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Yarra Ranges Animal Hospital

Keep your pet safe this Easter
16/03/2018 11:00am

1. Bonnie’s Bladder Stones
2. Congratulations Graduates!
3. Chocolate toxicity – what to do
4. Easter health hazards you might not know about
5. Is your dog suffering from separation anxiety?
6. Why is my cat doing that?
7. A new study links raw chicken to paralysis in dogs

Happy ears
24/01/2018 11:00am

1. Skin troubles? Dr. Rob Hilton to the rescue!
2. Happy Retirement Sue!
3. Summer hazards
4. Snake bite – what to watch out for
5. Keeping cool
6. We ‘ear you’ve got a problem!
7. Jake’s odd looking ear

Christmas cracker
22/12/2017 11:00am

1. Merry Christmas from the Team at Yarra Ranges Animal Hospital!
2. Introducing Michelle, our new Practice Manager…
3. Welcome our new receptionist, Sheree!
4. Leo and the Christmas ham
5. Traveling with your pet
6. When to take your pet to the vet ASAP
7. Why does my pet lick his feet?
8. Top tips for preventing an itchy pet

1. Lilydale Show 2017
2. Get to know our staff: Dr Brigitte Pattinson
3. Paralysis tick alert
4. Vaccinations – ask us for the right advice
5. Correct use of antibiotics
6. Don’t let your pet get stressed in the heat
7. Crazy cat markings

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Equine Ulcers – what are they?
3. Responsible Antibiotic Usage
4. A healthy mouth equals a healthy pet
5. Can you clean my pet’s teeth without an anaesthetic?
6. It’s never too late for dental care
7. Flea prevention reminder
8. Mastiff takes a mud bath

1. Vomiting and diarrhoea and when to see us
2. What you need to know about pancreatitis
3. Can my dog eat that?
4. Things your cat shouldn’t eat
5. Cones of fame

1. Is your pet a senior citizen?
2. Help your senior pet stay happy and healthy
3. My dog’s done his knee!
4. Flu season is here
5. Chicken therapy

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Pet Ownership for the Elderly
3. “Please sir, can I have some more?”
4. Mum’s the word
5. Why microchipping is essential
6. Arthritis – what to watch out for
7. How to help an arthritic pet at home

1. Annual Easter Bunny alert
2. Cushing’s disease case study
3. Rat bait ingestion – what you need to know
4. Top three tips for preventing rat bait toxicity
5. Inspiration: an indoor cat fantasyland

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Buddy’s Bad Case of Bloat: Part 1
3. When good behaviour goes bad
4. Common behavioural questions
5. Urine spraying in cats
6. Anxiety – the leading behaviour problem in dogs
7. Feisty cat does all he can to avoid trip to the vet

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Staff Profile: Dr Jane Collins
3. New Radiography Unit at our Lilydale Hospital
4. There’s something wrong in ear!
5. Recognising heart disease in your pet
6. The most dangerous worm of all
7. Preventing fly bites
8. Who stole the cookie?

1. Avoiding heatstroke
2. How you can help our Australian wildlife this summer
3. Watch out for grass seeds!
4. Attention all dog owners
5. Dog’s reaction to a new kitten

1. Christmas present inspiration
2. Keep your pet safe this Christmas
3. Watch out, snakes about
4. Itchy and scratchy
5. Feline AIDS – can we prevent it?

1. Check out these brilliant photos
2. Vaccination reminder
3. Beware of hitchhikers
4. The silent disease
5. Reconsider your retractable leash

1. Puppy enjoys a snack
2. Is my pet overweight?
3. Pet calorie counter
4. Am I exercising my dog enough?
5. How to get your cat to lose weight

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Equine Dentistry
3. Case Report: Zinc Responsive Dermatitis
4. Check out the world’s ugliest dog
5. Can cats get asthma?
6. Why fleas love spring
7. Bee and wasp stings: what to do
8. Snail bait – what you need to know

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Preparing your Pony for Spring – Part 1
3. Bobby’s Brave Battle
4. The ins and outs of dental disease
5. Dental procedure FAQs
6. How do you care for your pet’s teeth at home?
7. It’s flu season – can my pet get the flu?
8. Piano performing pooch

