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Abstract
The number of people who own cage and aviary birds seems to be increasing all the time, and so in turn is the number of birds being seen by veterinary practices. We may not agree with the ethics of keeping birds in cages, but more and more people are doing so, and expect veterinary surgeons and nurses to be able to look after their birds properly.
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Karin Merritt
Karin Merrritt qualified as a VN in 1991. She is currently head nurse at a practice in Cambridge which sees a large number of ‘the other species’—birds, reptiles and small mammals—as both first and second case referrals. In 1994 she was awarded the Intervet/NCDL Animal Nurse of the Year Award.