Reflections of a traveling veterinarian
Calling in a favour from my friend Alexander Tchakov, I took the opportunity to visit a couple of veterinary clinics in St.Petersburg ahead of the FECAVA EuroCongress which opening the next day. Right after breakfast I was collected by Sasha, one of the clinics’ administrators and we were heading first for the impressive Kalininskaya Clinic …
Continue reading “The veterinary profession at work in St.Petersburg”
Ok, why not try to combine two things I like ?…… Shortly after my arrival in St.Petersburg, I gave the obligatory stroll along Nevsky Prospect a defined endpoint, which I had planned to visit for a long time – a cat cafe! The idea is not new and although it is a controversial concept, it …
This morning I am again sitting in a plane with a coffee in my hand crossing the North Sea heading for Russia via Stockholm. Behind me (and at times the whole family) are four weeks of a very different life with at times fourteen hour working days, filled with plastering, plumbing, rewiring, painting, flooring and …
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As the Oxfordian bricks and mortar patient is steadily improving (at least until I drilled holes in a couple of heating pipes underneath the floor boards….), I decided to remind myself of my “real” profession and to pay the local (exclusively) cat clinic a visit. This was something I had planned for many years, but …
A nice, yet short break from my slowly improving patient in Oxford yesterday: I took the soon unaffordable train from Farnborough to London (£43 for a return ticket!!…) and met with Independent Vet Care’s Director of HR Richard Parker to sign a sponsorship agreement between FECAVA and IVC to allow ten vet students from different …
Continue reading “Getting students to international congresses”
Back in the UK I have focused my attention now on a serious case of neglect in Oxford and this is certainly not an easy patient…… With being over 100 years old, a bit long in the teeth and in desperate need of a big dose of TLC. The work is ranging from some wound …
Seen at the Folk Music Festival in Canmore I had to share this with you as well: A clever little (business) idea – let your car earn the necessary funds for your drinks while you are enjoying some great sound (just don’t drive afterwards…) Well, all you need is a pretty unusual car – enjoy …
For the last 2 weeks I had carried around a can of “Bear Spray” with me and had relied on it in case of a close encounter with one of the larger local predators, without really knowing if it would work if being used and how long the reach would be. As I could not …
On our way back South from Jasper to Canmore along the Icefield Parkway we had booked one night at the iconic Num-Ti-Jah (meaning “Pinemarten” in the language of the Stone tribe which used to live here) Lodge on the shores of the Bow Lake. This self built and by now pretty dated wooden structure was …
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Janet Jones, owner of the Jasper Veterinary Clinic was another kind local colleague who allowed me to visit her clinic and to say hello to her and to her friendly team. The Jasper vets are treating both small animals and horses and the clinic has a branch 120 km away (!) in Valmount on the …
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