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PDSA Companions Autumn CAutumn 2018ompanions | pdsa.org.uk Saving pets, changing lives polling the pet population - pdsa animal wellbeing (paw) report 2018 who will be the biggest loser? pet fit club 2018 the benefit of pets our front cover chosen by you! welcome As we come to the end of our centenary year, our focus at PDSA moves from celebrating our heritage to planning in this issue … For the great outdoors for our future. and muddy paws This year’s PDSA Animal Wellbeing As the evenings draw in, we get 4 The news (PAW) Report on page 10 reveals some ready for Halloween with pet-friendly The latest from PDSA’s newsroom good news for the nation’s pets, but pumpkin ideas and tips on how to spot also gives us plenty to work on. That’s those autumnal pests that bother our 10 Special report And whatever happens next why we’ve launched The Big Pet Quiz pets at this time of year. Introducing the 2018 PAW Report which is a fantastic way for all owners Finally, we remind ourselves of to find out how happy and healthy their warmer times by looking back at one 16 Ask the Vet With four lifetime* policies to choose pets are. The online quiz provides lots of the highlights of the summer - our Our Pet Health Team answer from, a Defaqto 5 Star Rating**, PDSA of useful pet health advice for our furry PetLife ’18 festival. It was such a your questions Pet Insurance comes complete with the friends and I’d really like to encourage fantastic event and it was wonderful to all of our readers to have a go at see so many happy faces and wagging 22 Pets that go bump reassurance of knowing your best friend pdsa.org.uk/bigpetquiz tails enjoying the activities, music and in the night will get the care and treatment they need Another important project is our sunshine. See the photos on page 34. Is your pet ‘crepuscular’? should life take an unexpected turn. fundraising appeal for a new Pet I hope you enjoy this edition. Hospital in Manchester. Our existing site 26 PDSA in action is sadly past its best and we desperately A day in the life of a Pet Hospital need a new hospital. Read all about our PDSA Pet Insurance £2.4 million appeal on page 28. Jan McLoughlin 28 New hope for PDSA Director General Manchester pets For your pet’s life Corrie’s Lisa George lends some celebrity support to our appeal 34 Fundraising A pawfect day for the launch of the first PDSA PetLife festival This edition’s cover features the image 38 Best friends chosen by our readers. To protect your pet please call Colleen and Inca share their story Thank you for voting! 0800 980 6000 or visit pdsa.org.uk/petinsurance The 5 Welfare Needs for pets are at the heart of everything we do the need for the need for protection from the need to the need to live ** a suitable a suitable pain, suffering, express normal with, or apart from, environment diet injury and disease behaviour other animals Environment Diet Health Behaviour Companionship Companions magazine is published by the PDSA ISSN no: 1475-9802 © The People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals 08/18 How to contact us Registered charity nos. 208217 & SC037585 Due to the volume of correspondence, material sent for publication may not be published. Our website Head Office Advertising: To discuss advertising Material printed in the magazine may be edited. pdsa.org.uk Whitechapel Way, * Lifetime policies cover your Pet’s treatment, for both illnesses and injuries, up to a single policy limit, for each policy year. As long as your policy remains in force, your premiums paid up to date and the insurer opportunities in Companions, To help save funds we only return readers’ invites renewal, there is no limit on how long you can claim for each illness or injury. Upon renewal, the policy limit is reset and available to claim again. Policy excesses will apply per condition, per year. please contact Gaynor Garton photographs or other original material if Priorslee, Telford, ** Defaqto 5 Star Rating applies to Ultimate and Ultimate Plus policies only. Defaqto’s Star Ratings provide an independent assessment of the quality of financial products. at Square 7 Media 020 3283 4055 accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope. [email protected] Our phone number Shropshire PDSA Trading Limited is an introducer appointed representative of BDML Connect Limited. PDSA Petsurance is a trading name of BDML Connect Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial PDSA and its distributors hold no responsibility Images sourced from PDSA, Companions readers 0800 0199 166 TF2 9PQ © The People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals