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Tag Archives: cat
Holidays with your pet: Pet Passports
The Pet Travel Scheme: Introduced to the UK in 2000, the Pet Travel Scheme (PETS), allows pet owners to take their animals to specific overseas countries and bring them back into the UK without having to go through quarantine. In … Continue reading
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Tagged cat, dog, Passport, pets, travel
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Obesity – helping your pet to loose weight
It is well worth involving your vets in any weight loss program you decide to implement, especially if your dog is severely overweight, as losing weight can be a hazardous process with some health risks to be considered. The main … Continue reading
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Obesity – is my pet overweight?
There are various methods of finding out whether your pet is overweight or not, including the obvious route of simply weighing your pet, but the most accurate and reliable technique is what’s known as condition scoring. This process has the … Continue reading
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Obesity – why are pets overweight?
There are two main contributing factors to obesity in pets, and they are both directly related to their owners – too much food and not enough exercise. Pet owners always bring up other mitigating factors such as neutering or ‘genetics’, … Continue reading
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Obesity – the biggest pet health challenge
Official figures from animal welfare organisations suggest that between a third and half of all dogs are now either overweight or obese, and from my personal experience in the surgery, I would suggest that these may even be conservative estimates. … Continue reading
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Lilly on the mend
Good news – after a very worrying few days Lilly is starting to show definite signs of improvement after her operation to repair her pelvis. She’s still very weak and we’re mainly confining her to a large cage in the … Continue reading
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Lilly’s been hit by a car
It’s been a very difficult day as our lovely cat Lilly has been in the surgery all day after being hit by a car and fracturing her pelvis. My colleague Stuart Jackson at Carterton vets repaired her pelvis with a … Continue reading
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What is diabetes?
There are various forms of diabetes but the most common type is diabetes mellitus which is also known as ‘sugar diabetes’. This disease affects the body’s system for regulating the level of sugar or glucose in the bloodstream. The main … Continue reading
Has my pet got diabetes?
If you are worried that your pet may have diabetes, the first thing to do is to check whether their symptoms fit in with the typical signs seen in diabetes. The key symptoms seen in diabetic animals are: Excessive thirst … Continue reading
Diabetic pets: the long term outlook
Unfortunately there is currently no cure for diabetes so it is condition that needs to be managed rather than completely cured. In people with diabetes sophisticated management techniques and multiple injections of very short acting insulin every day can give … Continue reading
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Tagged cat, diabetes, dog, old age
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