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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/utility/feedstylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/non-clinical-questions/7925/more-eu-interference-in-our-lives</link><description> I don&amp;#39;t suppose many of you closely follow the workings of the EU Parliament and its committees, but those that do will have been aware of recent deliberations of the EU Animal Welfare Committee ( a pretty powerful and active group, mainly composed of</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 10</generator><item><title>Re: More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/36109?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:08:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:aa14eeb7-c526-4a33-8fa4-96401b755f16</guid><dc:creator>CatherineThomas</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;http://www.neuticles.com/merchmart.php&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#39;t you just love a pair of neuticle earrings?!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/36079?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:08:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:6db9e12e-e275-4ce1-afc5-b47efbd5d66b</guid><dc:creator>bob lehner</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Yes -I believe they are used a lot in Japan, where apparently it does not reflect well on a man&amp;#39;s virility and status  if he is seen out and about walking a dog which has clearly been castrated and is lacking in the undercarriage department.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/36074?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:45:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:d1fc6847-b0ff-4d2c-95f4-dd004afabd47</guid><dc:creator>Mark Hedberg</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;http://www.neuticles.com/faq.php&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Do &lt;span class="n12"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;Neuticles&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; come in sizes?&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;span class="n12"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;Neuticles&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; are now available for any-sized canine, feline, equine, bull or any neutered pet.[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/36072?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:43:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:2c3cfc4f-0c3b-49c7-89ba-0ff702930cc1</guid><dc:creator>Mark Hedberg</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;bob lehner&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;2.&amp;nbsp; In order to avoid discrimination against neutered males, all such animals&amp;nbsp;will have to have prosthetic testes fitted at the time of the operation.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; It seems this will appply to dogs, cats and even small domestic animals such as rabbits, but farm animals are to be excluded.&amp;nbsp; As ever, the case regarding horses is not clear yet.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;http://www.neuticles.com/&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You think you&amp;#39;re kidding...the product, however, DOES exist. :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/35924?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:00:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:29357317-51a7-4567-bac4-9881eb4d46a1</guid><dc:creator>Evelyn Barbour-Hill</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;List three things that were not announced on April 1st but you wish they had been.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. RCVS decides it must have a new, beige, &amp;quot;corporate identity&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. The Right Honourable (&lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Very happy" /&gt;)&amp;nbsp;Anthony Blair takes personal charge of FMD eradication.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3. The &amp;quot;Right Honourable&amp;quot; (&lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Very happy" /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Very happy" /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/Shocked_smiley.png" alt="Shocked" /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/Confused_smiley.png" alt="Confused" /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/Sick_smiley.png" alt="Sick" /&gt;) Anthony Blair tells us that Saddam Hussein can deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/35920?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:12:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:b715e68f-bf7b-4928-ad8a-4efb138ac1f7</guid><dc:creator>Vikki Halliday LLB</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I very nearly did too, the sad thing is, there are some grains of truth and it&amp;#39;s worryingly posible!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/35919?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:01:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:171ffa06-1a83-47d5-b292-9d645fb01c92</guid><dc:creator>Anthony Todd</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Dagmar Steele&amp;quot;] I believed every single word[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So did I. &amp;nbsp; Just shows you how..................... [others will complete the sentence]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/35890?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:43:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:7a83c3c8-f6ca-446d-98a0-ee99b796e4fe</guid><dc:creator>Cinzia Gandini</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;The EU Parliament is very active on the 1st of April...&lt;a  target='_blank'  href="http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/savings-and-banking/article.html?in_article_id=528736&amp;amp;in_page_id=7"&gt;http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/savings-and-banking/article.html?in_article_id=528736&amp;amp;in_page_id=7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/Happy_smiley.png" alt="Happy" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/35878?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:28:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:7776840e-a6f0-48c1-a36e-5a1c8f082a99</guid><dc:creator>Gerry Henry</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;You couldn&amp;#39;t make it up; this is pretty astonishing too. next time you write that VAT cheque just remember where its going.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a  target='_blank'  href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100081949/britains-net-contribution-to-the-eu-budget-has-risen-by-74-per-cent-in-one-year/#disqus_thread"&gt;http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100081949/britains-net-contribution-to-the-eu-budget-has-risen-by-74-per-cent-in-one-year/#disqus_thread&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/35866?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:47:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:a0c3f003-c67b-41db-a85a-5e51f4694d17</guid><dc:creator>Hannah Wynne Richards</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Very good I had steam coming out of my ears till I remembered the date !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wynne&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PS Bob -if they do it, then we&amp;#39;ll blame you for suggesting it-and they are daft enough&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/35864?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:27:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:c8a5fa2d-b6e5-4a7b-b93e-34cf913b710d</guid><dc:creator>Dagmar Steele</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;egg on my face - I believed every single word &lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/Sad_smiley.png" alt="Sad" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;sent my children into April this morning and it worked a treat so I guess I do deserve it!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/35863?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:23:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:ba596950-b141-40b9-ae83-0739ced2ddc4</guid><dc:creator>Bob Russell</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Had me going for the first third of the post. Gender altered was the clincher!!&lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Very happy" /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Very happy" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/35860?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:00:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:2d88f255-4f60-45c5-a26f-5a38d46cd9e4</guid><dc:creator>Gillian Mostyn</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Very happy" /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/emoticons/v2/Winking_smiley.gif" alt="Wink" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: More EU interference in our lives !</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/35859?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:00:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:406088f3-077e-495e-985f-94caa15ed6e1</guid><dc:creator>stephen sargent</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thats terrible. Will it be law by APRIL 1st 2013 then??!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>