Meet Rachel Bean – Vet Nurse, Educator & Global Canine Welfare Advocate
In this episode, we welcome Rachel Bean, a highly experienced Registered Veterinary Nurse, canine first aid trainer, and passionate animal welfare advocate. Rachel joins the Animalweb expert panel and shares her incredible journey, from her early days at the Dogs Trust to working across the globe with street dogs and wildlife detection teams.
We talk about:
- How she helps owners choose the right dog and avoid common behavioural issues
- The importance of proper canine first aid training – and why regulation is urgently needed
- Her international work in places like Thailand, Kenya, Sri Lanka, and the Orkneys
- Her latest project working with anti-poaching sniffer dogs in Zimbabwe
- Her growing passion for wildlife photography
- Her mission to improve animal welfare standards on film and TV sets in the UK
Whether you’re a dog owner, pet professional, or just animal curious, this episode is full of useful advice, real stories, and inspiration.
Check Rachel’s Expert Profile here.
Transcription
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Hello and welcome to another Animalweb podcast. Today we have a special guest with us. We have Rachel Bean who is joining the panel of Animalweb experts and I’m really pleased to introduce her today and we’re going to have a little chat and find out a bit more about Rachel and why David was so keen to have her join us as an expert. So hello Rachel, how are doing? Hello, I’m good. How are you?
Yes, really good. I’m so pleased to talk to you. I’ve been looking forward to this conversation for a while. Because we’ve had a little conversation before and you said a few things about what you do and things you’ve been involved with that I’ve just found really exciting. So I’m pleased that we’re going to get to share it with the Animalweb members. So you’re joining us, going to be helping us talk more about canines, dogs and
and many sorts of things. you just tell, I know you’ve you’re a Royal Veterinary Nurse, but could you just tell us a little bit about that and sort of where you are today? Yeah, sure. Well, I actually started between, 1994 got my first kind of job in the professional field really at the Dogs Trust. I was an assistant kennel manager up in the northeast and it was actually a brand new kennels. So by the time it got to full capacity, which is about 150 dogs, something like that.
⁓ which took about six, eight months. ⁓ By that time, when that happened, I was dealing less with the dogs and it was more kind of like staffing issues and ordering and that kind of thing. ⁓ so I just applied within a hundred mile radius of, ⁓ where I was in the Northeast to start training as a vet nurse. I mean, as, as, as a kid, you know, you always going through school, you want to be a vet. I’m going to be a vet, but, ⁓ my math is pretty shocking. ⁓ there was no way I was going to get A level maths.
So yeah, so I just kind of got a normal job for couple of years and then this job cropped up at Dogstrust and it just went from there really. So yeah, three years training as a vet nurse down in Manchester area. And then I’ve been down here ever since really, and I’ve never left practice. So I think I’m in my 26, 27 years of vet nurse now and I’ve never left practice. I work as what we call a locum now. So I did 13 years at one practice, 60 those years as a head nurse and then…
I was doing lot of behaviour work at that time. So then I just dropped my hours and changed practices, did a bit of low coming. But now I’ve been in this practice that I’ve been now for about eight or nine years and I’m in Mondays and Tuesdays and more or less if they need more or if they’re busy or less busy, it’s really flexible for me. So it suits me. Yeah. So yeah, all the other things I do really are just in line and using my RVN degree, but also
my keen interests so owner education, responsible dog ownership, dog welfare and yeah and the little avenues which hopefully we can talk about yeah. yes I would love to because when we first started chatting and I said could you let us know some of the things you’ve been involved with and I wasn’t genuinely expecting such a long list but I love that.
