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Hazards for Pets

As we head into the new year, we hope to keep the Rouge Hill community up to speed on some potentially hazardous dangers for your pets. INDOOR HAZARDS  Dangerous Plants: Pine needles:can produce oral irritation, vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy, trembling and posterior weakness. Holly: commonly found during the Christmas season, can…

Hotspot on a dog

Hotspots Explained by Dr. Gawen Thompson

The word “hotspot” refers to an area of a dog or cat’s skin that becomes moist and red from excessive licking or scratching. Technically, the proper terminology is focal moist pyodermatitis: these are in a confined area (focal), the skin exudes fluid due to licking or scratching (moist), the fluid…

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West Hill’s Holiday Open House

This holiday season on December 6th, we extended an invitation from our West Hill Animal Clinic family to yours and hosted our very first “Christmas Open House”. We offered clinic tours for anyone who wondered what it was like behind our exam room doors. Our guests got to see where…

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Dr. Clayton Greenway on CP24 December 9th

On Tuesday, December 9th Dr. Clayton Greenway will appear on CP24’s Animal House Calls with Ann Rohmer. They will be discussing Christmas Pet Hazards. The show airs at 7pm on Toronto’s Channel 24!