BVZS Autumn MEETING 2015
7-8 November 2015, Bristol
“Ferrets and pharmacology”
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
SATURDAY
Session
09:15
Welfare
11:15
Anaesthesia
and analgesia
14:00
Non-infectious
diseases
14:00
15:45-17:00
Round tables
Chair
08:00 – REGISTRATION
09:00 - WELCOME by BVZS President Michael Stanford
MAIN SESSIONS
Speaker
Subject
Dr Anna Wilkinson
Intelligent reptiles? Assessment of reptile
welfare (30 mins)
Brigitte Reusch
Setting up a rabbit-friendly practice
Phillipa Dobbs
An update on the elderly animal scheme at
Twycross Zoo
Yvonne van Zeeland
Welfare of captive African Grey parrots
(Psittacus erithacus)
10:30 - COFFEE BREAK
Nico Schoemaker
A review of anaesthesia and analgesia in the
domestic ferret (Mustela putorius furo) (30
mins)
Rowena Killick
Use of oral pre-medication in zoo mammals
12:00-13:00 BVZS Annual General Meeting
13:00 – LUNCH
Livia Benato
Obesity in rabbits: a review
Michelle Barrows
Salivary gland adenocarcinoma in a bearded
dragon (Pogona vitticeps)
Craig Hunt
Pericardio-diaphragmatic hernia in a rabbit
(Oryctolagus cuniculus)
Charlotte Day
Investigation of a submandibular abscess in an
okapi (Okapia johnstoni)
Mark Rowland
Hyperadrenocorticism in three guinea pigs
(Cavia porcellus)
PARALLEL SESSION: Back 2 Basics
Alan
Humphreys
Surgery of Exotic Pets: Focus on surgical neutering techniques, dentistry and
radiographs
15:00 - TEA BREAK
Pharmacology Jo Hedley
Reptiles
Yvonne van Zeeland
Birds
Nico Schoemaker
Mammals
Alberto Barbon
Zoo animals
Bev Panto
Wildlife
17:00-18:00 BVZS HAPPY HOUR
20:00 DINNER, MUSIC, DANCING EL PUERTO
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
SUNDAY
Session
09:15
Infectious
Diseases
Chair
09.15-10.45
Wendy Bament
11:15
Interactive
session
14:00
Open session
POSTERS
Michelle O’Brien
Martin Whitehead
Victoria Strong
Sergio Silvetti
MAIN SESSIONS
Speaker
The first report of Equid Herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1)
in wild African elephants (Loxodonta africana)
Tom Bailey
Observations on Foot and Mouth Disease in
Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Wildlife in the
United Arab Emirates
Alberto Barbon
Visceral Isospora infection in Blue Crowned
Laughing thrushes (Garrulax courtoisi)
Marie Kubiak
Two cases of systemic coronavirus in ferrets
(Mustela putorius furo)
Ellen Holding
Bilateral lenticular Encephalitozoon cuniculi
infection in a snow leopard
PARALLEL SESSION: Nursing notes
Subject
Laura Bennett
10:45 - COFFEE BREAK
Nico Schoemaker &
Ferret cardiology masterclass
Yvonne van Zeeland
13:00 – LUNCH
Richard Saunders
Wallaby introduction problems
Phillipa Dobbs
How a modern zoo incorporates medical ZIMS
into the veterinary department
Craig Hunt
Skin graft in a wild barn owl (Tyto alba)
Marie Kubiak
A comparison of presenting complaints and
husbandry standards for privately owned and
zoo held primates
Michelle O’Brien
Health, welfare and biosecurity of a large
amphibian collection at WWT
15:30 Prize giving and farewell
Challenges in health management of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper
(Callidris Pygmaea) – a critically endangered small wader
The Animal Welfare Act (2006) as it applies to traditional and
“exotic” pets: Intention and practicalities
A suggested approach to cardiac post-mortem examination and
sampling in great apes
Tracheal resection and anastomosis in a yellow headed Amazon
parrot (Amazona oratrix)