Dr Jonathon Howard - Small Animal, Bird and Exotics Veterinarian

09/05/2024

Today is the inaugural International Chameleon Day!
There are 228 species of chameleon! This guy is the Jackson’s chameleon (Trioceros jacksonii xantholophus) found on at the foothills of Mt Kenya.
Chameleons are a very cool unique group of lizards! 😎

your colors

02/02/2024

Excited to be speaking at this years International Conference on Avian, Herpetological, Exotic Mammal, Zoo and Wildlife Medicine Veterinary Conference!
I’ll be speaking on blood vitamin D levels and basking UV Index requirements in bearded dragons based off our field research 😎

💉💊

10/01/2024

The young red eyed tree frog (Ranoidea chloris) with a red eye🐸👁
Probably my smallest patient ever weighing in at less than 1 gram!
This little guy had a corneal ulcer and hyphema (blood in the front chamber of the eye).
We treated with eye ointment (he was the size of the ointment tube lid! You can see a dab of ointment on his ulcer in the last pic 😁) and some antibiotics injections (yes we had to dilute the antibiotics down to give home the correct dose 😅)
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08/12/2023

01/12/2023

I’ll be on this live in a few hours talking all things reptile lighting!

How to set up bearded dragon lights can be confusing to some. Well this bearded dragon lighting guide is like no other you have seen before. Its with beardie...

24/11/2023

Little bit of yahoo news I was asked to have some input on - A mummified snake found biting itself 😆

A reptile vet explained to Yahoo News exactly how this can occur. Find out what happened.

30/08/2023

Extra stuff on the brain worm that the peeps at University of Sydney Parasitology department have posted!

Super interesting or disgusting depending on your view 😂

09/07/2023

Interview I did with Reptiles and Research about my bearded dragon research!

BeardieVet is the worlds leading expert in bearded dragons, both in the wild, and in captivity. BeardieVet spent years researching bearded dragons in the wil...

26/06/2023

Nicola has started up the sea snake rehab again and she has Dr Uzair to help with the veterinary side😍
Great to see these snakes getting top quality care on their rehab journey!

06/05/2023

Tail kinks in super zebra morph carpet pythons 🦸‍♂️🦓🐍
This is a congenital abnormality of the tail bones. The tail contains block vertebrae which means the bones are fused and lack the joint which allows the tail to flex as normal. Some or all of the vertebrae within the tail are fused resulting in a straight fixed tail or kinked if only a few adjacent vertebrae are fused.
Swipe right 👉 to view all the X-rays 🩻

28/04/2023

Smallest patient of the week 😁 🦇
A 7 gram microbat with a fractured wing (humerus). Placed an intramedullary pin and off to rehab for a few weeks.
Can anyone ID the species? Found in Cooranbong NSW

16/04/2023

Oh Alex 😢

Such great memories of you. You were one of the most memorable young vets I had the privilege of mentoring.

Your passion and enthusiasm for all things avian were such an inspiration! I’m glad you gained your dreams of becoming an avian veterinary specialist and changing the lives of thousands of your patients and clients.

Fly high with the birds you love Alex!

07/04/2023

Sea snake release!!!!

This video was from a few years ago when we released 4 yellow-bellied sea snakes that had been rehabilitated by Snake and Reptile Rehab Gosford. I never really looked back on the incredible work that Nic Martini and I did rehabilitating these animals and how much success we had over the many years.
In this video we had a diver capturing footage but also monitoring the snakes post release. Thanks to NSW Maritime for the lift out to sea!
Hope you enjoy the footage of these amazing animals!

06/04/2023

How we get the sea snakes in rehabilitation feeding reliably

19/03/2023

Short clip of the start of my talk 😎
Was a great weekend with lots of other great talks!
Nic Martini Snake and Reptile Rehab Gosford

24/02/2023

Not long til the conference! Better finish my presentation 😅

DO NOT MISS THIS!
LAST CHANCE TO GET YOUR TICKETS!

