Annual health checks can help us diagnose, treat or even prevent problems before they become life-threatening. They're also a great opportunity to ask us about nutrition, behaviour or any other issues. Teeth and gum problems are some of the most common conditions we see in dogs and cats with over 80% of animals over 4 years of age affected to some degree.
Pets can't say how they're feeling - its usually how they look or act that tells you something is wrong. Blood testing goes a step further, showing us the earliest signs of illness, often before your pet even seems to be sick. Our Surgery is fully equipped to take X-Rays (often called Radiographs) of your pets.
Pets can't say how they're feeling - its usually how they look or act that tells you something is wrong. Blood testing goes a step further, showing us the earliest signs of illness, often before your pet even seems to be sick. Our Surgery is fully equipped to take X-Rays (often called Radiographs) of your pets.
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Health Checks
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Pets, on average, age five to eight times faster than humans. By age two, most pets have already reached adulthood. At age four, many are entering middle age, and beginning around age seven, your pet enters his or her senior years. Because pets age so rapidly, major health changes can occur in a short amount of time.
Vaccinations
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Vaccinations protect our pets against a number of incurable and often fatal diseases such as Parvovirus and Distemper in dogs and Feline Enteritis and Cat Flu in cats. These viral diseases don't respond well to medications and treatment is difficult, expensive and often unsuccessful.
Puppies and kittens will obtain a certain level of immunity via their mothers milk until the age of 6 weeks or so, but then it rapidly drops off and they become very susceptible to the major diseases affecting the animal population.Just as children receive a series of needles early on in life, so should pets.
Puppies and kittens will obtain a certain level of immunity via their mothers milk until the age of 6 weeks or so, but then it rapidly drops off and they become very susceptible to the major diseases affecting the animal population.Just as children receive a series of needles early on in life, so should pets.
Arthritis Management
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With the start of the colder weather, for our older pets, that can mean the start of trouble with arthritis. Arthritis is a common condition in mature dogs with one in five adult dogs estimated to suffer from this disease. Remember it is not in a dog's nature to complain, so often they don't tell us when there is a problem until they are in a considerable amount of discomfort.
Heartworm Prevention
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Heartworm disease is a mosquito transmitted disease that affects thousands of dogs each year. Heartworm disease in dogs is quite common in most Australian states but the further north you travel the more prevalent the disease becomes. It is usual for dogs not on heartworm preventative treatments to become infected by heartworm during their life span.
Microchipping
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Thousands of pets are destroyed each year simply because they lack identification. This is why we recommend microchipping as part of our preventative healthcare campaign for all pets. Microchipping is now compulsory in Queensland and all puppies purchased should already be microchipped by the breeder, however pets can be microchipped at any age.
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