by Kylie | Dec 28, 2022 | News
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...
by Kylie | Nov 17, 2022 | News
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,...
by Kylie | Oct 23, 2022 | News
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...
by Kylie | Sep 15, 2022 | News
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. This species of tick is only a problem in...
by Kylie | Aug 9, 2022 | News
Unfortunately for our pets there are many unusual parasites in Australia that can cause serious health issues. Some are common, such as paralysis ticks and intestinal worms and some are uncommon, but just as deadly, such as the rat lung worm. Rat lung worm...
