Summer time is fantastic for long days and lovely dry dog walks but do be mindful that if walking through meadows or other areas with long grass that it’s prime grass seed season. Grass awns are barbed and can easily become lodged in your pet’s fur and painfully hook into their skin. Common problem areas are ears and between the toes, but we’ve removed awns from noses, cheeks and even necks!
This is 8 month old Shih Tzu Milo who managed to get a grass seed very painfully lodged under his third eyelid. You can see the offending awn in poor Milo’s eye. We were able to very gently tease the seed out and have given Milo eye drops to sooth the trauma site. Milo was a very brave boy! See the spikey grass seed below!
It’s worth giving dogs a quick groom on return from summer dogs walks to remove any loose seeds that may subsequently cause issues. This will stop them potentially reseeding in your garden too. As summer is the height of parasite season, it’s also a great opportunity to give your pet a quick once over for any nasty creepy crawlies that may have targeted your pet as a tasty host!
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Many of you will have met our new veterinary receptionist Emma Kiejda who started with us this June. No stranger to veterinary practice, Emma has a diverse range of industry-related experience. She started out as a Veterinary Care Assistant at the age of 18, using her VCA qualification to support in-patient care. She later moved into a purely customer-facing role as a veterinary receptionist and, after a two year hiatus as an audit coordinator for a pharmaceutical stock taking company, is back in small animal practice – this time with us! Emma thrives on multi-tasking, loves working with people and pets and has a great understanding of front of house activity as well as a useful knowledge of more clinical elements of practice life. She also comes highly recommended by our nurse Rachael Leonard as they used to work together before coming here! We’re delighted to welcome Emma to the 387 Vets & West Midlands Cat Clinic team!
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Thank you to everyone who has nominated our practice or a specific team member to date for the Petplan Veterinary Awards 2025! Here are Paige and Emma receiving nominee certificates, and look in the waiting room when you are next in for our 387 Vets nominee certificate for the 2025 awards too!
The Petplan Awards have been running for 26 years and are designed to recognise the hard work and dedication shown by vet teams and individuals in the veterinary industry.
If you feel 387 Veterinary Centre or a specific team member deserves to be recognised, we’d love your support and for you to tell the judges why we deserve to win! You can nominate in more than one category – there are five in total – and all nominations remain anonymous. Online nominations close on 12th September.
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We had a fab time at Chez Fest on Saturday and loved meeting everyone and saying hi to any four legged friends attending! A big thank you to those of you who entered our competition to guess how many tapeworm segments were in the jar. We used grains of rice to represent tapeworm as if an animal has the parasite, you’re likely to see rice-like deposits around their bottom and in their poo. These are actually segments of tapeworm that have broken off. And they are alive! Ugh!
All ‘tapeworm segments’ have now been counted and we can reveal that the grand total in one very small jar was an incredible 2,725! Competition winners have been notified.
With summer being peak parasite season, it’s a great reason to check your pet’s parasite prevention treatments are up to date. Do ask us which treatment is best for your pet’s lifestyle to prevent against unwelcome visitors!
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We’re very excited about this coming Saturday as 387 Vets & The West Midlands Cat Clinic will once again be hosting a stand at ChezFest. Run by the Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay running club and now in its second year, the family-friendly event held at the park off Rosemary Road is designed to promote health and wellbeing. There will be lots of activities to get involved in, a host of stands where local businesses will be sharing their expertise and knowledge and a delicious variety of refreshment stalls. ChezFest officially opens at 11am.
We’re flying the flag for pet health and wellbeing so please do come and say hello! There will be treats for any canine companions visiting the stand, and enter our free entry on-stand competition to be in with a chance of winning a gorgeous batch of pet goodies! We hope to see you there!
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