Dogs are beloved members of our families, and we want to make sure they are comfortable and always protected from the elements!
There are many benefits to buying a dog coat for your furry friend, including:
🐾Protection from the elements: A coat can provide insulation and protection from rain, snow, and cold temperatures. This can help keep your dog warm and dry during walks and outdoor activities. Even a dog with a thick, double-coat (such as a German Shepherd) can benefit from the warmth of a coat, especially if they are older to help keep the chill at bay on arthritic joints.
🐾Increased visibility: Many coats come with reflective material, which can make your dog more visible to drivers and other pedestrians at night or in low-light conditions. This can help keep your dog safe while out and about.
🐾Easy cleaning: A coat can make cleaning up after walks much easier. Mud, dirt and debris won't stick to the coat as easily as it would to their fur, making it much easier to wipe or wash off, especially if you have a short haired dog. There's much less of the dog to clean if they've been wearing a coat, meaning less time battling them with a wet towel after a walk.
🐾Comfort: Dog coats can provide lots of comfort for dogs who have sensitive skin or are recovering from surgery, as well as dogs with extremely short coats! Breeds such as Italian Greyhounds or Whippets who don't have a particularly thick coat to keep them warm can benefit the most from protection against the elements.
In conclusion, buying a dog coat for your furry friend can provide protection from the elements, increased visibility, easy cleaning, and comfort. With so many benefits, a coat is worth the investment!
🔬Our veterinary lab microscopes are used daily to view 🩸blood, 💩 faecal/urine samples and 🐛 parasites.
These allow us to look more closely, seeing beyond what is visible to the naked eye, it’s a valuable diagnostic tool!
Did you guess what’s in the reel? 🫣
1- Cat flea
2- Dog biting louse
3- Red and white blood cells
4- Red blood cells.
5- Otodectes ear mite
6- Malassezia from ear
7- Cheyletiella walking dandruff
8- Demodex
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BLOODS 🩸💉
Have you ever left the clinic feeling confused by your pet’s blood tests? Or wonder how useful they are?
We all want the very best for our pets, but do you do you wonder if there’s really a need to do all the tests our vets recommend? 🤔
Your pet might need a blood test for a numerous reasons. They can help us further investigate and diagnose illness in your pet. They can also be used to confirm a current diagnosis or check that a particular cause of treatment or medication is working. We may also use them to diagnose an infectious disease, organ failure or even skin allergies.🦠
We may also recommend a blood test to get a picture of your pet’s internal health when they are fit and healthy – prior to an anaesthetic or to help early disease detection as your pet ages. We can measure a range of parameters that allow us to assess your pet’s blood cells and organ function and we compare the results to what is expected to be in the normal range for their species and age.📉
For these reasons it’s important that we have analysers that provide reliable and rapid results to allow us to provide early interventions, improving outcomes for our patients, after all we can only manage what we can measure.🔬
We have recently invested in a new suite of 4, state of the art, in house analysers. These allow us to assess a patient’s haematology (checking white and red blood cells) and a biochemistry (allowing us to assess electrolyte levels and the function of the kidneys and liver), alongside urine and blood serum.🧫🩸
Additionally, our analysers allow us to run a whole host of specific tests for conditions such as FIV/FELV, giardia, and canine parvovirus. Traditionally, we may have waited several days to obtain the results and now we have them in a matter of minutes, these rapid results allow our team to spend more time caring for our patients.💙🐾
#MODERNMEDICINE
We are constantly surprised by the things our patients eat! 🐶 🐱
The potential for serious consequences following ingestion of foreign material (or foreign bodies) is high, rapid diagnostics and intervention is therefore essential and much more likely to be a result in a successful outcome.
Luckily in this case the little girl’s owner contacted us immediately after she’s eaten something she shouldn’t have!
Violet is a happy-go-lucky cavalier King Charles spaniel, who earlier this year had chewed up the wire binding from a notebook. Her owner contacted us immediately and she was seen within the hour. 😳
After being examined by one of our vets it was decided the best course of action was to admit her so we could investigate further.🤔
Violet was given a sedation before performing X-rays: our fears were confirmed, she had indeed eaten some of the wire! 🩻
On discussion with her owners a decision was made to perform surgery to remove the pieces of wire, leaving these in place could have led to life-threatening complications.
Violet was anesthetised and exploratory surgery performed, the foreign material was found in her stomach, so an incision was made to recover it.
Following a successful surgery, and countless nurse cuddles Violet was not surprisingly still a little sore, so she spent a night in the hospital for additional pain relief and medications.
She was discharged the following day.
Violet came back to visit 2 days post-surgery and was doing well, eating, drinking, and taking her medications like a good girl she always planned to be.🥰
A week post-surgery she had made a full recovery.♥️
Thankfully because of her owner’s diligence, rapid actions and swift intervention of our team, Violet made a fantastic recovery to health.
……..If you think your pet has eaten something they shouldn’t have, contact us immediately for advice.🐾
The Simpson Cavaliers
🐾🤔Do you often wonder what happens to the urine sample you hand in for your pet or how we run the tests in the clinic?🏥
Well in fact can learn a lot about a patient's health from assessing a urine sample. 🧪
We have a full range of urine testing available to us, but have recently added a really exciting piece of equipment to our laboratory to make urinalysis much more rapid.🥼
⭐️Sedi Vue is our new in house comprehensive urine testing package and can produce reliable results within as little as 3 minutes, meaning our vets and nurses can act rapidly, investigating abnormalities thoroughly and commencing treatment promptly.
Running alongside our suite of in house urine tests, Sedi Vue allows us to efficiently assess urine microscopically for the presence of bacteria, cells, casts and crystals.🧫
The analyser microscopically examines patient samples and produces high-quality digital images, capturing up to 70 images per run.🔬
Linked to a neural network, the analyser will compare these to a library of 800 million patient images and uses artificial intelligence to better identify abnormalities with every result produced. 😮
The images can even be viewed remotely by laboratory pathologists, whom our vets can consult with and gain further insight.
Sedi Vue integrates seamlessly with our laboratory partner's online platform. This allows the results of in house tests to be combined and interpreted with samples which may need to be sent for external testing, creating a fully integrated solution.💊
This really does sound like science fiction but this cutting edge technology is allowing us help pets everyday.⭐️🐾
🐾💕 Amber is a cocker spaniel who initially came to see us at Sore Paws when her owner noticed her eye had bruised after her other dog accidentally ran into her.
Upon arrival we noticed she had bruising in lots of other areas too, such as on her tummy, gums and ears. We ran some blood tests and checked how her blood was clotting. These showed that she had very low platelets (the fragments within the blood to promote clotting) and she was diagnosed with a condition called Immune Mediated Thrombocytopenia (IMTP).
Amber was then started on medication which included steroids and a chemotherapy drug to stop her body attacking the platelets. However, these medications take a while to take effect, and the following day, her red blood cells fell to dangerously low levels as she began bleeding in to her gastrointestinal tract.
Fortunately, Bear the Labrador was able to save the day, and donated 500ml blood which was used as a blood transfusion for Amber. This was important for two reasons - to increase the levels of her red blood cells, and to increase her platelets to stop the bleeding into her digestive tract.
Amber was stabilised that evening and was started to feel better within a few days. She has recently been signed off and no longer needs to take medication after 6 months of treatment.
Amber was looked after by Natasha, one of our fantastic vets who ironically got the call to say Amber needed a blood transfusion whilst giving blood herself! 🩸🐾
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