Podcasts about london vet show

This week, Shawn Wilkie and Dr. Ivan Zak welcome Aoife Caulfield, Partnerships and Acquisitions Lead at Village Vets Ireland, to talk about building partnerships, challenges of consolidating practices, innovative practice ownership models, and the future of veterinary in Ireland. She also shared insights on the importance of leadership, networking, and aligning with like-minded partners for sustainable growth.   Learn more about Village Vets. Aoife Caulfield recommends events like London Vet Show.

In this Vet Times Extra podcast, we discuss innovations in testing and diagnostics with Mars Science and Diagnostics' chief medical officer Jimmy Barr – including what Antech has planned in the future.

Joining Anthony for this episode of VETchat by The Webinar Vet is Theo Smith, Co-founder of Neurodiversity World, Specialist in Neurodiversity and Neuroinclusion strategy at work, and a Keynote speaker. In this episode, Anthony and Theo discuss the importance of embracing neurodiversity in the workplace and the veterinary profession. Theo shares his personal journey and how he has got to where he is now. They discuss how supporting neurodiversity in the workplace can lead to innovation, creativity, and a more inclusive work environment. They also note how important it is to create adaptations and accommodations in the workplace to enable individuals with neurodivergent traits to thrive, and how this can be done in the veterinary profession. Finally, they cover how recognising and supporting neurodiversity is crucial in the veterinary profession to ensure the well-being of both the animals and the professionals. Theo will be doing a talk with Vetlife at the London Vet Show 2024. Visit Vetlife's 'Supporting Neurodivergence' page here

Well slobber us up like a St. Bernard's dinner Bookshelvers!Another returning guest this week at Barks from Headquarters! Corrin and Steve are joined by the amazing Andrew Hale to talk through LOADS and LOADS of great stuff. We delve into the Crufts conundrum, helpful tips on coaching guardians, how to care for yourself in the sector and how we can apply a 'dog-centric' approach to training with a firm eyeball on the individual experience (of all the beings involved). Big topics indeed (with a little Dolly Parton and road rage stories thrown in for good measure). On top of all that we hear how primal screaming therapy helped Corrin and Steve overcome the Tuesday jitters and try to come to the bottom of why Corrin can't stop saying Howdy doody!?!?!We love chatting to Andrew and hope you Bookshelvers will feel as refreshed and invigorated as us after listening. Andy Facts:Andrew Hale BSc, ISCP.Dip.Canine.Prac is a Certified Canine Behaviourist. He is the behaviour consultant for Pet Remedy, and proud to be an expert advisor for Canine Arthritis Management and a Kids Around Dogs Trainer. He also works to support many dog welfare and rescue organisation. With a background in Human Psychology, Andrew is passionate about exploring the emotional experience that lies behind behaviour, both in dogs and the humans around them.Andrew has played a leading role in the UK Dog training and behaviour community, having been the chair of the Association of INTODogs, and was the driving force behind the UK Dog Behaviour and Training Charter. In 2020, Andrew started Dog Centred Care (https://www.facebook.com/groups/dogcc) which focusses on supporting a dog led, emotionally centred, approach to providing the best care and support for dogs and their caregivers. On this platform, he has been hosting on-line conversations with some of the world's leading scientists, researchers, trauma experts, dog professionals and veterinarians.  Andrew has been invited to speak at many of the leading behaviour conferences and has presented at esteemed events such as the London Vet Show and the Association of Cats and Dogs conference. Andrew has also appeared on many of the leading podcasts and been invited to write for leading publications.For more info on PACT, DogX or to join our mailing list go to: www.pact-dogs.com

This week, Shawn Wilkie and Dr. Ivan Zak talk with Dr. Nick Lloyd, a veterinary surgeon and founder of Vet XML Consortium. Dr. Lloyd shares his experience at the London Vet Show, highlighting the latest innovations in the veterinary industry, key players, and technologies that are making a positive impact on practice management and client communication. Dr. Lloyd recommends "And Then What?" by Catherine Ashton.

London Vet Show 2023 saw Vet Times and the Big 6 panel discuss the thorny topic of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) review of the veterinary profession, specifically focusing on the opportunities it could provide the sector. Led by Vet Times editor James Westgate, the session looked at how the professions could change for the better, with industry experts including VMG president Miles Russell, BVNA president Lyndsay Hughes, XLVets chief executive Andrew Curwen, British Veterinary Union chair Suzanna Hudson-Cooke, SPVS board chair Peter Orpin and BVA senior vice president Malcolm Morley.

