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The Natural Vets

The Natural Vets is a full service integrative veterinary clinic, on the Sunshine Coast QLD

We are a unique, dedicated holistic veterinary clinic on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. We integrate traditional western medicine with alternative therapies with a focus on natural nutrition, homeopathy, Chinese and Western herbal medicine, acupuncture and aromatherapy. We treat all small companion pets including dogs, cats, birds, guinea pigs, reptiles and any native wildlife. We al

so offer a range of natural pet foods and eco-friendly pet products, and have selected the most non-toxic options for preventatives such as tick, flea and worming products. We are relentless in seeking to uncover the root causes of disease, and aim to treat these and bring about a cure, rather than use drugs that will only suppress the illness and in time lead to another. We will empower you to set your pet on the Path to Wellness, by educating you about the causes of disease and the tenets of health.

15/01/2025

Heartworm education part 2!

Make sure your pets are safe this year. ☝🏽

13/01/2025

The Dreaded heartworm. 🪱

A yucky, icky but incredibly important topic we need to talk about. Especially now with Heartworm on the rise.

Follow along this week as we dive into this wormalicious topic. 😬😏

Also,
1. Head to our website
2. Find: Tribe Membership
3. Unlock exactly what you need for your pets this year.

10/01/2025

Here’s some cute puppies to make this caption less daunting!

Have you tested your pet for heartworm recently?

Did you know that there has been an increase of heart-worm positive cases in SEQ?

& we just had one last week in our clinic!

Next week we’re going to focus on education around heart worm disease, what it means for your pet, your preventative options & what the pesky heart worm does.

It’s an important topic, so look out for our posts.

Happy Friday and hope this weekend is glorious for you!

06/01/2025

Write it in your phone reminders, write it down in your calendars, call/email your clinic now & set up the appointment.

This post right here is your reminder to start 2025 out well & get your pets dental health checked!

Preventative dental health is an important part of pet care. To prevent dental disease, you can prevent an array of other bodily diseases in your pets. Not only that, but we can make sure our pets aren’t in any pain that we can’t visually see. We recommend getting their teeth checked at least twice per year and at The Natural Vets we offer free dental checks.

Things you can do at home to stay on top of your pets dental health:
•Get them used to teeth brushing! We sell our own vet formulated toothpaste, but coconut oil is also an incredible alternative, with its anti-bacterial properties.
•Give your pets safe bones! (Amazing for their teeth!)
•Feed a raw diet - where they can actually chew foods like vegetables/chunked meats etc.
•Use things like Oxyfresh Water Additive - or deer velvet spray, will help fight tartar build up and support a healthy oral microbiome (both available on our website store)

It’s really important that we take action on our pets dental health! We are still seeing many cases of pets having severe Dental and gum disease! Our wish is that we see more pet owners doing the preventative maintenance than we see them booking their pets in for multiple tooth extractions!

Our pets need their teeth, and they need healthy teeth and gums! Let’s make 2025 the year of dental health care!

03/01/2025

Cuddles are probably the most important part of our job 🥲🫶🏽

01/01/2025

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Here’s our list of Pet Owner New Years Resolutions hehe. The last 2 are VERY important.

Hope this year brings so much goodness, sloppy kisses and fur sprinkles! Enjoy your pets this year and say Hi from us ###x

30/12/2024

We are taking another 2 days off to enjoy the start of the New Year!

Like always, if you have an emergency ~ head to your closest Emergency Vet Clinic.
Closest to us is AES Tanawha - 07 5445 1333.

Hope the fireworks don’t scare your pets too much and you can enjoy the start of your New Year!

Here’s to 2025!

24/12/2024

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We hope everyone has an amazing day full of love, joy & laughter.

We are closed both Christmas & Boxing Day so if you have an emergency please call:
AES Tanawha on 07 5445 1333

Give your pets a big cuddle and kiss from us, and we will see you back in clinic on the 27th. Oh and don’t forget to leave treats out for Santa Paws 🤍🎄🎅🏽🐶

22/12/2024

The best view 🤍🐶👅

20/12/2024

You may have read our post the other day about Pet Safety In summer.

Well did you know we extracted that information from our newsletter?

We don’t do this often, but this was a must do!

If you want to learn more about pet safety, wellness, preventions or even just what we do at The Natural Vets ~ a great way of finding out this information is by subscribing to our newsletter. Who knows, you might find out about our promos first too?

