companion is the BSAVA monthly membership magazine which will be sent to members at the start of each month and is the perfect complement to JSAP.

companion includes content that is relevant to life in practice, instructive CPD articles, reports on the activities of colleagues and members, and articles on the issues facing the profession, as well as general Association news. The publication itself has many contributors, providing thought-provoking articles designed to test, educate and challenge.

Key articles this month include:

• Clinical Conundrum
  Rebecca Thorne, intern at Davies Veterinary Specialists, invites readers to consider the approach to a tachypnoeic older Labrador retriever. 
• How to select and collect: feline blood donation
  Danielle Banks, Diagnostic Supervisor at Davies Veterinary Specialists, describes the practicalities of feline blood donation. 
• Notifiable and zoonotic disease
  Dr Sally Everitt, BSAVA’s Scientific Policy Officer, offers guidance on notifiable diseases and the obligations we face as a profession.
• Chronic kidney disease in dogs
  Dr Joy Archer of the University of Cambridge describes how PetSavers funding has helped carry out research into chronic kidney disease in dogs.
• The companion Interview
  Andrew Trawford
• CPD Diary
  What’s on in your area.