by Veterinary Voices UK
The team at Veterinary Voices discuss topical and controversial issues with key opinion leaders from the veterinary profession. www.vetvoices.co.uk
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April 13, 2025
<p>Have you noticed any signs of poor welfare breeding in your dog or rescue dog? If you have then you're not the only one who has fallen into these scams - and they're getting harder to spot. </p><p>In today's podcast Robyn Lowe talks to Tim Kirby, founder of PetBond about his passion and drive to celebrate ethical breeders and work to improve puppy health and welfare as well as owner support using a preventative medicine approach. Tim describes his varied clinical working background and why he setup PetBond.</p><p>We talk about how to support and educate potential new owners to help them avoid falling into the common scams of purchasing a puppy from sources that are unethical that may increase the risk of future physical and behavioural ill-health of the puppy.</p><p>We discuss the importance of the veterinary profession working with and celebrating the breeders who are focused on both the health and welfare of the puppies, dam and sire and supporting the long-term health strategies for their breed. We talk about how working harmoniously and synergistically with them as a team, can better the outcomes of all the animals involved. </p><p>PetBond provides a rigorous verification process, an ethical breeding policy, protection for buyers, a trusted network of veterinary clinic partnerships and accredited ethical breeders and trusted reviews. Throughout this podcast we discuss their initiatives, including pre-purchase consults, verification of ethical breeders and health testing.</p><p>For more information regarding PetBond, visit their website:</p><p><a href="https://mypetbond.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://mypetbond.com/</a><br /></p><p>Or if you and your clinic are interested in signing up or asking more about it, see the sign up here:<br /> <a href="https://mypetbond.com/auth/vet-signup" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://mypetbond.com/auth/vet-signup</a> </p>
March 30, 2025
<p>Join us for this week’s podcast in which Ami Sawran and Danny Chambers chat to Paul Wood, a farm vet and academic working at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) about his experiences of treating farm animals in commercial, rescue, sanctuary and pet scenarios. </p><p>We ask, how possible is it to keep a farm animal alive to old age and with an adequate quality of life? </p><p>This podcast brings a wealth of experience, from individuals passionate about animal welfare. We delve into the realities of giving commercial animals a non-commercial life. As farm animals can NEVER be signed out of the food chain, it makes the treatment options for old age diseases, such as arthritis, very limited. Faced with this reality, how possible is it to keep a large animal alive to old age and with a adequate quality of life? Furthermore, how do we assess that quality of life? Does an animal still eating truly mean it wants to continue living? What are the benchmarks for this? Do we in the farm veterinary community have the tools to manage these animals and these clients in a contextualized way? </p><p>The episode also delves into common problems that some owners of these animals are not aware of. Did you know, you can’t make a Victoria sponge for your pet pig in your kitchen! This could seem ridiculous and trivial to an adoring owner, wanting the best for their pig. But the global health concerns of contaminated pork products being ingested by a pet pig could be huge, with cases of African Swine Fever originating in situations like these (the same rule applies to other species of farm animal too, such as your pet chickens)!</p><p>This episode contains reference to livestock slaughter, and may be upsetting to some listeners, but the discussion is respectful and an incredibly important ethical dilemma many people are facing, talking about these concerns from first hand experience working as a farm or mixed vet. </p>
March 4, 2025
<p>Join us for this latest podcast, in which Robyn Lowe talks to Michael Marshall, on the topic of conspiracy theories, medical mistrust and how it relates to the veterinary sector and how we can best approach these situations in a compassionate and most effective way. </p><p>Michael Marshall, known as Marsh, is editor at The Skeptic, project, director at the Good Thinking Society and host of the Be Reasonable podcast. He is fascinated by what drives people to believe in non-mainstream ideas.</p><p>How do we do we support people and listen, when they hold ideologies that could be harmful? Marsh feels we need to understand and recognise what and how people are exposed to conspiracy or alternative views. What messages are they being given? What are the sales pitches and why is it so persuasive to them?</p><p>Marsh explains how medical mistrust and conspiracy theories, can be relevant to veterinary medicine. Often non-mainstream beliefs are not isolated, they are part of a bigger picture of how individuals view the world. So though perhaps believing one ideology isn’t harmful, what this belief can lead to may be harmful, if it pertains to health for themselves, their children or their pets. The downstream effects of irrationality are unpredictable.</p><p>We discuss how can we go about tackling these issues in the consulting room. First you need to do the groundwork; to show them you don’t judge them and that you just want to understand their perspective. This shapes the conversation to be more open and less combative. </p><p>We chat about how you can then try to open the conversation to how the individual came to believe in these ideologies. </p><p>Understanding where they started is better than challenging the ideas from the outset. How does this belief sit with their self-identity and how they see themselves fitting in the world. What need does this fulfil? </p><p>Join this fascinating conversation where we learn how to open dialogue with those who hold beliefs that don't reflect our own.</p>
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