FECAVA Vet Chat

In this podcast episode, Prof. Dr. Jerold Bell, a professor of Veterinary genetics and chairman of WSAVA’s hereditary Disease Committee, joins the host Wolfgang Dohne to discuss the emerging crisis of hereditary diseases in dog breeding, with a focus on brachiocephalic breeds. They emphasize the importance of health-focused breeding practices, the need to select against clinically affected individuals, and ongoing genetic investigations to uncover the specific genes associated with these diseases. The episode highlights the global efforts being made to raise awareness, educate breeders and dog owners, and improve the overall health of these breeds through collaborative initiatives and informative videos. The World Small Animal Veterinary Association has created a short educational video on Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome (BOAS) available on the link: https://youtu.be/cPhePMIrayo www.wsava.org/boas

The World Small Animal Veterinary Association has created a short educational video on Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome (BOAS) available on the link:

Dr. Tatjana Zajec leads the largest animal shelter in Croatia, Dumovec, located near Zagreb. She has enormous amount od experiences in the field of animal rescue.

Dr Katrin Jahn is a veterinary clinician originating from Germany. Soon after graduation, she moved to Abu Dhabi, where she owns and leads her clinic.

StreetVet is a registered charity that offers free accessible vet care to pets belonging to those experiencing homelessness in the United Kingdom. https://www.streetvet.co.uk

Dr Pete Wedderburn BVM&S CertVR MRCVS qualified as a veterinarian from Edinburgh, Scotland in 1985. He has worked in his own 4-veterinarian companion animal practice in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, since 1991, and he has his own menagerie of dogs, cats, ducks, hens and others. Pete is well known as a media veterinarian in Ireland and the UK, with a weekly breakfast television slot on TV3 for the past fifteen years. He has also presented prime time television programmes (TV3’s “Animal A&E”) as well as contributing regularly to national radio programmes. Pete is a prolific writer on animal topics, with a weekly feature in the Independent network of a dozen regional newspapers since 1995, a weekly column in the Evening Herald since 2006, a weekly column in the UK’s Daily Telegraph since 2007, and many others too. Pete has written four books to date.

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