Emotional states of animals influence their cognitive processes as well as their behaviour. Assessing emotional states is important for animal welfare science as well as for many fields of neuroscience, behaviour science, and biomedicine. This can be done in different ways, e.g. through assessing animals’ physiological states or interpreting their […]
Practice management: driving without destination
When veterinarians decide to get into practice ownership, they spend many hours analysing possible practices to buy or sites to start up in. They fill spreadsheets with costings and projections, competition analysis, ideas and business plans before they act. When they are in practice, they spend countless hours agonising over […]
Pigeon Post: Ian Neville reports from the UK
As one pestilence (coronavirus) finally subsided in the UK, the country found itself afflicted by another old adversary … no, not Yersinia pestis (causal agent of the Black Death/Bubonic Plague in 1348–9 and 1665–6 most notably), but economic inflation. The British economy was indeed plagued by high inflation rates during […]
Abstracts: Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolation from dog grooming products
Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most commonly isolated bacterium from skin lesions of dogs with post-grooming furunculosis (PGF). It is frequently found in human hair and skin care products and may pose a health risk to consumers. Information regarding the prevalence of P. aeruginosa contamination of dog grooming products is lacking. […]
Call for rural graduate HECS changes
The AVA has repeated its call to the Federal Government to remove the HECS debts of veterinary graduates who live and work in rural and regional Australia. The National Farmers Federation (NFF) is also lobbying for discounted fees, loan offsets and HECS relief for graduates and veterinary students who live […]