ABSTRACT: This is a 1000-word article about an appeal for knitted squares started by me at the Animal Health Trust, to use to make jumpers to help avoid hypothermia in MRI patients.

The appeal had an overwhelming and unexpected response and seemed to capture the imagination of hundreds of knitters. The story includes templates and instructions that can be used by other practices to make dog and cat jumpers, as well as descriptions of some of the responses the appeal brought. There are accompanying photographs of several dogs wearing the jumpers.

Author

Kathy Challis Dip AVN (Surgical) RVN

Kathy has been qualified as a veterinary nurse for over 20 years. After working in private and charity practice, she went on to spend over a decade at the University of Cambridge working in Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital, as a member of the anaesthesia team, and later as a radiographer: She now works at the Animal Health Trust, near Newmarket, as an anaesthesia nurse.

Emails: kathy.challis@aht.org.uk, kjchallis@ gmail.com

Keywords: Features, Hypothermia 

To cite this article: Veterinary Nursing Journal • VOL 32 (08) • August 2017 pp235-238

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