By Dr Shelagh HaHn I don’t know when I made the decision to be a vet, but when I wrote a Grade Two story, “What I will be when I grow up”, it was already: Vet – non-negotiable. My crazy Irish maternal grandmother barrelled around in a Buick station wagon with her seven kids, four …
Written by Lauren Namer of PetSave W e have all heard that dynamite comes in small packages… but what we at PetSave have learnt is that sometimes dynamite can come in the form of a precious, disabled Jack Russell! Smartie, aptly named after the well-known chocolate buttons for his colourful personality, is a small, three-year-old …
At birth he was regarded as special and valuable due to being pure white. However, his value quickly decreased when the breeder realised he was deaf, his right eye underdeveloped and he was only partially sighted in the left eye. Discarded, he was the last of the litter and I was asked to help find …
Some know of her incredible story and others who hear it for the first time experience feelings of shock, disbelief and amazement that she is alive today. This special dog’s name is Lucky Lucy and she was rescued from certain death after she had been tied down to a railway line. On 28 January 2010, …
Mia came to us at the age of seven weeks old in early January 2009. Mia is a wolf dog cross German Shepherd. When she came into our house as the baby, she was fussed over by all. My big male, another wolf dog cross German Shepherd, Neo, was getting on in age so we …