As dogs get older, their nutritional needs change. For most dogs, they reach their adult life stage around their first year, so it is important to transition their diet to an adult dog food at that time.

Here's our nutrition guide for feeding adult dogs (age 12 months to 7 years) to help keep your canine friend in peak physical condition.

As the temperatures rise, so too does our desire to set up for a day at the beach with our canine friends. In this article, we tackle everything you should consider when bringing your pooch to the beach and the hazards to watch out for.

If you've just adopted a kitten or puppy, controlling fleas, worms and other parasites is going to be an important task to pop in the calendar. While the irritation of these fleas and parasites are usually more noticeable in the spring and summer, it's a year round task to keep on top of.

It’s 8am and Dr Charlotte, Vet Director at one of our Animates Vetcare clinics in Wellington, enters the clinic fresh from a brisk walk with an upbeat song, to start the day right. “I look forward to coming to work, it still excites me.” No two days are the same in a veterinary clinic.

When it comes to your pet's dental health, prevention is always the best treatment. However, identifying where there might be a dental health condition is often near impossible, with many pets showing no obvious symptoms at all.

While it may be hard to identify, 80% of dogs and cats over three years of age have some form of dental disease.*

Smelly dog breath isn’t normal so it’s important to keep their teeth and gums clean and healthy. Here are our top tips for cleaning your dog’s teeth at home to protect their pearly whites.