Recipe for Chicken Soup à la Mama Londa (This is how my mum, Traudel, makes it, and what I’ve grown up with- adapted ever so slightly, to show the difference between serving it to people or pets)   1 whole chicken (ideally organic and local, but in any case the...

How to help a coughing dog   Just like us, most dogs will pick up a cough at least once (but probably several times) in their lives. Usually this is nothing to worry about. Just like us, when we get a cold, the cough is irritating, sometimes painful, but...

Laser Therapy - Could your pet benefit from it?   Laser therapy is an exciting treatment option for a vast range of conditions involving pain or inflammation. Probably most often used for chronic arthritis, when traditional treatments alone don’t give a good...

New Year Intentions with our pets in mind It’s a brand new year- hurray!! Everybody is setting New Year Resolutions- and more often than not, they end up being abandoned after the first few weeks (at least, that’s what used to happen to mine). A while back, I went to...

Titre testing in cats We vaccinate cats against Cat Flu, Panleucopenia (the cat version of Parvo) +/- Leucaemia (FeLV) and we tend to give these every year. It’s not really clear why! Protection against the Cat Flu viruses lasts for up to a year, possibly less, so...

Puppies and Titre Testing   What about puppy vaccinations? Can we be sure they work every time? Surprisingly: We can’t! And strangely enough, we very rarely do anything about it. Puppies are protected against diseases through antibodies that they get from their...

It's that time of year again- fun for some, but dreaded by many dogs and their families. Lots has already been written about this, and for the usual and very good advice, I recommend you check out Dogs Trust and RSPCA websites (links below). Once you have implemented...

More and more people worry about over-vaccinating their pets, and unfortunately there's lots of conflicting and confusing advice out there. We want to keep our pets safe- but how do we do that when it comes to vaccinations? The vaccinations protect against some really...