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Star QHS Surgery for August 2012

Who needs that hip joint anyway? Old people may be at high risk for breaking their hips, but dogs and cats are prone to these fractures at all ages. Fortunately, when you’ve got four legs instead of two, there is a relatively simple fix for the problem. The hip joint...

QHS Monthly Surgery

For the last year, and the foreseeable future, we have had a “deal” with the Quinte Humane Society. Once a month we perform a free major surgery on one of their critters that would be very adoptable if their problem was treated. The first of these was a cat named...

Ticks and Lyme disease on the rise

With summer around the corner, local tick populations have been building up again, so tuck in your pant legs and keep the dogs out of high grass. Ticks are a growing problem in the Quinte area.

Alarm Kitties

Meow, it’s time to get up NOW! Those poor people who spend their lives looking for the perfect alarm clock have obviously never owned a cat. Alarm kitties are tenacious, resourceful and irresistible. You will get up, you will when she bats your nose for the fifth or 25th time....