In this special bonus episode Anna catches up Paleo Ridge at the London Vet Show, talking about why the company is supporting the Raw Feeding Vet Society RFVS at the event. In response to the demand from customers to learn more about feeding a whole food species appropriate diet, the RFVS were inundated with interest fromVets at the show. Grabbing a few minutes with Paleo Ridge's Will Green and Esther Logue, we chatted about a shift in perceptions. As dog owners opt for healthier eating themselves, it's inevitable that pet parents are transferring their learning to their pets.Understanding the impact diet: ingredients that support and fuel at a cellular level, feeding a raw balanced complete diet to your dog is beneficial to their health. Over the years Anna has received a lot of antagonism from Vets on  feeding an unprocessed, natural whole food diet, which she found very disappointing. As a canine nutritionist, Anna agrees with Paleo Ridge's philosophy that by pre-empting health issues, is a way to keep dogs and their owners happy.  Feeding ingredients that are bioavailable and nutrient dense - ‘Letting food be thy medicine (as Hippocrates said in 600BC), can transform health. Offering an exclusive Vet Club for practices, Paleo Ridge aims to educate!!  Offering free advice, special packages and in-practice freezer options for vet practices. We touch on the myths around Raw Food Feeding, and why the RFVS want to help de-mystify such preconceptions and help Vets fulfill the demand from their customers. Being open to change and learning about nutrition is the key not just for dogs, but for humans too.Raw Feeding Vet Society RFVSCheck out the Petli APP  here and follow them on InstagramIf you want to move your dog to a raw diet or even switch brands we wholly recommend Paleo RidgeFor more about Anna go to annawebb.co.ukMusic and production by Mike Hanson for Pod People ProductionsCover art by JaijoCover photo by Rhian Ap Gruffydd at Gruff PawtraitsFor advertising and sponsorship opportunities contact info@theloniouspunkproductions.com

In this episode, we had a conversation with Gareth Bowhill about his experience leading CloserStill Media, a UK-based B2B media company that produces 80 exhibitions annually, as its CEO since 2020. After coming off a record year of revenues of $120 million in 2022, he talked about how the company has closed three acquisitions so far this year (with more in the pipeline), growing to 600 employees globally. CloserStill's expansion into the U.S. market began in 2017 with the organic launch of New York Vet, a geo-clone of its flagship event London Vet Show. Led by former RX exec Yancy Weinrich, who serves as the company's North America president, has grown rapidly in the last two years to 100 employees. Find out why the U.S. market is currently his No. 1 priority.    We talked about: How the company emerged bigger and better post pandemic with a record year of trading in 2022 and expectations to beat that in 2023  How the three acquisitions in 2023 (so far) have impacted the business and their prospects for growth Insights into the M&A landscape right now (active How the company's private equity ownership by Providence since 2018 has supported its growth Challenges right now: talent and economic uncertainty And so much more! Podcast host Danica Tormohlen also shared the top five new stories from Trade Show News Network, Exhibit News Now and Corporate Event News that were published in the first half of August 2023.   Our guest Bowhill is CEO of  CloserStill Media. He joined the company as CFO  in November 2019 before being promoted to CEO in may 2020.    Prior to that, he served as Head of M&A and Group Treasurer at Chime Communications Limited for 3 years from 2016 to 2019.    He's also worked at CSM Sport & Entertainment as International Group Finance Director and Director of Strategy and Corporate Development for a little over 2 years.   Here's a backgrounder on Bowhill on CloserStill's site.   Get his full bio and connect with him on LinkedIn here.   Thank you to our sponsor! Zenus What if you could prove your event is working with hard facts and learn how to make it even better? With Zenus's Ethical Vision AI, you can protect your budget and have detailed reporting. Learn how that's all possible at Zenus.AI   TSNN PODCAST: TRADE SHOW TALK Trade Show News Network is excited to share our ‘Trade Show Talk' podcast which features two episodes each month focusing on hot-button topics. Each episode kicks off with a news round up before host Danica Tormohlen leads discussions with trade show and events industry leaders. If you'd like to be a guest or you have a topic to suggest that we cover, please let us know by emailing podcast@tsnn.com. If you would like to sponsor a podcast series, please contact jrice@tsnn.com  Subscribe for all the latest episodes on Apple, Deezer and Spotify.

This episode from our clinical series is brought to you by Elanco, makers of the broadest range of parasiticides including Advocate, Milbemax, Seresto and Credelio Plus. "The question about the biochemistry is really interesting, because what your question now is, is 'what is it, and where is it?' And the problem that we have is that the liver enzymes aren't gonna tell us, because it's really hard to separate hepatic from post-hepatic on bloods. ALP is very insensitive in the cat and will go up with both hepatic and post-hepatic. ALT will go up with hepatic and post-hepatic. Bilirubin will be up. So what?!" We recorded this case-based interactive session about how to work up the jaundiced cat with one of the world's leading Small Animal Medicine specialists and teachers, ⁠Prof Jill Maddison⁠ at session our live event in 2022. Prof Jill Jill Maddison, BVSc, DipVetClinStud, PhD, SFHEA, MRCVS, is a professor of general practice, the director of professional development, and the BVetMed and CertAVP course director at Royal Veterinary College. She is also a coordinator for London Vet Show and is a consultant at a local veterinary practice and at Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital in London. Dr Maddison is the senior editor of the second edition of Small Animal Clinical Pharmacology and the senior editor of Clinical Reasoning in Small Animal Practice. She has lectured worldwide on clinical problem-solving, small animal internal medicine, and clinical pharmacology.  In this session she helps us reason through a case of jaundice in a cat to create a deeper understanding, rather than a simple list of facts. She also shifts some long-standing beliefs around diagnostic testing in liver disease in both dogs and cats. Topic list: 5:07 Where to begin your workup. 6:05 Defining the problem and localising the problem: Pre-hepatic, hepatic or post-hepatic? 9:17 How much does dehydration actually affect PCV? 10:43 Bilirubin - how useful is it? "It's the most over-interpreted test I reckon. I have so many vets tell me, “Oh, the bilirubin is 16, it has to have a problem with its liver…” No, it probably just has inflammatory disease." 13:14 Dd's for hepatic disease in cats. 14:20 Dd's for post-hepatic causes of jaundice. 16:04 Biochem in jaundice: ALP, ALT, GGT. "The problem that we have is that the liver enzymes aren't going to tell us." 19:51 Why bile acids are useless in the diagnosis of liver disease. "The bile acids don't tell you anything more than you already know. There is no relationship between the level of bile acids and the prognosis or reversibility of the lesion." 24:25 Can't I just trial-treat? 26:16 Ultrasound. 28:27 Signalment: how useful is it? 29:36 Cholesterol and liver disease. 30:52 Pancreatic lipase and pancreatitis in cats. "What we found was that we had 24% false negatives. So we had a quarter of our cats who had what seemed to be pancreatitis that did not have an increased Pli." 36:54 Hepatic lipidosis. For more world-class specialists in an easy-to-consume format join our community of Vet Vault Nerds at vvn.supercast.com. Visit thevetvault.com for the show notes for this episode. Join us in at Vets on Tour in Wanaka, New Zealand on 13 - 18 August 2023 for great CE, more live podcasting and snow... lots of snow! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vet-vault/message

