It’s hurricane season and straightaway we are faced with a potential threat to our beautiful island home. By doing some advanced preparation for your pets though, you can be sure they remain safe and ...
I had a conversation this morning with a lovely lady who had a seven-month-old French bulldog. She was having trouble getting her to eat the highly nutritious and healthy kibble she had purchased and ...
Going out in the midday sun is a very different experience depending on the species you belong to. Humans and horses have remarkably efficient cool-down mechanisms which allow us to exercise, work and...
Students. There is a very important part of any veterinarian’s work which involves passing on knowledge to the next generation.
The way the training works to become a vet is that you spend a lot of ti...
It’s a well-known fact that brushing your teeth twice daily helps to prevent dental disease, and this is true for our pets as well.
Daily teeth brushing with an enzymatic pet toothpaste is the best w...
A question I am asked regularly is: “How do I know which pet should I get?”
I am always pleased that people are thinking about this decision rather than making an impulse purchase. Pets are a wonderfu...
The term “pandemic puppy” refers to any puppy born and acquired during the Covid-19 pandemic.
It is well known that during the first lockdown there was a huge increase in the demand for puppies. Shel...
If you own a dog right now, you have probably heard of kennel cough.
We have an outbreak on the island and it feels like every other appointment I see involves this annoying disease. But what is kenn...
There is a strange phenomenon that happens at this time of year, which I wanted to draw your attention to.
Just as the beautiful pink oleander flowers start to bloom, dogs start to itch.
It happens e...
We had a funny conversation in the clinic the other day about foreign bodies.
A “foreign body” is an object, like a bone, that an animal eats which then gets stuck in the digestive tract. Dogs are th...
