050Have you ever suffered sciatic pain? One minute you’re moving around freely and the next you are gripped by a pain so debilitating and excruciating, you can’t move. If you’re fortunate, after a few days or weeks of rest, the pain dissipates. A similar nerve pain can affect dogs. There are a number of causes…
Over the past few weeks we have had some special patients with some very creative names come to visit us here at Drovers Vet Hospital. Here are just a few of them: Dog names: Bosch Bulldozer Ozwald Tofu Manaia Cat Names: Tchaikovsky Gatto Tigra Tullulah Bellabina Mignon Pocket pets and birds: Tree chicken Pancake Winslow…
It is always a very exciting time for the family involved when it comes to breeding their female dogs and then having wonderful cute little puppies, if everything goes well. However, we have seen plenty of pregnant dogs have problems giving birth due to a wide variation of reasons. They would eventually need a caesarean…
The use of human painkillers in pets can be deadly. If your pet has injured or hurt himself, it can be very tempting to help them feel better by giving them some human medication that you have close to hand at home, such as Panadol. Advil or Aspirin. However, never give these medications to your…
We love seeing your puppies here at Drovers Vet! It is great to be part of their first weeks with you settling in to the family. The first course of vaccines as a pup is critical for your dog. This primary vaccine course will set up your pup’s immunity to serious diseases such as Parvovirus and…
Rolli initially came to see us at our Bullsbrook Vet Hospital due to his lymph glands being enlarged around his throat and coughing. After initial examination and a fine needle aspirate sample being taken and evaluated, Rolli was found to have lymphoma; a type of cancer affecting the lymph glands of the body. Further staging…
Dr Wayne was asked to give a talk to the Murdoch University students last Friday evening on the “Challenges and Strategies involved with running a veterinary practice”. Using his experience throughout the years and more recently his experience in our group with VetCare Innovation, he imparted a wealth of knowledge onto the students. One of…
Our Dental Focus is nearly over and boy have we had a busy time performing dental procedures across all our hospitals! From Wednesday next week we move onto our next quarterly focus; arthritis. This focus will run for three months beginning from the 1st April until the 30th of June 2015. Arthritis is one of…
This last week we have had an unusual amount of higher risk anaesthesia patients in at our hospital. The main group of these are what we call brachycephalic breeds; namely Bulldogs, Boxers and Pugs are the most common. These are dogs with very short “squashy” faces. This week we had a Bulldog, Boxer and French Bulldog…
“Prince”, an 11 month old Welsh Corgi cross pup presented to us at Drovers Veterinary Hospital, on 8th January with a history of vomiting for 24 hours. He had been to the emergency vet the night before but continued vomiting during the night and was quite unwell when he came to us. It was obvious…
Here at Drovers Veterinary Hospital we will always welcome you when you come to visit us with your fur-babies of all sizes. However we do undertake maintaining your pet’s safety and the safety of all of our clients very seriously. We would like to remind all our clients to please remember to keep your dog…
At this time of the year, one generally reflects back on the year that was and looks forward to the year that will be. Coming to the end of 2014, we celebrate our 2 year birthday at Drovers Vet Hospital and what a year it has been. We even managed to get ourselves on TV!…