I think I sent you my did I send you my bullet point CV with everything on? Yes, yes, you did. And it was your in some ways almost like the the dog version of what David has been to horses in in the different welfare and and you know, issues that ownership has has obviously brought up over the years. And you’ve obviously been as a vet nurse at the forefront of that and seen some consequences and led you down some of these different pathways. Yeah. So
When it comes to the behaviour side of things, which you obviously touched on, what sort of stuff have you been involved with with that? That’s interesting. Yeah, so basically to helping owners problem solve, making sure when they get puppies that they ⁓ first of all, you know, choose a correct puppy that’s right for their lifestyle. Unfortunately, the problem is that you always get to see them once they’ve the puppy and then when you get them in for vaccines, you’re thinking, ⁓
you’ve got this breed, know, and six months down the line, eight months down the line, you know, problems start to occur. So it’s all about educating owners to make the right choice really. You know, the dog’s got to fit into your lifestyle. Some breeds are couch potatoes, some are not, and you have to be aware of that, and also genetic drives as well. You know, if you get a husky and you want to be able to let it off the lead, then it’s going to be more difficult and off the lead than if you’ve got a border collie, you know.
It’s just teaching and educating people about genetic drives as well. ⁓ You know, I’ve always had labradors. got my, I know you’ve got Fox Red Labs. I have. I’ve got my first Fox Red Lab and they are different, you know, and I’m seeing a lot of people getting them as a first dog or getting them as a purely pet. And they’ve got a high work drive and a high ⁓ drive for doing stuff and people finding, having problems with them. And that’s why, because they’re not giving them an outlet for.
their breed drives really, which goes across the board, you know. Yeah, so that’s kind of where it was just more sort of owner education and also ⁓ sort of basic behavior issues. So I don’t do as much now, but I do the odd one here and there. I tend to concentrate on sort of ex street dogs and things like that and the problems that come with them. ⁓ A bit of a soft spot, especially for Asian street dogs, have a bit of a soft spot for them.
Yeah, it’s just just just just helping people through through some minor minor difficulties really. Yeah. Yeah. I think it’s interesting. It’s such a it’s almost a juxtaposition, isn’t it? Because I think that anybody who has taken the time to stop look at their family, their lifestyle, and then think about a breed is already probably on the right track. It’s often ⁓ someone says got a puppy. we bought a puppy for the kids or ⁓ you know, we saw this and we just took it in and
Or we fancy that like, COVID, you know, with everyone just getting dogs because they thought that that was the thing to do would keep them busy. And then it’s almost too late. You’ve already got the problem or the issue because so, you know, understandably, it’s hard to change a lifestyle, particularly if it’s a family lifestyle to suit the breed of dog. Yeah. And breeders have a massive responsibility as well in preparing these puppies to go into the right homes.
You know, I could probably name on one hand the breeders that I would trust. I know they’re raising methods. I know that they’re socializing and habituation routines are amazing. It’s not just you buy a puppy at eight weeks old and it’s ready-made or not ready-made. You’re not buying a blank canvas. What the breeder does…
in that eight weeks and before, know, because they’ve got to correct, you know, pick correct parents and make sure that our health tests are done and what have you, is that they raise those puppies correctly and not just in a room in the house and then do nothing with them because those are the very puppies that are going to have problems because no work’s been done with them. I think completely right and I think when our dog,
When we met the breeder, I feel like we had two interviews. We had a serious phone interview and she was Not not reluctant but it was the fact that she had working dogs and they were all worked shoots and different things like that and we at that point Didn’t do that and so she was a little bit reluctant But the fact that we were prepared to travel the other side of the country to meet her and to go for it I think helped
And we had to sit down and she had a whole checklist. Like, do you have any other animals? Do you have cats? Do you have kids? Do you, what’s your garden like? What’s your work life like? And it was, and some of those were obviously like you say to prepare because she said, if you’ve got a cat, then we need to introduce the puppy to a cat early on and all these sorts of things. I don’t feel like that standard practice breeders don’t tend to do that type of thing. No, they don’t. And I remember her saying to us very clearly, you must do
puppy classes, you’re buying a dog with a brain who thinks and if you don’t get him thinking in the right way he’ll think for himself and then you’ll be in trouble. And she said I highly recommend doing at least a year of working dog training. Whether you plan to take him on a shoot, picking up or doing any of that doesn’t matter but it will just benefit you in control. Well it was the best advice we ever had. Yeah without a doubt. I I’m more, although my dad does some rough shooting.
