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05/08/2025

Meet Charlie 🥰

Charlie is a 1 year old Golden Retriever x Cocker Spaniel. When I first met Charlie he was really struggling to settle for more than a few minutes at a time during the day. His owners were struggling as he would jump up and mouthe constantly both on them, visitors and also his ‘sister’ dog in the house. She was becoming increasingly fearful of him and not wanting to come downstairs.

Charlie also found not being able to greet people or dogs outside super frustrating, he would lie down, then jump all over them.

Charlie has hip dysplasia and we identified some of his inability to settle may be pain related, so we started him on a multimodal pain relief plan as well as some anxiolytic meds. We also sorted out a management plan to enable him to relax.

Fast forward 6 months and here is Charlie being able to chill out at his holiday home without having to be confined to a crate. His progress has been down to the hard work of his brilliant family and lovely vets . Like the last post, sometimes the best success is a dog able to do nothing at all 😴

24/07/2025

When a chilling dog is an absolute WIN 🥇

Meet Fenway, a 3 year old show cocker. When I first met him in Feb last year, Fenway was really struggling. He had bitten his care givers a few times, was resource guarding lots of things in the house and was finding life tricky.

During our first consult, Fenway found me in his house super stressful and we had to pop him in a separate room with a chew as he couldn’t settle at all with me in the same room even with food etc.

His progress is testament to how hard his wonderful family and vet team have worked with him. When I saw him on Tuesday, he greeted me with a wiggly bottom, had some treats and then chilled by my feet ❤️

Sometimes it’s the smallest things that make me super proud!

16/07/2025

Met Stanley today, who can find the world a bit scary and his ‘sister’ Mabel, who was here for the treats 😂❤️

Any guesses on the breed? (Clue they are both the same breed and are bigger than they look…!)

21/05/2025

Brilliant night presenting to the lovely vets and nurses of Norfolk on low stress handling and cooperative care. Big thank you to Dr Anna and the team for asking me to talk.

My passion for the topic started when I had an anxious cat of my own 🥰 He had high medical needs and kept the vets , .vets and very busy!

Seby was lucky as he had a brilliant team of vets working with him and I was able to control his environment in a way that he could be safely handled without stress. However, in the wrong environment he would be unhandleable & pretty unsafe for others to handle. This started my passion to make sure every animal had access to the care that Seby did!

02/05/2025

Looking for some free CPD? Come and join me in Norwich, Milton Keynes or Birmingham. I’ll be chatting about one of my absolute fav topic - cooperative care and low stress vet visits. If you can’t make those locations join my brilliant colleagues for dates all around the country!

Big thank you to for asking me to speak.

01/05/2025

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again! Team work makes the dream work. I’m super lucky to work alongside some amazing referring vets - both GP and specialists. Working together we can ensure that we get the best for patients!

I also have a wonderful network of brilliant small business owners and professionals that I work alongside to get the best for my patients. Most of the time we talk shop, but sometimes we get the chance to have a catch up in the ☀️! . (And the lovely Sarah who left before the photo was taken!)

30/04/2025

We adopted Hugo from 18 months ago, when he was withdrawn from training. He’s been my 7 year old’s best friend ever since ❤️

Guide dogs change lives. The trained dogs provide support for those whose sight loss means they need help navigating the world. Their buddy dogs provide emotional support and companionship to children too young for a guide dog. Their rehomed dogs who are unsuitable for training due to medical or behavioural issues provide companionship to so many people (like us!)

There are so many ways you can get involved to help - guide dogs need puppy raisers, homes for breeding dogs, fosters for respite care and homes for the dogs undergoing training. They also need help raising money. sponsors a guide dog puppy each year instead of sending a Christmas cards. Check out their website for ways you can get involved.

26/04/2025

Happy World Vet Day 👩🏼‍⚕️ (almost missed it!)

It seems a bit mad that it was 16 years since I graduated from 🫣 After all these years I’m still incredibly proud of being vet!

Each and every day I get to meet incredible care givers and their fabulous furry companions. The days are sometimes long & it can be stressful (especially when the traffic is bad 😂) but I can honestly say if I had my time again I’d choose the same path (and not sure many 40 year olds in other professions would say the same!)

So here’s so the next 16 (+) years!

31/03/2025

Hi All,

I’ll be out of office from this Friday 4th April. I’ll be overseas for my sister’s wedding with limited (if any) WiFi! I’ll be back in the office on Tuesday 22nd April.

If you need anything sorting before I go, do let me know with plenty of time please! 🙏

Picture of me and Hugo settling down for an afternoon of zooms!

28/02/2025

Super proud of my amazing colleague and friend Dr Jen Look what arrived in the post ❤️ She’s put together an amazing puppy resource for vets, trainers and behaviourists to provide to clients. The layout is beautiful and the info fab.

Follow Dr Jen for more info on where to order! (Not sponsored but Jen is a friend who I met when doing my vet behaviour exams 10 years ago!!! 😂❤️)

27/02/2025

Meet Doug the Pug (and his brother Otis who was all in for the treats on offer for a photo!)

I was referred Doug by the lovely Clare with a history of toileting in the house 🏠 I saw him for an initial appointment in November and we formulated a plan for him. Today at the recheck his fab owners reported just three accidents since then - two of which were when he was left a bit longer than he can normally hold on for 🙌 This is a huge improvement from the Pug who frequently toileted in the house when you weren’t watching him ❤️

11/02/2025

Domestic cats have evolved from a solitary species. Now this doesn’t mean they always have to live alone - they can flexibly live with other cats (and other species).

Cats that are bonded will show signs of wanting to spend time together. They will groom each other (relaxed grooming all over the body), sleep together (puddle of cat!) and rub each other to create a group scent.

Cats that aren’t bonded can live together too, one of the keys to creating harmony is to reduce competition. We want the cats to be able to avoid each other if they don’t want to spend time together (happy flat mates!)

One of the ‘pressure’ points we sometimes see are long thin corridors where one cat can sit and ‘block’ access (often passively by staring). A great way to avoid this is to increase 3D space (allowing them to go up and over).

Even if your cats are bonded, providing them with 3D space massively increases their world and ability to perch up high and feel safe. Just look at what my clients yesterday have created - I love it! I feel some DIY coming on at my house…..

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