Clinical Abstracts
Critical care for adult horses
Intensive care for adult horses has made significant advances during recent decades. Intensive care begins when the body of a...
Common medical and surgical presentations in lizards
A vast number of lizard species are now kept and bred in captivity and each species has its own husbandry...
On being a vet for rare breeds
Veterinary surgeons in mixed and farm animal practice come into contact with rare breed varieties of farm animal species. The...
Rabbits in practice – our welfare responsibilities
Three per cent of the UK population own a rabbit – an estimated population of one million rabbits (PDSA, 2013)...
Tortoise hibernation
It is important to appreciate that not all species of tortoise kept as pets hibernate. Temperate terrestrial species such as...
Opening our minds on welfare – a science-based approach
Often, when people are asked to think about animal welfare, images of animal suffering can commonly be what people conjure...
Pain hurts – but why is it difficult to identify in horses?
In humans, the ‘gold standard’ of pain detection is a verbalised account: assessment in animals, therefore, must...
