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Golden Oldies Membership extended

Dr. Alex Melrose - Thursday, September 15, 2011

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

Case Study - Dino - a very lucky cat!

Dr. Alex Melrose - Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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

Case Study - Bolly

Dr. Alex Melrose - Wednesday, July 13, 2011

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's story

Dr. Alex Melrose - Wednesday, June 15, 2011

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

Case Study - Luca

Dr. Alex Melrose - Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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

Cute pictures of staff animals at the clinic

Dr. Alex Melrose - Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Bruiser as a Stegosauras Read more

Case Study - Jake

Dr. Alex Melrose - Monday, March 14, 2011

Jake – a 10month old male miniature pinscher was attacked by 2 dogs in the meola reef dog park when he was waiting to meet his friends.  Jake is only 4.5kg and the dogs were a boxer and a bull terrier and were both very large. They each grabbed him around his chest and shook him like a soft toy  He was very lucky to survive the inital attack. He was rushed into Vetcare where he was in a bad way with large wounds over his left chest and deep punctures in his neck and shoulders.  The worst danger however was the shock. Alex rushed him to the surgery and started emergency treatment. Warning some of the images may be upsetting!

 

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Samson Overheats

Dr. Alex Melrose - Thursday, December 02, 2010

Samson was examined and his temperature was 41 degrees celcius.  We couldn't hear his heart as his panting was so loud and laboured, he was immediately taken into the surgery and put in a bath of cold water with a flow of oxygen put on his face to give him a cool breeze and to help him get enough oxygen in his lungs.  Read more

Farewell to Rommel

Dr. Alex Melrose - Friday, November 05, 2010

Many of you will be sad to hear that our dear friend Rommel has lost his fight with bone cancer. He was always a huge goofy, playful personality at VetCare, wrestling with his toy collection and taking power naps. He would greet his legion of friends with squeals of enthusiasm, more like a little puppy than the 50kg of muscle that he was.  Read more

Gigi gets Her Coat Back

Dr. Alex Melrose - Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Wow look at me now and read about my story of how I became a different dog.  Over a few years I had started to loose my good looks with hair falling out all over the place and my skin was incredibly itchy.   Read more



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