Nantwich Veterinary Group Blog

The building work goes on, and with the steel frame in place now our new veterinary hospital is really taking shape. The drains are going in this week and the concrete floor slab will go in soon after. We’re on schedule at the moment for a New Year opening. Watch this space for more news [...]

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 [...]

After 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 [...]

Sox 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.

Arriving 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!

Rocky, 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.

Lungworm 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.