Royal Veterinary College

I mean, I think like going back to human connection, that element to it, just linking back to how AI is working within the equine community.

So I made some notes earlier about what the Royal Veterinary College have been doing.

So they basically, they've constructed a system that can detect and pinpoint fractures.

So as we've said, with the more information that AI has, the more knowledge.

And we know from the cockroaches and the wasp just how effective this zombie-making cocktail can be.

This concept was taken further in 2025, when the Royal Veterinary College published a report demonstrating how the parasite also manipulates the host by producing its own dopamine via a parasite-encoded enzyme called tyrosine hydroxylase.

Dopamine, as we've seen with other zombie fires, is a key tool in altering host behaviour, in this case, making the rats less fearful of cats.

And that brings us to the million dollar question, doesn't it? What about us? What about humans? Toxo is one smart protozoa.

Yeah, thank you.

I'm Jude Bradbury and I currently work at the Royal Veterinary College in London, where I am principal teaching fellow.

So I spend a lot of my time working with the vet students predominantly, but do teach some of our teachers to be teachers as well.

So kind of getting to see both sides of the coin, which is great.

Some of the features that make dogs look cute or special can also make their lives uncomfortable.

Professor Dan O'Neill from the UK's Royal Veterinary College is a leading expert in the field and is visiting New Zealand to share his expertise and raise awareness around the issue.

He joins us now.

Good morning Dan, welcome to the programme.

Sarah is an RCVS Advanced Practitioner in Feline Medicine and Head of Cat Welfare Engagement at Cats Protection, while Lucinda is the charity's Senior Community Veterinary Manager.

Both have graduated from the RVC and in 2021, both achieved membership of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in Medicine of Cats.

Welcome to the pod, guys.

Hello.

I'm a veterinary internist.

I've been working with the Royal Veterinary College in London for many, many years.

I'm also president nowadays of the European College of Veterinary and Internal Medicine.

I've been researching diabetes for many years since my residency to become a specialist.

If you missed Congress and want to catch up on everything you missed, then on-demand coverage is available via the Beeble website.

I'd like to introduce our next speaker now, who is Andrew Fisk-Jackson from the RVC, who is going to bring us up to date on sports medicine and orthopaedics.

Thanks very much, Ed, and thanks for the invitation from Beaver to come and present the Congress.

And I suppose the caveat, once again, with all these presentations, it's a pretty big subject to try and haul together the most recent interesting publications.

And again, unsurprisingly, the sagittal groove lesions predominated.

We certainly see this a lot with the CT scanning.

We're doing this at the scanner at the RVC, a Calibra scanner, and that's comparing it with low-field MRI.

They also found incomplete fractures of the metacarpal condyle in 5 out of 31 limbs.

Being a mixed breed does not automatically mean a doodle is healthier.

A Royal Veterinary College study looked at 9,402 dogs comparing labradoodles, cockapoos, and cavapoos with their parent breeds.

Across 342 health comparisons, there was no significant difference nearly 87% of the time.

The doodle crosses were healthier in some areas and less healthy in others.