Unley Vet Surgery - Pets and their People

24/11/2025

🚧 Important Parking & Access Update 🚧

On Tuesday 25th & Wednesday 26th, please enter via the rear entrance off Irwin Lane only, as we are expecting needed maintenance in our carpark.

We kindly ask that all clients park in the rear carpark — please only park in the signed client parking spaces. 🚗

Thank you for your patience — we’ll keep everything running smoothly for you and your pets ❤️

19/11/2025

Laughter can be the best medicine! 🐾😂

Did you know we now have a new joke board display at our vet clinic? 📚😹

If you have a funny pet-related joke, comment below and you might see it featured on our display soon! 📱🐶

We can’t wait to hear your purr-fectly hilarious jokes! 😂

14/11/2025

🌾 It’s Grass Seed Season! 🌾

As the weather warms up from late spring through summer, those pesky grass seeds start showing up everywhere. These tiny, barbed hitchhikers only move one way, ➡️forward. Once they latch on, they can cause big trouble for your pet.

Even a single seed can burrow deep into the skin, causing pain, inflammation, and infection — and in some cases, even severe eye injuries.

Grass seeds have been found almost anywhere on a dog’s body, including:
🐾 Feet
🐾 Chest/stomach
🐾 Ge***al area
🐾 Ears
🐾 Eyes
🐾 Nose

Watch out for symptoms like:
👉 Swelling or redness
👉 Licking or chewing one area excessively
👉 Discharge or small blisters
👉 Missing fur patches
👉 Violent or constant sneezing
👉 Pawing at the nose or eyes
👉 Head shaking or tilting

Many pet owners will agree — no matter how carefully you check your dog, all it takes is one roll in the grass or one curious sniff for a seed to sneak in.

07/11/2025

Happy Friday Everybody! 👏🐾

Wishing you all a lovely weekend! 😝

If you need us, you know where to find us on 8272 3400 📞

03/11/2025

Kickstarting the week with cuteness! ❤️🐾

Can anyone guess this boy's breed? 🐶

31/10/2025

Happy Howl-a-ween 👻🎃

27/10/2025

With warmer weather arriving, it's time to watch out for grass seeds ☀️🌾

Here is a friendly reminder to keep an eye out for those pesky grass seeds! And, let's be real, we just wanted to show off this handsome duo Percy & Gordan again 😆

19/10/2025

Dental Series 🦷 !

Firstly lets start naming the old fashion "Dental" more appropriately. We more accurately refer to this procedure as a Comprehensive Oral Health Assessment and Treatment procedure. Why? Because that is what we are actually doing. We are thoroughly assessing your pets teeth under a general anaesthetic to determine the state of health they are in. This has several parts to it and today we will discuss dental x rays.

Why do we always recommend taking x rays of every tooth, on every patient that with do a COHAT on? 60% of the tooth lies below the gum, meaning we cannot see what is going on. Teeth can look and probe perfectly fine, but under the gum lies hidden problems. Our pets are not able to speak to us and tell us when a tooth is sore, and more often than not dental disease goes unnoticed and our animals end up in chronic discomfort.

Here is a quiz for you

Which of these teeth is dead? Can you see any difference in the appearance of these teeth? They are all upper incisors on a dog.

(Handy hint- I could not tell that there was a problem with any of these teeth by their appearance or by probing)

Answer: The circled tooth, 202 or upper left incisor is dead. How do I know this. The dental x rays showed me. Can you see the black line in the middle of each tooth? This is the root canal. As animals get older the root canal becomes more narrow. So all root canals should be approximately the same width within the same patient. If a tooth dies, the root canal can no longer shrink and so will show up on x ray as wider than the surrounding teeth. From studies we know that 92% of dead teeth will cause a problem and therefore need treatment. The treatment is either extraction of the affected tooth, or a root canal (yes our pets can have root canals). This case is just one example of why dental x rays are important and should never be excluded when having your pets teeth assessed.

Stay tuned for more dental cases in my dental series posts over the coming months.

Dr Kylie

15/10/2025

Do you remember Kevin!! ❤️🐾

This is him as a puppy and now! We have loved being part of his journey! 🫶🏻

09/10/2025

08/10/2025

Just a reminder 🐝 🐾

🌸🐝 Bee Stings 🐝🌸

Now that spring has sprung, we have already seen a few cases of bee stings - so let’s chat about it!

If you notice your furry friend has been stung by a bee, if you’re able to find the stinger, you should attempt to remove it.

If you’re unable to remove it, or notice any of the below symptoms, we recommend going to your nearest vet for treatment 💉

Common symptoms of bee stings;

🐝 Swelling
🐝 Redness
🐝 Irritation (itching or licking area)
🐝 limping

If you find yourself in this stingy situation give us a call immediately 📞 8355 5475