by admin | Mar 30, 2011 | Donaldson's Vets, Huddersfield Examiner, Martin's Column
With the first hints of spring sunshine evident and Easter around the corner, many people are tidying their gardens after the ravages of a long hard winter. While it is great for us and our pets to enjoy the warmer weather, we have started seeing the consequences of...
by admin | Mar 23, 2011 | Donaldson's Vets, Huddersfield Examiner, Martin's Column
Ramsay is a beautiful seven year old male tabby cat and was enjoying the first of the spring sunshine, strolling through the fields behind his house on Monday morning. When his owner came home, Ramsay was not at any of the normal vantage points he used to survey his...
by admin | Mar 16, 2011 | Donaldson's Vets, Huddersfield Examiner, Martin's Column
Rabies is an extremely distressing disease which can pass from animals to people and still occurs occasionally on mainland Europe. The UK has been very effective in keeping rabies out through quarantine and more recently through the Pet Travel Scheme. The Pet Travel...
by admin | Mar 9, 2011 | Donaldson's Vets, Huddersfield Examiner, Martin's Column
In addition to my veterinary job, my wife, my son and I also have a smallholding where we keep hens and Pedigree Southdown Sheep and Berkshire Pigs. The first hints of spring we have seen this week herald the start of spring and at our house that means “Lambing Time”....
by admin | Mar 2, 2011 | Donaldson's Vets, Huddersfield Examiner, Martin's Column
One of my biggest Veterinary interests is Orthopaedics – the study of bones and joints. An injury we see in practice is rupture of the cruciate ligament in the stifle (knee) joint. The cruciate ligament is an important structure in dogs stifles as it holds the femur...
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