I’m more keen on the scent work and search areas really so that’s what we do. I’ve checked this morning actually before lunchtime before coming on with you, and she’s asleep now. Yeah, she did some search work in the garden, just ⁓ easy, but the dog loves it and she thrives for it. Yeah. Yeah. And it’s that whole ethos that I was taught as well, 20 minutes of work, of thinking work, is the equivalent of an hour’s running around off the leap. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, anyway, sorry, you got me on a you got me going there. That was a topic I was passionate about. But so that’s really interesting. But also, I mean, you do a lot of work, don’t you? With like first aid, teaching first aid and helping you understand the basics of first aid for their animals. Yeah, that’s mostly what my other side of my business is, you know, obviously being in practice. But I started teaching K9 first aid probably about 20 years ago now. And it just came about by chance. I had a local RSPCA
branch just asked me, oh, can you do some staff training? said, yeah, can do a couple of hours on basic first aid and sort of vital signs and do some bandaging. then another branch said, oh, can you do our staff? It kind of snowballs from there. And I thought, oh, I’m quite enjoying this. I could probably earn a living out of this. So then we started charging and then just opening it up to dog clubs and pet professionals and owners as well.
And to a point now where we’ve got, I’m working with IPET Network, is, it was, well still is a grooming academy in Cheshire. And I’ve been an ad hoc tutor for them for about 10 years. And they really, really wanted to standardize the quality of grooming training out there, but also pet courses right across the board. So obviously that included first aid and we’ve got about 40 or 50 courses now, in every avenue. it’s, we’ve now got it and I helped co-write it and we’ve got an off-wall.
off-qual level three qualification in K9 First Aid and was this, this four years ago, it’s the first real qualification in the UK. mean, other sort of education boards have jumped on the bandwagon and produced their own now, but we were the first and it’s massive progress, know, is China standardised the coursework and the information that’s given to people because…
You know, the pet industry isn’t regulated and anybody can set up and teach K9 first aid with, ⁓ you know, they can just copy somebody else’s work and just stand up there and do it. And what I’m passionate about is yes, pet owners, the more pet owners we get basic first trained, the better. Like human CPI, you know, everybody should know how to do it. But with pet first aid, yes, even if it’s basic, it’s great. All right. As long as it’s accurate. But I think when you’re getting to a level where you’re teaching pet professionals,
Now pet professionals is a bit of a title, isn’t it? It’s just something that I say. But like groomers, doggy daycare staff, ⁓ hydrotherapists, vet physios, ⁓ pet sitters, dog walkers, all that genre. First of all, it should be mandatory that they learn first aid. But secondly, they should go to a course that is firstly, thorough and accurate and comprehensive and above and beyond the really basic and tick box exercise ones.
There’s some people teaching out there that don’t follow the recover guidelines. Now the recover guidelines is the veterinary standard in CPR. Every veterinary practice across the world follows the recover guidelines. It’s an American organization. So if anybody’s teaching CPR any good standard, they should be following the CPR via the recover guidelines. And you know a lot or not. And it changes. They’ve changed four minors on resuscitation about six, seven months ago.
and minor up to date, they’ve got their extra certificates in CPR. But yeah, you know, it’s just really getting it out there and getting it standardized and just getting people to realize that there’s good quality ones and not so good quality ones, basically. Do your research, find out what involvement the tutor has in real emergencies. I mean, even from a basic level, you know, I’m seeing all the time on various Facebook
groups or my village WhatsApp group or whatever ⁓ so and so’s dog walking or if you want this and this groomer which you know lovely listen we’re all trying to run a business I totally get it but I wonder how many times they get asked what qualificate have you got any first day qualifications have you got anything yeah it’s very little so it is up to owners to do it as well yeah and what I say is usually owners that are very blase about who they choose like
Yeah, yeah, yeah, come along on Wednesday. Yeah, you can check around, keys under the doormat, blah, No paper sign, nothing like that. No, don’t know who the vet is. No insurance, all that kind of thing. You bet your bottom dollar. If something happens, like that dog gets run over or gets in a dog fight and gets seriously injured or fatally injured, because these happen, these things happen every day. Those are the type of clients, those are the type of customers that are going to come back and give you a hard time. They’re going to come back and say, well, I presumed you were.
