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Animal Welfare Conversations

Animal Welfare Conversations

Join us as we talk to people working towards a common goal - to improve animal welfare. We'll chat to veterinary surgeons, veterinary nurses, animal owners, conservationists and others who have an important part to play in care and decision making about the lives of pets, domestic, farm or zoo animals and wildlife. We're not afraid to challenge assumptions and question current beliefs.

Recent Episodes

Dec. 31, 2024

2024 - Reviewing the Animal Welfare Conversation

It’s the end of the year, so we took the chance to review the podcast. I still can’t believe that we’ve being doing this for a year now and had the chance to talk to so many people, about the great work they’re doing in rela…
Dec. 24, 2024

Prof Simon Girling - Reintroducing native species

Welcome to the next episode of The Animal Welfare Conversation. This week we are joined by Prof Simon Girling. Simon has worked with zoological collections for the past 15 years, and has been involved with many different rei…
Dec. 14, 2024

Mike Flynn MBE - A career in animal welfare

In this episode we were lucky enough to catch up, earlier this year, with Mike Flynn MBE, Chief Superintendent of the Scottish SPCA, and we caught up just before he retired, to find out more about his 37-year career protecti…
Dec. 9, 2024

Dr Paula Boyden - The Links Group and Freedom Project

Trigger warning This is part 2 of an episode that we recorded with Dr Paula Boyden, Veterinary Director at Dogs Trust. This extra episode focusses on domestic abuse, and how the work of the Dogs Trust and The Links Group sup…
Dec. 6, 2024

Episode 20 - Dr Paula Boyden - Dogs Trust

In this episode we catch up with Dr Paula Boyden, Veterinary Director at Dogs Trust, to find out more about their work. Dogs Trust is the largest dog welfare organisation in the UK, rehoming 14,000 dogs a year and many of yo…
Nov. 29, 2024

Episode 19: Prof Cathy Dwyer - Using the Evidence to Support Animal Welfare

In this episode we sit down with Professor Cathy Dwyer of SRUC and Edinburgh University. Prof Dwyer will be known already, to many of our listeners, as an advocate for animal welfare. There were so many take-aways from this …

Recent Blog Posts

Animal welfare and veterinary nursing #VNAM

Animal welfare and veterinary nursing We'll soon be publishing series 2, and as May is Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month, we're going to being the series with a focus on veterinary nursing. So, to set the scene I wanted to look back at our previ…

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