Pet and Vet News
Heartworm disease? Is your dog adequately protected?
We all know how important tick prevention is for our dogs but what about heartworm disease? Is your dog adequately protected?
Heartworm in dogs is a potentially fatal disease that is transmitted from infected to uninfected dogs by mosquitoes. These mosquitoes inject a number of tiny worms (microfilaria) into the dog’s body which then mature into adult heartworm over about 6 months. These adult worms settle inside the chambers of the heart and interfere with the flow of blood. Adult heartworm infection causes heart failure which can result in serious illness and death. Heartworm disease is very difficult and expensive to treat so prevention is much better than cure!
Why vaccinations are important for your pets?
Vaccinations and health checks are important for keeping your pets healthy and protected from a variety of diseases such as parvovirus and canine cough in dogs, and cat flu and feline enteritis in cats. Starting from when your pet is a puppy or kitten, vaccinations boost your pet’s immunity against disease and protect them as they grow older.
Why Vaccinate Dogs?
I am often asked why we vaccinate our dogs every year and what diseases we are protecting them against. Vaccination is an essential part of the creation of ‘herd immunity’ whereby the larger animal population is protected because the prevalence of many life-threatening, contagious diseases is substantially reduced due to greater immunity in the population of pets as a whole.
Home Euthanasia
Home euthanasia – end-of-life services for your most loveable family member.
Pet After Hours Emergency Veterinary Hospitals
If you have a pet emergency after hours and your local Sydney Animal Hospital is closed, please see a list of other ‘After Hours Emergency Veterinary Hospitals’ in Sydney.
Taxi Uber with Pets
Uber Pet – A taxi transport ride for all paws. Can’t get to a vet, contact Uber a pet-friendly ride option – Uber Pet – for riders travelling with a pet in Sydney.
Tick Paralysis Alert
As the weather is warming up, so is tick season and we have already treated many cases of tick paralysis in dogs and cats.
Ixodes holocyclus is the official name of the paralysis tick which inhabits coastal bushland areas.
Rat lung worm
Rat lung worm normally inhabits the heart and pulmonary arteries of wild rats, where it rarely causes disease, as expected for an efficient parasite. To complete its lifecycle, however, the rat lung worms’ eggs are passed in the rat’s stool and ingested by an intermediate host – normally slugs or snails, where they develop into larvae. When these slugs or snails (or infected rats carrying the larval stages of worms) are ingested by accidental hosts such as dogs, serious disease can occur.
Dog Dental Months July & August 2022
Dog Dental Months July & August 2022. Does your dog have bad breath, discoloured teeth or difficulty eating?