First aid change, I thought you were insured. And yeah, so usually it’s common that those clients that are quite blasé are the worst ones when something happens. They’re going to come back and they want to know all your insurance details and what have you. So it’s up to the dog professional to tell them first, this is what I’ve done, this isn’t qualifications. Here’s my insurance, blah, blah, blah. Yeah.
I know it’s a sad state of the world but these things happen, you know, they are animals. Even me who would say my dog’s got very good recall, he can cop a deafening runoff, you know, if there’s a deer scent or something. It happens and you can’t account for other dogs, you can’t account for other people. ⁓ no, that’s it. And that’s when the accidents generally happen, don’t they? It’s out in the environment with things that you can’t control. Yeah, cat suddenly…
jumps out of the hedge back and you haven’t got a hold of the lead properly, dog runs in the road, car swerves, misses your dog, hits a pedestrian on the pavement, you bet your bottom dollar that’s going to go to court. So your courses that you’re doing, the first aid courses, I know that they’re obviously available to professionals and you do take in dog owners as well.
And am I right in saying you’ve also done these, taken your sort of training and courses abroad and worked with other organisations? Yeah, yeah. So I started going overseas probably about 12 years ago now. One of my best friends is a Hungarian vet nurse and she came to Manchester for a bit, but because she’s got a Hungarian vet nurse degree, Royal College wouldn’t allow her to do procedures, which is fair enough. So she got a bit bored really. So she went over to Thailand and started working at a big shelter there and has been over there.
14 years actually, she’s just recently, very recently left. She’s going back to the UK actually shortly. But yeah, and she kept pestering me, oh come over, come over, put it off for three or four years. And then eventually went over and then yeah, loved it. Got working in the shelter and at that time it was quite basic, but now it’s like, it’s got its own hospital and things like that. It’s like, yeah, it’s really, really good. But I enjoyed being around the street dogs and working with them and knowing how to handle them, making sure you don’t get bitten.
you know, getting a collar and lead on a nine month old ex street dog takes about two or three weeks. know, I think we just take for granted that we just stick a collar on a puppy here, but it just hones your skills really in body language and how to handle them. But also from a medical point of view, I just saw stuff in high quantity that we just don’t see in this country, you know, from the road traffic accidents, monkey bites.
You know, all those cat lizard bites, know, snake bites, all those things that you just don’t see in this country. from that point, I found it quite fascinating, but also it just adds, adds depth to my experience. So it was just a way of going above and beyond, you know, there’s, there’s no way that at this stage in my career, that if we talk about something in my courses and somebody asked me a question, I’m going to know the answer.
Because a lot of these courses are not run by anybody. A lot of them are not run by people that work in the veterinary profession. So when a clinical question is asked and they’re unable to answer it, they’ll make a note of it and say, I’ll ask a vet and I’ll reply with the answer. For me, you don’t pay for that. You for the answers there and then you pay a tutor that knows the stuff, ideally. So I just, yeah, I did that really to push my own boundaries. So,
In that time I’ve traveled and worked and volunteered, knowledge shared, Thailand many times, India half a dozen times, just come back from Beijing two months ago, which was a good one. Kenya, working with Action for Cheaters. Next month, I’ve just booked my flight today actually going to Zimbabwe, working with ⁓ Dogs for Wildlife. So that’s working with the ⁓ anti-rhinoceros poop.
watching dog handlers. And then January I’m in Sri Lanka. Hopefully we need some more fundraise. We’re doing a five day nutrient clinic in a remote area of Sri Lanka. So that’s January. Yeah. So yes, it’s, yeah, it’s good. I’m just trying to kind of utilise, we nick name it the RVN passport. So as soon as you say you’re a vet nurse, then yeah, yeah, you can come aboard and help.
