Current Affairs

RCVS launches two new awards

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) has launched two new awards for veterinary surgeons or veterinary nurses who are making a tangible positive impact on the profession and who are inspiring others by their example. The RCVS Inspiration Award is for a veterinary surgeon or veterinary nurse who has…

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Pet company donates products to robbed pet shop

Lennox UK Ltd & Pet’s Up Products Ltd has donated a pallet of stock to Cheshire Pet Supplies, who had £60,000 of products stolen. After seeing the story in Pet Gazette, the company decided to offer products to the family-run pet shop as a gesture of goodwill. The pet firm…

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Merial celebrates successful pet parasite campaign

Merial’s Pet Parasite Action campaign concluded at the end of July and has been hailed as a success. Lynda Maris, NexGard™ Spectra and Broadline® product manager, says the campaign has created over 50 million ‘opportunities to see’. An online survey shows that those who experienced the campaign are more likely to…

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New species of grass snake identified in Southern England

Scientists have identified a new species of grass snake within the UK. Barred grass snakes, Natrix helvetica, were previously viewed as a subspecies of the common grass snake Natrix natrix (pictured above). They have now been recognised as a species in their own right. The barred grass snake is grey rather than green and does not…

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Retail parks outperform high street and shopping centres

Retail parks showed a growth in footfall in July, with high streets and shopping centres suffering a decrease, figures from retail footfall analysts Springboard show. Footfall on the high streets fell by 2.1% which shopping centres showed a 1.3% decline. Retail parks saw a 1.7% increase. July was the fourth…

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Beaphar releases new pocket-sized Tick Removal Kit

Beaphar has released a new pocket-sized Tick Removal Kit, containing Beaphar Tick Away and the Beaphar TickBoy®. Affecting lots of animals, including cats, dogs and humans, ticks are an unwelcome and often dangerous parasite that can be difficult to remove. There are 23 different kinds of tick in the UK…

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Majority of small firms stretched to meet NLW

New research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) shows the majority (64 percent) of small firms impacted by the National Living Wage (NLW) have stretched to meet the latest rise by taking lower profits. Two in five (39 percent) small businesses affected by the NLW have put up prices…

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Charity welcomes new animal cruelty report

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home has welcomed a new report released today by the Centre for Crime Prevention, calling on the Government to review and increase animal cruelty sentences. The think tank’s new research, ‘Protecting Animals, Protecting People: The case for tougher sentencing for animal cruelty’ echoes Battersea’s current influential campaign,…

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Almost a third of cats aren’t microchipped

Co-op Insurance is calling on pet owners to microchip their cats as it’s revealed that almost a third (28 percent) of cats do not have a microchip. The study, found that three fifths (61 percent) of pet owners want micro-chipping, a simple procedure which involves placing a small microchip under…

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Petlife launches new Hay Blends

As the sole UK distributor of Oxbow pet products, Petlife International has recently extended its range, by adding Oxbow Hay Blends. To ease administering a varied and interesting diet, Oxbow has blended two varieties of its hand-selected, hand sorted hay together. Hay Blends comes in two pack sizes and incorporates…

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