Brunker Road Veterinary Centre

This sweet girl is looking for her furever home. Please call the practice on 49572269 if you are interested in adopting ❤

Happy Vet Nurse & Vet Tec Day!

Fire and Evacuation Safety Training

The BRVC team recently undertook their fire and evacuation safety training with Burnie from PEP Training. Take a look at our WHS team fun!

Teddy's New Mats

Teddy's New Mats Meet Teddy, the 5 year old Labrador, who was a bit unsteady on his feet when his house got some new flooring. This can happen on unfamiliar surfaces, and bring about hesitation to enter an area,a fear of falling, and a loss of grip on the surface. After a visit with Dr Paul McCathy, Teddy's mum and dad brought him his own walking mats, which made him feel safe and secure. A big thank you to Teddy's mum and dad for the great video!

That's One Relaxed Dog!

One of our lovely clients sent us this sensational video of how relaxed her dog is while she does some fur clipping. Spa day anyone?

Happy Vet Nurse Day!!!!

Happy Vet Nurse Day!!!

Breeders Choice Flash Sale

Little Popping Luna

Little Luna was in for a visit last week, and she just could not stop popping!

Mighty Mite - Leporacarus gibbus

Mighty Mite We captured a video down the microscope today of a species of Fur Mite, Leporacarus gibbus. This mite is found worldwide, commonly occurring on rabbits. It can live on rabbits without causing any clinic signs, even when large in numbers.

More from fire training with Dr Whitaker on the extinguisher!!!

HAPPY VETERINARY NURSE DAY!! 🐾 A massive THANK YOU to all of our Veterinary Nurses and support staff for all their hard work day in day out!! We appreciate each and every one of you. Without you we wouldn't be able to do what we do! 🐾👣 #VetNurseDay #VetNurseDay2016 #VetNurse #AnimalCare #Love #Animals #Pets #AllTheLove #Puppy #Kitten #Cute

We are always getting a variety of wildlife in at BRVC. From injured possums and birds to this little guy, who fell out of his nest and wandered off. A kind human picked him up and brought him into us, where we cared for him until a wildlife carer came to do the wonderful job of rehabilitating to release back into the wild. Some fun facts! Finding a baby bird on the ground is something that elicits in most of us a desire to help. Every year in Spring a number of young tawny frogmouths are found on the ground by people passing by and handed in to vets. These birds 'fall' into two categories. 1. Little nestlings that look like balls of fluff. Their feathers are downy and they have not yet grown a tail. They have probably been blown out of the nest or fallen while being a bit too adventurous. On the ground they are defenceless. If the nest is visible and reachable the baby bird can be placed back in it, but usually the nest is high in the tree tops and the safest bet is to take the baby bird to a vet or bird carer. 2. Fledglings are young birds who are learning to fly under parental guidance but sometimes don't make it back to the nest. It is very likely that the parents are nearby and if you can place the bird on a tree branch where is is safe from predators, especially cats, the parent birds will usually continue their supervision and when the bird is capable it will resume its place in the nest. As tawnies are night birds the parents will not return to feed the fledgling till nightfall. So the ideal situation is for you or someone to monitor the situation and satisfy yourself that the family is re-united. If that doesn't happen and the young bird seems not to be coping, then handing it in to a vet is probably the best bet.

Cat fight abscess! #CatFightAbscess #Abscess #CatFight #Pus #Infection #Gross #ButSoGood #Pop #Lance #Vetnurse #Vet #Surgery #Operation

A Retropharyngeal lymph node removal where the Carotid artery is exposed! #Retropharyngeal #LymphNode #Carotid #Artery #CarotidArtery #Vagosympatheic #Removal #Surgery #Operation #Vet #VetNurse #theatre #Surgeon #Lymphoma

**WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO** Video of an Elbow Arthrotomy! This is Dr Nott removing a fragment of bone out of a dogs elbow!

Little rocky loving his new KONG on/off squeaker toy!! This new toy has an on and off switch which allows loud play and also silences the squeak when you want quiet play!! These new toys are paired up and for a limited time only FREE when you purchase a KONG wobbler!! Want to know more? Call us or Come in and see them for yourself!

**WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO** This is what internal bleeding looks like. 1L of blood was suctioned out of this abdominal cavity after a splenic tumour had ruptured. The spleen was removed and the dog in question is doing well!

ROM massage and Physiotherapy! Our staff work around the clock, on the floor, upside down, in every position you can think of and are run off their feet day in day out! Here is one of our nurses, Elise, giving a patient his ROM massage which had to be done 4 times daily for 30mins-1hr! Such dedication and compassion is shown from all of our staff and as you can see Bear isn't complaining about his treatment at all!! #appreciationpost

**WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO** Fracture repair! Here we are reducing a fracture and placing a plate with screws to keep the leg in place! #fracture #fracturerepair #dog #hitbycar #vetnurse #vet #surgery #operation #surgeon #scrubnurse #warning #graphic #drilling #sawing #broken #fix #fixing #repair #reduction #screws #pins #veterinarysurgeon #vetnurse #orthopaedics #orthopaedicsurgery #orthopaedicsurgeon #orthopaedic