Well, I’ve got a few things to pick up on you there that I need to know more about. Sorry, Rhinos working with dogs and rhinos. What’s that? So Dogs for Wildlife, they, ⁓ she’s a friend of mine, actually, she ⁓ and her team, they train sniffer dogs to search for porches or alert for porches. So mostly Malinois, a couple of Labradors and I think they’ve got a Bavarian scent hand as well at the moment.
Basically it is tracking and searching for porches. Actually one of their dogs tracked a porcher back to his front doorstep over three kilometres recently. Oh wow. Yeah. So they still own the dogs. They do all the training and then they kind of lend the dogs to the action, you know, for the rhino porches. Yeah. Dog handlers. So they still own the dogs. So that’s why they’re backwards and forwards and helping with the training. Yeah. So.
So they need some first aid training and Dogs for Wildlife have just partnered with a big rescue centre out there which has got 400 dogs and cats. So we’re going in there as well and do some staff training, so first aid. And it could be that the police force are interested as well. So we’re just negotiating that as well. Yeah. That’s amazing then. So you’re working with the handlers and the people that work in the centre to train them. Yes. So that they can use the skills to help.
the animals, that must be so rewarding to know that you’ve left and you’ve left people able to look after 400 dogs, as well as obviously the poaching dogs that are out there working. mean, we’re not talking about, you know, UK forest here, we’re talking about outback where there’s all sorts of things. So these handlers of the dogs that are tracking poachers have probably got all sorts of obstacles and dangerous things to deal with.
And there’s not many vets, the vets are few and far between. So if anything happens, they have to deal with it themselves. Yeah. And probably a plane ride away, right? Yeah. So if your dog gets bitten by, I don’t want to think about what, you’ve got to be able to, too scary for me, you’ve got to be able to deal with it there and then or? Yeah, definitely. And that’s what happened with, in Kenya, cause I was in Kenya last July.
was with Action for Cheetahs. that’s a conservation company ⁓ that’s led by an American lady conservationist. She’s been out there for 20 years and I got a chance to spend a week with them and that’s like a 10-hour drive in the middle of nowhere and just sleeping in canvas tents and then like a built ⁓ office that Mary’s in and then Kennel Blocks has four dogs there. But they’re taught to ⁓ track cheetah poo, cheetah scat.
So when they find, when they mark the cheetah poo as if it was drugs, like, there it is, they collect it. And then it’s sent to the university in a frozen state. So they can collect DNA from it. So they know which cheetah it is, what the diet is, ⁓ the health status, and it all goes towards data. Yeah. So these dogs are looked after amazingly well. And they’re in like outside kennels, like with runs. And then at a certain point in the night, the handlers go in and lock them in.
in the bedrooms if you like because it’s got to be leopard proof. So yeah my other half came came with me on that trip actually so when this Zimbabwe one came up I said do you want to go to Zimbabwe? went no you’re okay. I think he was a bit unnerved in Kenya I think because we did have because we did did like a week at the camp and then we did have five days safari.
We managed to get mates rates on safaris. It was a right, you know, it was probably never afforded because you’re looking at like 1500 quid a day, you know, for the accommodation and but we did get it mates rates. So we were really lucky. But yeah, we did have some close encounters with lions and things. And when we were in the tent, they’re like, they are luxury tents, but could even lion go past in the middle of the night? And Rob was just like, oh, my God, like this under the sheets. I cannot say what he said, but he’s like, oh, my God.
