Neutering awareness

Cats Protection will be running a session in the Exhibition Theatre where Jane Clements (Head of Neutering) will explain how their new voucher scheme should make it easier for more vets to offer low-cost neutering and Alison Richards (Head of Clinical Services) will discuss how charities might be able to support the vet profession with charity work further in the future.

  Sally Polson and David Yates work together at the Bolton RSPCA Clinic. They are both graduates from Liverpool University and have common interests in anaesthesia, pre-pubertal neutering and improving patient welfare using tight charity budgets. In this article, they provide supporting evidence that PPN is a safe and humane procedure and one that could be considered more often in private veterinary practice.

Agata Witkowska covers the anatomy and techniques of neutering and presents case studies. This is followed by a Q&A session with those who attended the live session. This 1 hour 40 minute webinar is a recording of the live session from this Regions Now event, brought to you by our North East Region. Regions Now events comprise an introductory lecture with supporting content available one week before a live lecture. This is followed by a one-week online discussion forum allowing participants to offer observations about the lessons learned and describe their own experience in handling cases. Regions Now sessions are free to BSAVA members and available for non-members to book - visit the Regions page of the BSAVA website for details of future Regions Now events. Recordings will be available for 3 years via the BSAVA Webinar Library.

Temporary or permanent control of reproduction in the bitch and the queen is a relatively common request. Owners may require oestrus prevention or suppression for a variety of reasons related to hormone-dependent behavioural or physiological changes occurring in their pets during pro-oestrus or oestrus. This chapters deals with medical and surgical approaches.