Ep.16 Show Notes   In this Skin Flints episode, Sue, John and Paul welcomed Dr Arielle Griffiths to the platform to discuss a very topical subject - sustainable pet food.   (00:00) Introduction   Chapter 1: “Understanding the Urgency: Why Sustainable Food is Necessary for Our Pets”   (03:44)  John welcomes Arielle to the pod, who talks about her work in the industry and in setting up the Sustainable Pet Food Association. As a GP vet she became involved in nutrition and did extensive research before also becoming environmentally and sustainably focused as a result of seeing a change in the world.   (07:31) Sue asks Arielle to clarify what is meant by obesity-based diets and Arielle says this is where owners are (through love) overfeeding their pets and potentially causing arthritis, heart disease and a number of conditions relating to the excess weight. This tipped her to realise the use of plants as a base in food can really help, which was a big factor in her  becoming vegan herself.   (09:08) Sue clarifies we are talking about people feeding too much or an imbalanced diet and the carbon footprint of that diet – and that we are discussing dogs here and not cats. Arielle says that the need for palatability in foods has resulted in an excess of protein in the diet and more meat being used than needed, affecting the sustainability. She shared that wet, meat-based diets have the largest carbon footprint, including raw lean diets – with one study in Brazil demonstrating a dog on this diet matched that of a human in that country.   Chapter 2: "Exploring the Landscape: What Constitutes Sustainable Food?"   (11:49) John asks why vegetarian or vegan food is a more sustainable option and Arielle says it is proven that animal agriculture for the use in pet food accounts for 2.5 - 3% of the entire carbon footprint of the world. This comes from deforestation to provide this food and the by-products of the food as a result of the market.   (13:40) Sue clarifies this as methane production from the animals used increasing the carbon emissions along with the deforestations. Livestock accounts for over 70% of global farming land use but only produces 18% of the world's calories and 37% of total protein - with dog and cat food being equivalent to an entire country's worth of production. But Arielle says the health benefits are what turned her more to vegetable based foods.    (15:29) Sue comments on the information on the human side for the health benefits, with more GPs suggesting it – she asks if there is evidence to support this on the pet side. Arielle says there is and comments on how in the 27,000 years of domestic evolution dogs have developed to require 52% of their diet to be carbohydrate due to the change in their genes over that time compared to the wolf they descended from, which only needs 1.2% carbohydrate. She also says dogs 3,000 years ago were primarily plant based.   (17:09) John asks if the theory of raw feeding being more natural for dogs is therefore unmerited and Arielle agrees, explaining that dogs obviously love eating food like this which is the success of the industry – but in terms of the environment there is significant evidence that resistant bacteria has been shown to be happening as a result of raw feeding, as well as it not being healthy for the dog. And she reiterates - a dog is not a wolf!   (19:18) John goes on to clarify Arielle is advocating a formulated dog food which is vegetable based and asks if it could be insect based. Arielle says it could and there are a number of companies for this, but she focuses on vegetable based and insects are just using another way of recycling protein and therefore whilst they are more substantiable – they are not as much so as the vegetable equivalents. She mentions how she was one of three vets speaking on the subject at London Vet Show along with Professor Andrew Knight and Dr Mike Davies - talking about animal nutrition and the evidence for vegetable based diets, which previously had looked to have a vegan diet, but a new independent study from Australia and Mexico reviewing all the papers indicated the evidence is sound. She argues now we know they are healthier for our pets and our planet there is an urgency.   Chapter 3: "Making Informed Choices: Considerations for a Sustainable Diet"   (24:40) Sue asks what we do about different life stages and different conditions and Arielle says there is a puppy plant based food and a senior plant based food – and in fact any plant based food is good for senior dog.   (26:12) Sue asks about particular conditions as well (e.g.) skin conditions and Arielle says she's getting 2 or 3 people a day asking her to transition their dogs from meat diets because of an intolerance to it, and much has been shown to evidence the gut microbiome health being linked to that of the sin and therefore the skin health.   (28:19) Sue asks if you can transition to a plant based diet overnight. Arielle advises that the cases where they are really uncontrolled and unhappy on the food can transition overnight with a care to not over feed. But for the majority of dogs - as with any dietary change - a slow transition over 2-3 weeks is better; 4-5 weeks for raw fed dogs, in order to allow the gut to adapt to the change.   (29:29) Sue asks about the evidence suggesting grain free diets can lead to heart disease and Arielle says this came about in 2018 with increased instances of dilated cardio myopathy in breeds you wouldn't normally see. She explains this is a result of substitute ingredients and is resolved with the addition of taurine to diets – which is an important reason to use a formulated diet. The number of cases has now dropped as a result of these changes.   (32:45) John wraps the conversation and asks Arielle if there are any resources to highlight and Arielle again recommends the Sustainable Pet Food Association as a great resource to find out more, and find the right food.   (36:18) Outro – Sue raps up as an ever-wise voice of reason.   (40:57) John asks Sue and Paul - Beef or beans?!