So when I asked him this, I mean, no, you’re right. He didn’t ask about the accommodation first and then make a decision. No. And a bit more close to home as well, wasn’t you telling me about some work you did? Was it the Shetland Islands? The Orkneys, yeah. Orkneys, that was it, biggipod. Yeah, so it’s under the umbrella of RSPB. So it’s the Orkney.
wildlife detection dogs basically. So what they do, they’ve got a stork problem. So the storks are invasive species. So what they’re doing, they’re decimating the birds and the eggs, know, the rare birds up there as well. So they’ve got an eradication program. So that’s scheduled for five years. So basically the dogs, they’ve got a team of eight dogs, rescue bonkers, rescue spaniels, couple of Labradors. ⁓ fantastic.
Yeah, so they’re trying to search ⁓ for the nests or there’s a couple of dogs trying to find the poop or the nests. So once they’ve found it, then they put traps down. Yeah. So there’s, I think there was 19,000 traps out in the Orkanese. Yeah. Yeah. So that was interesting. So again, that was first aid, but it more, which is probably what I’ll do in Africa as well is, so more trauma-based.
because even in two years they’ve had some quite serious injuries with the dogs because they do do go up some speed and you know they’re going over terrain that you don’t know what’s underneath and that kind of thing it’s just a hazard at the job but they need to know what to do immediately yeah so that was interesting yeah yeah yeah i think if you’ve ever seen a spaniel particularly work on through cover or even if you’ve just got someone a spaniel at home and the speed in which their little bodies
whizz round at all our calls. I can imagine that they’ve done themselves a few mischief. Yeah, tell them one of those breeds, isn’t it, where you see people get them and they get a working cocker and the first question they ask when they come in for a second vaccine, oh, we need a second vaccine because the dog needs to go to daycare while we’re at work all week. I’m like, I’m hoping my face doesn’t tell what I’m thinking. It’s like, just get a cavalier. know? dog. Poor dog.
mmm it’s a they’re a lifestyle choice spaniels well cockers um yeah oh that’s amazing so um with all the sort of traveling around um have you got have you been able to get any photos or anything because i feel like i’d love to see some of these sort of pictures of these places yeah i’ve that this last couple years i really got back into my photography i used to do a lot of photography like sort of early 20s
But I’ve just been screwing some money away and I managed to sort of treat myself to like a top, like a good level pro camera. So I’ve got a Sony AR75. So I’m going to pretend I know what that means if this nod and say that’s a good one, right? And I’ve got a wildlife lens as well. I take all that gear with me. So, and I also do a lot of band and sort of musician photographs as well. So I’ve actually got, I’ve got a gig in.
December with my friends who are bootleg blondie. So they’re the best trip, but blondie tribute. So they’re playing the cabin in Liverpool, which is obviously a really good venue that, you know, the Beatles, so yeah, they’ve asked me to do the photographs. yeah, I’ve got some really good pictures from, from the Orkneys actually. I’ve got some really good portrait shots of the dogs working and yeah, I’ve got some.
Kenny was my first foray with the big lens. this time, hopefully when I go, be a bit more practiced and get some good shots. You’ll have to share them on your Instagram as well. What’s your Instagram handle for anybody that’s interested? Rachel Bean, R-V-N. And it’s Bean, B-E-A-N. Yeah, and it’s Rachel, just E-L. Yes, thank you. So if anyone’s interested in following…
The travels of Rachel then that’s definitely somewhere to go and have a look. And so what sort of things are you working on now? I know like David, you are a little bit of a campaigner and there’s certain things you feel that, you know, as a community, animal loving community, we should be doing better. What sort of things are you ⁓ excited about at the moment, Rachel? Yeah, definitely the first aid. mean, that’s kind of up there with me, you know.
Every day I’m doing something first aid wise, whether I’m sort of organizing courses and sending emails out and what have you for courses. So like this weekend I’m up in Carlisle on Saturday and then Sunday I’m in Ulverston, so South Lakes. So yeah, that’s mainly what I really want to push really is K9 First Aid. But also I’m working on a separate little course at the moment, which is CPR drills. And it’s going to be either in person, but
people can choose it online as well. So basically what it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be a very interactive. So if you’ve got like a grooming studio, we’ve got four members of staff, they really need to be rehearsing CPR drills. And it’s a course really to help them do that, but they’d have to, it’s gonna be quite interactive. They’re gonna have to submit videos of them doing it and all that kind of thing. That’s kind of one of the things that’s ongoing.
