Caulfield Veterinary Clinic

Our nurses are always available to answer your questions and give you pet care tips so please feel free to call the clinic or pop in and they will be happy to help you out!!!

Sharon Kirschner, who is working for us part time, returned a few months ago from Sydney where she completed a one year dancing/actor/singing course at NIDA. When Sharon is not auditioning for roles, you can find her smiling face at the front desk! We wish her the best of luck in finding her starring role!

Jager & the icy pole

Saturday afternoon was a warm and sunny day, and my partner and I were eating icy poles. There were multiple flavours to choose from, so we ate quite a few. My partner came across a not so tasty flavour and since my Great Dane, Jager, was sitting near by, he threw him the icy pole and went inside to get another flavour. I immediately jumped up in horror and ran to grab the ice pole before Jagger swallowed the ice pole stick. Unfortunately, I was seconds too late, and with the icy pole went the stick!

Normally I am very chilled and calm, but this was not a normal situation.

This was my baby so I went into panic mode.

In a different house, Dr Rachel was preparing herself for an evening out with friends when she received a panicked text message. The message read "OMG Jager just ate an icy pole stick! What do I do? Do I make him vomit? What do I use? OMG". She replied "Yes!" and gave me a list of items to go purchase from my local supermarket. So off I went.

After a messy induced vomiting session and assisted bowel movements, all we could do is wait. One hour... Overnight... (many poo inspections by torch later)...again...and again...and on the fifth day as I entered the back garden to dissect Jager's faeces, I saw something sticking up from his excrement and without a second thought I dashed my hand directly into it and removed the icy pole stick, whole, and with out a scratch on it.

So excited by this finding and overwhelmed  with joy that Jager was ok, I ran through the house to my partner waiving the poo covered stick yelling "I got it...I found it!" These were the first words I had uttered to my partner since the ice pole incident began!

Luckily Jager is such a big boy, weighing in at 60kg. Had he been a smaller dog, the outcome could have been quite different! After this experience I don't think my partner will be sharing his icy poles again any time soon.

Memorial

Jerry Lee Wikramanayake   - A darling boy.

There will never be another Jerry Lee. He was born on the 15th of September 2002, and was flown down from Portland on the 24th of November 2002. Nimal and Anne Maria Wikramanayake had him for 2750 glorious days, which will never be forgotten. They used to go on holidays overseas every three years, but have not been since 2002, from when Jerry Lee entered their lives. In 2005 they went to Queensland for a holiday for 2 weeks, but after one week Anne Maria was missing 'her pudding' and they had to come back home. What more can be said about the gorgeous Jerry Lee. 

Mick

Please let us introduce you to our largest patient, Mick!!! You may think he is a horse, weighing in at 90kg, but really he is an Irish Wolfhound.

He is 4 years old and stands approximately 120cm tall (4ft). Therefore, one should never leave any food on any table in Mick's company as the food will no doubt disappear within minutes (as Mick's head is level with most tables!)

His owner had to buy a van to transport Mick and a ramp for easy access into the vehicle.

Last month we performed a dental on Mick. Because he is so big, and we are so small, we performed the procedure on the floor in the surgery. This was achieved by moving the anaesthetic machine, heating pad and equipment to the floor! He recovered uneventfully and walked out to the car a few hours later. We are totally committed to accommodate every need for the benefit of our patients.

You can see how big Mick is standing next to our lovely nurse Kylie. 

Dolly

We have introduced you to our largest patient, so we thought we should also introduce you to Dolly, one of our oldest and most certainly our smallest adult canine patient!

She is a 16year old female Chihuahua and weighs in at 1.9kg!!!

Dolly has been a patient at Caulfield Veterinary Clinic for the past 12 years and her owners have done a fantastic job looking after her over the years. 

When one thinks about food shopping for our large Irish Wolf Hound, weekly shopping for Dolly should be a cinch - but of course these little patients tend to be more fussy and sometimes can be quite challenging.

Dolly has a lot of fight for such a little dog! You wouldn't believe the strength she finds to wriggle and struggle out of being medicated. She is on a few different long term medications and she is so difficult to keep still for long enough to medicate with a tablet, we have had to have her drugs compounded into flavoured pastes and oils to ensure she eats them!

Nowadays, we can have most pet medication compounded at Compounding Pharmacies. The pharmacists compound the original prescription drug into pastes or oils -flavoured with just about anything. Most popular is fish, chicken or beef flavour at our clinic. If your pet has trouble with tablets please ask if the medication can be compounded.