Chickens are being increasingly kept as pets – and with it comes the likelihood of presentations in practice. So, ahead of her lecture at the London Vet Show, Henrietta Kodilinye‑Sims addresses some of the challenges: from identifying clinical signs to responsible prescribing in line with legislative requirements. Henri also offers some tips for nursing care plans… ___________________

Joining Anthony for today's episode of VETchat is Dr Sarah Machell, Medical Director at Vetster, a veterinary telemedicine provider. In this episode, Anthony and Sarah discuss who Vetster are and how the company was founded. Sarah shares some insight on her career background and discusses how technology progression has helped us in the profession. Sarah tells of how people are enjoying the Vetster platform in the UK, how beneficial it is bringing the physical and virtual practices together to help complement and support each other, and how telemedicine can help people to continue to practice and stay in the profession just in a less traditional way. Finally, they talk about how Vetster will be attending the London Vet Show in 2022 and how you can get in touch with them if you are attending. Thank you to Vetster for sponsoring today's episode. Find out more about Vetster here

Ahead of taking over as BVA president, Malcolm Morley joined us to discuss his priorities for the year ahead – including his theme of investing in people, and how he's looking forward to leading the association over the next 12 months. Malcolm also previews several sessions at the London Vet Show that tie in with his theme. We also speak to Justine Shotton about her presidency, which has just ended. Justine reflects on the success of her theme of sustainability, as well as some of the BVA's ongoing campaigns, and discusses how much she enjoyed her term. ___________________

Welcome to this episode of the Vet Times Podcast previewing the Wooldridge Memorial Lecture at BVA Congress, which is taking place as part of the London Vet Show. This year's speaker is Matt Morgan, an intensive care doctor. He is about to release his second book, which explores the concept of one health. In his lecture, Matt will call for doctors to work closer with vets – and ahead of the show, he joined us to explain more… ______________________

The London Vet Show will once again host BVA Congress – where one session will discuss the impact of the cost of living crisis, and how the veterinary profession can continue to provide pragmatic and affordable care for all creatures great and small, while maintaining high standards of welfare. BVA past‑president Robin Hargreaves is a panellist in the session – and he joins us for this podcast to explain how he thinks the profession will find imaginative solutions to the challenge… _____________________

If you weren't able to attend London Vet Show this year or fancy a recap, then don't despair two of the IMV Clinical Team will be chatting through their highlights from this year's congress including Non-Conventional Radiographic Views in Horses and the Management of Fractures in Small Animal Practice. Plus meet the newest member of the IMV Clinical Team!

In Ep.76 of the Sports Therapy Association Podcast, we take a behind the scenes look at Therapy Expo 2021, happening THIS month on Wednesday 24th & Thursday 25th at NEC Birmingham. To do so, we are joined by special guest Liam Richardson, Head of Content for Healthcare for CloserStill Media, the company that as well as organising Therapy Expo since the inaugural 2013 event, produces more than 80 over events in the UK and abroad, including The London Vet Show, The Pharmacy Show, Learning Technologies, The Dentistry Show, and more. In this episode, Liam guides us through topics including: How tricky was the decision to have Therapy Expo go ahead this year? What Covid-19 precautions have been put into place? How has Therapy Expo changed over the years? What goals do you put into place when selecting content? What are you particularly excited about this year? Websites/Social Media Therapy Expo website Therapy Expo Twitter  Therapy Expo Facebook Please Support Our Podcast! If you appreciate what we do, please take a couple of minutes to leave us a rating & review on Apple Podcasts. It really does make all the difference in helping us reach out to a larger audience. iPhone users you can do this from your phone, Android users you will need to do it from iTunes. All episodes are streamed live to our YouTube channel and remember all soft tissue therapists (non members included) are welcome to join us for the LIVE recording on Tuesdays at 8pm (UK time) on the Sports Therapy Association Facebook Page Questions? Email: matt@thesta.co.uk

BVA Congress, which takes place at the London Vet Show (11 to 12 November 2021), will mark five years of the association's efforts to create a better world for animals through its animal welfare strategy. Sean Wensley was BVA president when the first strategy was launched in 2016 – and ahead of his lecture at congress, he joined a special episode of the Vet Times Podcast to discuss its success and consider how it may develop further over the next five years. ___________________ Sean Wensley BVSc, MSc, FRCVS, is senior veterinary surgeon (communication and education) at PDSA. He chairs the Animal Welfare Working Group of the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE), was president of the BVA from 2015-16 and is a Fellow of the RCVS. He is also an honorary lecturer in animal welfare at the University of Nottingham, a member of the Companion Animal Welfare Council, and a committee member of the Animal Welfare Science, Ethics and Law Veterinary Association. Sean has assisted with animal welfare and conservation projects in East Africa, China, India, continental and Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean. He holds a master's degree in applied animal behaviour and animal welfare. In, 2017 Sean received the inaugural World Veterinary Association Global Animal Welfare Award for Europe.

