It was good to be a Halifax client! This morning I walked the dogs down to the back beach in Nelson. Stunning clear day with some high wispy cirrus. The sea was mirror flat. My 13 year-old dog Bartok loved it. But just two days before he was at death’s door. I...
Fat – we think of it as white blobby stuff, an energy store for our bodies, but not much more. It’s hard to get rid of, so it must be a pretty inactive tissue, right? Wrong! Our fat is the biggest endocrine (hormone producing) gland in our bodies and it...
“She is playing like a kitten and she hasn’t played in years!” It was just 48 hours after Tinkerbell had had a major dental procedure with several teeth extracted and Alistair Mapperley was so happy. Two days before it had been a different...
Remember that ad on TV about asthma? It told us having asthma was like trying to breathe through a straw. Get a straw yourself and try it. I didn’t last long before I gave up! Asthma is rare in dogs but laryngeal paralysis, which also affects breathing ability, is...
We relish Nelson’s high sunshine hours but some of our pets pay a high price for their UV exposure. UV light overexposure causes a type of skin cancer called squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in our pets, rather than melanoma. It is almost exclusively areas of white skin...
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