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482 Comment482 Docking – not the end of the tale?

483 News and Reports483 Scotland plans to allow tail docking of working

dogs, but ‘the evidence doesn’t stack up’484 ‘Increased need’ to find the cause of Alabama rot485 Scottish welfare measures ‘give with one hand and

take away with the other’485 EU aid funding to be used for pig worming scheme

in Northern Ireland486 Vet schools say it’s tougher to recruit academic

staff – even before Brexit talks486 Asian vets update their farm animal knowledge487 ‘Huge concern’ about increased risk of peste des

petits ruminants entering Europe487 Targeted avian influenza controls introduced in

England489 Medicines update

484 News in Brief

490 Surveillance490 Northern Ireland disease surveillance report,

January to March 2017

495 Research495 Limiting heat loss during surgery in small animals

(R. E. Clutton)

498 Effect of peritoneal lavage solution temperature on body temperature in anaesthetised cats and small dogs (D. C. Barnes and others)

499 Early warning of footpad dermatitis and hockburn in broiler chicken flocks using optical flow, bodyweight and water consumption (M. S. Dawkins and others)

500 Comparing the curative efficacy of topical treatment with thiamphenicol and oxytetracycline on digital dermatitis lesions in dairy cattle (M. Holzhauer and others)

501 Research Digest

502 Books

503 Letters503 Neutering pet rabbits (J. Sprinz)503 Global food security (M. Sugumaran, M. W. Fox)503 RCVS Council elections (T. Lonsdale)

504 Obituaries

Vet Record Careersi My weekii Rosie’s diary

Concern about increased risk of peste des petits ruminants virus entering Europe, p 487

Effect of temperature of peritoneal lavage fluids, p 498

Comparing two topical treatments for digital dermatitis in dairy cattle, p 500

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