BSAVA Companion - 2017, 2, February

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Rosie Bescoby is a Clinical Animal Behaviourist providing behaviour consultations for dogs, cat and rabbits in and around Bristol and North Somerset. Here she answers your questions on pet behaviour.

Dr William Brian Singleton CBE DVM&S FRCVS ARPS had an important impact on the companion animal profession. His friend, and founder member of BSAVA, Bruce Vivash Jones, pays tribute as part of Companion’s recollections for BSAVA’s 60th anniversary.

BSAVA collaborates with its Affiliated Groups, to offer even more CPD to those with special interests. Many of the talks take place on the Wednesday of Congress, with others participating in the main programme. For full details and registration for pre-Congress events, please contact the organization directly.

Along with the growth in numbers of what is now the third most popular companion animal species, there has been a corresponding increase in their bodily dimensions, BSAVA members attending this year’s Congress will hear.

Veterinary nurses attending Congress in April will be asked, what are the costs to UK veterinary practices of dealing with hospital-acquired infections in their patients?

Knowing when not to treat a patient can be just as important for a veterinary practitioner as identifying those animals that do need medication. That is particularly true when a routine chest examination reveals an incidental murmur, Congress delegates will hear in Birmingham this April.

Alex is President of the British Veterinary Dental Association and teaches university and postgraduate courses in the UK and abroad, and is a member of a number of oral associations.

News and events from the BSAVA’s regions.

A calendar of forthcoming central and regional CPD events February 2017 – May 2017.

Simon Tappin presents notes on Ehrlichiosis.