Latest articles by Joe Dunne
Cats
When temperatures drop and the morning gets frosty or even (as this week!) snowy, we often complain that the UK is woefully underprepared for the unexpected annual arrival of winter weather. Yet, when you drive to work o…
Animal Welfare
Dasher, Dancer, Donner, Blitzen… and not forgetting Rudolph. Reindeer are a part of Christmas celebrations just as much as Santa, snowmen and stockings! Though in the wild reindeer typically live in the cold Ar…
Dogs
Did you know that dogs can get many of the same diseases as people? Osteoarthritis, diabetes mellitus and congestive heart failure are a few of the most common. But there are rarer conditions that both humans and dogs ca…
Life as vet - what its like
Joe Dunne BVMedSci (hons), BVM BVS (hons), MRCVS If you follow the inner workings of the veterinary industry, or have just caught it on the news, you might have heard of the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) rece…
Common Conditions
Spots of blood in your dog’s poo can be a worrying thing to notice; could your dog have something sinister going on inside, or should you stop worrying? Today we will discuss the various diseases that cause blood in a do…
Dogs
Cancer is a horrible disease, but thankfully the majority are not contagious meaning other people cannot catch the cancer from a person. However, did you know that there is a cancer in dogs that not only is contagious, b…