Registered 07/18 charity nos. 208217 & SC037585 Conduct Authority (No. 309140). Registered in England and Wales Number 02785540. Registered Office: Markerstudy House, 45 Westerham Road, Bessels Green, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 2QB. for, nor endorse, any of the products or services (with permission) or © Shutterstock.com advertised in Companions magazine. Illustration (p16-17) © Katy Alston REF: COMP18 Like us facebook.com/pdsa | 3 The latest from the news PDSA’s newsroom #petsneedvets It’s showtime Who will be the “the pdsa pet survivor awards recognise those extraordinary e have some news hot off the press that next Pet Survivor? stories which capture a pet’s PDSA Petsurance will be sponsoring two fighting spirit, their owner’s Wamazing pet events: Do you know a fortunate feline who nearly lost love and devotion and the FAMILY PET SHOW 6-7 OCTOBER 2018 1 www.thefamilypetshow.co.uk all nine lives? Or a plucky pooch who dodged a skills of the vet teams who Play, watch, learn and have a go at loads of exciting animal activities at EventCity in Manchester. Highlights include doggy disaster? If so, your brave pet could be saved their lives.” Scruffts – the nation’s favourite crossbreed competition – crowned PDSA Pet Survivor 2018. Olivia Anderson-Nathan and a performance by Britain’s Got Talent favourites Lucy Heath PDSA Vet and Pet Survivor Judge and Trip Hazard. We’re looking for the nation’s most NATIONAL PET SHOW 3-4 NOVEMBER 2018 courageous pets who have battled 2 www.thenationalpetshow.com against the odds and lived to tell the Get down to Birmingham’s NEC and discover the exciting pet tale. Only the most extraordinary stories Volunteer villages where you can find out all about dogs, cats and small will make it through, and then it will be furries. Enjoy family-friendly talks, shows and workshops and up to the public to decide the winner, shop ‘til you drop with more than 200 exhibitors showcasing who will receive a luxury pet hamper of the Year the latest products to pamper your pets. and the title of ‘PDSA Pet Survivor of the Year 2018’. The competition is open to any pet treated in the UK by a vet for a 2017 life-threatening illness or injury between win 1 January 2017 and 31 August 2018. X-ray reveals pup’s The chicken bone which found its way Check out pdsa.org.uk/petsurvivor ets aren’t just there to treat poorly pets – not-so-funny into Sapphire’s stomach is shown by Above: Ziggy’s miraculous recovery bone PDSA Vet, Kate Cavanagh (above) Lesley said “PDSA’s service was five-star and I really can’t thank them for details of how to enter made him a worthy winner in 2015 registering with a vet and taking your furry Kate Cavanagh, PDSA Vet, said: enough. I knew as soon as she swallowed “The x-ray showed the bone lodged in the bone how dangerous it could be and troublesome puppy had to Sapphire’s stomach. There was a real risk, we were all on tenterhooks the whole have emergency surgery after due to its size, that it could have led to a time she was in surgery. Needless to tickets swallowing a six-inch chicken life-threatening blockage in her bowel. say we’re now much more careful with A bone whole. “We knew we had to carry out an Sapphire where food is concerned.” friends along for regular visits will help make sure Seven-month-old Staffie Sapphire emergency operation to remove it as Kate added: “We would advise from Stoke-on-Trent had a lucky escape quickly as possible.” keeping unsuitable foods out of paws’ after pinching a chicken drumstick during Thankfully, the surgery was a success reach and sticking to dog friendly chew V a family meal. She ran off with her prize and the bone was safely removed just an toys – these don’t present a choking or bone and swallowed it before the family hour-and-a-half after Sapphire swallowed blockage risk and can also help keep your you and your pets have a long and happy life together. could stop her. it. The lucky pup was allowed home the dog’s teeth clean.” Quick-thinking owner, Lesley, following day. immediately contacted PDSA’s Stoke Pet Hospital, and the mischievous mutt was rushed straight in for an x-ray. The 2018 PDSA Animal Wellbeing (PAW) Report – we would advise keeping unsuitable foods out of paws’ reach ll collect and pdsa and sticking to dog friendly chew toys. nly collect st p ness pa et as appeals, s ganisation for their own marketing purposes. As Data Controller PDSA wi ues. u featured later in this issue – finds that 16% of pet owners services, visit our websites, or help with our income generating activities.
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