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Vet Advice

Glen Kolenc has been a practising vet for just over 10 years. After working in several veterinary hospitals in Sydney along with a four year working holiday in the UK, he now owns the Petersham Veterinary Hospital in Sydney's Inner West, along with its onsite boarding cattery. Glen's love of animals stems back to his childhood, which prompted him to study veterinary science at the University of Sydney. After graduating in 1997 with honours, he has spent over a decade doing "the most rewarding job in the world".

Glen is our resident Internet Vet here at Dogs and Cats and would like to remind visitors asking him questions that some medical problems can be extremely difficult to diagnose. A certain set of symptoms may be caused by several possible ailments. Therefore nothing can replace a veterinarian obtaining a full history, and performing a thorough examination of your pet. This Q + A segment though does allow for more general queries to be addressed.

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Please note that due to the volume of questions we receive here at dogsandcats, we cannot promise to answer all of the questions posted here. We will select the questions we feel will be most helpful for a majority and the vet will answer these on a regular basis.
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Q:Why won't my dog eat his food?
A:There could literally be 1001 reasons why your dog won't eat his food. He/she should be taken to a vet.

Q:My cat has white ears so I try to keep her indoors but she does like to find a sunny spot to lay in and sometimes her ears get a little burnt. I have bought sunscreen but do no’t use it every day but just when it seems sunny towards the Summer season. What else should I do? Do most white cats in Australia who have been exposed to the sun develop skin cancer?
A:Yes, I see a lot of white cats that develop skin cancer on their ears and nose. It is quite common. Short of keeping them indoors and applying sunscreen, there is not much else you can do to prevent it.

Q:I avoid giving my dog raw bones because they are too messy in the house and tend to get buried or borrowed in the house. But because they love to chew, I buy the edible plastic bones/chews and it keeps them amused for hours. Is this a problem? If I do not they turn on the furniture!
A:It is only a problem if they swallow a large piece and it gets caught up in their stomach/intestines.

Q:I think my dog ate carpet to help make him sick. What do I do? Not a lot of money :(
A:It is unlikely the dog ate the carpet to make himself sick. It is more likely the dog ate the carpet and now he is sick. This dog seriously needs vet attention. A lot of vets will sort out some sort of payment plan.

Q:My grandmother has a overweight 9kg long haired female daschund who has shown symptoms of nasal and digestive problems. Her nose has been running and she makes a sound like something is lodged in her throat or nose. Unfortunately she was taken advantage of by a local vet hospital and payed $900 for x-rays of nose, throat and stomach which she never received image results for. Apparently they were sent to brisbane? a second opinion thinks it could be back molars causing the problem. it isn't a tumour in nose perhaps? any advice would be highly appreciated, don't want to see her get extorted again. thanks. s. schilling, toowoomba. qld.
A:Note from Admin is please remember that this Q and A facility is for general advice only. It is impossible (as well as immoral and unethical) for Glen to give any sort of advice on specific cases such as this because without a detailed history and examining an animal there is no way he can determine what is wrong with an animal, nor what the best thing to do re treatment or diagnostics. Glen’s general answer to this question is that there could be a number of things causing the problems you have described including a tumor which is certainly 1 of many possibilities. However it would be impossible for me to say much more than that without having the benefit of obtaining a full detailed history and examining the dog. The main advice I can give you here is that if she didn't receive the results of the radiographs she should phone them up and ask for the vet she saw to discuss the results with her or revisit them to discuss the results face to face. Also if she felt she was "taken advantage of" then perhaps she should seek a second opinion at a different vet and before any further tests or treatments are done. She should have all the options given to her including the costs of each option and the pros and cons of each option.

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