Rabbit clinics

Re: Rabbit clinics

Jo Hinde — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:46:58 GMT

Hi,

The Rabbit Welfare Association now has a new Vet membership option!

For just £45 a year, your WHOLE practice can sign up and get the following benefits:

75 FREE Hop To It guides (the old individual leaflets have been re-worked into one comprehensive booklet).

FREE poster and sticker for waiting room.

£50 discount for all clinical practice members at the RWAF annual conference.

FREE email advice service from RWAF Veterinary Expert Advisor, Richard Saunders BSc BVSc CBiol MSB CertZooMed DZooMed (Mammalian)
MRCVS.

Quarterly update from Richard Saunders.

Quarterly E-news letter that you can also send to your clients.

Opportunity to be included in the RWAF rabbit friendly vet list.

Quarterly issues of Rabbit On magazine.

All of that for just £45! (AND thats tax deductable!).

For more information, email rwafofficer@gmail.com or go to WWW.bunnybazaar.com or call the helpline on 0844 3246090.

If you cant get your practice to sign up, then there is always the option of individual membership too. Just contact the RWAF for more information.

Re: Rabbit clinics

Lisa Brett — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:26:45 GMT

Burgess Pet Foods will be running their rabbit husbandry workshops again at BVNA Congress in October and this year are introducing two advanced sessions. These may help you with the practical side.

Registration forms for Congress will be available at BSAVA Congress and sent out in the April issue of VNJ.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Lisa Brett - BVNA Education Manager

Re: Rabbit clinics

bongo — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:27:40 GMT

is RAW coming up? you can apply for the packs and info for that. At my last practice that is how I started my rabbit clinics. I did them for RAW and just basically carried them on. Good for you for starting them because I think they are really important and often get forgotten about. Hope it all goes well!

Re: Rabbit clinics

Gemma Moore — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:40:42 GMT

Hiya Rachel,

Wow you certainly are the person to know for rabbit clinic information. You have been a great help and i will get onto this with all your useful tips and info. Thank you so much and i will let you know how i get on . Thanks again Gem

Re: Rabbit clinics

Rachel Jayne — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:29:34 GMT

Hey,

I'm bunny-mad! & have set-up/run rabbit clinics at 2 practices I have worked at.

Good companies for practice support materials are;

Intervet - They make "Rabbit Health Check" forms - often used for "Rabbit Week" as it was, but you can request seperately.
If you use their vaccines, they will also supply "The Importance of Vaccinating your Rabbit" leaflets & Rabbit Care Guide books.

Supreme Science - Do fab posters; Rabbit Digestive Tract, Rabbit Teeth, a new one about Rabbit Obesity & Weight Management, Guide to Dangerous plants, lots of lovely client handouts. I personally consider their Supreme Science Rabbit food to supercede Burgess Excel & am currently trying to change my new practice over to it. At a previous practice, they gave us 2 outers of each of their Rabbit Diets (Junior, Adult & Mature) as free samples!

The Rabbit Welfare Association - Do excellent leaflets on all aspects of Rabbit Care & Welfare. You have to pay for a set of them, but you are helping towards a charity & they're worth it too. Your practice can join as a member & receive a certain amount of leaflets for free, a quarterly magazine to have in your waiting room, along with lots of other benefits. They also have download-able leaflets & handouts on their website.

West Wales Willows - will send you a HUGE box of their lovely willow hay (for free!), with some leaflets & little paper bags to give it out to, to encourage owners to feed more hay.

Burns Pet Foods - Have a download-able leaflet on their website depicting a "food-triangle" for bunnies; huge chunk of hay at the bottom, leading up to a teeny triangle of pellets at the top. They also produce a range of different hays/herbal mixes/healthy treats you can promote.

Ok, so there's some bumph to get, as for clinic content, the health check forms are a good grounding to start with, or even just to prompt you through different things to check & ask the owner about.

My core elements to a consult would be;

*Diet!
*Companionship & Neutering!
*Suitable environment (6x2x2 hutch) & the importance of environmental enrichment
*Vaccination
*Insurance & Microchipping
*Teach the owner how to perfom a basic health check & warn them of things to look out for - wet chin/sticky eyes/bum/ears etc
*Discuss ectoparasite treatments

You can then run "spin-off" clinics, to cover any problems that may present at this initial consultation such as:

*Weight Clinics
*Elderly Bun Clinics (check for lumps/bumps/arthritic changes, generally answer any owner worries)
*Pre-op Neutering Clinics (useful to discuss pre & post op care in depth)
*Dental Clinics (buns with teeth issues that need checking regularly but don't necessarily have to see a vet & pay a consult every time)
*Behaviour Clinics (if you feel confident enough)

Phew....

I hope that's enough to get you started!!

Let me know how you get on & if I can be of any more help