We have been running our senior promotion for the last 2 and a half months and it has been so successful that we have decided to extend the offer for the rest of the year at a massively discounted price of $349.00 Read more

Blood testing is now available to check your dogs Parvo immune status as an alternative to annual vaccinations

We can now check your best friend’s actual protection status and tailor their vaccine requirements to precisely what they need and no more. Read more

Dino’s owner had gone overseas for a month and had left Dino and his brother Bam Bam in our cattery. They are both around 2 years old and seemed healthy at their vaccinations in April.

About 2 weeks after being in the cattery one of our nurses went down to give the cats a bit of extra attention before we closed on Saturday morning. She was horrified to find Dino flat out on his side struggling to breathe. Read more

Bolly is a 9 month old female speyed lilac Burmese kitten who came into Vetcare in May as the owner noticed she had been getting quieter over the last few weeks, she wasn’t playing as much and in the last few days her breathing seemed quite laboured.   Read more

Billy was one of the gutsiest dogs you could know. Afflicted with far more than his share of medical problems, Billy bore them all with a stoic grace. For the last 15 months of his life Billy was fed Hill’s b/d and the difference was dramatic. Read more

We are all rusting away. Rusting is an oxidative reaction. All of our life systems are powered by oxidative reactions. It is the reason we breathe, to inhale more oxygen to keep those reactions going, burning fuel to provide energy for life. Sometimes they get out of control, especially when chemical by-products called free radicals are produced.  Read more

Luca is a bouncy 9 month old golden Labrador who we could hardly recognize when she came into the clinic last week. She had been at the emergency after hours clinic for as she started vomiting on Friday night and then by Sunday was not eating and very depressed.  Read more

Macintosh a 3 year old male West Highland White terrier came into VetCare in mid February with a sore on top of his right hind paw.  He was initially treated with antibiotics and it seemed to clear up.  He was also under the care of Allan Bell a skin specialist as West Highland White Terriers often have allergic skin disease which can be difficult to control.  After several more weeks of antibiotics and shampoos for his skin the wound still hadn’t cleared up so we decided to anaesthetise him so we could find out what the problem was. Read more