April 2025

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in humane dog population control – utopia or possibly the essential next step towards a sustainable solution? BY ILONA OTTER | April 29, 2025 The journey of my thoughts over the last year One year ago, around World Veterinary Day, I wrote my first post for this blog , noting that while writing or reading blogs was not anymore the popular thing to do, for my old-fashioned brain, it provided a way to structure and express my thoughts. Writing

Spectrum of Care in Veterinary Surgery BY ILONA OTTER | APRIL 08, 2025 Recently, a Finnish veterinary colleague and Chairman of the Commission of the Finnish Veterinary Association shared on social media how she had operated a GDV surgery in her very basic primary care practice far up north in the Finnish Lapland with her 17-year-old daughter and the owner assisting in anesthesia monitoring as per her instructions. The reason she shared this was to encourage young veterinarians to try and do