Head to our website, subscribe to our newsletter or as we like to say join the tribe so you can be first in the know.

Our mission is to build up all pet owners tool kit with facts, information and options so that you can feel educated and ready in any season of your pets life.

We will see you hopefully not in your junk mail, we prefer being in your primary inbox. 😏😜 Have a great day! 🐶

16/12/2024

How can you and your pet have an enjoyable Christmas?

• Avoid emergencies by keeping them safe & avoiding everything mentioned. (Sometimes things happen, you’re not a bad pawrent if they do. But we wish you all the best and hope that nothing does this season!)
• Get them presents
• Give them a big hug and kiss from us
• Get them more presents

Merry Christmas xx

13/12/2024

We just want to say thank goodness the roles aren’t actually reversed, especially with Freya having a temp stick - if you know you know. 😂😅

12/12/2024

We had the most epic day at our Christmas Party yesterday!
A cruise, followed by lunch, dessert, cocktails, sauna, a steam and hot tubs!

A relaxing, beautiful and hilarious day.

Very proud of this team and what they do, their heart for your pets is second to none. They deserve all the good things!

We’re closed tomorrow for our Staff Christmas Party! & don’t we deserve it! 🎉If you need anything email us at hello@then...

10/12/2024

We’re closed tomorrow for our Staff Christmas Party!

& don’t we deserve it! 🎉

If you need anything email us at [email protected] and we will get back to you as soon as we can on Thursday.

If you have an emergency call AES Tanawha on
07 54451333.

05/12/2024

Recommendations to ensure your pet is hookworm free:
- Regularly test for the presence of hookwork with a FAECAL ANTIGEN TEST . We can
send your pet’s stool to a lab that screens for antigen, rather than just looking for eggs,
as hookworm may be present even if eggs are not.
- If hookworm is found, a specific deworming product will be recommended and needs to
be given monthly for a minimum 3-month period. Natural measures have not been
proven to eliminate an existing hookworm infection.
- We re-test the stool after 3 treatments, then again 3 months later.
- Routine testing is recommended at least twice yearly.
- Even if your new puppy has been regularly dewormed, we may still recommend a
hookworm test!
Note that infected pets, especially puppies or kittens, may require critical care including blood
transfusions to make a full recovery. Just deworming them won’t be adequate.
Hookworm can also pass to humans (usually by larval pe*******on through the skin), especially
young children. One of my friends from vet school was blind in one eye due to a childhood
hookworm infection from the family cat!
If you have any concerns regarding exposure please discuss with your usual health care
provider.
And if your pet hasn’t been tested for hookworm in the last 6 months, why not bring us a
Christmas gift - a little poo sample to test! (We will also gratefully receive donations of
homemade apple pie… but good luck beating Norma’s recipe. I’m still drooling.)
Poo tests for eggs cost $55. The more accurate antigen test is a bigger investment at $110.

Woo! That was a lot to read, but super important! So good work for finishing it! Thanks for sticking around!

03/12/2024

This Christmas we’ve decided to close a little earlier!

We will be closing at:
5pm - however closing hours may vary.

And we’re not open public holidays!

Thanks guys! If you need anything send us a message, email us or [email protected] or give us a call on 0654767674. We are here to help.

02/12/2024

Could this photo be any more perfect? 🥹🥹🥹

Beautiful pup, gorgeous nurse (even if you can only see the back of her cause she hates photos 😂😏) and the homeopathic wall.

So gorgeous!

27/11/2024

One of the hot topics amongst our community is tick prevention in pets.

This is our reality working in a vet hospital on the Sunshine Coast:
Tick paralysis can be a rapidly fatal event for both pets and livestock.
We operate in a high tick-risk area.
We see a number of cases of tick paralysis every year in unprotected pets.
Thankfully, we haven’t had any fatalities amongst our patients.
Usually a fatal outcome is avoidable if diagnosed and treated early.
Patients with symptoms (even early ones) should be treated with the tick anti-serum.

Tick paralysis is entirely preventable.

It helps to understand a little more about tick paralysis to understand why we advocate for tick prevention and early treatment in affected pets. Especially if you have never seen a pet affected with or die from tick paralysis.

Firstly, how do ticks affect pets? As they feed they inject a poison. This poison attaches to the
neuromuscular plates (the junction between the nerves and muscles) and causes paralysis - of the limbs (which is why they become wobbly), but also of the throat, face and the respiratory muscles. So it becomes hard to stand, swallow, drink, blink, wee, and breathe.

