Decapod crustaceans (crabs, hermit crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimps, prawns) are sentient beings, not only responding to noxious stimuli but also being capable of feeling pain, discomfort, and distress. General anaesthesia aims at producing analgesia, immobilization, and unconsciousness, while sedation reduces consciousness, stress, and anxiety, though without analgesia.
F2F: Sharing the wild with Chris Humfrey
Picture yourself back in your university days, living in shared accommodation with a bunch of other students. You may have fond memories of such times: of house parties, of meals involving way too many two-minute noodles of housemates who are great company but are not particularly good at cleaning up. […]
Abstracts: Animal performance and stress at weaning when dairy cows suckle their calves for short versus long daily durations
Calves in most dairy farms are separated from their dams either immediately or within a few hours after birth, prompting increasing concern of the society for reasons of animal welfare. The aim of this study was to identify systems to maintain cow-calf contact (CCC) that balance the benefits for calf […]
Practice Management: Don’t become a boiling frog in business ownership
There is an urban legend that if a frog is suddenly put into a pot of boiling water, it will jump out and save itself from impending death. But, if the frog is put into lukewarm water, with the temperature rising slowly, the frog will keep trying to adjust and […]
Assistance with FMD and LSD for Indonesia
The Australian Chief Veterinary Officer, Mark Schipp and Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer, Beth Cookson travelled to Indonesia in late May this year to offer Australia’s assistance to combat and contain the outbreaks there of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and lumpy skin disease (LSD). Indonesia has since made an emergency declaration, implemented […]