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Equine Sarcoids
3. Caring for a senior pet – our top tips
4. Euthanasia – deciding when it’s time
5. The oldest living cat
6. Dementia can affect our pets too
7. Reasons to adopt a senior cat

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Osteoarthritis in Horses
3. Cruciate ligament disease
4. Does your dog have arthritis?
5. Cats are the best at hiding arthritis
6. Top tips for managing arthritis
7. The dog who mastered interior painting

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Pasture Associated Stringhalt in Horses
3. Snoopy’s Broken Leg
4. Where’s my sock?
5. The cat burglar
6. My pet is vomiting – should I be worried?
7. Why we recommend desexing
8. Pyometra – easy to prevent

1. Barney’s Blog
2. 10 questions for Dr Sasha Migus
3. Exercise-Induced Conditions of the Horse
4. The super helpful pooch!
5. What’s an endocrine disease?
6. Diabetes case study
7. A bit about Addison’s disease
8. How blood testing works

1. The cat who thinks he’s a chimp
2. What’s off limits for your pet this Easter?
3. Help! My dog just ate my Lindt bunny!
4. Why socialisation sets up your dog for life
5. An easy way to reduce your cat’s stress

1. Does your pet really love you?
2. Recognising a broken heart
3. What is SRR?
4. The link between smelly breath and heart disease
5. Is heartworm prevention important?

1. Keeping our wildlife cool
2. The wombat who swam too far
3. What to do if your pet starts to feel the heat
4. Snakes about!
5. How to prevent flies annoying your pet

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Keeping your Horse Safe this Summer
3. Ditch the itch this Christmas
4. Charlie’s itchy ears
5. Scratchy bottom
6. Prevent a crisis this Christmas
7. AIDS – is your cat protected?

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Equine Reproduction
3. The Lilydale Show — This Weekend!!
4. Fleas Fleas Fleas…
5. Is your pet prepared for summer?
6. Make your backyard BBQ safe
7. Microchipping rules!
8. Why vaccination is vital
9. An incredible reunion

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Snake Bites
3. Pesky Parasites and your Horse
4. How to take a spa bath
5. Top tips on bathing your dog
6. Can I bathe my cat?
7. Kidney disease is thirsty work
8. Creating the best cat toilet

1. Barney’s Blog…
2. Winter Colic in Horses
3. TPLO Surgery for Cruciate Injury
4. Guilty dog
5. Is your pet a bit portly?
6. Don’t be tempted
7. Recognise heart disease
8. Snail bait is serious

1. Don’t turn away from bad breath
2. The ins and outs of a dental procedure
3. Dental care at home
4. OMG! My dog has warts
5. Are Kangaroos really left handed?

1. Barney’s Blog!
2. Laryngeal Hemiplegia in Horses
3. Is your pet over the hill?
4. Three common senior pet questions
5. Top reasons to adopt a senior pet over a puppy or kitten
6. Heating up the fleas
7. Look into my eyes

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Headshaking in Horses
3. Guess the foreign body…
4. Keeping an eye out for arthritis
5. Treatment options for arthritis
6. An arthritis-friendly home
7. Alert for all cat owners
8. One very helpful dog

1. Barney’s Blog!
2. Congenital Stationary Night Blindness in Horses
3. A special mum
4. Mothers of the animal kingdom
5. What is an endocrine disease?
6. Maddie’s insatiable appetite
7. Cushing’s disease – one to watch out for

1. Great promotion for Pentosan for horses- recieve a gift card!
2. Free* Puppy Checks!
3. Preventative care of cattle and small ruminants
4. Vomiting and when to worry
5. Anzac animals
6. Buzzing about
7. Chocolate – it’s no good for dogs

1. Mind your manners
2. Destructive dogs
3. Sharpen those claws
4. Training tips
5. Overcoming cat carrier stress

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Puppy Preschool Ready for Another Year
3. YRAH at the Donkey Show
4. Health Checks for All Ages
5. Equine Pin Worms
6. 10 Questions for…. Dr Emma Thomerson
7. Mittens for sore paws
8. Feeding tips for top health
9. Keep your pets’ paws away from these foods
10. What’s a therapeutic diet?
11. Why microchipping works

