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Labour announces plans to ban pet primates

Labour announces plans to ban pet primates

An estimated 5,000 primates are being kept as pets in the UK. Measure forms part of party’s new Animal Welfare...

Exotics Editor
Microchip reminder after giant tortoise found wandering through field 

Microchip reminder after giant tortoise found wandering through field 

RSPCA animal collection officer Kate Wright with the runaway tortoise. Finder hauled the enormous animal home in a wheelbarrow Pet...

Exotics Editor
Odours ‘can evoke positive emotions’ in rats

Odours ‘can evoke positive emotions’ in rats

"If an animal has to go through a stressful procedure, it could be presented with an odour that it had...

Exotics Editor

Husbandry and common illnesses of gerbils and hamsters

Exotics vet Sonya Miles explores the differences in the management and behavioural needs of these popular 'first pets'.    ...

Periodontitis in lizards

Past BSAVA president John Chitty looks at the clinical signs, prevention and treatment of this multifactorial  disease.    ...

John Chitty

Time to make bees a top priority

It was not until I tuned into BBC Radio 3 yesterday to listen to the Classical Breakfast programme, that I was told...

David Watson