our services
wellness and preventative health
Keeping your pet healthy, happy and active, means focusing on their wellness and on preventative care.
This allows us to pick up an emerging issues early, allowing much more successful treatment outcomes.
We recommend your pets annual comprehensive wellness plan comprises the following:
- A full nose-to-tail Annual Veterinary Wellness Examination, which will include their annual vaccinations and a full dental examination.
- In cats over 8 years of age and dogs over 5 years of age, we recommend a second Veterinary Nurse consultation (FREE) 6 months after their Veterinary health examination.
- Updating their parasite prevention plan
- Regular monitoring of your pet’s weight (pop in at any time for this – it’s FREE and no appointment is required)
- Dietary Management – as your pet ages, their nutritional requirements will change. We’re happy to help with all the advice you need.
Remember…
Veterinary Nurse consultations are FREE
So, if you would like any dietary or weight management advice, any preventative parasite control advice, or if you would like your pets teeth checked – please feel free to book a Veterinary Nurse appointment. There will only be a charge if they feel your pet needs a Veterinary Examination.
desexing
Desexings are performed every day from Monday through to Friday.
Why we’re different:
- Our anaesthesia protocol is cutting edge and includes an analgesic (pain-killer) protocol that we doubt is bettered anywhere in the world.
- We almost always put dissolvable, hidden skin sutures in. What does this mean? Simply, it means there’s a reduced chance of post-operative licking, wound breakdown and infection and results in fast, clean healing.
- As a result, our surgical patients hardly ever need to wear a ‘cone of shame’ after their operations
Desexing surgery involves a full general anaesthetic, so we’ll admit your pet at 8:30 in the morning, and generally they’ll be home by 5pm
Our anaesthetic safety record is second to none. In fact, we doubt there’s a General Practice in Australia that has a better record than us.
Pre-operative blood tests are recommended in all patients and help us identify any underlying health conditions such as decreased kidney function, that aren’t visible on physical examination. Although kidney and other organ disease is rare in younger pets, it is nevertheless important to make sure that anaesthesia and surgery are as safe as possible, by ruling these out.
We take your pets’ comfort very seriously, so each pet undergoing surgery will receive injectable pain-killers and local anaesthetic nerve blocks appropriate for each procedure – exactly the same as you would have if you went to the dentist.
If your pet is sleepy for the following 24 hours after surgery, it’s likely because of these strong pain-killers.
Costs for desexing are based on bodyweight, age and gender. Please give us a call so we can give you an accurate fixed price, which will include all painkillers and routine post-operative examinations required.
If you elect to have pre-operative blood tests performed, these will cost an extra $200.
While post-operative complications are extremely rare, please also note that should your pet run into rare post-operative complications such as wound infection, wound breakdown etc, treatment for these complications is not included in the desexing price.
complex surgery
Dr Haydn Sharratt has extensive orthopaedic and soft tissue experience and advanced postgraduate surgical qualifications, achieved while while Practising in London for nearly 20 years.
Some of the many advanced procedures we perform are:
- Orthopaedic Surgery – including Tibial Plateau Levelling Osteotomy (TPLO), patella luxation surgery, fracture repairs and more.
- Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Surgery (BOAS)
- Gastrointestinal Surgery
- Urogenital Surgery
- Skin tumour removals including those requiring advanced skin reconstructive techniques
We like to provide down-to-earth advice on all of the cases we see. We don’t skirt around the important subject of costs, choosing rather to approach this sensitive subject with transparency and honesty.
internal Medicine and hospitalisation
We treat an extensive range of non-surgical conditions – and provide full hospitalisation facilities should your pet need to be hospitalised. Dr Morag White and Dr Emily Ryder have post-operative qualifications and have added extensive experience in Internal Medicine.
Some of the many conditions we treat are:
- Skin disease, where we have extensive experience in managing long-standing and frustratingly itchy dogs and cats
- Ear disease – particularly recurrent and non-responsive cases.
- Cardiac disease
- Urinary disease
- Cancer
dentistry
Pets suffer from plaque, tartar, gum infections and rotting teeth just like we do – unless we are proactive about their dental care.
All pets will require a scale and polish in their lifetimes – and some will require them annually.
If you notice:
- bad breath
- brown discoloration on the teeth
- redness of the gums
- difficulty in chewing…
…it’s time for your pet to have a full dental examination.
What does dentistry entail?
Dentistry involves a full general anaesthetic, so we’ll admit your pet at 8:30 in the morning, and generally they’ll be home by 5pm
Our anaesthetic safety record is second to none. In fact, we doubt there’s a General Practice in Australia that has a better record than us.
Without dental x-rays, we can only see the part of the teeth visible above the gum line. Unfortunately, most problems occur under the gum line, and the only way we can assess this area is with x-rays.
Once we’ve taken these x-rays, we’ll give you a casll to let you know what we’ve found and what our treatment recommendations are.
We take your pets’ comfort very seriously, so each pet undergoing dentistry will receive injectable pain-killers and local anaesthetic nerve bloocks – exactly the same as you would have if you went to the dentist.
This depends entirely on what needs to be done. Complicated dentistry requiring numerous extractions of the large cheek teeth with multiple roots will cost over $1600. If we don’t have to take teeth out, the costs are usually under $1000.
advanced diagnostic & laboratory facilities
We’ve invested heavily in advanced diagnostic equipment, catering for all your pets diagnostic needs.
Facilities include:
- Digital Radiography
- Ultrasound
- Full in-house laboratory performing an extensive list of while-you-wait blood tests
- Microscopy
Occasionally, diagnostics such as CT and MRI scans will be required. If this is the case, we have a great relationship with a number of local specialists to which you will be referred.
Aged care
Pets suffer from conditions of ageing too, and often show very subtle signs of being ill or in pain.
Age-related problems that are diagnosed early, can be very effectively managed to allow your friend to age gracefully, happily and comfortably.
So, if you feel your pet is a little different than usual, don’t hesitate to give us a call – there’s plenty we can do to help them age healthily and gracefully.