1. Barney’s Blog!
2. Top Tips for a Happy Holiday
3. Exertional Rhabdomyolysis in Horses
4. Got an Emergency? Need a vet?
5. Make 2015 your pet’s best year yet
6. Epic fail at obedience
7. Dogs really do love us!
8. Uh oh – grass seed season is here
9. The itch, lick, scratch routine

1. Barney’s Blog!
2. Photos with Santa
3. Christmas Day Indulgences
4. Prepurchase exams
5. Beat the heat this summer
6. Cool canines
7. Prevent a Christmas catastrophe
8. Fireworks – a dog’s worst nightmare
9. The guilty beagle

1. Barney’s Blog
2. We’re at the Lilydale Show
3. Spring Allergies
4. Moody Mares
5. Blood Transfusion Saves Indy the Horse
6. Lab cam
7. Have you heard why vaccination is so important?
8. A friendly reminder
9. Oscar’s extraordinary gift
10. Fight the flab

1. Barney’s Blog!!
2. Equine Dentistry
3. A Sheep Caesarian at YRAH
4. Parasite Control for your Pets
5. A puppy prank to make you laugh
6. We’re not kitten around
7. Rex ‘does his knee’
8. Cruciate ligament disease
9. Mast Cell Tumours – the great pretenders

1. Barney’s Blog!!
2. IgG Testing for Foals
3. Hendra Virus Vaccine Update
4. Case of the Month – Jordy the Burmese
5. Spring safety
6. The best type of lunch break
7. Vegan diet for cats?
8. Kidney disease – what to watch out for
9. Baby animals falling asleep

1. Barney’s Blog!!
2. Get to know our Staff – Rachael
3. Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome (EGUS)
4. Vitamin D Deficiency in Alpacas (Rickets)
5. What’s hiding in your pet’s mouth?
6. A day at the dentist for your pet
7. Watch out, winter hazards about
8. A new collar senses when your dog is under the weather
9. Who loves this dog’s reaction?

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Equine Radiography
3. Beware of Wildlife
4. Rain Scald in Horses
5. Why our senior citizens need extra special care
6. Top tips to help your senior pet
7. Is your pet losing his mind?
8. Old dog, new tricks
9. The oldest cat ever

1. Barney’s Blog!!
2. Foot Abscesses in Horses
3. Case of the Month – Womble the Great Dane
4. Handy Tips for Keeping Pocket Pets
5. Heart disease and what to watch out for
6. Get to know your pet’s SRR
7. Heartworm – is prevention really necessary?
8. Cat performs CPR
9. Happy pets

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Dr Andrea and Dudley the Sheep
3. Puppy School Graduates
4. Weight Loss in Horses
5. If your dog told you he was in pain would you want to help?
6. Cats get arthritis too
7. ‘Is Piper pulling the wool over my eyes?’
8. What can you do to make your arthritic pet more comfortable at home?
9. One very agile pooch!

1. Barney’s Blog!!
2. Dermatologist Dr Rob Hilton now consulting at YRAH
3. Winter Worries – Equine “Mud Fever”
4. Get to know our staff… Sue McKenzie
5. Why chocolate isn’t good for dogs
6. Talking about the stuff you don’t want to know about
7. Five ways to exercise your indoor cat
8. How much exercise does my dog need?
9. A unique way to save lives in Finland

1. Intro
2. Starting off on the right foot
3. Testing teenagers
4. When good behaviour goes bad
5. Courteous cats
6. Better behaviour is in the air

1. Barney’s Blog
2. Misty’s painful adventure
3. Summer STILL means snakes!
4. 10 Questions for… Dr Andrea Hertzberg
5. Does your pet have a foot fetish?
6. Keep cool
7. Buckle up
8. Amazing flea facts
9. Boredom busters

1. Barney’s Blog!!
2. Puppy Preschool 2014
3. The Eyes Have It
4. New Year’s resolution – how much to feed
5. Natural foods – what’s all the fuss about?
6. Do women love their pet more than they love their partner?
7. Surviving a snake bite
8. The dreaded grass seed

1. Santa’s coming to the vets!!
2. Christmas Opening Times
3. Barney’s Blog!!
4. Summer time means snakes!
5. Help for wildlife
6. Top Christmas tips
7. Fireworks – how to de stress your dog
8. The old stealing beds trick
9. Kitty cautions

1. Barney’s Blog!!
2. George the Bulldog’s Sore Knee
3. Equine Reproduction – Part 2.
4. 10 Questions for… Louise Birchall
5. Don’t turn a blind eye to vaccination
6. Surprise doggy dangers
7. Can I bathe my cat?
8. All creatures great and small
9. Companions for all

1. We’ll see you at the Lilydale Show!
2. Barney’s Blog!!
3. Horse Breeding – part 1
4. What wee can tell us
5. An ideal kitty toilet
6. Toilet training the pooch
7. A reminder about kids and dogs
8. A lion or a dog?

