After spending most of the day behind the wheel driving along the magnificent Icefield Parkway between Lake Luise and Jasper, we managed to check in at a hotel near Sunwapta Falls. The water of this spectacular waterfall feeds into the Athabasca River which then flows thousands of miles North into the Arctic Sea. To put …
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Whaleback and Iceline Trail
If you want to avoid the crowds of Banff and Lake Louise while traveling the Canadian Rockies, you might consider joining the smaller crowds in nearby Yoho National Park. The Whaleback and Iceline Trail is a great two day hike that offers a bit of everything the Rocky Mountains have to offer – high mountains, …
World class cross country skiing – if you don‘t get eaten by a bear…..
As some of you might know – crosscountry skiing and biathlon are some of my passions. In North America you will struggle finding better training facilities than the beautifully located Nordic Skiing Centre in Canmore. The Centre is home to the Canadian crosscountry skiing and the Biathlon teams with outstanding training and competition facilities. When …
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A visit at the Canmore Veterinary Hospital
Quite a change of scenery……. after leaving the urban jungle of downtown Toronto, I woke up to this view: Checking in at the clubhouse of the Canadian Alpine Club in Canmore in Alberta and changing- very much to my wife’s dismay – from a junior suite to a couple of mattresses in the loft with …
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Cannabinoids
One aspect that I wanted to explore further on my travels were the potential benefits of cannabinoids, which are products derived from the cannabis plant, for my patients. Over the last couple of years we have been approached by an increasing number of pet owners, who wanted to use these components on their pets, which …
Not just mental work
An early start this morning: At 6.30 am some of my European colleagues a I took part in the annual 5k WSAVA Fun(d) Run along the shore of Lake Ontario in aid of AFSCAN a charity supporting small animal practitioners in Sub-Saharan Africa. Quite tiring but great to see that our profession is getting more …
Meetings, Meetings, Meetings…..
Toronto turns out to be hard work and little sleep …… At yesterday’s VIP Summit we supported the signature of a position statement to facilitate the harmonization of the licensing of veterinary medicine. A lot of especially smaller countries struggle to have accesss to sometimes vital medicines because the national licensing process is taking too …
Bringing colleagues together for the benefit of our patients
I was proud to jointly host the first meeting of FIAVAC , the Federation of Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Small Animal Veterinary Associations and FECAVA, the Federation of European Companion Animal Veterinary Associations at the WSAVA Congress in #Toronto #FECAVA #FIAVAC It was decided to explore opportunities to work together on matters of animal welfare, …
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And so the Adventure Begins…..
Begun it has already…..to be precise with a flight to Toronto an Saturday evening to attend the World Small Animal Veterinary Association Congress 2019 to represent the European Companion Animal Veterinary profession at the Metro Conference Center. What better way to start my visit with an early morning run along the shoreline of Lake Ontario …
The end of an era….
What better way to end the 20+ years at the small village bakery which we transformed into a veterinary clinic, than throwing a final BBQ with Silke and a lot of friends, new and old clients and their dogs and with the great team I had the pleasure to working with. This truly was an …
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