Your dog saw a porcupine. Your dog, despite approximately zero prior successes in this area, decided to investigate. The porcupine did what porcupines do. And now you’re here. Porcupine quill encounters are a very real, very common summer emergency in New Brunswick, and one that almost always requires a vet visit. The most important thing…

Ticks are absolutely obsessed with your dog. Like, clingy to a toxic level. Literally. Blacklegged ticks — the ones that carry Lyme disease — are well established across New  Brunswick, and their range and numbers have expanded significantly over the past decade. Tick prevention for dogs is no longer something to think about only if…

New Brunswick has some of the most beautiful camping and hiking terrain in Atlantic Canada — and your dog absolutely wants to experience all of it. Camping with dogs can be an incredible shared adventure. It also means navigating some genuinely serious hazards that don’t come up on day walks around the neighborhood. The good…

If you share your life with a large or deep-chested dog, GDV in dogs is the one condition you most need to know about — and the one that most owners have never heard of until it affects their own pet. Gastric dilatation-volvulus, commonly called bloat or GDV, is a rapid, life-threatening emergency in which…

You’re finally enjoying the warm breezes and blooming trees of spring. Your dog, meanwhile,  has been licking their paws for three weeks straight and has scratched a bald patch behind their ear. Seasonal allergies in dogs are genuinely common, genuinely uncomfortable, and often misunderstood. The signs look different from those of human allergies — no…

The Victoria Day long weekend marks the unofficial start of BBQ season in New Brunswick, and the unofficial start of “my dog ate something at the party” season at veterinary urgent care clinics.  Backyard gatherings are genuinely risky for pets. More people, more distractions, more food at nose height, and at least one well-meaning guest…

It happens in seconds. You turn your back, and suddenly your dog has eaten the chocolate  Easter egg, swallowed a hair tie, or inhaled something off the kitchen counter that definitely  wasn’t theirs. If your dog ate something it shouldn’t, the next few minutes matter.  The good news: not every ingestion is a crisis. But…

Summer in New Brunswick means longer days, backyard cookouts, trail hikes, and more time outdoors with your pets. It also brings a unique set of health risks that every pet owner should  be ready for — from the heat rising inside a parked car to ticks hiding in long grass to the corn cob your dog…