Ari

Ari is a 3 year old red point longhaired cat. He came from the RSPCA and was due to be euthanased due to the infectious diseases he had caught there. We chose not to due to his beautiful nature and adopted him instead. Ari is very loving and friendly and loves to sit in the bosses chair. Ari lives with Poppy at the hospital.
Origin: RSPCA
Desexed YES
Microchipped: YES
Heartworm and intestinal worm prevention: Revolution and tapewormer.
Flea control: Revolution
Vaccination F4 -
Diet: Hills feline maintenance
Other medical history.
Ari came to us from the RSPCA where he had acquired both ringworm and cat flu. Both of these diseases required prolonged treatment before he recovered, so they had chosen to euthanase him rather than treat him. We chose to treat him.
Both Poppy and Ari have very pale skin, so in addition to all the other reasons for keeping cats indoors they have the additional reason that if allowed outside they would get sun burnt and ultimately skin cancer.

Bapi

Bapi is a Centralian Carpet python.

Origin:Bapi was captive bred and is hypomelanistic. (which means he has comparatively little black pigment compared to other pythons of his species.)
Microchipped: YES
wormed: Wormout gel via food
Other medical history.
Bapi has been very healthy so far.

Bardi

Bardi is a 6 year old smokey ginger male cat. He likes to eat and sleep and sit on books that are being read.
Origin: Abandoned as a kitten.
Desexed YES
Microchipped: YES
Heartworm and intestinal worm prevention: Milbemax.
Flea control: Frontline
Vaccination F4
Diet: Hills feline maintenance.

Other medical history.
Bardi was born a cryptorchid (both testicles were up near his kidneys) and has a short twisted knob for a tail. This is a form of spina bifida and bardi walks with a unusual gait and is quite clumsy.

Bella

Bella is a 3 legged Heeler cross from the Pilbara in WA.
Origin: Bella was brought in by her then owner to be euthanased after being hit by a car with a broken leg, fractured pelvis & head injuries. The vet fell in love with her and decided to adopt her. The leg could not be saved though and had to be amputated.
Desexed. YES
Microchipped: YES
Heartworm and intestinal worm prevention: Prohart sr –12 & drontals chewables monthly during the wet season, three monthly during the dry season.
Flea control: Frontline & tick injections.
Vaccination C6 (Parvovirus, distemper, hepatitis, parainfluenza, bordertella and Leptospirosis).
Diet: Hills science diet & human food.
Other medical history. Despite her three legs bella gets around very well as does most three leggers.

Billy

Billy is a 2 year old male german shorthaired pointer cross.
Origin: Billy came from Darwin Pound. Billy arrived with a damaged front leg with an infected joint.
Desexed YES
Heartworm and intestinal worm prevention: Proheart annually, tick injection monthly
Flea control: Comfortis tablet monthly
Vaccination C6 (Parvovirus, distemper, hepatitis, parainfluenza, bordertella and Leptospirosis.
Other medical history.
Billy's leg has healed well.
Billy has had a Fibrolipoma (benine facial tumor) removed from his face, but remains extremely handsome.
Billy suffers from ADD :)

Cat

Cat's name is actually cat. Cat is a 2 year old russian blue cross cat. He came from PAWS. He came in as a stray 3 week old kitten with cat flu. He was due to be euthanased. His ownwer chose not to due to his beautiful nature and adopted him instead.
Origin: PAWS
Desexed YES
Microchipped: YES
Heartworm and intestinal worm prevention: Revolution and tapewormer.
Flea control: Revolution
Vaccination F4
Diet: Hills T/d
Other medical history.
Cat apart from his bad early start has been quite healthy.

Chichi

Chichi is a 4 year old lutino cockatiel. She is a very happy bird despite having a permanently deformed foot. When she was young her owners pet rats got out and chewed her foot. While it was possible to save the foot it is not perfect. Chichi has learnt to giggle exactly like her owner.
Microchipped: YES

Chopper

Chopper is a 9 month old black desexed male domestic rat.
Origin: Adopted from the prison.
Desexed. Yes. Pet rats should be desexed. It extends their life span greatly, reduces their smell and prevents unwanted breeding.
Other medical history.
Chopper developed a Pasturella infection which gave him a head tilt. He copes very well but just walks a little funny.

Cricket

Cricket is a 4 year old long haired chihuahua. She is very spoilt by her owner and needs to diet.
Desexed: Yes
Microchipped: YES
Heartworm protection and intestinal worm protection: Interceptor Spectrum monthly.
Flea & tick control: Frontline.
Vaccination C6(Parvovirus,distemper,hepatitis,parainfluenza, bordertella and Leptospirosis.
Other Medical History:Cricket has been very healthy so far.

