BSAVA Companion - 2016, 5, May

Your new President, Mission Rabies calls for volunteers, and more.

Dog owners all over the world will testify to a relationship with their pet that includes a mutual understanding – so John Bonner looks at research that explores the level of canine connection that exists and asks if that includes the ability to experience empathy.

Data snapshot from SAVSNET, more about SAVSNET.

Excellence took centre stage at the 59th BSAVA annual Congress, as thousands of delegates and exhibitors gathered in Birmingham for four days of science and socialising.

Robert Kirberger and Fintan McEvoy, editors of the forthcoming new edition of the BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Musculoskeletal Imaging, introduce Companion readers to this fascinating field.

At BSAVA Congress, the Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons launched new awards aimed at recognising and rewarding those practices that look after the mental health of their staff. John Bonner put the organisers on the couch to examine their thinking.

Megan Knowles-Bacon has a talent for making things disappear – handkerchiefs, playing cards, administrative problems facing veterinary practice – by day she works at the RCVS headquarters at Horseferry Road and in her spare time she is a keen magician and the first woman to hold a senior role in The Magic Circle.

News and events from the BSAVA’s regions.

A calendar of forthcoming central and regional CPD events May 2016 – August 2016.

This month Elisabetta Mancinelli from Bath Referrals presents notes on E. cuniculi.