The Happy Vet

04/05/2025

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Would you know what to do you if your pet stopped breathing…?

Book your place on one of the only pet first aid courses in the UK taught by a Veterinary Surgeon.

This highly practical and informative course is CPD accredited and certified, and is a great opportunity to boost your pet business and overall confidence.

The course is £55pp, CPD accredited and participants receive a handbook and certificate of attendance.

Course dates (Aldgate Veterinary Hospital, Bridlington):

🐾 Sunday 11th of May - 09:30 to 13:30 ‼️3 places remaining
🐾 Saturday 21st of June - 09:30 to 13:30 ‼️2 places remaining
🐾 Sunday 22nd of June - 09:30 to 13:30 ‼️5 places remaining

To book your course, please DM The Happy Vet or contact rkamal@aldgatevet.co.uk

10/01/2025

New date! Register for your place at our free, upcoming client-focused evening: Common conditions affecting your dog's front legs. Register now We’re hosting an educational evening designed for both senior and young dog owners!

07/10/2023

What would do you if your pet was in danger? 🐶

Book your place on one of the only pet first aid courses in the UK, taught by our Veterinary Surgeon, Rayana Kamal, which is run from our Bridlington practice every month, starting from November.

This highly practical and informative course is CPD accredited and certified, and it’s a great opportunity to boost your business and overall knowledge. Each course is £50pp, and we are only accepting 10-12 people per course.

Course dates:
🐾 Monday 27th November - 5.30pm - 8.30pm
🐾 Monday 11th December - 5.30pm - 8.30pm

To book your course, please contact rkamal@aldgatevet.co.uk.

25/07/2023

❗️Latest Research ❗️

For more up to date information and to learn how to act safely and confidently in a pet emergency, contact The Happy Vet today 🐾

https://www.rvc.ac.uk/vetcompass/news/the-rvc-urges-owners-of-hot-dogs-to-cool-first-transport-second?fbclid=IwAR3_XV7BNqLwErLrQO20gX7u-2dOLPc_4L0hKA6g0O8CXtaoHU1nBQh5ins

The RVC urges owners of hot dogs to “cool first, transport second” Published: 20 Jul 2023 | Last Updated: 20 Jul 2023 07:00:23 A new study by the VetCompass team at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has found that dogs with heatstroke may be suffering even further due to outdated first aid pr....

29/05/2022

Congratulations to members of the East Riding Retired Greyhound Charity for becoming accredited FAB canine first aiders today! Amazing bandage skills on show 🐶!

27/04/2022

Thank you to Wessex K9 for inviting me to their canine activity week to talk about preventative care and canine first aid! 🐶

22/11/2021

03/09/2021

⭐ SEPTEMBER: PAIN AWARENESS MONTH⭐

There are many conditions and diseases in animals that cause pain and discomfort.

➡️According to the Animal Welfare Act it is your duty of care to ensure you take reasonable steps to meet the welfare needs of your animal including...

➡️...need to be protected from pain, suffering, injury and disease!

But there are two big differences in the main types of pain we see... The one that most owners recognise is acute pain because it's usually dramatic and sudden!

✅ACUTE PAIN

Acute pain is an emergency strategy to help remove ourselves from a noxious (painful) stimulus to protect the body from harm!
Acute pain is self-limiting and is provoked by a specific disease or injury and as stated above serves a useful biologic purpose.... To keep us alive and free from traumatic injuries!

✅CHRONIC PAIN

The pain that is often under recognised but equally important in animal health and welfare is chronic (long term) pain. Chronic pain in contrast to acute pain may be considered a disease state; it is a pain that lasts for 3 months or more.

With chronic pain there are also changes in the brain and spinal cord that can cause pain ‘wind up’, causing exaggerated pain response.

The pain outlasts the normal or usual time of healing and is associated with a disease or injury. It serves no biologic purpose, and has no recognisable end-point which is why it extremely important to manage it to the best of our ability for your pets quality of life. Commonly seen in disease like osteoarthritis it is often picked up late because the symptoms can be subtle and vague.

✅ CLINICAL SIGNS
Clinical Signs of pain depend on a number of factors:

1️⃣ Type of pain.
As well as being ACUTE or CHRONIC as mentioned above we can also break pain down into:

Somatic pain -from bones, muscles and skin
Visceral pain - from internal organs
Neuropathic pain -from nerves and spine

2️⃣ Species
Each species and individual animal will react differently to pain. Our idiographic gives some examples in cats and dogs.
Also remember that prey species are extremely good and compensating for pain and hiding it to avoid predation! So we must be extra vigilant in these animals like rabbits and guinea pigs.

3️⃣ Existing pain can make other sensation worse
If our pets experience chronic (long term) pain the repeated and sustained stimulation of our pain receptors can result in peripheral and central sensitisation or pain ' wind up'.
This results in a non painful stimulus being perceived as pain to our pet. This is know as allodynia and hyperalgesia