Rebecca Martin BVSc CertSAM MRCVS

Spring is my favourite season of the year. The increasing day length and abundance of bright vibrant flowers can only act to lift one’s spirits after the bleak and cold days of Winter! However, many of the seasonal flowe…

Cats are obligate carnivores and so require a regular source of protein in their diets. Most of us are (hopefully!) feeding our cats on a balanced and nutritionally complete diet appropriate for their life-stage; be it a…

Have you ever wondered? The straightforward answer is that yes, they do. But there’s more than meets the eye in a dog’s navel!…

Hmmm…This is a good question! It’s one as vets, that we often receive from clients. While antihistamines are effective for humans to treat allergies, do they work for dogs in the same way? Unsurprisingly, the answer isn'…

As some of you may have read, at the end of September last year, Marwell Zoo, unfortunately, lost one of their much-loved residents; the beautiful 11year old female Amur Tiger, “Milla”. She was undergoing a planned anaes…

Unlike humans, dogs actually have three eyelids rather than two – the additional eyelid sitting under the inner corner of the eye. “Cherry eye” is the colloquial term for prolapse of this third eyelid. It can be readily…