🎩 Top Tip Tuesday! 🎩
🌟 Applying Flea Treatment 🌟
The last video to share is giving an oral product ☺️
If you would like to discuss your pets flea control with us or would like help with administration please give us a call.☎️
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🎩 Top Tip Tuesday! 🎩
🌟 Applying Flea Treatment 🌟
The next video to share is applying a spot-on product ☺️
If you would like to discuss your pets flea control with us or would like help with administration please give us a call.☎️
#TowcesterVets #LovePets #TopTipTuesday #fleas #fleatreatment
🎩 Top Tip Tuesday! 🎩
🌟 Applying Flea Treatment 🌟
🗣️ You may have seen some discussions recently on whether medications used to treat parasites on pets are over used and contributing to environmental pollution. As with other potential causes such as pesticides used on crops or in people's homes and gardens it can be a tricky balance. Obviously no-one wants to cause environmental damage, but equally the damage the pests can cause can be huge.
🔎 With regards to flea treatment one suggestion made is that instead of routine preventative treatment, flea infestations are instead only treated once they arise. There are some huge difficulties with this however. As we have previously discussed flea infestations can be tricky to spot straight away and so by the time treatment is initiated the pet's bedding, home, car, other environments visited etc will all require treating with more of the chemicals we are trying to avoid, with the pet being treated for 3 months minimum. Some animals are allergic to flea saliva, meaning even a single bite can trigger distressing skin disease. Fleas and ticks are also associated with the transmission of some diseases. Many people understandably are reluctant for their pets to experience the discomfort and distress that can result from flea infestations even if just for a short period, while others are deterred by the idea of fleas in their home.😫
🧪Some of the chemicals implicated are able to be purchased without prescription over-the-counter, but unfortunately these preparations are often poor at fully solving a flea problem. This means more products being used, increasing the issue. Some people have suggested only effective, prescription strength medications should therefore be on the market.
💦 The chemicals in oral flea medications do not contamine water sources in the same way as spot-on products do and so might be a better option if your dog is a swimmer or requires regular baths (🙋 hands up for poo-rol
🐾 Pet of the Week! 🐾
😺 This gorgeous boy is Master Windu, visiting our Paulespury clinic recently for a post-operative check up after he needed to have one of his front legs amputated. After a sudden onset of lameness a CT scan was performed at a referral vets and sadly a tumour was discovered near his elbow. The mass grew quickly and was detrimental to Master Windu's quality of life, so the decision was made to amputate.
Due to their small size and being able to use their three remaining legs and tail for balance, cats do remarkably well if they lose a limb. Although it is a major surgery, cats can often be back home the same day or the following day and can soon return to running and jumping!
We were so pleased to see him back enjoying lots of fuss from our nurses and are so glad to see how comfortable he now is. His owners say he has a completely new lease of life 🥰
#TowcesterVets #LovePets #petoftheweek #3leggedcat #amputation
😱👀They ate what??!!👀😱
🚨Graphic footage warning 🚨 video is footage from a live surgery, but definitely worth a watch!
As we have talked about previously, however careful we are as owners, pets love to eat things they shouldn't and at Towcester Vets we regularly have to induce vomiting or operate to remove foreign bodies. We consider ourselves fairly hard to shock, but this one surprised us all!! Watch as Veterinary Surgeon Cat removes this amazing foreign body from this dogs stomach!
Luckily after being intensively nursed by both day and night teams the patient continued to recover well at home. Hopefully they will stick to eating food going forward!
#TowcesterVets #poorlypets #foreignbodies #dogseatanything #amazingsurgery
🌟 What We Do Wednesdays! 🌟
💙 Microchipping 💙
A microchip is a tiny electronic device, coated in glass that can be inserted into an animal's body. It provides the animal with a unique identifying number that can be linked to a database with ownership details registered. It is so tiny it can fit in the middle of a hollow needle and so can be placed without anaesthesia. 💉
🚨In the UK the current law is that all puppies must be microchipped while with the breeder, before they turn 8 weeks old, with kittens needing theirs before they are 20 weeks old. Not complying can result in a large fine and a possible prosecution.🚨
Yesterday we told you about 1 year old Bramble whose puppy microchip failed (it's always the staff pets! 🙄🤣). The video shows her having a new chip placed by Veterinary Nurse Ruby. As you can see Bramble looked up from her snack briefly to see what Ruby was doing before returning back to her treat! 🥓
Did you know that as well as cats and dogs we can place microchips in a variety of other small species, including tortoises 🐢, rabbits🐇, guinea pigs🐹, lizards🦎, parrots🦜, ferrets and snakes🐍!
If you would like an appointment for us to microchip your pet or litter of puppies please give us a call! ☎️
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😻 Look. At. Those. Ears!!😻
Veterinary Nurse Jen is hand-rearing again and is obsessed with the twitching ears of her babies! How cute are they?? 🥰
#TowcesterVets #LovePets #kittens #handrearing #bottlefedkittens
❓❓Guess the Parasite! ❓❓
We treat a lot of parasites, all with different ways of keeping hidden. Some are internal, some are too tiny to see with the naked eye, some are very quick...and some like to camouflage.
These tiny creatures hitched a lift on one of our patients this week, looking just like flakes of dry skin, but look closely at the slide and watch them walk!
Does anyone know what they are?? Come back tomorrow for the answer!
🌟 Answer! 🌟
The correct answer is Cheyletiella, a fur mite, also known as "walking dandruff"! Well done if you got it right!
They can affect dogs and cats but we see them most frequently on rabbits.
Cheyletiella mites can live on people too but we are not a host species for them so it's luckily rare and treating the pet will treat the person.
Aside from noticing the "walking dandruff", affected pets are likely to have a flakey and scaley coat, potentially with bald patches. Some animals find them intensely itchy whereas others are less concerned.
We are sure both our patient and their owner are relieved to have the problem treated! If you are concerned about your pets having parasites please give us a call to let us help
#TowcesterVets #itchypets #parasites
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⭐ Guinea Pig Appreciation Week: Day 6 ⭐
Did you know Guinea Pigs can communicate with us? They are very vocal animals, expressing themselves with squeeks, wheeks and purrs. Most guinea pig owners will tell you they can be very loud, particularly when waiting for their breakfast like rescue pigs Kobay and Paddy! Teeth chattering, grunting and hiding away can be signs that the pig isn't happy with the current circumstances and needs some peace and quiet. If your guinea pig's behaviour or vocalisation changes it might be a sign that they are unwell so it would be a good idea to get one of our vets to give them a check over, contact us if you would like to make an appointment. Do you think your guinea pig is the loudest? We would love to hear them, please share any videos you have!
