I had local veterinarians with me at each farm and they have not disagreed".
Officials have also enlisted the aid of local veterinarians to try to determine if animals in the area are infected with the disease.
Local veterinarians will now have the power to decide whether it is necessary, Agriculture Minister Nick Brown told the House of Commons.
The fame of the herd has proved to be an asset as the local veterinarians reach out to experts for help in addressing the outbreak.
The researchers are interested in working with dog owners and local veterinarians to get more DNA samples of dogs from remote corners of the world.
Our owner/veterinarian performs many advanced soft tissue and orthopedic procedures and offers his services to local veterinarians on a referral basis.
By her own account, she has taken in hundreds of stray cats and dogs, had them neutered by local veterinarians, nursed the sick ones to health, and turned them back to the street or to adoptive homes.
Ms. Lillis is a volunteer; she owes local veterinarians some $30,000 in spaying and neutering costs, she said, and scrapes together a living by looking after people's pets when they go away.
In general, farmers had a positive attitude towards local veterinarians, and lack of contact between farmers and the veterinary authority was associated more with logistic constraints than with farmers' mistrust towards the authority.
Cases were horses in southern Ontario diagnosed with colic by local veterinarians, and control horses were from the same stables as cases and were matched by age, breed and gender where possible.
Field researchers from the University of California-Davis, who are part of the Cornell-based Village Dothersetincludingity Project, and others, inclocalg local veterinarians, sampled 318 village dogs from seven regions in Egypt, Uganda and Namibia.
