Pet Care Advice

Microchipping Why Microchip your pet? Every dog owner is legally obliged to ensure that their dog is wearing a collar and identification disc, but thousands have taken positive steps to ensure that their much loved pets can also be identified through microchip...

Vaccine Amnesty for Cats and Dogs When a puppy or kitten is born it receives maternal antibodies from its mother. Maternal antibodies only last for a few weeks, and then there is no antibody protection against life threatening infectious diseases. Primary vaccination...

Fireworks Firework stress affects almost 50% of dogs and many cats too. Fireworks are no longer a 5th November event and are heard throughout autumn and are often used for many other celebrations such as Birthdays, Weddings and New Year. Firework stress affects almost...

Geriatric Disease As our pets start to enter their senior years, usually from 7 years old and onwards for dogs and cats, certain age related health problems are more likely to arise. Unfortunately the symptoms of age related diseases often develop slowly and can...

Pet Smile Month Our pet’s teeth were designed for their natural diet of raw meat, sinew and bone. The process of eating these foods had a natural cleaning action on the teeth. Nowadays however, we feed soft textured food, and even biscuit diets can be swallowed with...

Puppies & Kittens Summer is a great time to get a new puppy or kitten. With the fine weather, it is a lot easier to toilet train your puppy and leave doors open for him/her to come and go as he/she pleases. It is important to remember that your new puppy/kitten should...

Fleas With warmer winters and centrally heated houses, fleas are no longer just a summer problem, rather more a year round issue causing conditions ranging from skin irritation and allergies to infections, hair loss and anaemia. Worse still, a female flea can lay 50...

Allergies We all know about allergies in people, but allergic skin disease (also called Atopy) is a problem we are seeing increasingly commonly in our pets too. Allergies are immune reactions in which an animal responds abnormally to common, normally harmless...

Neutering If you are not intending to breed from your pet, there are undoubted advantages to neutering. In male dogs and cats, neutering (or castration) removes the influence of the hormone testosterone, which results in reduced fighting, aggression and roaming...

Is Chocolate Poisonous to Dogs Can it be true? Is chocolate poisonous to dogs? The answer is yes. The hazard to your dog however, depends on the type of chocolate, the size of dog, and the amount consumed. The component of chocolate that is toxic to dogs is called...