Clinical Abstracts

Top dog

The Labrador recently regained top spot as Britain's  most favourite dog, but its continental cousins are barking closely it its...

Maggie Shilcock

Colostrum management in dairy herds

Nature intended that new born calves suckle from their birth mothers. The calf is born with no maternally derived antibodies...

Owen Atkinson

Practising vets on front line of ‘One Health’

Despite the heightened Brexit political rhetoric about tightening our UK borders, the reality is that there are elements of nature...

David Watson

Time to get real and redirect sentiment

We are deep into Advent and the season of reflection and mixed emotions is upon us. As the build-up to...

David Watson

It’s not just goldfish

It is welcome news that Wrexham Council has recently become the third council in Wales to ban the giving of...

Maggie Shilcock

Christmas – a toxicological recap 

In amongst all the hustle and bustle – or is it panic and exhaustion – associated with the Christmas period,...

Jane Ellison

Equine behaviour and vices 

Stereotypies are defined as repetitive behaviours with no obvious goal and
 function (Clegg et al, 2008). These undesirable behaviours are...

Sara Fleck