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Attitudes towards perception and management of pain in rabbits and guinea pigs by a sample of veterinarians in New Zealand

January 15, 2012January 19, 2012adminLeave a Comment

AIMS: To determine the perceptions of a sample of veterinarians in New Zealand regarding pain and pain management in rabbits and guinea pigs. METHODS: Questionnaires were distributed to all members of the Companion Animal Society, part of the New Zealand Veterinary Association. The questionnaire gathered information on the demographics of respondents, obtained an assessment by […]

Massey vets on hand for oil spill response

January 13, 2012January 19, 2012adminLeave a Comment

New Zealand’s Massey University has led the wildlife response to the oil spill caused by the grounding of the Rena cargo ship on Astrolabe reef at the entrance to the port of Tauranga, in October. The National Oiled Wildlife Response Team is trained, managed and co-ordinated by specialists at the university’s New Zealand Wildlife Health […]

Kiwi Post July 2011

September 2, 2011August 12, 2011adminLeave a Comment

We arrived at a dairy farm the other day to find out just how much of a shambles dairy farming currently is in New Zealand. Of course, we all know things are changing fast, but none of us ever guessed it could slump so low. There were three of us, on farm at 4AM, to […]

Atypical scrapie/Nor98 in a sheep from New Zealand

January 25, 2011January 18, 2011adminLeave a Comment

In a consignment of sheep brains from NZ, to be used in Europe as negative control material in scrapie rapid screening test evaluations, brain samples from 1 sheep (no. 1512) gave the following initially confusing results in various screening tests: the brainstem repeatedly produced negative results in 2 very similar screening kits (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay [ELISA]-1, […]

Panicked pets flee from quake

January 20, 2011January 18, 2011adminLeave a Comment

The recent earthquake in New Zealand’s second largest city, Christchurch, rated a bone-rattling 7.1 on the Richter scale – the same as San Francisco’s 1989 quake and larger than Haiti’s January quake. It occurred along a previously unknown fault line and sent sleeping residents into full earthquake defence mode. Animals affected by the quake also […]