On Saturday 2nd March 2013, Wessex Archaeology hosted the 15th meeting of the Professional Zooarchaeology Group. The group was set up in 2005 to facilitate the exchange of ideas between animal bone specialists and to establish a mutually-beneficial support network providing continued professional development to its members. Meetings are held twice yearly at venues throughout the UK, the theme of the most recent meeting was mammalian carnivores in the archaeological record: methodological and interpretive aspects. The morning seminar session included talks on everything from cave bears to wolves, and polecats to ferrets, while the afternoon session was taken up with the practicalities of trying to differentiate between closely relate species.