Emergency treatment of owned and wild animals

IN view of the controversial removal of Munhuwepasi Chikosi's name from the RCVS Register, for actions including the failure to attend to an injured animal for one hour, we would appreciate it if the RCVS could please issue clear and unequivocal guidance on the duration of suffering permitted in a wild animal as a result of veterinary neglect, before disciplinary hearings are triggered. In respect of the badger cull, the Chief Veterinary Officer, Nigel Gibbens, states in a letter we received on September 12, 2013 that ‘there are . . . no definitive criteria for determining humaneness …