Once respiratory symptoms are evident, the prognosis is more guarded as respiratory cases may need critical care measures such as an oxygen tent or ventilator to survive, and may have complications such as aspiration pneumonia.

The tick poison that affects the nerves is not the only poison in your pet’s body. There is more poison circulating in their bloodstream, and this can continue to attach to the nerves for another 48 hours - which is why early treatment is crucial, as your pet will continue to get worse for 2 more days once symptoms start.

The anti-serum we use to treat tick paralysis doesn’t remove the poison already attached to the nerves; it mops up all the other poison in the bloodstream, preventing them from getting any worse. Then we use lots of supportive measures to help them recover from the symptoms they are already experiencing.

Most pets tolerate the anti-serum very well with appropriate veterinary measures in place. It is a crucial part of the treatment in affected pets.

At The Natural Vets, we have other tools we use to support recovery, including IV vitamin C infusions, and homeopathic high-strength remedies, alongside general nursing and critical care. We use these alongside the tick anti-serum, not instead of. And generally our patients recover with speed and ease if treated early.
Almost all the pets we treat with tick paralysis don’t have an effective preventative regime in place. Yes, tick preventatives are pharmaceutical ‘poisons’ of a kind. And every time we post about them, it sparks a hot conversation.

However, where we live, it’s important your pet is protected.
If you would like to know more about how to keep your pet safe during tick season, and how to best navigate the quagmire that is your chemical prevention options, we recommend booking a nurse consult. Our holistic nurses provide tailored solutions for every circumstance.

And remember, nurse consults are free for all TRIBE members, so if you don’t already have your tribe membership, check it out today!

Address

338 Mons Road
Sunshine Coast, QLD
4556

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	8am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	8am - 5:30pm
Thursday	8am - 5:30pm
Friday	8am - 5:30pm
Saturday	8:30am - 1pm

Telephone

+61754767674

Website

http://www.thenaturalvets.com.au/

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A cute baby for your day 💚

What makes us different at The Natural Vets? Well, we’ve created this video to show you exactly who we are, what we do & why. You can find lots of informative & educational videos on our YouTube channel, As well as this one! Enjoy. 🐶🐱 #Naturalvet #vetclinic #veterinaryclinic #holisticvet #vetnurse #vetschool #vettechlife #integrativevet #rawdiet #peteducation #holistichealth #holisticpets

Why Vitamin C via IV? •Target Cancer cells in cancer patients •Helps anaesthetic Recovery •Infection Management •Supports your pet witch toxicities - like from toads, ticks, snake or ingested toxins. •Prolongs survival times in patients with terminal cancer Why acupuncture? •improvements in circulation •reduction in inflammation •alleviate pain •improve mobility •calm the nervous system GO to our website to Talk to our team or Book your pet in now if you think they would benefit from these treatments! #ivvitc #vitaminc #vitamincinfusion #viramincinjection #acupuncture #acupuncturist #acupuncturistsofinstagram #petacupuncture #sunshinecoastbusiness #queenslandbusiness #queensland #vetschool #vetmedicine #holisticcare

We know they had a good time at our clinic, just look at those toe taps. 🥹😂😍🤷🏽‍♀️ #frenchbulldog #frenchie #frenchiesofinstagram #bulldog #naturalvets #toetaps #beans #vetclinic #doghumour #dogtricks #humour #pethumour #pets

Meet Bec! A strong pillar in The Natural Vets workforce, bringing her kindness, compassion and talents into the clinic day in and day out. Bec is not only a very experienced Nurse, but has a passion for Natural healing integrating her nursing with acupuncture in clinic and has even formulated her own pet essential oils that we sell online and in store. What a blessing it is to have Bec help look after your pets in our clinic in a unique way. You can book into see Bec for your acupuncture needs on our website. We love you Bec & thankful we get to see you most days! 🫶❤️ P.s How many acupuncture needles can you spot? #acupunctureandbodywork #acupuncture #petacupuncture #naturalhealing #petnaturalhealing #naturalhealthtips #petvet #vettips #veterinarylife #veterinarynurse #vetnurse #vetnurselife

PART 2! Turn sideways! —> Important information for our Senior Pets! Did you know that your pet who is above the age of 7 is considered a senior pet? So it is always a very good idea to be on top of their regular check ups to ensure that they are living their best life in good health! Did you find this video informative? Let us know! #seniorpets #seniordogsofinstagram #seniorcat #olddog #oldcat #pethealth #pethealthcare #petwellness #holisticwellbeing #petwellbeing #adoptdontshop❤️ #holisticvet #intergrativeveterinarymedicine #veterinarymedicine #vettechschool #vetschool #vetnaturally21 #vetnurse #vetstudent #vetvisit #dogpov

