Patient spotlight! 🎉
Meet Bear
Bear is one of our rehab patients, this little star has been coming to us after having spinal surgery for grade 5 Intervertebral disc disease (IVDD). Watch him as he goes through one of his tailored rehabilitation exercises - He is absolutely smashing goals, and we can’t wait to see more progress from him!
Check our Maple’s progress! If you saw our post on her a few weeks ago, you’ll see how far she has come. We are so proud of this little sausage ❤️🩹
Check out Maple’s progress in just FOUR weeks, all thanks to a tailored rehab program. This is Maple in her first and fourth hydrotherapy session after 5 weeks with us and 8 rehab sessions. Maple is a little superstar who (with the absolute dedication of her owner), is defying the odds and statistics that she was presented with 10 weeks ago post Pediculectomy (spinal decompression surgery) for Grade 5 IVDD. She still has a long way to go but we are so proud of how far she has come!
Age is no barrier for rehab! Rusty will be 16 at the beginning of next year and he is still going strong. Having been in rehab for almost 3 years, he knows all of the tricks to get some more peanut butter out of us 🙊
Come along on a day in ‘All Day Rehab’ with Nellie 🫶🏻 All Day Rehab is designed for our geriatric or poor mobility / non-ambulatory patients who need an adequate amount of rest between their exercises. However, dependant on availability and personal schedules, we can book any patient into this program.During their day, our patients have multiple sessions of an array of modalities including laser therapy, hydrotherapy and range of motion, all dependant on their needs.
FLV Summer Comp Winners
✨ Aaaaand the winnners are..... ✨
Thanks to everyone that entered the Fur Life Vet Summer Competition - keep an eye out on the @furlifevet page for future opportunities to win some great prizes! 🎁
Fur Life Vet Summer Competition
Cuteness overload! 😍
So many great entries have already been submitted for the Fur Life Vet Summer Competition 🏖️ 🐾
Why not join the fun and enter your reel for a chance to win! 🏆
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Our Summer Competition is now open, and it's REEEELY easy to enter! ☀️ 🤳
✅ Film your pet enjoying their favourite summer activity
✅ Upload as an Instagram or Facebook Reel
✅ Tag @furlifevet for your chance to win!*
There are three prize packs to be won, so get snapping! 🐕
*T&Cs apply, visit: https://www.furlifevet.com.au/fur-life-vet-summer-competition-2023/
We all know how important it is to regularly deworm your pets against intestinal worms. These are: Tapeworms - Hookworms - Whipworms and Roundworms. 🐛
To be effective however, deworming needs to be done regularly using a quality product and correct dosages.
Puppies and kittens especially can suffer serious health problems if they carry too many worms. Those big bellies you see on some of these babies may not be a good sign at all.
With so many products on the market including tablets, spottons and chews it's very easy to end up not correctly worming your pets. Also, some of those multi-spectrum products may only do part of the worming which is an easy thing to overlook.
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To physically test to see how effective your pet's worming program is you can ask for a faecal test to be performed. Up until recently your pet's sample had to be sent off to an external lab for analysis.
Luckily nowadays this test can be simply performed in clinic using special equipment. All we need to do this is a small sample of your dog or cat's 💩 and one of our trained nurses can run that test for you.
Depending on how busy we are, we can generally get those results to you fairly quickly.
Dear Clients
We'd like to wish all our clients and furbabies all the very best for this Christmas break and the New Year 2022
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Thank you to all who have supported us during this crazy year that had us all face enormous challenges. Here's hoping 2022 will be a little brighter.
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Many of you have been asking about our opening hours over the Christmas New year period.
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Unfortunately due to staffing levels we can't be open the whole time like we used to be however, our Hours will be as follows:
👉Christmas Eve: Open until 9.30pm
👉Sat Dec 25th: CLOSED
👉Sun Dec 26th: CLOSED
👉Monday Dec 27th: 9.00am - 10.00pm
👉Tuesday Dec 28th: 9.00am - 10.00pm for appointments
👉New Year's Day (Saturday 1st): CLOSED
👉Sunday Jan 2nd: CLOSED
👉Monday Jan 3rd (Public Holiday: 9.00am - 10.00pm
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For urgent veterinary care outside of these times, please contact your nearest Animal Emergency Centre.
🧐We're experiencing a bit of a baby boom so we're on the lookout for some great new talent to join our team.
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Right now we need an awesome Vet Nurse Receptionist to work with Kate, Kristy, Krystal, Holly, Ashlynn, Mikayla - our concierge Sarah and our wonderful hospital team supporting you from out the back.
