Blog: Pet Nutrition & Wellness
Cat and Mouse Menu
If you could buy six-packs of mice for your cats, you would be providing the most natural and arguably the healthiest diet possible. That’s a long, long way from endlessly topping up the food bowl with multicoloured, crunchy kibble. And somewhere between fantasy and reality there’s a practical, healthy way...
Obesity
The single largest health threat or disease condition in dogs and cats is identical to the largest one in humans. It is obesity. Recent estimates suggest that almost half of our pets are overweight (45%) to one degree or another. Within our practice approximately 10% of our canine patients are...
Catching Songbird Fever Doesn’t Sound Nice
As beautiful as they are to watch, those brassy bluejays, delicate finches and other songbirds can carry disease, so keep hygiene at the top of the list when managing bird feeders or houses. We’ve already seen at least one likely case of “Songbird Fever” at Hillcrest Animal Hospital this spring....
Cat Spays
There’s more than one way to spay a cat! The average North American veterinarian will have spayed thousands of cats and dogs by the time she or he retires. Routine stuff, for the most part; an incision here, sutures there, remove these bits and close up. We all pretty much...