PART 1! Turn sideways! —> Important information for our Senior Pets! Did you know that your pet who is above the age of 7 is considered a senior pet? So it is always a very good idea to be on top of their regular check ups to ensure that they are living their best life in good health! Did you find this video informative? Let us know! #seniorpets #seniordogsofinstagram #seniorcat #olddog #oldcat #pethealth #pethealthcare #petwellness #holisticwellbeing #petwellbeing #adoptdontshop❤️ #holisticvet #intergrativeveterinarymedicine #veterinarymedicine #vettechschool #vetschool #vetnaturally21 #vetnurse #vetstudent #vetvisit #dogpov

We received so many questions this last month from our question box we put up last month and we thought it was finally time to share some answers & our beautiful Dr Renee was up for the challenge! See Part 1 on our profile. If you would like to see our vets share their knowledge, answer tough questions, see cute pet content & see how natural medicine can work in helping your pet in a plethora of ways follow us, and visit our website for more info! 🐶🫶🐱 #q&a #questionbox #questionandanswer #q&avideo #qanda #vetknowledge #vetscience #naturalapproach #chemotherapy #cancertreatment #petcancer #vitc #vitaminctherapy #successstories #petcare #vet #petvets #petsofinstagram

We received so many questions this last month from our question box we put up last month and we thought it was finally time to share some answers & our beautiful Dr Renee was up for the challenge! Part 2 is also now posted! If you would like to see our vets share their knowledge, answer tough questions, see cute pet content & see how natural medicine can work in helping your pet in a plethora of ways follow us, and visit our website for more info! 🐶🫶🐱 #q&a #questionbox #questionandanswer #q&avideo #qanda #vetknowledge #vetscience #naturalapproach #chemotherapy #cancertreatment #petcancer #vitc #vitaminctherapy #successstories #petcare #vet #petvets #petsofinstagram

Each month we focus on something new At The Natural Vets. This is to make sure our clients are educated and aware of things that could be going on in their pets body. This month we are putting a lot of our efforts towards, drum roll please: The pesky Heartworm. 🤢🪱 So what does our promo include? If you’re a client of ours & your pet is due in our system for a heartworm test, make sure you check your inbox (maybe junk) to see if you received an email from us. There should be a special little gift in there for you. For everyone else, if you book in to get a heartworm test done with us in the month of May, at the end of your consult you can win a months worth of Crodelio to keep your pet nicely protected from that wee little (can get big) parasite.🦠 This is definitely a good reminder to get your pet tested & put on some prevention against Heartworm if they aren’t already. Let’s get those worms people! Book in via our website. T&C’s apply. 😀

Sunday! Which means one more sleep until we get to spend the week with your pets again 😍. #petsofinstagram #animalreels #petreels #dogsandcats #guineapigs #holisticvet #petslife #petlovers #petphotographer

Okay firstly, How cute is this cat!? 😻 & Secondly, we love our cat people. Our nurses are cat and dog people, and they’re our favourite people. So…. #catsofinstagram #felinefriends #felinelove #petsoftheday #catsoftheweek #catsoftoday #holisticlifestyle #intergrativemedicine #veterinarylife

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The Natural Vets are a full service veterinary clinic integrating traditional western medicine with alternative therapies on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.

Are you looking to keep your pet healthy and well for their life? Or is your pet sadly already suffering from a disease process, and conventional medicine has been unable to offer an effective solution? It’s time you visited us at The Natural Vets! We treat all small companion pets including dogs, cats, birds, guinea pigs, reptiles and any native wildlife with a focus on natural nutrition, homeopathy, Chinese and Western herbal medicine, acupuncture and essential oils. We also offer a range of natural pet foods and eco-friendly pet products, and have selected the most non-toxic options for preventatives such as tick, flea and worming products. We are relentless in seeking to uncover the root causes of disease, and aim to treat these and bring about a cure, rather than use drugs that will only suppress the illness and in time lead to another. We will empower you to set your pet on the Path to Wellness, by educating you about the causes of disease and the tenets of health.

If you would like to make an appointment with one of our fabulous vets please call 07 54767674 or reserve your appointment online: