The Feline Centre at Langford Vets Celebrates Fifty Years of Outstanding Feline Care with Feline Celebration CPD Event26 April 2024The Feline Centre at Langford Vets is internationally renowned for being a centre of excellence for education and cat care, ensuring that all cats visiting the hospital are treated in a relaxed, comfortable environment with compassionate cat friendly care. Langford Vets prides itself on its facilities and dedicated feline staff, having the largest group of RCVS Specialists in Feline Medicine in the UK, working alongside a multidisciplinary team of European and American Veterinary Specialists and a dedicated feline nursing team. As the first referral hospital globally to be recognised as a Gold Standard ISFM Cat Friendly Clinic, Langford Vets is passionate about providing the highest level of feline care and sharing feline knowledge by teaching the University of Bristol undergraduate vets, vet nurses and a wider community of post graduates through the Langford Academy.
UK rabbit owners can recognise pain in their pets, study finds27 March 2024Rabbits are popular family pets, with around 1.5 million* in the UK and it is important that owners can recognise when their animal is in pain, and know when to seek help to protect their rabbit's welfare. New research by the University of Bristol Veterinary School has found the majority of rabbit owners could list signs of pain and could mostly identify pain-free rabbits and those in severe pain, but many lacked knowledge of the subtler sign of pain.
Tim Parkin elected RCVS Junior Vice-President25 March 2024Professor Tim Parkin, Head of Bristol Veterinary School, has been elected by Royal Society of Veterinary Surgeons Council members as the new RCVS Junior Vice-President, starting at the AGM on 5 July 2024.
Bristol Veterinary School celebrates 75 years of educating veterinary students and advancing animal health and wellbeing21 February 2024This year – 2024 – the University of Bristol's Veterinary School is celebrating 75 years of educating veterinary students and advancing veterinary science. From improving livestock welfare to tackling food security and antimicrobial resistance, using artificial intelligence to detect disease and working to conserve highly threatened mammals, Bristol Veterinary School has helped to advance veterinary medicine, animal welfare and health around the world.
Live animal transport regulations not ‘fit for purpose’, major international study finds24 January 2024A ‘fitness check’ of regulations in five countries meant to protect animals during transportation, has deemed that they all fall short of fully protecting animals during transport. Findings from this interdisciplinary work involving the Universities of Bristol, Essex and British Columbia (Canada) which compared animal transport rules designed to protect the billions of livestock that are transported on lengthy journeys in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, EU (including UK) and US, highlights serious failures.