The other thing that’s happened today actually, I work a lot with a Jai Dog Rescue, which has got a bit of an unusual story. So that’s a shelter that is about two hours east of Bangkok in Thailand. The land and the project is actually owned by James Palumbo, who owns Ministry of Sound. You know, the music label. Yeah, yeah. We sold the music label. yeah, his business partner owns the land because she’s Thai.
And yeah, he’s put a manager in there, is Mike, who’s the ex head of IT for Ministry of Sound. So he originally went over eight years ago, seven, eight years ago, just to get the project running and he’s still there. But this morning they’ve just asked me to be a trustee. So that’s to be good. yeah, I have a bit of a soft spot for Asian street dogs.
So it’s kind of what I’m focusing on at the moment, yeah. But other thing, yeah, I’ve actually got, you might find this interesting, it was on my CV there. I’ve got a company called Vet Onset. So we’ve got a little office in Media City. So what we do, we provide vets and vet nurses to monitor welfare on anything filming. At the moment, you only require welfare sign off for anything that is clusters advertising that’s going on TV.
So we do a lot of commercials. So we do a lot of sofa adverts and that kind of thing. But what we’d like to see is more welfare on general programs and general filming. You know, when you see like Emmerdale or something like that, there’s lots of dogs and horses and things. don’t really stipulate that they have to have any welfare there. But if they do a trailer, it’s got an animal on it. That’s classed as advertising. They have to have a vet or a vet nurse there. So we’re trying to get across.
into normal filming really yeah so that’s quite interesting and you know I did one on Friday for a dog food company and down in London and yeah it keeps it that’s good fun yeah. be exciting to watch what they’re doing and yeah and what we’re trying to do as well we have to follow or we do follow the BDA guidelines such the British Veterinary Association guidelines in responsible advertising.
So we’re always campaigning that makes sure people don’t advertise their products using anything that is against the responsible advertising campaign, which so no brachycephalics, no bald cats, no extreme features, no cropped or docked dogs. So we’re really trying to push that forward. Unfortunately, a lot of animal agencies will put forward, you know, pink pugs and cropped overmans and that kind of thing when…
It’s against the BVA guidelines. Yeah. Yeah, it’s a shame. Isn’t it? Really? Yeah And again, I wonder how educated they are if they even realize what they’re doing sometimes it’s sort of do Fair enough ⁓ And so you’re gonna hopefully be sort of helping us out with some first aid articles will help and some guidance ⁓ all around obviously canine and
the things that owners could know and information. But if you’re keen to find out more and get some hands on training and learn about it, then they can obviously go to your website. Yeah, website is having a hiatus rebuild at the moment, and certainly get me on on Facebook. Yeah. My Facebook page for the K9 First Aid is simply K9 First Aid workshops, Rachel Bean, and you’ll get me on there. Yeah.
And I would recommend it to people because we’ve obviously gone to great pains to point out Rachel isn’t just an AI bot that has pulled together information that she thinks you may or may not need. This is proper training from a proper rural veterinary nurse who knows what she’s doing and has been doing it for 25 years. you say 27? Sorry. ⁓ And this is something that she does and
travels the world training people on so definitely worth a look if it’s something of interest to anybody but firstly obviously from the Animalweb ⁓ family welcome as our newest expert we’re excited to have you on and I think ⁓ we’ll have some bits and pieces coming out from you very soon and I know obviously you’ve been
kind enough to leave some support and likes and things behind some of the posts we’ve been doing about dogs in heat, particularly with the weather forecast that we’ve got coming in again. Yeah, luckily I’m going north this weekend with the dog. It’d be a bit cooler. Yeah. No, that’s great. Well, thank you very much, Rachel. I really appreciate it. Yeah, I really appreciate being asked. Thank you.