The BVA's 2021-22 president is Justine Shotton, who has pledged to make sustainability a key priority for the veterinary profession over the next 12 months. Dr Shotton has taken a sabbatical from her role as veterinary services manager at Marwell Zoo in Hampshire to focus on the presidency, and took time out of relocating to London to join the Vet Times Podcast to discuss her objectives for the year ahead. She also previews some of the sessions taking place at BVA Congress – being hosted by the London Vet Show in November – that will explore the role the profession can play in tackling climate change. ________________________ Justine Shotton BVSc, MSc, MRCVS, is a 2008 University of Bristol veterinary graduate with a first class intercalated degree in veterinary pathology from the RVC She has always had a passion for conservation – after graduating she volunteered at wildlife rehabilitation centres in Guatemala and a small animal clinic in Honduras before spending five years working as a mixed practice vet in Oxfordshire. After completing a master's in wild animal health from the RVC and Zoological Society of London (ZSL), she joined the ZSL as a postgraduate research assistant and wildlife vet for its Species Recovery Programme. While there, she researched and advised on disease risks and management strategies for reintroductions and translocations of native and European wildlife species following local extinctions or population reductions. Since 2015, Dr Shotton has worked at Marwell Zoo in Hampshire. As veterinary services manager, she leads a team of veterinary professionals and animal scientists to optimise the welfare of zoo and wild animals, and is involved in several wildlife reintroduction projects, including the international programme to reintroduce the scimitar oryx back into the wild in Chad in 2016. Alongside her veterinary and conservation work, Dr Shotton works as a small animal and emergency veterinary locum in Hampshire. When not in practice, Dr Shotton lectures on exotics and zoo animal medicine at the University of Surrey School of Veterinary Medicine and helms the veterinary zoological elective for the university's final-year veterinary students. During her year as BVA junior vice-president (2020-21) she has played an integral role in development of the imminent BVA policy on responsible use of parasiticides, supported the launch of the Greener Practice Checklist and represented the BVA on the UK One Health Co-ordination Group and the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe.

This is the last of our episodes recorded at last year's London Vet Show (sad!) but before the Show closed its doors and they brought our podcast booth down around our ears, Sophie managed to drag her pal James Greenwood into the podcave for a debrief about diversification. You'll mostly be hearing the distracted garblings of two excitable friends fresh from picking up free pens in the breaks between lectures, but hopefully - amid the chatter - for those feeling as though they would like to explore other avenues, particularly in media, this may help to reassure you that your vet degree can be useful in a wide range of work environments.  Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20. See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree  License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

I absolutely loved these two! This was a delight of a conversation with a lot of laughs and I'm so pleased that we made it happen - I should probably add that Liz was 39 weeks pregnant at the time of recording... Liz Bode is a veterinary cardiology specialist - our second one featured in the COVID specials, who'd have thought it - who works at ChesterGates Veterinary Specialists in Cheshire. Scott Kilpatrick is a specialist in small animal internal medicine and was recently appointed head of medicine at Wear Referrals in the north east. In tandem with with their other halves, Andy and Sean, Liz and Scott are also both co-directors of the Veterinary Thought Exchange, a new CPD company that they recently founded. Here they discuss running a startup, how the business came about and the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on their professional and personal lives.    VTX are most active on Instagram and you can find them here. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and the plan is still very much for it to go ahead. Book tickets using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20 for a 10% discount.  Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree  License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/     

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK, and this conversation features Adrian Nelson-Pratt, and Sean McCormack talking openly on that subject. You'll probably quickly realise that the two of them are great friends. having known one another well for some years now since Sean was the student rep for Hills pet foods at Dublin University, and Adrian was the Hills Veterinary Affairs Manager. Sean is now the head vet for tails.com, a bespoke online pet food company, and following many years in veterinary industry, Adrian is now an independent  business consultant and personal performance coach. Here they touch on their career journeys, mental health and why a life in industry has worked for them.  Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20. See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree  License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

We are so thrilled that today we've got our first international guests on Borborygmi! A little milestone for the pod. Naomi's guests today are Jessia Kania and Dawn Garvey, both veterinarians in small animal practice in Illinois, outside of Chicago. Jessica graduated in 2017 and Dawn in 2009, and they are former colleagues and good friends. In this chat they talk about life in the USA with the shelter in place order, and some of the financial pressures that COVID has brought to their practices. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and the plan is still very much for it to go ahead. Book tickets using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20 for a 10% discount.  Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree  License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/     

