Boxing Day - 26th December
🎁🐾Happy boxing day from all of us at Your vets Nuneaton 🐾🎁
We hope you and your pets are enjoying the festive season and taking time to relax after all the Christmas excitement! Whether it's extra cuddles, a winter walk or snoozing by the fire, we hope today is filled with joy and warmth🐶🐱♥
Remember, the holidays can sometimes bring unexpected surprises for our furry friend. If you need us, were here to help - check our holiday on our website or give us a call.
🎃🎃Happy Halloween🎃🎃
Our wellbeing team have been at it again ..
A massive thanks to our Head Nurse Lucie, the mastermind behind this weeks Thriving Thursday .
Spot the special guest 👀👀 she was sure she could help her mommy Rhianne play ..
🎆🎆Fireworks Season 🎆🎆
Following our recent client evening all about supporting your furry family in fireworks season, we thought we would share some useful advice.
**Prepare**
There are a number of things you can do to best prepare you and your pet in advance of the fireworks events. There are a range of products that can be used to help settle your pet .
- Plug ins/pheromone treatments:
Adaptil (dog) 🐕/Feliway (cat)🐈
These are pheromone treatments based on the pheromone a mother cat/dog releases when calming their young. These are available in a range of products including plug ins, travel sprays, collars (dog only) etc
Pet Remedy (dog/cat/rabbit/bird/horse)🐶🐱🐰🐦🐴
This is a product containing certain essential oils that promote calmness and are safe to use in animals, this is also available in a range of products including plug ins, sprays, wipes, bandanas etc
- Calming supplements
There are a range of different calming supplements you can use for your pet available over the counter without a prescription. These work on a few different calming pathways such as milk and meat proteins that alter the uptake of serotonin in the brain. These are the ones we have available in practice:
Serenicare
Zylkene
Nutracalm
Pheromone treatments or calming supplements should be started as soon as possible for the best effect, and can take up to 2 weeks to be fully effective.
💊Prescription medication 💊
If your pet really struggles with fireworks season and shows high levels of stress, please get in touch with your vet to see if they can help with any prescription medication, make sure to do this a week or so in advance so you are fully prepared.
**Safe space**
Set up a safe space for your pet to retreat to during the fireworks events. Set this up as soon as possible to allow your pet time to adjust, you can also use the pheromone products mentioned above in these safe spaces.
**How to keep your pet safe**
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🐾Happy Black Cat Appreciation Day! Today we are celebrating all our black feline friends - but how good is your black cat knowledge? Make sure to show us how your black cats are celebrating their day in the comments below.🐾
🐾🐶National “Spoil Your Dog Day” is celebrated on the 10th of August every year, and is a day entirely dedicated to spoiling our four-legged companions like never before. Comment below with a photo of your furry friend!🐶🐾
