Cuppa Tea With The Vet

We are so excited to have this kind vet join us!  

Marc Abraham is quite a famous face! 

He brought Lucy's law into being and you will probably have seen him in the news. He was recently Honoured by the Queen in her 2021 birthday honours list.

Bio:  Vet, campaigner, author, led the Lucy’s Law campaign to victory, and helped the Prime Minister find his rescue dog Dilyn!

We are so excited to kick off series two of our very popular Cuppa Tea with the Vet!  

Our fans even named it #CTWTV  

First in we have the lovely Christabel Mosely of Twickenham vets! She is so lovely and has so many adoring clients and fans already!  

Remember, this is your chance to ask the vet the things you want to know! So come along and get involved! 

Christabel told us this to get you started: I qualified from Bristol Vet School in 2000, and started working in Richmond straight away in a practice I had been seeing practice in since the age of 15.  In December 2003 I was put in charge of Twickenham Veterinary Surgery, which at the time was a branch surgery to the main practice in Richmond.  In 2008 I bought the surgery from Mr Andre and we soon moved into larger premises and took on more staff.  We have grown from a one-vet practice into a five-vet practice (FTE 4 vets) and in 2018 we took the decision to join Independent VetCare, as my husband (who is our Practice Manager) and I had taken the surgery as far as we could on our own.  We both remained at the practice and I still run the practice as its Clinical Director.  Soon after I graduated, I completed the IVAS (International Veterinary Acupuncture Society) course in veterinary acupuncture, and I have been using this in my management of cases for just over 20 years now.  I have two young children - Isabelle is 9 and a half and Antonia is 6 years old.

Thank you to Ben Gamsa of Cotswold vets for Joining us in Cuppa Tea with the vet! It was so lovely to have time to chat and get to know him! 

We had so much fun on this one. Ben has an incredible passion for both people and animals. I have to say, this does show. He has such a huge fan club out there. We have many mutual clients who sing his praises.

As we kicked off this pain awareness month he gave us his top tip for pain control - Weight loss! He was so kind and understanding about that message, but its so true!

We are thrilled to be having a chat with the incredible Danny Chambers!  

He is a very well respected Equine Vet at Equicall.   

He has done so much for the profession: He is a council member for the RCVS and had chaired meetings at the BVA that have led to huge important changes in animal welfare! 

He also ran for MP and would have been the first Vet in parliament on over 100 years!  

He believes strongly in science and evidence to make evidence based decisions.

He has an incredible passion for Justice and politics and making changes in the world. He was a real inspiration. Thank you to Victoria, our last vet, for nominating him!

Come and Meet Victoria Phillips of SPANA!  

She has an amazing story to tell of her veterinary career. We also want to learn the human behind the vet title!  

Come along and join us! Ask the questions you want to know the answers to by joining the live shows on Facebook!  

You can also nominate a vet you want to hear chatting - email [email protected], find us on Facebook, Youtube or take a look at our website (www.animalphysiotherapy.org.uk)

Our Cuppa Tea series has been great fun and well loved so find out what made Victoria become a vet? 

How is she finding the Charity work? and what does she like to do in her spare time!  

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On this weeks Cuppa Tea with the Vet, T.V. vet Paul Manktelow joins Donna for a chat!   

Paul Manktelow has been a veterinary surgeon for nearly 20 years, working on the front line in some of the UK’s busiest veterinary hospitals. As Principal Vet at PDSA, he leads a team of vets and nurses that treat hundreds of thousands of pets every year.  Paul also appears regularly in the media as a TV presenter on a number of prime-time TV shows.   

This was such a cool interview!   

Paul has removed a tumour from a shark when he was a zoo vet!   

Paul is also a great fan of physio and believes we need to embrace paraprofessionals to give the animals a holistic care program. He can prescribe the medications, but the physio needs to do the rest!   

Thank you Paul! This is so true!   

I asked Paul "What do you love about physio?" and Paul Replied: "As a vet, we only get a limited time with the client. We might be experts in health but when it comes to all the things that holistically sit around treatment, we just don't get the time. So i think that's where the other treatments like physio really step in. We can see an animal with arthritis or post op, and dispense some anti inflammatory, but really, as anyone who has been injured knows; when you invest the time in physio, that's when you make the big advances in recovery....So I think its great that there are all these professions that sit around mine, that are complimentary and supportive and have a holistic view. So I really think that's great!"

Meet Emily Biskup! Clinical Director of Nine Mile Veterinary Hospital.   

Emily is a wonderful with such humility.   

Learn about Emily as a human. When we trust our vets we feel safe when we need them most.   

I am still in shock that she has jumped our of a plane twice!

This week's Cuppa Tea with the Vet was with the amazing Hannah Capon of CAM (Canine Arthritis Management). We know loads about CAM and still learnt loads more!  Listen to the show. Learn about Hannah, her motivation or CAM. She has huge passion and wants to change the world when it come to arthritis for dog and cats!  Hannah has spent years interviewing people from around the world for their knowledge of arthritis care so it was great to give her the questions to answer! We had amazing audience interaction and they asked the questions they wanted the answers to!

Meet Tanya Crawley of Vets4pets Swindon! Find out everything you ever wanted to know about her! She has plenty of ambition but no time to think about it! She has a zillion adoring clients, so much so that she had to open 2 clinics to keep them all happy! Tanya has weird dreams and would love to Swim the Channel, but she will never get around to that! We all share her desire to speak to David Attenborough!

Donna Wills chats with Jo Headley of Sunninghill Veterinary Center. Learn all about Jo and her life! She wasn't always a vet! Incredible! What an amazing story!