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Our top picks for exciting on-demand and upcoming FREE webinar sessions.

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Help! It’s A Degu!

As most conditions (in virtually all species!) are due to inappropriate husbandry, current husbandry guidelines will be covered along with common conditions, to empower vets to incorporate these charming creatures into their busy caseloads.

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On-demand webinars

Explore this year's on-demand free CPD/CE webinars brought to you by Burgess Excel.

Curious Queries about Cavies: Unveiling Answers to Your Guinea Pig Questions
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Curious Queries about Cavies: Unveiling Answers to Your Guinea Pig Questions

This session offers in-depth information on their dietary requirements, ideal habitat conditions, behavioural characteristics, and unique health concerns. This webinar is specifically designed for vet professionals seeking to enhance their knowledge and expertise in guinea pig care. Our objective is to equip you with the necessary understanding to optimise the health and welfare of these popular small mammals.

John Chitty

John Chitty

BVetMed CertZooMed MRCVS

The offal part of small mammal medicine - hearts, livers and kidneys
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The offal part of small mammal medicine- hearts, livers and kidneys

This webinar covers diagnosis, investigation and management of small mammal internal medicine concentrating on heart, liver and kidney disease. It concentrates on diagnostics - from examination and history to more complex imaging and sampling.

John Chitty

John Chitty

BVetMed CertZooMed MRCVS

The whys and wherefores of small mammal neutering
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The whys and wherefores of small mammal neutering

This webinar covers neutering of small mammals - from very small to rabbits to some of the really odd ones! It covers the surgical principles and some basics of anaesthesia and hospital care in order to make surgical neutering a safer process for all.

john chitty

John Chitty

BVetMed CertZooMed MRCVS

Dietary Advice in Pet Guinea pigs – what we do and don’t know!
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Dietary Advice in Pet Guinea pigs – what we do and don’t know!

This webinar reviews what we currently know concerning pet guinea pig nutritional requirements. Wild guinea pig diets are discussed and current pet guinea pig owner feeding habits detailed. The webinar also covers possible adverse effects of incorrect nutrition on guinea pigs and how this may affect their welfare.

Emma Keeble

Emma Keeble

DVREP Senior Lecturer and Vet Clinician

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About Burgess Petcare

Burgess Petcare

Our passion, commitment and expertise over the generations has led us to where we are now – a leading UK manufacturer catering for the country’s most popular animals – dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters, gerbils, rats and ferrets.

Burgess is an independent family run business based in Thornton-le-Dale. We are one of the UK’s leading animal food manufacturers, catering for the country’s top nine most popular animals including dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters, gerbils, rats and ferrets.

For generations, Burgess has produced the finest quality foods for people and animals.

Using the expertise and experience built over the centuries, we produce high quality, award winning foods and have launched many innovations including the UK’s first single component nugget for rabbits and the world’s first food specifically formulated for indoor rabbits.

We are dedicated to improving the health and welfare of animals through research and education. We invest in activities such as Rabbit Awareness Week to promote rabbit welfare and educational webinars to enable vets to keep up to date with the latest developments in small animal care. This dedication led Burgess Pet Care to work with the University of Edinburgh on a ground breaking study which highlighted the risks to rabbits’ health associated with muesli style diets and selective feeding.

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Rabbit Environment and Behaviour

This webinar will give you practical tips to help owners to improve their rabbits’ welfare by improving their environment.

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Ageing gracefully – helping the older rabbit

Success in keeping and treating pets is helping them achieve older age problems - these may include arthritis, heart disease, tumours and problems with internal organ failure. These may be managed both with medications and with husbandry changes.

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Unusual small mammals

This presentation will cover some of the more unusual small mammal species seen in practice. The species covered will include skunks, pygmy hedgehogs, sugar gliders, degus and prairie dogs.

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Weight management in rabbits

Obesity is a growing and serious problem in companion animals, and rabbits are no exception. This webinar will look at the underlying factors responsible for the rise in rabbit obesity as well as its recognition, likely consequences and control.

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A Brief Miscellany of Cavy Conundrums

This talk will cover some of the more common and more recently recognised syndromes of guinea pigs - Cystitis, ovarian cysts and hyperthyroidism.

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Infectious Diseases of Rabbits

This webinar will cover the common infectious diseases of rabbits - viral, parasitic, bacterial and fungal. As well as diagnosis and therapy.

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