Between them, Brian Faulkner and Stephanie Writer-Davis have a wealth of experience in clinical practice. Brian has been a vet for almost 25 years and has made a career out of diversifying within the profession, from setting up practice on his own to completing masters degrees in both business and psychology. Steph is a general practitioner with 35 years of experience under her belt, and both are past-presidents of SPVS, which is how they met. But in a world of increasing specialisation and diversification, it is often easy to lose sight of the importance of the basics and both Steph and Brian remain vocal champions of the basic but vital skills that make you an excellent general practitioner. In this conversation, we hear them talking about the power of the clinical consultation.    Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20. See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree  License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   

As final year vet students at Bristol and Surrey respectively, both Hannah FItzsimmonds and Holly Sutton know the myriad stresses that vet students face each year and are both dedicated to doing something to tackle it. Hannah is the Welfare Representative for the AVS, and Holly is one third of the start up VetFit- a research driven veterinary service dedicated to reducing the impact of stress through sport, exercise and social support. We join their conversation talking about their own experiences as final year students and get their failsafe tips for managing stress in the process.  Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20. See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree  License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

You'll quickly realise from listening to the gentle ribbings doled out in this episode of Borborygmi that today's guests are two people that Naomi knows very well. Louise Turley is a small animal vet and a Director of Mulberry House Vets, an independent practice that she co-founded with two other vets and their practice manager in January 2019. Matt Yarnall joined Boehringer Ingelheim as a cattle veterinary advisor 8 years ago, and now works exclusively in a marketing role. They all went to college together many moons ago, plus the three of them live near each other and are VERY good friends, although as you'll hear in this chat, Matt and Louise's differing jobs have produced different challenges during the Coronavirus pandemic, including the joys of working from home with children.  Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and the plan is still very much for it to go ahead. Book tickets using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20 for a 10% discount.  Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree  License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/     

Today's guests on Borborygmi are Liv Bass and Zara Abas. Liv and Zara are final year vet students at the University of Nottingham; Zara is from North Wales, and Liv is from the north east, and they are both currently locked down with their families. They are in the process of revising for their finals, which are due to take place very soon. Clearly the Coronavirus pandemic has played havoc with university education in ways we might not have dreamed possible, particularly for vet students when you consider EMS and rotations as well as the usual forms of student study. Here the two of them chat about the changes to their final term, their upcoming exams, and their job prospects in the near future.  Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and the plan is still very much for it to go ahead. Book tickets using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20 for a 10% discount.   

This week on Borborygmi, we drop in on a conversation between Aubrey Kumm and Timokleia Kousi. Aubrey is a vet who got bitten by the technology bug while completing a masters in neuroscience. He has spent the last 3 years developing a veterinary platform and app called Guava Vet, which tackles a big issue facing our profession today - recruitment. Here, he talks to Timokleia, founder of Vet Futurist and one of a growing number of professionals helping vets to make the most of technology by creating content about digital innovation and spreading the word about the benefits of tech. They discuss how steady changes in tech uptake are changing the veterinary industry for the better. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20. See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree  License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

On today's Borborygmi Zoom call, Naomi caught up with Kieran Borgeat, clinical lead in veterinary cardiology at Langford Vets at the University of Bristol, and his great friend Shaun Taylor, a the founder and director of Yatton Vets in Somerset, an independent first-opinion practice. These two have been friends since their uni days at Bristol and here discuss their contrasting experiences of employment during Coronavirus - Kieran is now on furlough, whilst Shaun is running his practice single-handedly with his nurses, and - awkwardly - had to furlough his mum!   Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and the plan is still very much for it to go ahead. Book tickets using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20 for a 10% discount.  Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree  License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

In this episode of Borborygmi, we're talking about money. Hannah Fitzsimmonds is a final year vet student at Bristol University and until recently, was the AVS Welfare rep. Matt Dobbs qualified from the University of Edinburgh in 1999 and was a farm vet for many years, progressing to be the managing director of Westpoint Farm Vets. He is also a trustee of the Animal Welfare Foundation and a co-founder of VetYou, which aims to get vets thinking about their finances and financial future.   Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like something to look forward to once lockdown is over, you can get a 10% discount by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.    Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree  License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

Today, on the second Corona special of Borborygmi, I'm joined by Holly Norman and Jenny Bowen-Smith. Holly is a joint venture partner with Vets4Pets, and is in charge two practices in Peterborough with her business partner Laura. Jenny is a small animal vet in the first opinion practice at one of the vet schools, so whilst she primarily sees cases, she is also involved in teaching and lecturing. These two met at the RVC, from where they graduated in 2011. They were in the same rotation group at university and according to Jenny, have been great friends, drinking buddies and a strong support for each other ever since.  Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and the plan is still very much for it to go ahead. Book tickets using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20 for a 10% discount.  Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree  License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

Today on Borborygmi, Sophie is chatting with Fiona Andrew. Fiona has been a qualified vet nurse for almost 20 years and has spent much of her career looking at what it means to be a nurse in modern veterinary practice. Currently working as a Business Support Manager for the Vet Partners Group, Fiona is also Chair of the BVA advisory board. This conversation covers the relationship between vets, vet nurses and owners in practice and also discusses Fiona's work as leader of an important new Vet Nurse task force - a joint BVA and BVNA initiative that looks at the development of veterinary nurses and how we as a profession, can best recognise the role today and give due credit to what is an indispensable cog in the veterinary machine.  Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a 10% discount by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.  Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree  License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

