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• Raisin Alert! Keep dogs away from the Christmas Cake

  

  raisins, sultanas and grapes, key ingredients to many Christmas foods, can be deadly if eaten by our four legged friends

   21 Dec 2016
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  What Is Wrong with my Backyard Chickens?

  Sonja Jeckel, Senior Lecturer in Farm Animal Disease Diagnostics Keeping backyard chickens is popular in the UK and numbers are presumed to have consistently increased over the last 20 years. However, precise numbers are unknown as only flocks with …

• Blood Donor of the Year Awards 2024

  

  The RVC Animal Care Trust honour pets in Blood Donor of the Year Awards To celebrate the RVC Blood Donor Programme’s 20th anniversary, the RVC's charity have announced their ‘Pet Blood Donors of the Year 2024’.

   24 May 2024

  Pets honoured in Blood Donor of the Year Awards  

  To celebrate the RVC Blood Donor Programme’s 20 …

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  Cutaneous and Renal Glomerular Vasculopathy Case

  Nadine Jones, Staff Clinician in Emergency and Critical Care, and Tom Greensmith, Senior Lecturer in Emergency and Critical Care Charlie, a four-year-old retired racing greyhound, was referred for management of suspected cutaneous and renal …

• Pebble’s Story: How the RVC’s Blood Donor of the Year helped save her life

  

  When Pebble became unwell, a visit to the vet revealed that her red blood cell count had dropped significantly, and she would require emergency treatment. Pebble’s owners, Layla and Ciaran, brought her to the RVC Small Animal Referrals Hospital the same day. Thanks to a blood donation from Theo, our 2025 Feline Blood Donor of the Year, Pebble received the care she needed to begin her recovery.

   16 Jun 2025

  When Pebble became unwell, a visit to the vet revealed that her red blood cell count had dropped …

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• Misbehaving dogs die young

  

  New pioneering research conducted by the VetCompass™ Programme at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) reveals that dogs with undesirable behaviours, such as aggression, running away, fighting, over-excitability or barking, are more likely to die at a younger age. Undesirable behaviours may reflect poor training by owners or even undiagnosed medical conditions, for example dogs that urinate indoors may be suffering from unidentified bladder infections.

   24 Jul 2018

• Nutrition breakthrough to help manage dogs with epilepsy

  

  RVC research nutrition breakthrough to help manage dogs with epilepsy

   17 Feb 2017

  Research from the RVC canine epilepsy clinic leads to the development of the first and only diet to …

• Using Veterinary Practice Data to Improve Understanding of Canine Chronic Kidney Disease (In Progress)

  

  The aim of this study is to describe the frequency, features and clinical management of CKD in dogs attending primary care practice and evaluate factors associated with CKD survival. 

• Support our Christmas Appeal

  

  This festive season, the RVC Animal Care Trust is inviting people to celebrate the fifth anniversary of their beautiful Memory Tree by dedicating a bauble to a beloved pet. The money raised will support the RVC Small Animal Referrals Hospital, …

   13 Dec 2023

  This festive season, the RVC Animal Care Trust is inviting people to celebrate the fifth …