Canobolas Family Pet Hospital / Media Releases

time to time we put out media releases when we need to get information out to the general public.

Traditionally vets around Easter time warn dog owners of the dangers of feeding their dogs chocolate, however the vets at Canobolas Pet Hospital think that the risk might be overstated. In a combined 64 years experience working as vets, none of the vets at the clinic have ever diagnosed a case of chocolate poisoning.More .....

1/9/09

Geoff Freeth, a veterinarian at Canobolas Pet Hospital has called for the mandatory desexing of all cats after a busy start to the cat breeding season. Not only does spring bring a lot of unwanted litters of kittens, but also an enormous increase in territorial fights amongst cats. Vets spend much of their time in spring patching up infected fight wounds.More........

26/8/09

The vets at Canobolas Pet Hospital want to warn pet owners of Orange that spring is not an easy time for our pets. It’s a busy time because the increasing daylight and warmth bring with it all sorts of potentially fatal problems. Spring is a time of breeding for cats which means increased roaming, pressure on their territory from other cats (leading to behavioural problems) and an increase in fighting (leading to serious infections). Parasites like heartworm and fleas and diseases like parvo virus and skin allergies are seen more as the weather warms up. Exposure to snakes and poisons used in the garden are potentially deadly, as well as a fear of the spring thunderstorms, as it often leads to dogs escaping their backyard and being hit by a car or ending up in the pound. more......

26/3/09
I was disappointed with the front page article in the CWD 23^rd of February concerning Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV), not only because of the factual errors that it contained but also because of the unnecessary fear and concern that it caused amongst cat owners in Orange. more.......

2/9/08 FIV
There has been a lot of public concern due to the human AIDs epidemic but what many people don’t realise is that there is a similar epidemic of AIDs in our feline friends. Most studies say that the incidence of FIV or feline immunodeficiency virus, which causes feline AIDs, is somewhere between 12 and 17 percent of cats, an incidence greater than the similar HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, in people. The good news for cats though, is that there is a vaccine that is effective and easy to administer More ....

16/5/08 Ratbait poisoning
Mice and rats invade our homes during the colder months. Often our defence against this invasion is to lay poison baits around our homes. Unfortunately, this poison frequently ends up being eaten by the family pet and so autumn/winter is the time of the year where the vets in Orange see pets poisoned accidentally by rat bait. More......