This week we are talking side hustles, and today's conversation on Borborygmi features two friends, Jessi Benn and Nat Scroggie, who discussed a little about what it's like to take risks in your career as a vet. They've both been in practice for a few years, and are now exploring what avenues they'd like to pursue within the veterinary profession and beyond, and are both combining locuming with side hustles and other projects. Nat loves running and is combining blogging with her clinical career, whilst Jessi talks about how career coaching has encouraged her no end! Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated! Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20. See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree  License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  

In uncertain times, creativity can provide a great deal of solace, and creativity is the theme of today's discussion in the Borborygmi booth. Taimur Alavi and Rebecca de Stacpoole met at vet school in Bristol. Bex works as a small animal vet in West London and is also an artist, spending much of the free time she has painting and and selling her artwork. Taimur left clinical practice to found his company IVALA, a tech company that creates interactive 3D learning content for the veterinary community, that he sold to the Veterinary Information Network and continues to develop. Here, they talk about what exploring their creativity has meant for their professional lives and explain the value that it can bring to a scientific profession. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Today's podcast marks the start of a special set of extra Borborygmi episodes we have recently recorded to capture the changes to life in the veterinary profession since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic. We'll be featuring vets, nurses and students from across the industry over the next few weeks, with conversations interspersed amongst the original Borborygmi collection recorded at last year's London Vet Show. Our first guests on the 'Covid Special' version of Borborygmi are Ami Sawran, a practice principal at Westpoint Vets, with an interest in small ruminants and camelids, and Fi Boothby, a predominantly dairy vet at Vale Vet Group. These two met at vet school, qualifying from Liverpool in 2011 and as you'll hear here, are VERY good fun. In this chat you'll hear them discussing the changes that have happened on farm with social distancing, and what it's meant so far for their clients. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefreeLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Cat Henstridge - better known as Cat the Vet - is a small animal practitioner, writer, blogger and frequent contributor to social media including video and written content. She describes herself as a ‘pretty normal vet really, who just happens to rant about things online every so often'. Katie Roberts is a vet student at Cambridge University, and the current president of the Association of Veterinary Students. They're talking social media and our relationship to it in the veterinary profession. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

