Dr. Ilona Otter

Spectrum of Care – How to redefine gold standard in veterinary medicine? Focusing on: Indian Canine Epilepsy Project BY ILONA OTTER | January 30, 2025 At the beginning of the year – (end of Jan still counts as beginning of the year, right?) we are often faced with a question like: What was your biggest takeaway or learning from the previous year? What did you learn in the previous year that you want to take with you to the new year? I

Happy New Year – Are You Ready to Get Off the Starting Line? BY ILONA OTTER | JANUARY 23, 2025 I follow an influencer on Instagram who inspires thousands of home cooks eager to learn new recipes and refine their cooking skills. Recently, she has been promoting her bread-making workshops, focusing on a single, simple bread dough recipe that helps people get off the starting line in their baking journey. I love this concept—getting off the starting line. Not to reach a specific

A study by Purdue University (US) scientists published in January 2024  reviewed the existing literature concerning access to veterinary care, in order to understand how “access to veterinary care” has been defined in the literature, map a broad list of potential barriers that may influence access to veterinary care, and identify how access to care impacts the welfare of animals, both companion as well as livestock species.

What is in a name – Access to veterinary care? BY ILONA OTTER | OCTOBER 22, 2024 A study by Purdue University (US) scientists published in January 2024  reviewed the existing literature concerning access to veterinary care, in order to understand how “access to veterinary care” has been defined in the literature, map a broad list of potential barriers that may influence access to veterinary care, and identify how access to care impacts the welfare of animals, both companion as well as livestock

Outreach adventures to spay/neuter clinics BY ILONA OTTER | October 6, 2024 When most of your work is with your laptop in the office; writing reports, going through accounts, planning projects and budgets and addressing staff recruitment needs, there is nothing better than a little adventure in the form of a field work trip. Over the last couple of years with the WVS India team, I have been focusing on developing the concept of owned dog spay/neuter campaign clinics as way of complementing

When most of your work is with your laptop in the office; writing reports, going through accounts, planning projects and budgets and addressing staff recruitment needs, there is nothing better than a little adventure in the form of a field work trip.

Over the last couple of years with the WVS India team, I have been focusing on developing the concept of owned dog spay/neuter campaign clinics as way of complementing the traditional, shelter-based and stray-dog focused ABC program approach. The reasons why we have taken this approach are multiple and some of them have been explored in my previous posts.

The suffering of abandoned kittens and puppies seems so unnecessary when we have a good solution to prevent unwanted pregnancies and unwanted puppies and kittens. Surgical sterilisation continues to be the best and most recommended and life-long solution for population control in cats. And by the fact that such appeals for help as just this one from Sushmita are so common, it is clear that there is huge need for cat owners to be able to have better access to spay/neuter surgery services.