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Feb 2016
I spent last week in the sunny, snowy, French Alps and have returned home to find the rain has continued. I’m waiting for the day the animals enter the surgery two by two!...
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Cat versus dog
You’ve heard the sayings: People own dogs but cats own people; dogs think they’re humans and cats think they’re Gods. There is no doubt, cats are very different to dogs and it may seem...
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A fresh start
There’s no doubt my patients and cases are interesting, rewarding and sometimes frustrating, on occasion all at the same time but the fact that every pet has an owner means I deal with many...
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Pet’s enhance our lives
A very happy New Year to you all! As the dark days of January descend upon us, I thought it might be timely to remember how much pleasure our pet animals give us. Dogs,...
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Good tidings of comfort and joy
I will resist commenting on how Christmas has rushed around again but Oh My Goodness! It’s traditional for me to use this space to warn everyone (yet) again about the potential of sultanas, raisins...
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Food for thought
That old saying, you are what you eat, is as true for our animals as it is for us. The variety of food on offer in shops today is so much greater than 40...
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First line treatment for wild casualties
Writing this, as we are having our first real taste of autumn, with gales shaking the trees and rain lashing on the windows, it doesn’t seem possible that just yesterday I was basking in...
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Holiday planning for pets
I have just spent a few days with my wife and two young children in Devon in a cabin\tree house in the woods and learnt 3 things: 1. Camping, however glamorous is not fun in the cold and rain....
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Time to listen
Experience has taught me over the years that an owner’s instinct is not to be overlooked, even if clinical checks are to the contrary. Now this may sound obvious but with so much information...
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Here comes the sun
April promised long hot summer days with BBQ’s and paddling pools but May has temporarily put a halt to those thoughts. Still, the optimist in me says summer will return and although we all...
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