BSAVA Companion - 2020, 4, April

A PDF of the full April Companion.

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  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.

  The BSAVA Library currently contains some 7,000 items, and as a BSAVA member you already have access to more than three quarters of them. Ian Mellor, Head of BSAVA Publishing, explains how using the library’s search tools can help you to make the most of this extensive resource.

Dogs in the UK are getting the first taste of a novel foodstuff that is likely to appear with increasing frequency on their owners’ dinner plates over the next few years. Insect protein may have to become a regular part of our diet if we are to feed an ever-growing global population without destroying the planet. John Bonner reports…

Veterinary practice managers have a duty to ensure their staff get enough rest to safeguard their own health and that of their patients, according to a leading expert on the science of sleep. This was the message from one of the lecture sessions at the SPVS/VMD 2020 conference.

 Robert Johnson is a practitioner from New South Wales and a former president of the Australian Veterinary Association. He has a life-long interest in reptile medicine although, as he explains, his patients have not always appreciated the care that he has given them. In his spare time, he is also an accomplished cartoonist, and on the cricket field, an obdurate late order batsman.

Article abstracts from the latest issue of JSAP.

News and events from the BSAVA's regions.

A calendar of forthcoming central and regional CPD events from April 2020–September 2020.