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British Veterinary Nursing Association choose Animals Asia
Foundation as their Charity of the Year
 We are delighted to announce that the BVNA,s Charity for 2010 is
Animals Asia Foundation.
We welcome any local veterinary practises to contact us for any information about AAF
and offer to promote or help with any fundraising events in the coming year.
Please contact Sarah Chilvers on sarahchilvers66@hotmail.com
National Veterinary Nursing Week 18th - 24th July 2010
Eastcott Vets Supports Animals Asia Foundation
Eastcott Veterinary Hospital in Old Town Swindon has generously come on board to help the Swindon Support Group raise money to buy some veterinary equipment that Animals Asia desperately needs at their sanctuaries in China and Vietnam.
Niki Burton, Marketing and Project Manager has kindly organised for us to have one of our collection cages on the reception desk at the Bath Road Surgery as their charity of the month and has most kindly extended this to 3 months.
Eastcott Vets sponsors the Old Town Dog Show on 27th June at The Old Town Festival where they also have a stand and tombola. Again, they generously pledged that all money raised will be shared between Hearing Dogs, Blue Cross and AAF.
In July they will be holding an event in the Veterinary Nursing week where all money raised will be donated to our Veterinary Equipment Appeal for the bears.
A Huge 'Thank you' to everyone at Eastcott Vets.
Veterinary Equipment for Animals Asia Foundation’s moon bear rescue sanctuaries in China and Vietnam
The Swindon support group for Animals Asia Foundation (registered charity number 1086903 is attempting to raise funds for specific veterinary equipment identified by the Veterinary Director of Animals Asia, Dr Heather Bacon, as being of critical importance.
All bears that are rescued from bile farms in both China and Vietnam arrive at the sanctuary displaying both physical and mental trauma. They all have to undergo an immediate veterinary check up to prioritise future surgeries and all have to have their gall bladders extracted due to the massive amount of tissue damage caused by bile extraction methods.
Many of the new arrivals have to undergo months of treatment for ailments ranging from acute arthritis in limbs that have been confined in coffin-sized cages for years, to dental repair work to teeth that have been hacked out to protect the farmers, to liver cancers and to blindness caused by infection from bile extraction methods.
All bears have regular medical check-ups and once every three years are given a full health check under anaesthetic. All bears that die at the sanctuary are given full post-mortems to establish the cause of death. In this way, Animals Asia’s vet team have built up a compelling picture of the detrimental effects caused by life on a bear farm and a vast amount of research material that is being used by Chinese and Vietnamese pathologists and traditional medicine practitioners to encourage the ending of the use of bear bile in the medicine trade. Animals Asia further contends that bile from farmed bears which routinely contains blood, pus and faeces cannot be good for human health.
The Swindon support group have committed to raising funds for:
1. Opthalmic specialist headset and handheld lens for viewing the retina for ophthalmic work in the China sanctuary. Sadly there are numerous cases of blind bears in the sanctuaries, some of which will remain totally blind and others which have had partial sight restored. Opthalmic surgeons from the British Animal Health Trust visited the sanctuary in China last year to restore sight to four bears and it is hoped that further work will allow many bears to have a much better quality of life (approx £1500)
2. A digital camera and microscope adapter for the Vietnam sanctuary. This would be really useful as it would allow vet staff to take and store images showing microscopic pathological changes to tissues (eg proof of chronic damage to gall bladders and liver) and would also allow them to electronically send these images if expert or second opinions are needed. (approx £400)
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