Many pet owners, jack of extortative pricing, are defying the recommendations of drug manufacturers and vets, and working-out ways to economise. When tick season arrives and monthly… Read more
Archive for the ‘Cats’ Category
Splitting Vials: Risk Minimising
Saturday, November 6th, 2010Canine Tetanus: a Facial Expression to Remember
Thursday, September 9th, 2010Here’s a facial expression you should commit to memory. A vet may only see it a few times during their career, and a pet owner only once if unlucky. No, it’s not Rabies or ferocious aggression;… Read more
Advantage? Not for Bees, Perhaps
Sunday, August 8th, 2010A recent study published in the Journal of Toxicology has revealed higher levels of environmental persistence and sensitivity of bees to Imidacloprid, the active in Advantage and Advantix, than… Read more
Gulf Oil Spill: Now Killing Pets Too
Sunday, July 25th, 2010If the grotesque images of oil-soaked wildlife weren’t depressing enough, now the economic impact of the BP oil spill is landing large numbers of pets on welfare death row. Full article in the New… Read more
Interspecies Affection
Sunday, July 4th, 2010When the Oxidant is Onion, and Effect is Anaemia
Thursday, July 1st, 2010The humble onion has always seemed the most unlikely of toxins but, it’s true, they can kill both dog and cat. Yet many pet owners have long fed onion-bearing leftovers to dogs with no apparent… Read more
Feline personalities
Monday, May 17th, 2010If there was just one family of animal I could empower with speech, and psychoanalyse, it would be the feline. Their behaviour can be chilling: stroke, nuzzle, lick,… Read more
Stories of freakish pet injury or death
Thursday, April 29th, 2010This is a cumulative list of horror stories of pet ownership: accidents, rare but predictable, from which we can learn and try to avoid; and the totally freakish, nobody could foresee. There’s… Read more
Lily toxicity in cats: clarification
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010Recently a client threw me a question that had me stumped, and curious. Are all members of the lily family toxic to cats? Online message boards had the answer in minutes. If you’re a cat… Read more