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Animal Advice Surgery - Before and After
Pre-Operative Remedies: Usually, any pre-operative feelings are associated with anticipatory anxiety or fear. However, these feelings belong to the owner and are transferred to the animal as the owner feels them. The pet will only feel these directly if they have had a bad experience in the car or at the veterinary clinic, so remedy administration needs to be adjusted accordingly.

Pet Dental Care
Animals in the wild are virtually free from periodontal disease, so why does domesticated cause our pets teeth from rotting? Dental decay is so common that it presents a major problem in the older cat and dog and the risk of anaesthetics for a clean mouth versus advancing periodontal disease becomes a serious issue.

Pet Obesity – Animal advice
There has never been an animal existing in the wild that is obese and yet about one-third of all pet dogs and one in 10 cats are overweight. Obesity is a pathological condition characterised by the accumulation of fat, much in excess of the fat required for optimal body health.