Delilah

Delilah is a 9 year old Black & white shorthaired cat. She was a stray in Birmingham (England) in 2005 and was due to be euthanased. She was malnourished, dehydrated and covered in ticks with horrendous diarrhoea. It was originally thought she was very old and possibly suffering a thyroid problem.

Origin: Stray - England (yes she purrs with an accent!).
Desexed YES
Microchipped: YES
Heartworm and intestinal worm prevention: Revolution and tapewormer.
Flea control: Revolution
Vaccination F3, Felv.
Diet: Royal Canin - light dry food and obesity Sachets.
Other medical history.
Delilah has a long medical history. She was found with some neurological problems and walks a little strangely! She suffers itchy ears from allergens. She also has calici virus which causes mild ulcers on her tongue and the occassional very smelly breath (which you cant avoid as she loves to rub noses together!)
Delilah was a very brave cat and survived a 24hour flight followed by a month in quarantine to follow her owner across the world back to Darwin! She now loves her new personal garden and the heat after having to be an indoor cat in a small flat in chilly England.

Dorrie

Dorrie is a 11 year old Blue heeler.
Origin:
Desexed. YES
Microchipped: YES
Heartworm and intestinal worm prevention: Prohart sr –12 & drontals chewables monthly during the wet season, three monthly during the dry season.
Flea control: Advantix.
Vaccination C6 (Parvovirus, distemper, hepatitis, parainfluenza, bordertella and Leptospirosis).
Diet: Hills Canine Light.
Other medical history. - Like many older dogs, Dorrie has a strong food drive and a tendency to gain weight.

Gilbert

Gilbert is a 7 year old female Inland bearded dragon.

Origin:Gilbert was captive bred.
wormed: Wormout gel via food
Other medical history.
Gilbert has been very healthy so far. Like all Bearded dragons he requires a proper diet with plenty of calcium, vit D3 and UV light.

Jessie

Jessie is a 2 year old female heeler X.
Origin: Arrived as a stray in a storm. Her original owners were tracked down but had left town and didn't want her anymore.
Desexed. YES
Heartworm and intestinal worm prevention: tick injections monthly and tapewormers every 3 months.
Flea control: frontline.
Tick control: tick injections
Vaccination C6 (Parvovirus, distemper, hepatitis, parainfluenza, bordertella and Leptospirosis.
Microchipped: YES
Other Medical History: So far pretty healthy.

Lepto

Lepto is a retired Greyhound. She lives at the clinic and is much loved by all the staff. She gets on great with Poppy and Ari who also live there. She loves food and is always on the look out for any treats.
Origin: GAPNT
Desexed. YES
Heartworm and intestinal worm prevention: Tick injections monthly with praziquantel tablets every 3 months (for tapeworm).
Flea & Tick control: Advantix monthly.
Vaccination C7 (Parvovirus, distemper, hepatitis, parainfluenza, bordertella, tetanus and Leptospirosis).
Diet: Hills Science diet & raw chicken necks (& what ever else she can aquire - she loves pigs ears, liver treats etc.)
Other medical history.

Lilly

Lilly is 2 year old desexed chocolate tokinese. She was a stray kitten. She is an indoor only cat but loves to escape and run away. As a result Lilly wears a very cool GPS tracker so she can be found. She also likes to chew power cords.
Origin: PAWS
Desexed YES
Heartworm and intestinal worm prevention: Revolution and tapewormer.
Flea control: Frontline
Vaccination F4
Diet: Hills feline maintenance
Other medical history.
Despite Lillys frequent adventures she has so far been quite healthy.

Lilu

Lilu is a 5 year old staffy cross. She came in to the clinic for euthanasia because she was unwanted but the vet asked the owner if she could keep her.
Desexed: Yes
Microchipped: YES
Heartworm protection: Proheart sr 12
Intestinal worm protection: Drontal allwormer monthly.
Flea & tick control: Advocate.
Vaccination C6(Parvovirus,distemper,hepatitis,parainfluenza, bordertella and Leptospirosis.
Other Medical History: Lilu has chronic arthritis in her elbow due to an old injury. She receives medications for this.

Mia

Mia is a 4 year old female desexed staffy cross.
She is from ALbury, Victoria.
Desexed: Yes
Microchipped: YES
Heartworm protection and intestinal worm protection: Interceptor Spectrum monthly.
Flea & tick control: Frontline.
Vaccination C6(Parvovirus,distemper,hepatitis,parainfluenza, bordertella and Leptospirosis.
Other Medical History:Mia has been very healthy so far.

