Posts tagged "Small Animal Medicine"

Bringing up a pet’s weight can be awkward, with some owners reacting defensively or ignoring your ad...

Advances in veterinary medicine, nutrition and overall awareness of all aspects of pet care mean dog...

Imagine this clinical scenario: you are presented with a client-owned dog that exhibits anxiety-rela...

In companion animals, parasitic infections remain a pressing health concern, impairing digestive hea...

Dogs and cats can be uncooperative for the eye exam due to fear, anxiety or stress (FAS), especially...

Gastrointestinal (GI) problems are a frequent reason for seeking consultations. Alimentary tract fun...

Feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD) is not a single disease process. Rather, it is an umbrell...

Endoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure that allows the operator to look inside an organ or stru...

Canine thyroid carcinoma is the most common endocrine malignancy in dogs (Barber, 2007). This neopla...

Otitis externa is a very common problem, seen in over 10 percent of dogs attending primary care prac...

Obesity in cats is defined as being more than 20 percent over their ideal body weight, and it is est...

Fish oil supplements are commonly used in human medicine to prevent and manage disease, as well as b...

In the second instalment of this series discussing common congenital cardiac defects in dogs, we wil...

Congenital cardiac diseases present significant challenges in veterinary medicine. This series aims ...

Imagine this clinical scenario: a client has brought in their pet cat after spotting blood in its ur...

Mast cell tumours (MCTs) are the most common canine cutaneous neoplasia and can vary widely in biolo...

Imagine this clinical scenario: you are presented with a dog whose clinical and radiographic finding...

Dietary fibre is defined as edible carbohydrate polymers with three or more monomeric units, includi...

Many practices have purchased endoscopy systems for diagnostic biopsy of the gastrointestinal (GI) a...

Heart disease affects 10 percent of dogs in general practice (Keene et al., 2019), with myxomatous m...

Canine myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD) is a common condition in which progressive mitral valv...

Feline chronic enteropathy (CE) covers a number of conditions including food-responsive enteropathie...

How likely is a localised histiocytic sarcoma in dogs to disseminate and metastasise? How common is ...

Lameness in dogs due to musculotendinous and ligamentous injury is commonplace and although diagnosi...

In cases of epileptic seizures in dogs, survival is often more dependent on quality of life and fina...

Constipation is defined as difficult, painful or reduced defecation over a period of time ranging fr...

Part one of this series covered the diagnosis of early feline chronic kidney disease (CKD). Part two...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) (Box 1) is a highly prevalent disease in older cats, estimated to affec...