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Non-surgical sterilisation iSpay: Will pet-spaying operations soon be a thing of the past?

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Many people love their pets but don’t want to share their home with a constant stream of extra kittens or puppies.

Dr CheMyong Jay Ko is the founder of Epivara and a professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, working on reproductive endocrinology. His team has recently achieved a breakthrough in the search for a non-surgical method of permanently sterilising female companion animals such as dogs and cats. Here, we present their proof-of-concept study […]

National Love Your Pets Day 2023: Discover our team – and their pets!

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It’s National Love Your Pet Day today! To celebrate, we’ve gone behind the scenes at Research Outreach on an expedition to learn more about our team’s pets. We discover previously undocumented characteristics about our team’s pets, revealing their natural habitats, and uncovering some brilliant research on animals for you to delve into. Do you want others to discover your research? […]

Making strides in veterinary pathology: A dedicated career

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Mast cell tumours and pancreatic diseases are common in dogs but also present to a lesser degree in other veterinary species, including cats and horses. For these and many other diseases of veterinary species, diagnostic methods and criteria were not well characterised and made determination of prognosis difficult. Changing this, with decades of research into the pathology of veterinary diseases, […]

Impact of dietary protein on cat health and wellbeing

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Research into the varying levels of protein in feline diets in healthy adult cats and their gut microbiome.

Compared to dogs, cats require higher levels of protein in their diet to remain healthy. Based on current recommendations, commercially available cat food contains between 28% and 55% protein for cats of different ages and health conditions. Dietary protein levels are thought to influence disease susceptibility by affecting gut microbial communities. Dr Dayakar Badri and Dr Matt Jackson of Hill’s […]