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Vet Nurse Experience preferred so you can confidently assist our clients with questions.
👉To find out more or to apply - check out the link in the comments
With our Rehab Team often booked out for weeks ahead we're now taking some of our popular and much needed sessions online.
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Our PREHAB for dogs is a special 5 week exercise program that helps condition breeds prone to spinal disease to minimise risk of needing expensive surgery. (It's also great for working and agility dogs and bull breeds. Not just our "long" ones)
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Normally we deliver these therapeutic conditioning exercises as face to face visits but thanks to tech we can bring the same experience to you at home. 👏
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⌛️But HURRY - if you want to join - Our Waitlist for our first class Starting September 6th is closing midnight tonight
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To learn more click on the link in the comments below 👇
Exciting News!
Our BOAS consultation for Brachycephalic breeds of dogs is now offered online for your convenience.
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We get regular enquiries about this topic and find that simply discussing it over the phone or during a regular consultation doesn’t do it justice.
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Sadly BOAS and it’s damaging side effects are often poorly misunderstood due to the range of different opinions out there.
This leaves many of these gorgeous dogs untreated until the symptoms become severe or even life threatening.
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To help more people learn more about BOAS and how modern diagnostics and treatments can really help these dogs live longer healthier lives - we’ve put together this online consultation so you can see what we discuss with our clients on an individual basis in real time.
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For access - message us.
Dog Blood Donor Program Whittlesea
Do you want to help save lives?
If your dog is healthy, over 30 kg and under 7 years of age, we're looking for more dogs like yours to donate blood.
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We've saved hundreds of lives over the years with the help of our wonderful canine donors and there are many dogs running around happy and healthy due to receiving lifesaving blood when they needed it.
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However with some of our regulars now getting a little old, we need some younger dogs to join our lifesaver pack.
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If you're interested in having your dog become a blood donor and live locally, please message us and one of our friendly team will be happy to go through the details with you.
Leptospirosis Vaccination in Dogs in Victoria
Today we had several people ask whether they needed to Vaccinate their dog against the deadly leptospirosis bacteria. (Transmitted through the infected urine of rodents)
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This is because vaccinations are being promoted in parts of NSW and Queensland, due the mouse plague in those areas.
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At the moment we have received no official advice that dogs in our local area are at any greater risk than before and that we should be encouraging vaccination againts this disease.
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If this changes we will of course let you know.
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If you live in other areas of Victoria - please ask your local vet for advice as recommendations may vary according to location.
Our COVID Policy Updates
Due to the changes happening in our area we have upgraded our COVID Safe Policies.
This means our doors are open for any of you who have booked an appointment with us OR are admitting one of your pets for a procedure. At all other times - our doors are locked.
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Once you have arrived for your appointment we ask you to call us. Our Reception team will then notify you when the vet is ready to see you.
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This means we can't accomodate walk ins without an appointment. If you have an emergency - please call us when you are on your way so we can organise to meet you at the door when you arrive.
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If you need to order more medications for your pet - please give us at least 24 hours to prepare your medications or prescription. We will then contact you when your medications are ready to be collected.
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Thanking you all in advance for your co-operation and support in keeping everyone safe during these challenging times.
The Vet Practice - Getting Ready for our First Virtual Puppy Class today
We had the cutest students in the house today getting ready for their first "Virtual Puppy Class."
This is the first of 4 sessions with the final session giving each of these pups an introduction to water safety with a swim in the pool before graduation.
We can't wait for that one!
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If anyone else is interested in having their pup join us for these interactive sessions, we're taking expressions of interest for the next classes now.
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https://form.jotform.com/thevetpractice/puppy-class-expression-of-interest-
Important COVID-19 Message from The Vet Practice
Things are changing fast so we've has to make some important changes to the way we work from today.
Most importantly:
1 - Need a second opinion consultation? We already do most of these via video conferencing so you don't need to visit.
2 - We've suspended our home visits until further notice
3 - If you are sick - please don't come in. You can drop off your pet without having to leave your car. We take care of the rest.
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Please understand - We're taking this global pandemic very seriously and taking every possible precaution to keep you and our team safe during these uncertain times.
Thanks in advance for your understanding and please - get in touch if you have any questions.
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A Message from The Vet Practice
In light of what's happening with the Coronavirus virus outbreak we'd like to let everyone know what measures we're taking as a business to keep all of you visiting us as protected as possible.
Let's work together to keep our community safe.
