UP Vet Books for Africa team returns from donation drive to Zimbabwe and Zambia

Posted on August 10, 2022

Eight students of UP Veterinary Science travelled more than 4000km – from UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science to Zimbabwe and Zambia – to deliver boxes of veterinary textbooks, microscopes, and loads of veterinary supplies to worthy recipients.

Your #UPGivingMatters contribution will help the Faculty and our OVAH

Posted on July 28, 2022

The University of Pretoria (UP) has embarked on a campaign to create awareness, attract new donors, and encourage existing donors to increase their funding to the University.

University of Pretoria vets lead revival of India’s extinct cheetah

Posted on July 20, 2022

UP academics are playing a lead role in the reintroduction of wild cheetahs into India as part of efforts to ensure the global survival of the species. It will be the first intercontinental species reintroduction of its kind.

Training the next generation of farmers: How UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science is helping small-scale farmers and boosting food security

Posted on July 12, 2022

UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science plays an important part in supporting South Africa’s small-scale farming community, through our Primary Animal Health Care training programme.

New equine simulator model provides impetus to equine clinical training in the Faculty

Posted on July 11, 2022

Equine clinical training in the Faculty of Veterinary Science recently received a welcome boost when a brand-new multipurpose equine simulator model was unveiled in its Skills Laboratory.

Saving the life of a long-crested eagle with severe trichomoniasis is no small feat

Posted on June 23, 2022

The long-crested eagle (L. occipitalis), an African bird of prey naturally occurs in moist woodland and forest edges, particularly if that habitat is near grassland, marshland, a river or a stream. It is sometimes also found in drier woodland, mixed farmland, on grazing land or on the edges of...

UP vets perform heart surgery on dog after heart murmur discovered during routine sterilisation

Posted on June 14, 2022

When Hera, a 20-month-old crossbreed Labrador/pitbull visited the sterilisation clinic at UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science, the vets there discovered a heart murmur that led to heart surgery that likely saved her life.

UP’s Onderstepoort Animal Blood Bank: How donor animals are saving other animal lives

Posted on June 07, 2022

Since the 1990s the Onderstepoort Animal Blood Bank (OABB) has been the saving grace of many dogs, cats, and even prized stud sheep, horses and cattle in need of life-saving blood transfusions.