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Owls About This For A Survival Story?
The owl is a barn owl, similar to the one pictured above.
A Barn owl, rehabilitated and released by the RSPCA over five years ago has recently been spotted alive and well in the wild.

The owl, which was a chick when originally admitted to RSPCA Mallydams Wood in August 2004, was captured in order to have its identification ring read, on the banks of the River Rother in Iden, East Sussex. When the results of the ring identification came through, the Wildlife Centre was chuffed to learn that over 1,700 days after they released the bird into the wild, it was still going strong.
 
RSPCA Wildlife Officer at Mallydams, Richard Thompson said: “This bird has fulfilled all our aims of rehabilitation. It has survived in the wild for as long as we’d expect any Barn owl to, and I even believe the bird has bred in the wild. We have only ringed 29 Barn owls at Mallydams since 1999, so this is a significant and exciting discovery.”

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Building Great Workplaces webinars return

News Story 1
 BVA has announced a new series of its Building Great Workplaces lunchtime webinars.

Launching from 16 July, the sessions will explore patient safety, motivation, client communication and more.

Its first webinar, exploring neurodiversity in the workplace, will take place at 1pm on Thursday, 16 July. It will feature guest speakers from The Vet Project, a group which supports neurodiversity in veterinary environments.

The following three webinars take place in September, October and November.

Booking is open on the BVA website 

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New form for online veterinary medicines retailers

The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) has produced a new online form for retailers wishing to sell veterinary medicines on the internet.

The form replace the previous Word version and is part of the VMD's ongoing commitment to digitise its processes. Anyone retailing prescription medicines online, including POM-V, POM-VPS and NFA-VPS categories, is lawfully required to register with the VMD before trading.

The change only applies to new applicants. Retailers already listed on the VMD's Register of Online Retailers or registered under the Accredited Internet Retailer Scheme (AIRS) do not need to do anything.