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Dogs Trust Canine Welfare Grant Project: Evidence-Based Prioritisation of Canine Inherited Diseases (Complete)
This study aims to create an evidence-based prioritisation list of inherited health disorders to underpin reforms of canine health and welfare. -
Man’s Best Friend: Risk Factors for Canine Cancer (Complete)
This study looked at risk factors for the major canine cancers, including environmental factors which may be markers for disease in co-habiting humans. -
Canine health and welfare research funding in the UK: Current status and future opportunities (Complete)
This project, supported by four leading UK canine charities in partnership with the RVC, explored the levels and distribution of UK canine health research funding over the last decade, and analysed the areas of research this has included. Through … -
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Key Findings in Epilepsy and Cognitive Impairment Studies
The RVC’s canine epilepsy research team, after conducting a series of studies concerned with cognitive impairment in dogs with epilepsy, has distilled four key findings from the research. -
Streptococcal pneumonia – an emerging respiratory disease in dogs
The canine infectious respiratory disease (CIRD) group at the Royal Veterinary College is currently researching a bacterial disease that has been increasingly implicated in fatal cases of infectious pneumonia in dogs over the past five years – ‘Streptococcus zooepidemicus’. -
RVC research sheds light on epilepsy treatments — Why don’t the fits stop?
New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) canine epilepsy clinic has shed light on why some dogs do not respond to anti-epilepsy treatments. The study found that dogs that experience more than one seizure a day and male dogs were less …New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) canine epilepsy clinic has shed light on why …
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World first, RVC finds cognitive impairments in dogs with epilepsy
A series of pioneering research studies from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) into dogs with epilepsy have revealed that: Dogs with epilepsy find it harder to obey commands, are slower to learn new tricks, have spatial memory deficits and are easily distracted. Aversive training methods, such as bark-activated collars, prong collars and verbal punishment are associated with poor trainability and their use should be avoided. Some anti-epileptic drugs (the medications commonly used to treat seizures) were found to worsen the cognitive impairment of dogs with epilepsy. Dogs with greater exposure to training activities, including obedience classes, agility, and gun-dog training, were found to be associated with higher trainability and have fewer signs of cognitive dysfunction.You can’t teach epileptic dogs new tricks? A series of pioneering research studies from the Royal …
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An Update on the RVC LifeTIME Epilepsy Clinical Trial
Epilepsy is the most common chronic neurological brain disease encountered in first opinion practice for pet dogs. Diet is increasingly recognised as having an impact upon the seizure activity and behaviour in dogs with epilepsy. Our LifeTIME (Long- … -
RVC Epilepsy App
Privacy Policy Last Updated: 10/10/2024 The app developer Royal Veterinary College of ‘RVC Pet Epilepsy Tracker, in collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim, is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, … -
VetCompass study reveals new insights on seizures and epilepsy in cats
Neurological disorders are supposedly a leading cause of death in cats but, until now, there has been little information on how commonly cats are affected by seizure disorders or epilepsy. The latest VetCompass study shines new light on these …