International Dog Day

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The focus of the resources included in this collection to recognise International Dog Day is on being a dog friendly practice, the dog-owner relationship, with guidance sources for owners such as leaflets and PetSaver guides, remembering service dogs, with an article on the history of service dogs in the First World War, assistance dogs in reading schemes and PetSaver canine research.

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- Canine nutritional challenges
  BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2022
  
  Authors: Georgia Woods-Lee and Marjorie Chandler
  
  Dietary dangers and dilemmas: the vet’s point of view
  
  In the context of current trends and choices being made by caregivers, understand how caregivers’ nutritional choices can impact patient’s physical and emotional health
  
  Consider the communication skills needed to keep clients with you, so as to maintain positive influences on the patient’s wellbeing
  
  Apply the principles of dog friendly interactions in the context patient nutrition
  
  Dietary dangers and dilemmas: the nurse’s point of view
  
  In the context of current trends and choices being made by caregivers, understand how caregivers’ nutritional choices can impact patient’s physical and emotional health
  
  Consider the communication skills needed to keep clients with you, so as to maintain positive influences on the patient’s wellbeing
  
  Apply the principles of dog friendly interactions in the context patient nutrition
- Mental health and wellbeing
  
  Hero dogs providing emotional rescue
  
  Author Peter Lewin
  
  Peter Lewin and his Newfoundlands were the winners of the 2022 Kennel Club Hero Dogs award at Crufts in Birmingham on Sunday 13 March. Together with his team of two-legged helpers, Peter provides opportunities for people with mental health challenges to swim with the dogs – an experience that can lift their mood and persuade them that life is worth living. John Bonner reports...
- PetSavers research
  
  Perioperative use of acupuncture in dogs
  
  Authors: Hanna Machin and Chiara Adami
  
  Hanna Machin and Chiara Adami provide a report on their BSAVA PetSavers funded investigation into the analgesic effect of dry needle acupuncture on dogs undergoing surgical treatment of type I intervertebral disc extrusions.
- Animal breeding: health and welfare
  
  Partners in responsible breeding
  
  Author Alison Skipper
  
  Small animal vet Alison Skipper retrained as a historian to examine the origins of the relationship between the veterinary profession and the dog breeding world. She hopes that her PhD studies will reveal a route that the two sides can explore together to improve the health and welfare of pedigree dogs.
- Tips for the dog friendly practice
  BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2018
  
  Author Kersti Seksel
- Advising the dog breeder
  BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2015
  
  Authors: Aimee Llewellyn and Dan O’Neill
- The dog-friendly practice
  BSAVA Manual of Canine Practice
  
  Authors: Kate Chitty and Laura Smith
  
  In recent years much has been done to make veterinary practices more ‘cat-friendly’, and now ‘rabbit-friendly’ measures are being introduced. There seems to be a feeling that all small animal practices are already ‘dog-friendly’ and that no further thought or research is therefore needed. Sadly, this can be far from true and a lot of dog owners do feel that more could, and should, be done for their pets too. This chapter looks at practice design considerations, practice equipment, handling and restraint and nurse clinics.
- Dogs of war
  
  The role of dogs in the First World War
  
  Author Bruce Vivash Jones
  
  Dogs were used in the First World War in roles as diverse as sentries, spies, messengers and of course companions. Bruce Vivash Jones, BSAVA founder member, looks back.
- Blue Dog has bite
  
  Ray Butcher describes the aims and objectives of the Blue Dog project
  
  Author Ray Butcher
  
  The Blue Dog project aims to help young children live more safely with dogs by helping the children and their parents with how to behave around their pets.
- READ dogs
  
  The READ (Reading Education Assistance Dogs) concept explained
  
  Author John Bonner
  
  John Bonner talks to the US veterinary surgeon Lisa Freeman who is looking at the role of canine classroom assistants in helping children to read.