News from Quantock Vet Hospital

Willow is a much loved, 7 year old, female Labrador who was brought in by her worried owner on the 1st March. Over two to three days they had noticed that her abdomen been slowly getting bigger – they were worried she was putting on weight but then her appetite went...

Gilead – a gorgeous six year old male poodle cross - was brought in to the Hospital after going downhill rapidly with an apparent episode of Haemorhagic Diarrhoea. His loving owner Joan was understandably very upset having come down in the morning to find “the whole...

Chase, an adorable nine month old Labrador-cross, came to us early in January having suddenly become lame on his back leg. While there were no obvious injuries on the first visit, an infection in the outer toe became evident over the next few days and so antibiotics...

Arnold is a 15 year old cat who was brought in by his worried owner in December. He was off colour and off is food and was obviously having difficulty standing.Arnold’s owner was extremely concerned about him. And rightly so.We took blood tests, scans and x-rays which...

Toby Palmer is a much loved tortoise who is over 40 years old. Whilst in here for one of his regular ‘holidays’, a swelling was noticed on his foot. This was observed and after a couple of days we were certain that this was already getting bigger.  We contacted the...

Ruby, a very pretty 10 week old French Bulldog puppy, was transferred to us from another veterinary practice one Friday evening in July.  She was weak with severe vomiting and bloody diarrhoea and was struggling to lift her head.  The original vet suspected Parvovirus...

Sonny – a delightful, eight year old male, rough collie - had severe diarrhoea out of the blue, which rapidly became very worse over a week. He had blood in the diarrhoea, he didn’t want to eat and then frighteningly rapidly went into shock - a situation where the...