Dame Jane Goodall is a British ethologist, best known for her revolutionizing work and long-term research on the chimpanzees of the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Although, as I’ll discuss later, her methods have been considered unorthodox…

Since I’m still not over my cold, today’s blog post is going to be a shorter one. Lately, these incredibly tragic videos on plastic pollution have been popping up in my social feeds. I’m very aware of the of how plastic affects our marine wildlife, yet I haven’t really altered much about my lifestyle to lower my own plastic usage.

This blog post is about three weeks overdue, but a monumental event like this must be documented on the vettobe.com website. As a Norwegian animal lover, I’m incredibly proud to say that the Norwegian fur industry is being phased out.

Today I’m starting a new blog series under the Animal Welfare category, where I present 5 facts about some of the greatest contributors to animal conservation, welfare, and rights. And what better way to start off the series than with...

Rewilding is a term coined by conservationist and radical activist Dave Foreman in the 1990’s, but was reclaimed and repurposed by conservation biologists Michael Soulé and Reed Noss in a paper published in Wild Earth in 1998...

Happy World Animal Day! First organized by the German writer and animal protection activist Heinrich Zimmermann in 1925, World Animal Day is an initiative to raise the status of animals and improve animal welfare standards worldwide.

If you’re either a vet or a vet student in Norway, odds are that you’re a member of the Norwegian Veterinary Association. As a part of the membership, you are sent a monthly academic journal on what the latest news are in the Norwegian veterinary sphere...

It’s passed 10 PM, and I’m already in pajamas sipping on my camomile tea. And while I am tempted to just go to bed, I will not fail the 30-day challenge on day five! Therefore, I thought I’d dedicate today’s post to something that’s really important to remember now that summer’s coming up, namely car temperatures...

Saturday marked the seventeenth annual World Veterinary Day, with this year’s theme being “ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE - FROM AWARENESS TO ACTION”. As I’ve written about before in my “One Health Initiative”-blog post, lowering...

This week we’ve had visitors from all the largest husbandry breeding companies in Norway, as well as the national breeding associations for dogs and horses. The concept of breeding is such a delicate subject to discuss, because there are a lot of differing opinions...

On March 3rd the United Nations World Wildlife Day 2017 was celebrated with the “Listen to the young voices” campaign. And although the day has come and went, I thought the message of this year’s theme was incredibly important. Over the years I’ve grappled with...

Today was my first day shadowing at the university small animal clinic. I felt like a sponge walking around trying to soak all the impressions up. Most of all I realized just how...

Yesterday marked a great win for the Norwegian natural conservationist community. The culling of almost 50 wolves is cancelled, leaving a population of about 70 individuals. The scheduled culling has caused an international uproar after its announcement earlier this fall, after...

Every other year the World Wildlife Fund publishes the Living Planet Report. Based on the Living Planet Index, it’s the world’s leading science-based analysis on the health of our planet, and the alarming rate of extinction among species.

Last weekend I went to a huge torchlight procession against the Norwegian fur industry. Even though I’ve wanted to go for several years, I haven’t actually been to one before. This year however, I went with two of my friends from vet school, and was completely...

The second block of vet school is over, and another exam is finished. During this week’s intensive course on animal testing, we learned about why we use animals in research, and the work done to preserve animal welfare while conducting experiments. What I found most interesting though was the ethics of it all, and the distinction between inherent and intrinsic value in humans and in animals.

Yesterday I went to a pre-school-start barbeque, where we were welcomed to the university, and were given two presentations on antibiotic resistance. At the very beginning, the president of the Norwegian Veterinary Association congratulated us on getting into vet school, and reminded us how important it is to stick together, both as students, and later in our professional lives, as it will get challenging at times.