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• I've moved!

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  on Tuesday September 28th, 2010 at 07:14 AM

  Hi neighbors. I've moved my blog to TypePad. You can now visit me at http://vetinharness.typepad.com/blog/. You can follow me on TypePad by visiting my profile. See you there!

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• As another firework season draws to a close, for now...

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  on Saturday November 15th, 2008 at 01:04 AM

  Those of you in the UK can't have failed to notice that it was Guy Faukes' Night recently, when we celebrate the fact

  Fireworks - not fun for everyone! that a seventeenth century Catholic terrorist failed to blow up Parliament with several kegs of gunpowder, by burning him ineffigy,setting fire to great piles of garden waste and permitting private individuals to play with explosives. It's been a reasonably good year - none of my patients have been seriously physically injured, though several...

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• 'A is for Alcohol' - A to Z of Pet Poisons

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  on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 11:32 AM

  'He made some hootch and tried it on the dog' by Arthur Burdett Frost, published 1921

  Quick facts:

  Poison(s): ethanol (drinking alcohol), isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol), methanol (methylated spirits) Species affected: Dogs and cats, more common in dogs. Toxic dose: Varies depending on substance ingested and strength of the preparation. Published LD50 (mean lethal dose, usually derived from studies in rodents) for ethanol is ~10g per kilo of body weight. Serious toxic effects can be...

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• 'Pedigree Dogs Exposed' - the BBC TV programme that has got all my clients talking.

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  on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 11:31 AM

  Since it aired on Tuesday evening, almost every client to come into my consulting room has been asking me what I thought of BBC1's 'Pedigree Dogs Exposed' (BBC press release,BBC iPlayer video of episode - only valid for 7 days from initial broadcast). It was a very well put together exposé of the darker side of dog breeding, dog showing, and the health down-side that can occur when dogs are bred thoughtlessly, callously, and with their health and well-being somewhere down the priorities list...

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• James Herriot (well, it had to happen one day!)

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  on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 11:32 AM

  Some of you will have recognised this blog's namesake as one of the lesser-known James Herriot novels. I think in common with many of my collegues, the Herriot books were a formative influence - though of course they tell you on no account to mention this on your UCAS form! Doing a spot of Wikipdeia browsing this afternoon, I found a quote by Alf White (the man behind the Herriot nom de plume) which fairly sums up the way the industry has changed in the last 50 or so years since the Herriot...

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• Well, we are honoured... and some rambling thoughts on happiness and mental health.

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  on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 11:32 AM

  Last week, this blog was paid a visit by the erstwhile Josh himself (well, this is the Internet, so you can never be sure, but it seems plausible) thanking me for mentioning his book, and inviting me to read what other vets have had to say about it. He has so far failed to take me up on my offer to read his book if he sends me a review copy, which is sad. But not wanting to be unfair on him or his literary endeavours, I went off and read his reviews. Very depressing reading they make, too.

  I'm...

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• On career paths, moving on, kittens and textbooks.

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  on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 11:32 AM

  I doubt anyone will really have noticed, but it's been a month and a half since I had anything to say for myself here. On the off-chance that anyone reading here cares what I've been up to (or, indeed, that anyone is reading here at all!) it's all change in Beth's world. Very shortly I will be starting a new job, and moving away from mixed practice into small animal work. Mainly dogs, cats, and rabbits, in other words, plus a few other pet-type-things, exotic animals and so on. If it seems...

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• 'Pedigree Dogs Exposed' - an update, and the Kennel Club's new plan...

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  on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 11:31 AM

  In August,I wrote about the BBC programme 'Pedigree Dogs Exposed', and how it related to my experience of pedigree dogs in practice.

  Yesterday, the Kennel Club announced its plan'toclamp down on breeders to safeguard health of pedigree pets'. The choice of language is their own, is surprisingly strong, and on its own is interesting. These breeders, after all, on whom they want to 'clamp down', are the core of their business, the Kennel Club's absolute life-blood, and people who historically...

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