Starting the year with a new puppy or kitten!

Starting the year with a new puppy or kitten!

Puppies and kittens are a cute addition to the family and to ensure they grow into happy and healthy dogs and cats, it’s important to follow the health advice of your veterinarian. The team at Sydney Animal Hospitals are here to help keep your new pet happy and...
Heartworm disease? Is your dog adequately protected?

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...
Why vaccinations are important for your pets?

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,...
Why Vaccinate Dogs?

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...
Tick Paralysis Alert

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. This species of tick is only a problem in...