https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/non-clinical-questions/7129/who-to-vote-onto-the-bva-council Looking at the various candidates putting themselves up for election for the BVA, once again there seems to be a large proportion of large animal orientated vets and many not active in practice. There seem to be few &#39;small animal&#39; candidates and afteren-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/29974?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:52:09 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:0be1cccc-82c5-472a-a43f-5c85ebaa8cbfHannah Wynne Richards<p>I think it&#39;s partly the &quot;fault &quot; of BSAVA for being such a successful non-territorial divisionThe result is that small animal practitioners are more likely to attend BSAVA rather than BVA regional meetings, and also Congress, and BVA regional secretaries compound the problem by thinking very reasonably that the small animal practitioners are already very well&nbsp; catered for,so inviting mainly large animal speakers The end result is many small animalpractitioners don&#39;t think of BVA as relevant -which is a pity, because it does try to represent us all, but can&#39;t if small animal veterinarians don&#39;t want to be involved I think I&#39;ve identified the problem-thinking of an answer is more difficult</p> <p>Wynne</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>