If any teenager felt misunderstood by their parents whilst they cried over school-crushes and screamed that they had 'no clothes to wear' to the cinema, they have nothing on these guys - they must be the most misunderstood birds in existence, but now it looks like these ecologically essential and actually beautiful animals could head the same way as the Dodo, Tasmanian Tiger, Stellar Sea Cow.. Need I go on? During my trip to Painted Dog Conservation in Zimbabwe with Wildlife

You can currently find this online at the JAVS (Journal of the Association of Veterinary Students) website - click here! "This is a frank and brutally honest recount of our adventures in India. Previous accounts we found to have missed some key words of wisdom, so we therefore feel duty-bound to pass on some tips we wished we’d have known earlier to future travellers! Here is our no-frills how to guide to surviving India……. 1. Be prepared for nothing to go to plan….. Particul

Day 1: Nameste! After 28 hours of travelling and what felt like an entire day of 'dinner' (time zones, plane food blah blah..) Mr. Paneth and Mr. Jess (our Indian Costa Coffee names) finally reached their destination..asleep and were kindly awoken by our taxi driver. In the characteristically Indian abrupt, yet friendly manner we were instructed to attend lunch and be ready for a jaunt up to the Ranthambore Fort, after a short nap. It should be said that having never consider

Our entire trip was documented by the kind people of Veterinary Practice magazine, who published our journey in its entirety - from begging for supplies to our return to the UK! To check it out see the 'Article' Section of this website. We had a lot of people to thank by the end of our final year as Stewards at Vets North, they all know who they are, but also Georgie Hollis for donating as much as we could carry in bandage materials and dressings! #India #zoological #VetSchoo