Poppy and Floppy - Vaccination in rabbits Poppy and Floppy When I travelled to Market Drayton last weekend, I noticed a rabbit in the middle of a big roundabout. I returned with a pet carrier and after a few attempts I was able to catch this rabbit. The rabbit had puffy swollen eyes, along with swollen lips, ears and testicles. In fact, the rabbit had become blind because of the severe swelling of his Read the rest of this entry » New Veterinary Hospital in Crewe - planning permission grantedAfter searching for years for a suitable site for our new veterinary hospital in Crewe, we eventually found and negotiated the purchase of a site on Macon Way earlier this year. Planning permission has just been granted and work is about to begin shortly. Below is an artist’s impression of what our new surgery will look like. The estimated build time is six months, so we should be opening the doors to all our clients, both old and new, in early 2011. See you all there! Sox swallows a sockSox accompanies his owner when she goes to work in an old peoples home. The residents are very attached to him, and he runs from one person to another to gain attention. As playful as he is, one day he managed to got hold of one of the old ladies’ pop socks, and before his owner could stop him, he ran off and swallowed it. The following morning Sox vomited, would not eat and was very quiet. The owner did not waste any time and came to see me.
RoundwormsArriving at the practice in the morning, my first patient was already awaiting me: Moss, a border collie that had just eaten a plastic bag. To prevent the plastic bag getting stuck in his bowels, we decided to make him sick. To our surprise not only did he vomit up the plastic bag with a whole lot of food, but also three slugs and a round worm! Round worms look like small pieces of spaghetti. They live in the dog’s bowels and consume partly digested food.
Rocky SkateboardingRocky, a young Yorkshire terrier, was involved in an unfortunate and rather unusual accident: he had fallen off a skateboard and consequently broken both his forelimbs. This is not an uncommon fracture, in fact fractures of the radius and ulna (the bones in the foreleg) are the third most common fractures in dogs. The incidence of these fractures is particularly high in small and miniature breeds of dogs, like Yorkies.
Slug and snail populations pose threat to local dogsLungworm infection in dogs is spreading across the UK and leads to a disease called Angiostrongylosis. It has a wide range of symptoms which can make it difficult to diagnose. However, with the increasing appearance of the parasite causing this disease, vets are on the look out for the condition before it progresses to a stage where it becomes fatal. The lungworm parasite spends part of its lifecycle in slugs, snails or even frogs. The danger to dogs arises when small slugs or snails are either purposefully or accidentally eaten while rummaging through undergrowth, eating grass, or taken up when drinking from puddles or an outdoor water bowl.
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