Almost SOLD OUT, only 20 tickets left!

AHH/BHS Drayton Manor Conference 2023

Our ticket sales close at midnight on Friday 3rd March. Head to https://www.thebhs.org/2023-ahh-bhs-conference-on-reptile-husbandry-and-breeding now and grab the last few places!

14/02/2023

Some FLIR thermal images from some of the venomous residents at the on the weekend 😎
1. Crotalus ornatus - Eastern black-tailed rattlesnake
2. Vipera ammodytes - nose horned viper
3. Cerastes cerastes - Saharan horned viper

11/02/2023

What an incredible day! Spent the afternoon with at his zoo Welt der Gifte “World of Poisons”. Nils is a veterinarian who mentored me when I was a final year vet student completing an externship in the medicine and surgery of reptiles. Today he mentored me through handling many exotic venomous reptiles that I have never had the opportunity to work with let alone ever seen! He also even let me handle the inland taipan to cure my home sickness 😁

08/12/2022

The Advancing Herpetological Husbandry program has been announced and has a great lineup of speakers!

Check it out! Would be great to see you there!

23/11/2022

Really excited to be talking at this conference again!

I’ll be talking on the work wildlife rescuer Nicola Martin Snake and Reptile Rehab Gosford and myself have been doing on rehabilitating sea snakes! 🌊🐍

🔊 Meet the speaker 🔊

We’re pleased to announce that Dr. Jonathon Howard (aka Beardie Vet) will be joining us again to speak at the Drayton Manor 2023 event but this time on sea snake rehabilitation! If any of you attended last year to hear his talk, it was absolutely fascinating hearing about wild bearded dragon habitat, diet and behaviour so we’re really excited for this talk.

How do I book tickets? 🤔

You can head to the BHS website and grab your tickets now at: https://www.thebhs.org/2023-ahh-bhs-conference-on-reptile-husbandry-and-breeding

Don’t forget to sign in if you’re a member as you receive a discount when booking. 🤩

14/08/2022

Happy World Lizard Day! A goulds monitor (Varanus gouldii) from the arid zone we found basking mid morning on a log. It’s one of Australia’s most widely distributed monitor lizard species.

16/07/2022

Happy World Snake Day!!!!
Here is an amazing snakes species that few can say they successfully treat and rehabilitate .The yellow-bellied sea snake - Hydrophis platurus 🌊🐍

I have been so lucky to be able to work with this species! Just one of the many species of snakes we should appreciate on this day!

27/05/2022

Another bearded dragon paper published!

21/04/2022

Inserting a feeding tube into a Lace monitor (Varanus varius).
This is a procedure that I had to commonly perform in this species. Every year from mid to late summer these guys would present with head trauma and fractured jaws from being hit by cars. As these guys are carrion eaters, they would be attracted to the roads to feed on other animals that had been killed by cars and in turn are hit by cars.
The feeding tube allows them to be fed while the neurological injuries and jaw and skull fractures heal. They can be in rehab for anywhere from 3 to 12 months to recover.
The lucky ones have these injuries that can heal and wildlife carers that commit so much time to rehabilitate them. Most aren’t so lucky 😢

13/04/2022

What a sucker! 🐈🐟
Checkout the mouth parts of this Pleco catfish 😎
This guy came in with weight loss and some skin lesions. He went home on some antibiotic injections - yes exotics vets do treat fish as well 😁

12/03/2022

Presenting at the Advancing Herpetological Husbandry Conference!

27/11/2021

I’m very excited to be speaking on beardies at next year’s Advancing Herpetological Husbandry/The British Herpetological Society - BHS Conference!

There is a great line up of topics and speakers. It will be a great conference and good to get back to good old face to face conferences that have been amiss these last 2 years!

Book tickets, for the exciting programme of speakers at the 2022 Drayton Manor event.
A perfect Christmas present wish list 🤔