David Haugh

By David Haugh, Wellsford Vet Clinic With recent discussions in the media about legalising human euthanasia, I thought I would write as someone who puts...

I’m sure movies like Alien (…in space no one can hear you scream – Alien…) are inspired by some of the myriad types of internal...

By David Haugh, Wellsford Vet Clinic Cellulose in plant fibre is the hard-to-digest carbohydrate that animals like us cannot use at all. But ruminants such...

I am sure many of you think of pet euthanasia as a quick process of minimal stress that comes at the end of a lot...

Back as far as 1967, scientists had recognised there was a parvovirus that was causing ill-thrift (failure to thrive) in some newborn pups. This was...

Leafy vegetation is full of cellulose that animals like us cannot digest. If we could digest grass clippings, imagine the dent that would make in...

Clostridial diseases, such as tetanus and blackleg, are caused by bacteria that live in the environment and sometimes inside animals. They produce the most potent...

With the festive season approaching, I thought it might be a good time to revisit some of the information contained in the “Death by Chocolate”...

As we approach the end of the lambing and calving “spring” period (euphemism for winter), a number of farmers have already told me they are...

The first vaccination occurred at the end of the 18th century, when Edward Jenner exposed a boy to cowpox then later exposed him to smallpox....