VetHelpDirect Pet Health Team

Uh oh, disaster! You’ve introduced an adorable new bundle of fluff into your home, but your older cat has taken offence and is refusing to tolerate the new addition. This may seem like a good time to panic, but the situa…

Patience, responsibility, unconditional love, a healthy attitude to exercise; the list of virtues that dogs and dog ownership can teach a child goes on... So many special childhood memories have been created with canine…

With travel abroad being less available to many of us this year, lots of us are choosing to holiday in the UK. And why not? The UK has some amazing things to offer! Or maybe you’ve managed to take the plunge and set off…

Breeding a litter of puppies can be an exciting, magical, nerve-wracking, and expensive experience all rolled into one. So if you’re considering doing just that, you might now be looking at the T’s and C’s of your pet’s…

This article comes with a warning. It covers topics such as death and euthanasia which some readers may find distressing. Death, unfortunately, is inevitable and comes to us all, humans and animals alike. Our pets live s…

Rabbits belong to a very special group of herbivores called hindgut fermenters. Along with horses, rhinos, elephants, tapirs and sloths, they digest plant matter by fermentation in their colon/caecum, using helpful gut b…