EDITOR / INDEX
Editor’s Note
Hope everyone enjoyed the many long
weekends in April and May.
Now it’s
the long slog till the next one. In this
edition, I am so late that I am actually
early for next summer and the inevitable
thunderstorms. A friend of mine has
a severely noise phobic dog and the
impact on the owners’ life cannot
be underestimated. Dr Quixi Sontag
has supplied a comprehensive article
regarding management and medication
of such a patient. All that’s missing is the
cannabis oil….
Prof Leisewitz has written a clear step wise article on how to
perform a food trial to diagnose food allergic versus atopic
skin disease. Too often clients present and report that they
have followed their veterinarians’ advice to change the diet
- and have them changed from Alpo to Pedigree. This elicits
sniggers from the students as to the stupidity of the clients,
but is actually an indictment on the veterinarian who is guilty
of poor communication and patient management. How
must the client know better? It’s like asking me to work on
my own car engine.
Included this month are also two insightful articles on
changes in veterinary practice due to societal changes and
how we need to start adapting to change and then an article
on professional life and health, not something I usually
publish, but reading through this one I saw a lot of points to
take home and which I have had to learn the hard way so I
hope many can take something positive out of this and also
see that we all face the same challenges.
Regards
Index:
Dealing With Noise Phobia in Dogs and Cats
4
The 5 waves of change 11
Recruitment, Retention and Resilience 12
The use of Imepitoin on Fear and Anxiety
14
Related Problems in Dogs – a Case Series
Medical mistakes 15
Scrotal Castration versus Prescrotal Castration 18
Food Trials in Canine Allergic Skin Disease 24
Pet Export: Avoid These Common Pitfalls 28
‘R’ is for Retained, Primary, Decidous Teeth 30
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