It can’t all be serious vet work!
The team at Omokoroa Pet Vets took the plunge and celebrated an early Xmas work do with a day trip to Waitomo’s Black Water Rafting.
Super proud of our team for giving it a go. An amazing day out. We highly recommend the experience.
It’s our first birthday! 🎂 We would like to say a huge THANK YOU for all the wonderful support we have had over the year. It has been fantastic catching up with familiar faces and their pets and meeting new clients and their furry family members. The Omokoroa Pet Vets team are dedicated to fine tuning our processes, knowledge and skill to keep serving the community’s pets with the very best veterinary healthcare and service.
Congratulations to Paula Douch! Winston and Ellie’s meals for the next month are on us! Thank you Blackhawk for making our give-a-ways possible ☀️
With a change in circumstances and Bella needs a new home. Are you on the lookout for a new companion dog? She’d love to meet you!
Competition Time at Omokoroa Pet Vets! Go into the draw to win a 12kg bag Blackhawk Canine Sensitive Skin and Gut biscuits.
KOA was found dumped. He was emaciated and hairless due to demodectic mange. Even with Covid, the girls at Vada’s put Koa’s needs first and got him to our clinic for help. He was so sad, his whole body hurt. With treatment and dedication from their team Koa has transformed. He visited us recently and he now has a new name and a new family! We are stoked to see him so healthy and well adjusted considering the start in life he had. Great work to Vada’s Angels. This is one of the best transformations I have seen ❤️❤️❤️
A big week at Omokoroa Pet Vets…
We’ve helped introduce into the world a litter of Shih Tzu, Chihuahua and Rhodesian Ridgeback puppies. 3 different litters, not all crossed together! 😅
Unfortunately dear Bosley wasn’t as smart as his Charlie’s Angels squad and even at the ripe age of 8 years old chewed up and ate his favourite gumboot dog toy. Dr Nick and Dr Raewyn have managed to unblock his intestine and retrieve lots of hard rubber from his stomach. Thankfully Bosley is on the mend.
Thank you to anyone affected by our shifting appointments this week for our emergency cases. ☀️
BOTH HAVE HOMES!!!! 🥹🥹🥹
So happy Cowboy and Tammy have great forever homes. We loved having them at the clinic but they needed proper space and attention.
Lexie and his worried owner visited the clinic on a Saturday morning after an upset night. Dr. Raewyn understood that Lexie was suffering from terrible back pain but there was no loss of function of his legs so, she hoped rest and some good pain relief was all he needed. After work Dr Raewyn called by Lexie’s house to drop off extra pain relief.
To her horror, Lexie was quickly deteriorating and was losing the use of his hind legs.
Lexie had intervertebral disc disease, a nasty piece of work that was causing him a world of hurt and potentially could cause permanent paralysis. An exploded disc in Lexie’s back was compressing the spinal cord and without help, this could be permanent. Time was ticking, and every second counted if the team was going to stop Lexie from losing the use of his legs. Frantic calls were made to specialists in Auckland and Hamilton. Even with cost estimates up to $20k a CT Scan could not be guaranteed until Monday morning and the spinal cord saving surgery could not be booked until Monday afternoon or Tuesday.
Team Sygrove knew Lexie needed help sooner rather than later. And as it happens, with all the luck in the world, they were able to secure a local CT scan at short notice on Sunday morning. With Dr. Raewyn helping Lexie drift off into a peaceful sleep, and Dr. Nick performing a spinal release, that Sunday night, the entire Omokoroa Pet Vets team all crossed their fingers the spinal cord was decompressed in time.
And the results speak for themselves! ⭐️
(All for a price that was much more down to earth).
Doggy Day Out 2024! Thanks to the organisers and those who showed their support for the day. It was great to see so many out with their dogs enjoying the day ☀️
Poppy came to our clinic needing help for a chronic ear infection which had caused permanent damage to her ear canal. It had been plaguing her for years. Before visiting us, she had been offered continued medical management or referral to a specialist. Her owner just wanted Poppy out of pain and a better way of managing the problem without ongoing vet appointments and bills.Dr Raewyn performed an intricate surgery called a lateral ear canal resection or ‘Zepps’ procedure. This surgery removes a large part of the damaged tissue and allows airflow to the horizontal canal of the ear canal to reduce infection and secretions. While it is not a cure for Poppy’s ear condition it relieves pain, inflammation and reduces ongoing treatments. Poppy’s owner (and Poppy!) were delighted with the result. To encourage optimal healing of the surgical site, Dr Nick used the new Phovia LED light therapy. Phovia is a novel way to manipulate the function of cells within the dermis and epidermis, to reduce inflammation but still accelerate regeneration.Poppy was our first case using the light therapy. It can be used for a wide range of skin conditions from minimising scars from surgical sites to improving healing of a range of dermatitis.
