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A SERIES of free webinars are set to be launched, with the first one tonight looking into the world of veterinary and animal science.

Athens-Clarke police are investigating a complaint about two dogs left tied to a post in the summer sun, where their suffering necessitated an overnight stay at the University of Georgia School of Veterinary Medicine. What police described as a case of  “cruelty to animals” occurred last Friday outside the Athens-Clarke County Animal Services facility on Buddy Christian Way. Police said the dogs, discovered by animal control workers, were abandoned. “It was very hot (about 85 degrees) and the dogs did not have any water,” police officer Dara Deckert wrote in her report. The dogs, an...

Check-out the room for surgery. The machine that looks like a sci-fi pressure cooker is an autoclave which autoclaves, or sterilizes, all the instruments and garments used in surgery. If a vet offers to pay a house call and do surgery on your kitchen table, tell him thanks, but no thanks. Although you may imagine you are paying through the nose for an operation or a shot, you are not only paying for a few slices and stitches, or 80¢ worth of medication, but for your surgeon’s essential skill and sterile equipment. In some facilities there are ultrasound dentistry instruments. Cats and dogs...

February 18, 2021 3:59 pm The number of veterinary practices that have (or partially have) an incorporated business model increased by 12% in 2020 compared to 2019. That’s according to a survey carried out by accountancy firm HLB Sheehan Quinn, which found that 42% of surveyed veterinary practices were incorporated last year. This compared to 30% of practices in the same survey in 2019, itself an increase on the 23% of practices that were incorporated in the corresponding 2018 survey. Of the 58% of survey respondents who said that they were not incorporated in 2020, 60% of them said they wo...

Deputy Jackie Cahill Tipperary TD Jackie Cahill brought forward the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021 in the Dáil this afternoon (Thursday, February 18). The bill intends to amend the Veterinary Practice Act 2005-2012 with the objective of confining ownership of veterinary practices to registered veterinary practitioners. This would ensure that the registered veterinary practitioner in charge is an integral part of the ownership structure, according to the Fianna Fáil TD. Quality of service at reasonable cost Speaking today, deputy Cahill said: “My sole purpose in bringing forwar...