Mr Ruffles

Mr Ruffles is a 1 year old Eastern Water dragon. He orignially came from a private breeder.
Origin: Breeder
Microchipped: YES
wormed: Wormout gel via food
Diet: Crickets, woodies & fruit and veg. his favourite is hibiscus flowers.
Other medical history.
Mr Ruffles has been very healthy so far. Like all dragons he requires a proper diet with plenty of calcium, vit D3 and UV light.

Poppy

Poppy is a 2 year old red point bicolour cat. She was a feral kitten and brought to us by the RSPCA to euthanase. We chose not to and adopted her instead. Poppy is very actively friendly but her early feral upbringing does occasionally reveal it’s self when she gets cross. Poppy loves people, playing hide and seek and smooching big dogs.Poppy, together with Ari live at the hospital.
Origin: Feral
Desexed YES
Heartworm and intestinal worm prevention: Revolution and tapewormer.
Flea control: Revolution
Vaccination F4
Diet: Hills feline maintenance
Other medical history.
Both Poppy and Ari have very pale skin, so in addition to all the other reasons for keeping cats indoors they have the additional reason that if allowed outside they would get sun burnt and ultimately skin cancer.

Skittles

Skittles is a Children's python.

Origin:Skittles was captive bred.
wormed: Wormout gel via food
Other medical history.
Skittles developed severe mouthrot (necrotic stomatitis)which his previous owner declined to treat, so he was adopted by a staff member who treated it. While it has healed well since it was so severe the mouth has been permanently damaged and is a little bent. Despite this he gets along fine and eats really well.

Spazz

Spazz is a 8 year old domestic shorthaired cat. He came in as a stray for euthanasia but instead the vet decided to keep him.

Origin: Pilbara WA
Desexed YES
Microchipped: YES
Heartworm and intestinal worm prevention: Revolution and tapewormer.
Flea control: Revolution
Vaccination F4
Diet: Hills feline maintenance
Other medical history. - the vet who owns him denies any responsibility for his name.

Tanami

Tanami is a 7 month old female self platinum rat.
Origin: Adopted from feeder rats.
Desexed. Yes.
Other medical history.
None.

Templeton

Templeton is about 1 year old Chihuahua and came in as a stray from darwin City council pound. Nobody claimed him and one of staff members decided to adopt him through our PAWS program.
Origin: DCC pound
Desexed. YES
Heartworm and intestinal worm prevention: Sentinel spectrum monthly.
Flea & tick control: Frontline
Vaccination C6 (Parvovirus, distemper, hepatitis, parainfluenza, bordertella and Leptospirosis).
Diet: Hills Science diet & raw chicken necks.
Other medical history. - Templeton is mostly blind he can see a small amount of movement but not much else. He copes very well and lives a full and happy life otherwise.

Wark

Waark is a 2 year old red tailed black cockatoo. She was captive bred.
Origin: Captive bred at feathers sanctuary.
Wormed: Worm out gel
External parasite treatment (If she ever catches them) Avian insect liquidator.
Diet: Parrot pellets, and a wide variety of other foods including brocolli, beans, peas, peanuts, almonds, bean shoots, etc.
Waark loves to tease people and really enjoys shouting at people to make them jump. She also loves being affectionate and sitting on shoulders of people she likes.

Other medical history.
Wark has been very healthy so far, she has a life expectancy of 80+ years.

Wheels

Wheels is a 5yo black kelpie cross. She was found by the side of the road in Karratha as a puppy with a broken femur. A man brought her into the clinic and paid for all her surgery, but in the end couldn't keep her, so I did! It all worked out OK for him, though, he started dating one of the vet nurses and last I heard they were engaged.

Zeplin

Zeplin is a 4 year old desexed male Staffy. He is from Albury, victoria.
Desexed: Yes
Microchipped: YES
Heartworm protection and intestinal worm protection: Interceptor Spectrum monthly.
Flea & tick control: Frontline.
Vaccination C6(Parvovirus,distemper,hepatitis,parainfluenza, bordertella and Leptospirosis.

Other Medical History:Zeplin has been healthy so far.

Ziggy

Ziggy is an adolescent emu who thinks he is a human. Ziggy is one of 6 emus of varying ages. They are captive bred and roam around on 5 acres. Ziggy however prefers human company than his own kind and is quite a character.
Food: Ziggy along with the other emus eats a diverse diet mostly of mixed grains with lots of greens. He also helps himself to the odd chook egg.