Latest News – April 2011

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This month’s news:

We congratulate Dr David Neck on being invited to Canberra to help officially launch Vet 2011 – a worldwide celebration of the first 250 years of the veterinary profession.  (The first veterinary school having opened in 1761 in Lyon, France). He was also present to help table a special motion in the House of Representatives and in the Senate that recognises the diversity of contributions made by veterinarians to Australia.  Congratulations David, what a tremendous honour!

In keeping with our commitment to sharing our knowledge and skills by mentoring students, Dr Yoko Clinch recently helped facilitate one of the groups attending the 3^rd year Veterinary Professional Life veterinary student camp organised by Murdoch University.  The camp is designed to improve students’ self awareness and communication skills so that they are better prepared for their future roles as consulting clinicians.

Over the past 2 months we have had a stray kitten now named “Lily” be the object of our affection at work.  She was found caught in a bush with wounds to her jaw and lip, and had a paralysed left front leg.  We provided her with pain relief and anti-inflammatories to ease her discomfort while trying to find her owner. However after more than a week, her paralysis had not improved and no one had reported her missing or come looking for her.  The team at Cottesloe Animal Hospital decided that it would be best to amputate her paralysed leg.  Dr Rand Spongberg kindly donated his time to this surgery and Lily recovered quickly; becoming a much happier kitten almost overnight!  She has grown into a beautiful cat who loves attention and has been adopted by one of our nurses.

Lily would like to remind everyone of the importance of microchipping your pet (and keeping your contact details up to date!) – she didn’t have one when she was lost, and so despite our attempts at ringing the local vet clinics to report her found, we were unable to return her to her owners.