News

A shocking new survey involving over 7000 dog owners by the Dogs Trust has revealed that over 48% of pet dogs have eaten chocolate intended for humans, and over 5% have become seriously ill from it. Of these, 15% have required urgent veterinary treatment and in extreme cases the dogs sadly died from the effects of chocolate poisoning.

We all hate ticks and have known about pockets of Lymes disease in the UK carried by their bite but worryingly there have now been cases of dogs contracting a serious tick borne infection called Babesiosis.

Every now and then we see a condition and know that we will likely never see another again in our careers. Rory is one of those patients!

Did you know that from April 6th 2016 the law is changing and you must have your dog microchipped or potentially face a £500 fine?

We must be mad but rather than the Guildford raft race this year we have signed up to do the Guide Dog's Coniston Challenge - all to raise money to sponsor a Guide Dog and change someone's life!

Given the interest in our mole we thought you might like a few interesting facts on these common but seldom seen creatures.  For instance did you know that they inject toxic saliva into earthworms to paralyse them and keep them alive in 'larders' till mealtimes!?!

We have received a warning from the Animal Health Trust regarding multiple cases of dogs developing high glucose levels in their urine (known as Fanconi-like syndrome)

“like buses!”
You know that saying about buses; that you spend ages waiting for one and then two come along at the same time? Well sometimes it works like that with clinical cases. Jasper and Buffy were both brought in by their owners within a week or two of each other with similar complaints.

You are what you eat!
We have seen so many patients with upset stomachs over Christmas, we have decided rather than concentrating on a specific patient for our case of the month a general GI Info Article might be interesting and of use!

Well the 12th night has come and gone and sadly all our Christmas decorations have been tidied away for another year! We've been blown away by all the lovely cards and yummy gifts that we've been given this Christmas so a massive thank you to all of you!  Some of the cards have been drawn by clients or star their pets and it just doesn't seem right to consign them to the recycling!  So we thought we'd share some of them with you below in our gallery.  Enjoy!