1. Barney’s Blog!!
2. September is Dental Month at YRAH
3. Help your pet age gracefully
4. Caring for a senior pet
5. Adopting a senior “kitty-zen”
6. Mighty mites
7. Keep your pet safe in the garden

1. Welcome Back
2. Celebrating your best friend
3. Dental disease 101
4. Gold standard dental care
5. Jake’s little lump
6. Are you a cat lover?

1. grrrrr its cold
2. Boot scooting – without the boots
3. 5 snacks to guarantee a portly pet
4. Can my pet get the flu?
5. Pets suffering in silence
6. Chilli keeps the peace

1. Arthritis Cold and Wet
2. Royal dogs
3. Jim’s injured knee
4. Is your pet trying to tell you something?
5. Protect your dog from deadly Parvovirus
6. Smart cats

1. Free Seminar
2. Parasites your cat can get living inside
3. Travelling with pets
4. It’s time to flip the lip
5. Top tips for keeping Guinea Pigs as pets
6. Could you recognise heart disease in your pet?

1. Easter Opening Hours
2. Death by chocolate
3. Its a Dog’s Life
4. When vomiting gets serious
5. Being a responsible cat owner
6. Top ten things you need as a pet owner
7. Going crazy for a laugh

1. Responsable pet ownership
2. Secrets of the perfect diet revealed!
3. Big dogs
4. What on earth is my cat up to?
5. Shame on you!
6. Safe beds for pets

1. Grass Seeds
2. February funnies
3. Is your pet left or right ‘pawed’?
4. The itchy and scratchy show
5. Case study – the itchy cat
6. Test your dog’s IQ

1. Dogs in Cars
2. Cat diaries
3. Top 3 funniest looking cat breeds
4. Top tips for a safe New Year
5. Best beach behaviour
6. Mistakes new dog owners make

1. SeniorPetsHealth
2. Merry Christmas to our furry friends
3. Christmas holiday safety tips
4. The truth about Toxoplasmosis
5. Parasites and your pooch
6. Top 3 funniest looking dog breeds

1. Teeth
2. Vaccinate now in time for boarding
3. Take the stress out of parasite control
4. Curious cats
5. Pebbles’ painful pancreas
6. Funny videos

1. Puppy School
2. New Puppies. But where’s my Dad ?
3. Funny pet videos
4. Protect your pooch from pesky parasites
5. When your pet’s waterworks aren’t working
6. Case Study: Toby’s gotta go but he can’t!
7. Your cat’s toilet: the golden rules

1. Zak Cancer
2. Puppy proof your home
3. Who’s been sleeping in my bin?
4. Overcoming cat carrier stress
5. Parasite control just got a lot easier
6. Prescription pets?

1. Puppy Preschool July Graduates
2. Rat Bait
3. Could you recognise heart disease in your best friend?
4. Should I take out Pet insurance?
5. Why prevent heartworm disease?
6. Case Study: Zac the kitten
7. Pet and baby competition

1. Puppy Preschool Photo
2. God created Dogs
3. Winter Woolies Competition
4. Expecting? Tell your dog you’re pregnant and win!
5. Caring for our senior citizens
6. Does my pet have dementia or am I losing my mind?
7. Oscar’s mysterious weight loss

1. Facebook
2. New Nurses
3. Getting Older
4. What causes arthritis?
5. Case Study
6. Pet Winter Fashion Competition
7. Keeping your pets safe in Winter
8. Feeling the cold or something else?

1. Puppy Graduation
2. Yarra Ranges Animal Hospital is now on Facebook
3. Human Aids and Cat Aids – what is the link?
4. You want me to do what to my pet’s teeth?!
5. What’s lurking in your pet’s mouth?
6. FAQs about the treatment of dental disease
7. Get walking