Latest articles by Claire Turner
Medicines
As vets, we have access to hundreds of medications to help with everything from sore ears to coughs, itchy skin to painful knees. One of the most common classes of drug that we use are antibiotics. Different conditions w…
Cats
At first, a femoral head and neck excision sounds like something straight out of a Mediaeval executioner’s book. But the procedure known as an FHNE is actually a well-recognised surgical treatment for certain conditions…
Case study
Mrs Thomas hadn’t been particularly concerned about her cat, Wilson, when she booked his old-cat check up with vet Lucy. In fact, she was particularly pleased that his appetite seemed to be getting better with age rather…
Cats
Cats’ mouths are disgusting places. Let’s face it, they don’t brush their teeth, they eat all sorts of small furry and feathery things and they lick themselves….all over…. So it’s no wonder that when a cat bites another…
Cats
What links Lurch in the Addams Family, pro-wrestler Andre the Giant, and Jaws from the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me? They all suffered from the condition known as acromegaly caused by an excess of growth hormone…
Case study
Moose was a pretty sorry sight when he ambled through the waiting room door with his owner Mr Brown. His left eye was held tightly closed and a watery discharge matted the whole of the left side of his face. When he trie…
