Final Call for Microchipping

With only a few days to go until the new laws governing the microchipping of dogs in England, we have been flat-out implanting microchips in preparation. The new law comes into force on 6 April. After that date, it will be an offence to own a dog that does not have a...

The New Dog Vaccine

New emerging strains of one of the most common and potentially deadly dog diseases –Leptospirosis – have prompted us at Donaldson’s Vets to launch a new vaccination policy in a bid to protect the local dog population from this and other fatal diseases. Leptospirosis...

Microchips

With only just over 6 months until legislation comes into place making it a criminal offence to own a dog that has not been microchipped, a search of the Donaldson’s Vets database suggests that perhaps 35% of dogs in the area have not yet been microchipped. It looks...

Heat Stress

With the Yorkshire weather throwing us recent storms, and unseasonal cold weather, it  doesn’t feel much like summer and yet, if the forecasters are to be believed, we are just on the brink of a break in the weather with some predictions of a heatwave being round the...