In summer, in the UK it is not uncommon to see dog walkers out in the midday sun. I think it’s because until the recent heat wave, we don’t seem to see so much sun and we like to take advantage of every sunray. In recent summers, I can often see a slightly unfit dog...

As I sit here eating a very messy sandwich, which has great ingredients. Sourdough bread, roast pork, stuffing with mayo and tomato. It should be excellent but instead I’m dropping more than I am eating. Whilst smearing butter and mayo over my fingers with dogs...

Christmas time is a weird time at the Vets, We have panic shopping for flea and worm treatments but generally do not see so many of our patients unless they are really ill. I suppose that people are too busy stocking up on Turkey and trimmings or going away from home...

Are Veterinary Nurse OSCE’s like the driving test? We all pass our driving tests and then promptly pick up as many bad habits as we can. Or is there more truth in the fact that basics are basics and Veterinary Nurses should be able to do X on day one? As you may know,...

The other Thursday we were flat out busy, we did not stop all day, no breaks no lunch – just plain busy. Livvy our apprentice veterinary nurse was at college as usual, Lilly our other apprentice nurse was on holiday, but luckily for us Saffron (or maybe we planned for...

Miracles take longer than Google…. Is Goggle changing our world or just making us impatient with nature? Like most of us, I seem to be addicted to the internet and use it multiple times a day. I am of the age that I can remember when knowledge only came from books and...

As a Vet, I spend quite a lot of my time reading the body language of my patients, because strangely enough they cannot speak. It would be very helpful if my patients where suddenly able to speak and tell me exactly where it hurt, how long it had been sore for and...

When I worked at the PDSA in the early 2000’s, I had under my care a large German Shepherd Dog who was being treated for epileptic episodes. Now, you may think that is special about that? Well it’s the only dog I have ever authorised a dose of drugs to without...

Millie and her unborn Pups urgently needed our help, it was a true emergency. Not an uncommon occurrence at the Vets. This was a case literally of life and death, no two ways about it. Action was required and whatever we had planned to do previously, needed to be...

Chips- a great British tradition. Now if we were in Scotland, the question would be would you like salt and sauce with that? The answer is yes, because sauce is surprisingly good and actually I do miss that aspect of eating chips down south. But more to the point, do...