I’ve been privileged to have been a vet for over 30 years. It was a vaguely random choice at the time- I can’t pretend it was born out of a huge passion, or an intellectual dissection of its promise, or even a great desire for service. Instead, for a slightly […]
Vet Ethics: COVID-19 and its effects on animals
The current pandemic has caused impacts on nonhuman animals as well as human beings. COVID-19 has affected animals in the wild, on farms, in zoos, and in households around the world. Some of these impacts were direct, others more indirect. Some slaughterhouses were closed due to the easy spread of […]
Vet ethics: The ethics of Ehrlichia canis
By Simon Coghlan with Dr Megan Pickering. Dr Pickering works as a vet in livestock biosecurity and is currently the Northern Territory E.canis Co-ordinator. Ehrlichia canis was detected in dogs in northern WA in May 2020. Since then, it has been found in virtually every urban and remote community in […]
Pigeon Post: Ian Neville writes from the UK
The UK has had a reasonable summer. Emerging from 16 months of COVID restrictions, ill health, and deaths beside the economic uncertainties of Brexit; a largely vaccinated population has, so far, been allowed to return to life largely as it was before March 2020. Warmer weather is always welcome and […]