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• Welcome to our new VetCompass team member, Dr Emma Buckland!

  

  We are excited to announce the expansion of our VetCompass team, with the recent addition of Dr. Emma Buckland as a UFAW-funded, Post Doctoral Research Associate.  Emma has a strong background in welfare research, and recently completed her PhD …

   19 Jun 2015

• Supporters and collaborators

  The RVC is playing a leading role in the Brachycephalic Working Group (BWG). Both Dr Dan O'Neill and also Research Fellow Dr Rowena Packer are highly active in the UK’s Brachycephalic Working Group (BWG) where they share RVC activities with a …

• The RVC calls for canine health research funding data

  

  Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) are calling on specialist veterinary and non-university organisations that carry out research into canine health and welfare to participate in a study which seeks to inform future funding strategies. …

   09 Jan 2023

• VetCompass RVC Student Projects at BSAVA Congress 2023

  

  Five outstanding and brave veterinary undergraduate students will present their final year VetCompass projects as oral abstracts at BSAVA Congress 2023 in Manchester. These projects cover a range of important individual health conditions in dogs …

   15 Mar 2023

• Shelling out the facts: New RVC study reveals most common health disorders of tortoises in the UK

  

  New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has revealed beak abnormalities, overgrown nails and shell abnormalities as the most common health disorders affecting pet tortoises, terrapins and turtles in the UK. As the largest study of …

   17 Apr 2025

  New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has revealed beak abnormalities, overgrown …

• VetCompass exceeds 4 million animals!

  

  The VetCompass programme continues to grow and, as of March 2015, now holds data on over 4 million animals!   SPECIES No. UNIQUE ANIMALS Canines 1,981,111 Felines 1,369,548 Rabbits 338,485 …

   23 Mar 2015

• VetCompass™ paper: most highly accessed article

  

  Canine Genetics and Epidemiology is an Open Access journal dedicated to publishing high quality papers that promote improved canine welfare. A recent VetCompass™ paper ‘Demography and disorders of German Shepherd Dogs under primary veterinary care …

   23 Apr 2018

• VetCompass at the first international Canine Behaviour & Genetics meeting

  

  The implications of consistently producing or selecting dogs which are not appropriately 'fit for function' both mentally and physically are manifold, with detrimental effects on canine welfare, economic investments and the integrity of the human- …

   14 Jul 2015

• VetCompass, RSPCA & Medivet companion animal disorder & longevity posters

  

  This week the RSPCA are promoting a set of educational posters, developed in collaboration with the Medivet veterinary partnership and the VetCompass Programme. These posters summarise the findings of three important VetCompass studies, using  …

   23 Jul 2015

• RVC research finds potential in ground-breaking new dietary treatment for canine epilepsy

  

  Research shows that small changes to the diets of dogs with hard-to-treat epilepsy has the potential to reduce the number of seizures and improve the quality of life for affected dogs and their owners.

   06 May 2020

  Research conducted by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), funded by The American Kennel Club Canine …