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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/utility/feedstylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/f/nonclinical-discussions/6265/press-release</link><description> 
 COAPE and CAPBT launched their &amp;#39;Ask Why? Say No!&amp;#39; campaign against aversive training methods in August 2009 
 There are still huge numbers of ‘stamp and jerk’ dog trainers and whisperers at large with their choke chains, spiked collars, shock collars</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 10</generator><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/68570?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:08:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:bb5f1bde-f6a0-419c-a112-9a0512a772a4</guid><dc:creator>Nick Shackleton </dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Gonna be based at Royal Blackburn Hosp.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lou it&amp;#39;s not really a placement it&amp;#39;s a training position, but uni don&amp;#39;t start till Jan 2011 for some reason, least I get to get to grips with job before having to start uni. Think it&amp;#39;s worked out really well to be honest. Don&amp;#39;t think I would of liked to have started new job and uni course straight away&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/68538?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:37:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:3950b411-1df5-4615-8230-0ab36ed4fba4</guid><dc:creator>Skeelish</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;eek start on 15th, man thats gone so fast! where u gnna be based the most? I know youve said but i cant remember! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/68489?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:02:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:cf0ee741-11dc-4c90-a2b3-5cf651858fea</guid><dc:creator>loopylou711</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Nick will you be working while at uni or is it like placements where u work for free? sorry am noesy! &lt;img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Tonque_out_smiley.png" alt="Stick out tongue" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/68470?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:47:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:8d9f71bb-aea1-47f6-a181-17379a106436</guid><dc:creator>Nick Shackleton </dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;5 days left now!!!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Start on the 15th!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#39;t become a student till next jan!!! &lt;img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Tonque_out_smiley.png" alt="Stick out tongue" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/68459?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:44:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:0c07b44a-2740-4ce6-899d-c2be0c2fe114</guid><dc:creator>Skeelish</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanx Nick for posting this&amp;nbsp; - it needs every bit of support and the more professional people who are aware of the campaign and coape/CAPBT the better. Many other large organisations have followed suit which is a positive sign&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Especially for when Mr M comes back in March for his arena tours. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How long you got left at NWS now? Then your a student like me again! ha ha ha &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;El x&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/61841?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:f4f67266-5446-4f67-9585-913adf758b57</guid><dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Lol, ohhh bless you! some people are soooo annoying.&amp;nbsp; I remember getting people phoning up at 2am for an appointment when I was working nights!&amp;nbsp; Usually little old ladies (think they were lonely really!) .&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Bless&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/61810?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:53:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:52cf2f15-d3e3-449c-b2a5-c8c194a3ff74</guid><dc:creator>Vicky RVN</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Normal working hours?!&amp;nbsp; Crazy!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I had a client phone last week wanting to book in for yesterday for her dogs anal glands to be emptied...no, it&amp;#39;s a bank hol so we&amp;#39;re closed.&amp;nbsp; It was a very long convo of her telling me it wasn&amp;#39;t bank hol and me telling her it was!&amp;nbsp; She then said she wanted to see a certain vet on weds afternoon.&amp;nbsp; No, she&amp;#39;s only in the morning.&amp;nbsp; Oh, is she in any other day.&amp;nbsp; No, she&amp;#39;s normally in mon all day&amp;nbsp;but it&amp;#39;s BANK HOLIDAY, tues morning but she&amp;#39;s off on hol, weds morning (when you&amp;nbsp;don&amp;#39;t want to come) and fri all day which is also a BANK HOL.&amp;nbsp; So if you want to see her you can come in weds morn.&amp;nbsp; It&amp;#39;s just emptying anal glands ffs, another vet or a nurse could do it, give me strength!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/61763?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:35:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:1c48448a-bfaa-44eb-beca-71760e9a7d1a</guid><dc:creator>Claire  Cameron</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Nick Shackleton&amp;quot;]
&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Kay88&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;will show this to my head nurse to stop the sun shinning out of his backside. So irritating everyone at my practice is blind to his cruel ways, they are even going to see him live. I like a heated debate with them &lt;img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Thumbs_up.png" alt="Thumbs up" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I love a good heated debate!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Me too and a good rant.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today my rant is that EVERYONE seems to think today is a bank holiday&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our fire alarm is faulting and they told us to call during normal working hours?!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;arrrrgh!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/61475?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:35:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:5b735a88-9b05-44c8-a5dc-5aeb1de55b1e</guid><dc:creator>Sal the 1st</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;pity drontal are sponsering the programme&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/61467?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:13:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:0b9ddae8-403f-4b7f-8f3f-e7dec0c02cce</guid><dc:creator>Nick Shackleton </dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Kay88&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;will show this to my head nurse to stop the sun shinning out of his backside. So irritating everyone at my practice is blind to his cruel ways, they are even going to see him live. I like a heated debate with them &lt;img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Thumbs_up.png" alt="Thumbs up" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I love a good heated debate!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/61399?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:00:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:26394dd2-49a9-49b1-b7c8-2a08497188c1</guid><dc:creator>Kay Eminson</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;will show this to my head nurse to stop the sun shinning out of his backside. So irritating everyone at my practice is blind to his cruel ways, they are even going to see him live. I like a heated debate with them &lt;img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Thumbs_up.png" alt="Thumbs up" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/61390?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:20:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:1ea36bdd-ed54-4963-9978-483ad5f9a7a9</guid><dc:creator>Claire  Cameron</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;signed&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/61352?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:43:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:fcdc4954-aa34-4479-9da4-8af48a803637</guid><dc:creator>Nick Shackleton </dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;hissycat&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Scares me that I know QVNs who think hes great and peddle his methods to unsuspecting clients!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Confused_smiley.png" alt="Tongue Tied" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I know plenty of ppl who have brainwashed by HIM!!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/61350?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:38:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:32220dd0-5ddf-4a3b-81b1-bdcf22e00970</guid><dc:creator>hissycat</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Scares me that I know QVNs who think hes great and peddle his methods to unsuspecting clients!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Confused_smiley.png" alt="Tongue Tied" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/61349?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:35:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:92bb5df8-2797-4e88-b7c6-714e799ea02f</guid><dc:creator>Nick Shackleton </dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Emma Kerry&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Nick Shackleton&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Thumbs_up.png" alt="Thumbs up" /&gt; HE needs kicking outta this country that&amp;#39;s for sure!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maybe we should fit him with a choke chain and drag him out? After all, thats how you learn...&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hang him from a tree by one would be more fitting!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/61348?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:34:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:b2bd2d58-3456-4163-8280-89bf65048b99</guid><dc:creator>Emma Purnell</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Nick Shackleton&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Thumbs_up.png" alt="Thumbs up" /&gt; HE needs kicking outta this country that&amp;#39;s for sure!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maybe we should fit him with a choke chain and drag him out? After all, thats how you learn...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/61293?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:36:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:fc6b36b4-9dbd-4f0d-8e77-37091e969c21</guid><dc:creator>Nick Shackleton </dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Emma Kerry&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank goodness.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I might try to get this moved into a prominant place in practice, if I hear one client mention that man&amp;#39;s name again I will not be able to control my actions.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Thumbs_up.png" alt="Thumbs up" /&gt; HE needs kicking outta this country that&amp;#39;s for sure!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: PRESS RELEASE!!!</title><link>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/61256?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:03:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:c54fd577-cf6d-4fcc-9dd0-3127fc6cfc1e</guid><dc:creator>Emma Purnell</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thank goodness.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I might try to get this moved into a prominant place in practice, if I hear one client mention that man&amp;#39;s name again I will not be able to control my actions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>