You may be familiar with today's guests on Borborygmi. Pete Wedderburn and Emma Milne are small animal vets with decades of experience between them but both of them have moved away from full time general practice and into the media sphere. Pete is a regular columnist for The Telegraph who often appears on television and radio, and Emma is a published author and commentator, who you are likely to have seen grace our screens on all 11 series of BBC1's hugely successful show ‘Vets in Practice'. Both use their platforms regularly to speak out against abuse of animal rights but their welcome advocacy for animal welfare comes at a cost; both Pete and Emma have been subject to online bullying for their vocal opinions, in particular about pedigree breeding. Here, we listen to them talk about the impact that social media has on their work, both good and bad, as they conclude that sometimes, changing just one mind at a time is enough to keep going. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Ebony Escalona and Cal Major are two people who need little introduction here. Ebs is the mastermind and architect behind the Vets: Stay Go Diversify group that so many vets, nurses and students have joined these days, and Cal is an activist and stand up paddle boarder who founded her campaign, Paddle Against Plastic to raise awareness of plastic pollution in the seas and rivers of the UK. They're both veterinary surgeons and here they're talking about community, and its myriad roles in their work. You can find details of Ebony's work here - https://www.vsgd.co and Cal's work here - https://paddleagainstplastic.com Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Today's guests on Borborygmi are Nat Scroggie and Cat Auden, and this recording was actually the first time they'd met in person, which is a great testament to the power of social media and the virtual friends you can make. Nat had a miscarriage in 2018 and subsequently set up Vet MINDS (miscarriage, infertility, neonatal death and stillbirth), a closed Facebook group to support others within the profession who have been through similar situations. Cat has previously had a miscarriage but now has 3 children. I'd really like to particularly nod to these two for this conversation - it was so open and warm, and they were both incredibly honest, so thank you. I should also say that if you've previously experienced any of the scenarios mentioned above, be aware this episode may be a trigger. You can find the Vet MINDS page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2371031636501997/ Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We are listening to a conversation today between Shereene Williams and Amy Barstow.  Both Shereene and Amy work for the international animal welfare charity The Brooke, though they came to it from quite different avenues. Shereene qualified as a vet from Nottingham in 2011 and after a period of time in equine and general practice, went travelling and came back to join Brooke four years ago as an Animal Health Veterinary Advisor. Amy qualified in 2013 from the RVC and spent time volunteering before starting an equine internship at the Animal Health Trust and completing a PhD at the RVC. Amy spent some time teaching before joining Brooke in mid 2019 as a Global Animal Health Advisor. Here, they talk about the paths that led them to working there and what moving in a slightly different direction meant for their job satisfaction. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jade Statt co-founded Streetvet in 2016, a practice dedicated to delivering free veterinary care to the homeless and their pets on the streets. They've grown exponentially since then to cover 16 towns and cities around the UK, and Jade is now the CEO. Jo Brand is the team leader for StreetVet in Cambridge, having set the programme up in the city there. They're discussing the challenges they've faced along the way in this line of work, and how they've overcome them. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Today's guests on Borborygmi are Daniella dos Santos and Dave Hollinshead. Daniella qualified from the Royal Veterinary College in 2012 and has recently been elected President of the British Veterinary Association. She is leading the charge to build on inclusivity and diversity within the veterinary community and is a huge believer in ensuring that people from all backgrounds are able to enter the profession.  Here she speaks with Dave, a small animal vet who qualified from Cambridge Vet School in 2011. Dave is based in Sheffield, and works in emergency and critical care. Both entered into the veterinary profession from very different backgrounds, but as you'll hear in this conversation each faced surprisingly similar challenges along the way. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode, we're talking parenting with Liz Barton and Ben Sweeney. Liz is the creator of the VetsNet resource hub, founder of WellVet and curator of VetMums. Ben is the founder and managing director of Simply Locums, and a new dad. Liz has two girls aged 5 and 7, and Ben and his wife Dani have recently become new parents to their son Matthew. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Laura Higham graduated from Edinburgh Uni in 2008 and having been in practice in both the UK and New Zealand, now works for FAI, the Farm Animal Initiative, advising on the sustainability of food and livestock supply chains. She has a particular interest in international animal health, the future of food production and environmental issues, which led her to set up Vet Sustain, in the process meeting Anna Judson, the Junior Vice President of SPVS. Anna was a partner and practice owner for many years, and after selling her practice recently is now further pursuing her interests in wildlife, conservation and climate change. They're chatting about sustainability in the veterinary profession and how we can all get involved. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Our guests on Borborygmi today could not be more topical given the current world circumstances, as today we're talking about mindfulness and yoga, and the benefits these can have in a stressful profession. Allisdhair McNaull is the creator of the widely read Vet Mindfully Blog, dedicated to the practice of mindfulness, and Chloe Hannigan is a yoga instructor and Director of vetyogi.com. As practicing vets, both Allisdhair and Chloe know all about the stresses and strains of daily veterinary life that can accumulate to negatively impact our mental and physical health but also the power that daily mental and physical practice can have on alleviating that strain. Here, they explain their practices and talk about the personal experiences that led them to mindfulness and yoga, and to a happier working life. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Today's guests on Borborygmi are Naomi Mellor - that's me by the way - and Polly Compston. Polly and I went to vet school together and we both now fit into the ‘diversify' category - Polly has worked in practice, done a masters in epidemiology and public health, a clinical research residency, worked overseas for the equine charity The Brooke, and is now doing a pHd on foot and mouth disease in Kenya. I've also worked in equine practice both in the UK and abroad, and currently work for the British Horseracing Authority on the regulatory side of the sport, as well as doing some research. The conversation picks up with us talking about becoming a vet and the choices we've made. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated! Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Today's guests on Borborygmi are Rachael Steen and Matt Forshaw. Rachael has been a qualified vet for over 20 years and spent the majority of her career working with small animals at the PDSA in Liverpool, where she met Matt. Matt, also a small animal vet, has been qualified for 10 years and now works as a Business Development Director at Vet Partners. They became firm friends since working together in Liverpool and here, they talk about how big shifts in their personal lives led them to explore other opportunities and diversify. They reflect on the changes that they've made and discuss how moving away from full time clinical practice has been good for them both, helping them to find the right work life balance and becoming much happier in the process. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

As a new-ish faculty, the veterinary department at The University of Surrey is a little different to the more traditional older vet schools in the way their final year works, as students travel to partner practices all round the country for their rotations, rather than being in a teaching hospital on the university campus. This novel approach carries both its joys and its challenges, which are discussed here by Emma Robertson, a Veterinary Clinical Teaching Fellow at the University of Surrey with responsibility for final year students, and Alexia Yiannouli herself currently a final year student at the university. Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Today we are hearing from Alice Wilkinson and Eleanor Livingstone, two farm vets who work at Friars Moor Veterinary Clinic in Dorset. Friars Moor has recently become a Best Practice Representative as part of the Parliamentary Review and is at the forefront of farm practice in the UK. We hear Alice and Eleanor chat about what it means to be a farm vet today including the challenges and rewards that come with working in their field (no pun intended). Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Today's guests on Borborygmi are Cat Auden and Lawrence Brown, two friends who met at Edinburgh University, from where they graduated as veterinary surgeons in 2010. Cat previously worked in small animal practice and is now Head of Collaborations for VetLED, a company that looks at enhancing team performance and improving patient safety in veterinary practices. Lawrence initially worked in mixed practice, but is best now described as an entrepreneur. He has multiple projects on the go, including consultancy for the Department for International Trade on animal sciences and aquaculture. Under the banner of VetLED, Lawrence and Cat have set up Vet Mentors, a series of interviews with veterinary professionals to provide inspiration and encouragement to others. You can find the Vet Mentors webpage here: https://www.vetled.co.uk/vet-mentors Borborygmi is a collaboration between the London Vet Show, Vet Times, Vets:Stay Go Diversify and Smashing The Ceiling. Thank you to everyone involved for your help and support, it has been much appreciated. Tickets for this year's London Vet Show are now on sale and if you'd like to attend, you can get a generous little discount from our friends at the Vet Show by using the link https://london.vetshow.com/borborygmi-booking with the code LVS20.See you there! Music: "Carefree" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3476-carefree License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week, Pete reports on the London Vet Show, discussing some of the new information that he gleaned while attending.