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on animals continues to emerge, albeit slowly. We already knew that the virus probably originated from bats, and may have passed on through an intermediary animal, perhaps the pangolin. We now also now that SARS-CoV-2 can infect pet cats and dogs and cause illness, […]
Eagle Post: Tom Donnelly reports from the US
Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York issued a sweeping executive order that essentially put the state on a pandemic lockdown beginning Sunday, March 22. One week later, my friend Cyndi, an exotics pet specialist at the Animal Medical Center in New York, said that she and all other part-time veterinarians […]