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This month, Adelaide Animal Hospital and Burnside Vet Clinic will be joining forces with Prospect Road Veterinary Hospital in an exciting merger. Dr Warren Foreman has recently purchased the PRVH, and as of January 2009, our clients and their furry friends will be able to have consultations at the new clinic.

The following products have been voluntarily recalled:-
Kramar Supa Naturals chicken breast strips 150g - Product code 85148
Kramar Supa Naturals chicken breast strips 110g - Product code 85149

These products have been available for sale for 15 months . If you have fed either products to your pet at any time in the past then your pet needs a urine test. Even if there are no signs of illness there may well be abnormalities present.

Feline AIDS is a serious feline disease that aggressively attacks a cats' immune system making them susceptible to a range of infections. Sadly, for some cats it is fatal. South Australia may have up to 18.69% of cats infected with this deadly virus. The good news is that there is a vaccine available to help protect your cat.

Like humans, animals that suffer from trauma, anaemia or bleeding disorders can also require life-saving transfusions. We are always looking for new recruits to join our blood donor program. To ensure all blood products used are of the optimum quality, we recommend donors to be a larger breed dog, aged one to six years of age with current vaccinations including heartworm prevention, and have a friendly and calm demeanour. Donors should not be on any form of medication and should live relatively close to the hospital.

Veterinary Nurse Onyx Taylor, the 'face' of our Burnside Vet Clinic, is sadly leaving us this month. She has been working at Burnside since 1997 and will be sadly missed by all. Onyx will continue to work some Saturday mornings at BVC. Vet Nurse Tanya Forbes will still be a regular face at BVC reception. Tanya will be joined at reception by Client Relations member, Helen Morris.

Congratulation to trainee vet nurse, Arin Collins on completing her Cert 2 in Vet Nursing. She received outstanding results. Well Done!

This months team member spotlight is on Leanne Bowen.  Leanne Bowen has been working at Adelaide Animal Hospital team since 1999. She is a qualified nurse and her nursing career spans over ten years.  Leanne is involved in Petpep - an education program for primary school children to teach them about the responsibility of owning pets. Leanne has two children, Yasmin 7 and Cooper 5 and is now working part time due to her busy schedule. She also has two dogs Skunk a Staffy cross, a 6 month old puppy Bull Terrior named Spud and a cat named Oliver. Leanne loves her role at the Adelaide Animal Hospital.

Congratulations to Leanne and her husband Leith on the announcement that they are expecting baby #3! Good luck from everyone at AAH and BVC.

To find out more about our team click on this link.

Linda has been working at Adelaide Animal Hospital since December 2006. Originally from Adelaide, Linda completed her Veterinary studies at Massey University in New Zealand. She really enjoyed her time in New Zealand however she is very excited about her return home. Linda's special interests include canine and feline medicine and behaviour.

The endoscope is a very helpful piece of equipment as it enables us to look down into the oesophagus and stomach of a patient. We can also use it to look down into the trachea and inside the bronchi of the lungs. Using the endoscope we can take biopsies, which are small samples of tissue, from the lining of the trachea, oesophagus and stomach.