Vetscience International is the magazine of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in which we share stories about how we try to improve the health of animals, people, and their environment.
So what should you do if your parrot 鈥 which always used to say hello in an adorable voice 鈥 suddenly greets you with a deafening screech, or your cockatoo bites you when you try to pick it up or plucks out all its feathers?
Former student, current student: Janneke van der Laan, senior animal welfare inspector at the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) in conversation with Lidewei de Boer, Master's student at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.