Highfield Veterinary Centre Podcast
Highfield Veterinary Centre Podcast
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Fish Vets, Fish get sick too!
With more people living in apartments meaning less space for conventional pets, keeping an aquarium is a lot more common these days. Added ...
Anal glands: a fishy smelly vestige of a wild animal?
That faintly fishy metallic smell from the back end of your dog is probably its Anal Glands. What are they there for and what can go wrong ...
Putting the plug back in the gene pool. Why rare breeds may be invaluable for the future of farming
Farm animals as we know them today have been selected for desirable traits or characteristics such as fast growth rate, heavy muscling, ...
Shake, rattle and roll. Seizures in dogs
The trouble with seizures in dogs is that often the owner may miss them. They may be a very transient occurrence lasting perhaps only 30 , ...
My house smells like cat pee! Why is my cat doing this?
Have you ever walked into someone’s house and it absolutely stinks of cat urine. Worse still, have you noticed this in your own home. ...
Racing Greyhounds. What makes them so fast?
We have probably all seen pictures of Greyhounds racing around a track. What is the history of this sport, and more importantly for me, ...
Artificial limbs and braces. The science of orthotics and prosthetics for dogs.
In a previous Vetpodcast on Physical Therapy, mention was made in passing of the use of braces and prosthetics in the treatment of animals. ...
Veterinarians Without Borders and World Rabies Day
Many people know of the work that Doctors without Borders do. A little less well known (but I stand to be corrected here) is an ...
Can we have a sample please
Urine is usually seen as a waste product of the body, but as veterinarians we often use it as a simple window into what is going on in the ...
What do you do with your pet when it passes away. Cremation is becoming a popular option.
Unfortunately because the life expectancy of our pets is much shorter than our own, most pet owners have to deal with the death of a pet. ...
Old cats are like old cars. Things wear out!
It is a fact that cats are living longer than they used to. The American Veterinary Medical Association in their 1996 survey of pets in the ...











