Veterinary Homeopathy strikes again!

[Blue Wode]

I am not aware of any chiropractic vets in the UK (or anywhere) but if they are treating animals in the UK, then they need to have a degree in veterinary medicine (or similar), and to be registered with the RCVS.

There are no chiropractic vets in the UK, but the UK College of Chiropractors does have an Animal Faculty:

http://www.colchiro.org.uk/default.aspx?m=21&mi=139&ms=55&title=Animal -

According to the RCVS, animals can be treated by manual therapists under the direction of vets:

Physiotherapists, osteopaths and chiropractors

15. The Veterinary Surgery (Exemptions) Order 1962 allows for the treatment of animals by physiotherapy, provided that the animal has first been seen by a veterinary surgeon who has diagnosed the condition and decided that it should be treated by physiotherapy under his/her direction.

16. 'Physiotherapy' is interpreted as including all kinds of manipulative therapy. It therefore includes osteopathy and chiropractic but would not, for example, include acupuncture or aromatherapy (see Part 1I, paragraph 2, Your responsibilities in relation to the treatment of animals by non-veterinary surgeons).

http://www.rcvs.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=92572#physio

Part 1I, paragraph 2:

Treatment by acupuncture, aromatherapy, homoeopathy or other complementary therapy may only be administered by a veterinary surgeon who should have undergone training in these procedures. At present, it is illegal for them to be given by practitioners who are not veterinary surgeons.

http://www.rcvs.org.uk/Templates/Pr...ndParentNodeID=89717&int1stParentNodeID=89642

 

[supercorgi]

The poor dog! Someone should slap that owner. I wonder if she developed cancer if she would just go with homeopathy and acupuncture? I bet she wouldn't, she'd probably get real medical treatment but that just wasn't good enough for her dog.

I'm sorely tempted to send your post to a dog email list that I'm a member of. I don't think any of the members would avoid veterinary care but a good number of them give their dogs Rescue Remedy, acupuncture, and chiropractic. Oh and a good number of them also believe in pet psychics.

 

[supercorgi]

I am not aware of any chiropractic vets in the UK (or anywhere) but if they are treating animals in the UK, then they need to have a degree in veterinary medicine (or similar), and to be registered with the RCVS.

There's one here in the US not far from me. My friend takes her Corgi to him and swears up and down how wonderful he is. She justifies it by pointing out that he does have a veterinary degree in addition to being a pet chiropractor.

 

[Jas]

That's just... awful.

There are none so blind....