Barrowman and Goodman Vets

09/01/2025

Meet lovely Isla! 🐾

Isla and her parents have now made the massive trip up from Taranaki twice for her to have surgery with us. Isla first visited in January for her laparoscopic spay and has just recently been back to have a TPLO.

During Isla's recovery, her parents came up with the genius idea to use cut-up leggings to cover her wound.

Using a pair of kids size 8-10 tights, they cut the left leg off leaving about a 2-4 inch band at the elastic waist and slid them over her leg. By cutting the left leg off, this left room for her to go toilet without having to remove the pants!

Not only did these pants stop her from chewing the stitches (meaning she could have her cone off) but the pants also held her ice pack in place beautifully when it came to doing her cold compression therapy.

Thank you Isla's parents for allowing us to share this hack, we are sure it will help our future orthopaedic patients greatly!

02/01/2025

Want to spay your dog but worried about the recovery time?
A Laparoscopic spay may be the answer!

Using our Karl Storz endoscope, we can perform advanced, high-tech keyhole surgery - all for the benefit of our patients.

More comfortable spaying, allowing your loved one to be back in action sooner!

Pair the lap spay with our class IV laser therapy and your pet won’t even know what has happened.

100+ patients have been laparoscopically spayed with us since June last year with many coming from far and wide for this procedure.

Check out what this owner had to say after her pet's recent laparoscopic spay.

"Kyber had a lap spey a couple of weeks ago, and apart from being a bit sad and feeling sorry for herself the first day she was back to her normal self very quickly! Pleased we went with the less invasive option."

Go to our website for more information or give us a call to have a chat to one of our friendly nurses.

31/12/2024

We hope you all had a wonderful, safe Christmas and we wish you a happy new year!

Prey Pet Food and Barrowman Goodman Vets would like to extend our thanks and gratitude to every one of our beloved clients. We hope you enjoy coming in and interacting with us as much as we love doing our job.

This year, with your support, we have achieved so much:

- Laparoscopic spays have been a great success, with over 100 performed. We are now performing gastropexies as well.
- David has now performed over 70 TPLO surgeries. Dogs from 5kg to 65kg!
- Our Laser machine has been used widely for all sorts of ailments, 2000 times!
- Anna has been busy with her ultrasounds, scanning hearts and abdomens. With over 100 ultrasounds performed and 30+ echocardiograms

This year, Prey has achieved the same, if not more:
- A wider range of raw food ensures our pets get a great variety.
- Prey now has a wide range of interactive feeders and Licki Mats to complement those raw feeders. These are great, especially for those who gulp their food in seconds!

Overall, this growth wouldn't have been possible without the support of our wonderful clients.

The after-hours clinic will be available throughout the closed period. You can contact them directly or ring our number, and they will transfer you to them.
Bay After Hours Veterinary Hospital, bahvet.co.nz is located at 1450 Cameron Road, Greerton Tauranga. Phone 0800 Bayvets 0800 229 8387

For any non-urgent queries, you can talk at any time to Agnes, our virtual vet nurse, on our website:
www.barrowmangoodmanvets.nz

Lastly, we would like to say a huge thank you to all our valued clients. We have enjoyed seeing each of you and look forward to the new year.

Thanks
The Team at Barrowman Goodman Vets and Prey Pet Food

26/12/2024

Is this your fur baby? 🐾

A wonderful member of the public has brought her into us. Please get in contact if you recognize her

19/12/2024

The team at BG Vets would like to thank all our clients for their support over the last year. We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!🎄

12/12/2024

BG Vets Christmas celebration 🎉🎁

Great evening spent in the sun at The Enchanted Story Book Nook.

05/12/2024

After a few days away in Australia the other week, Dr David and Nikki have arrived back in the country full of new ideas and wound healing techniques.

Dr David spent much of his time in the lab learning the latest skin flap and grafting techniques while Nikki focused on the nursing side of things.

We are excited to put their learnings to good use within the clinic

17/10/2024

What a year it has been with our Karl Storz endoscope!

Since adding this equipment to our surgical suite in June last year, we have performed over 100 laparoscopic spays. Pets have been driven (and flown!) from all over the north island to have their procedure done with us.

When not being used to laparoscopically spay dogs our endoscope is used for a range of other procedures, such as camera-guided ear cleanings, nasal and oesophageal scoping and gastropexies.

10/10/2024

Meet beautiful Jack Frost. His owner had noticed some thick discharge from his left nostril so we decided to use our fantastic new rhinoscope to have a look up there 😊.

The image on the bottom shows the normal turbinates of the right nostril and the image on the top shows the discharge and swollen turbinates that we found on the left side.

We didn’t find any foreign bodies such as grass blades or seeds up the nose.

The rhinoscope gives us amazing pictures right up inside the nasal passages so we can rule out growths and tumours. After flushing the nose with saline and a course of antibiotics luckily Jack Frost’s nose was back to normal

05/09/2024

Another happy patient after undergoing a laparoscopic spay. We love seeing how quickly these patients bounce back to themselves!

"Kyber had a lap spey a couple of weeks ago, and apart from being a bit sad and feeling sorry for herself the first day she was back to her normal self very quickly! Pleased we went with the less invasive option."

29/08/2024

Meet cute Moxxie, a tiny 4 month old rabbit that recently needed emergency treatment at our clinic. The owners returned home to find that she had injured her leg and sustained a nasty, open fracture.

After a very tricky surgery to pin the bone, unfortunately, the surgery site developed a severe infection requiring amputation. Not only is the surgery on such a small patient challenging but the anaesthetic is too.

Our diploma-trained nurses placed IV catheters, closely monitored her using the capnograph and pulse oximeter, gave intravenous pain medications and maintained her body temperature using our patient warmer.

Amazingly bunnies do very well after a hindleg amputation and Moxxie hasn’t looked back 😊

22/08/2024

When Dr David Barrowman isn't in the clinic he can often be found all around the north island sharing his knowledge and inspiring the next generation of veterinarians.

21/08/2024

Hi guys!
We had a very successful time in Niue thank you so much for all your help and support.
We performed 78 surgeries and a similar number of health checks with flea and worm treatments etc.
We met many beautiful dogs and cats and lovely people.
It’s also great to be home and we are looking forward to catching up with you all again soon!
😊😊😊😊😊

15/08/2024

Super excited to share that you can now pay with Afterpay whenever you shop with us. Just let us know when you check out that you are using Afterpay*.

*Afterpay late fees, eligibility criteria and terms & conditions apply. Visit afterpay.com for full terms

15/08/2024

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13/08/2024

Big first day…,

09/08/2024

On our way thank you for all your support 😊

And they're off!!!

NIUE HERE WE COME!!

08/08/2024

Meet Kombi, a beautiful Maine C**n, who suffered with a very nasty rolled in eyelid condition called entropion for several months. This abnormal eyelid was rubbing on the cornea and became very painful for him. (Pictured on the left)

Dr Anna Goodman who has a special interest in ophthalmology, examined the eye and performed surgery to correct his eyelid position.

The photo 2 weeks after surgery shows how much better and comfortable the eye is after the corrective surgery. Kombi and his owner were very happy with the result (Pictured on the right)