Smudge is a young cat who came to see us when he hurt one of his back legs. His owners had noticed that he was limping at home and when we felt Smudge’s leg we suspected it might be broken as his bones didn’t feel very stable. We x-rayed his leg and we could see that he had broken 3 bones in his lower leg. We sent his x-rays off to a specialist orthopaedic surgeon who thought that we needed to put pins into Smudge’s broken bones to support them enough to heal.

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We have a new vet! Charlotte (Charli) Maxey joins us from Monday 5th March.

Charli graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2011, and after spending some time in a small animal practice in Cambridgeshire will be joining Hollybank at the beginning of March. She enjoys all aspects of her work but has particular interests in surgery and wound management. In her spare time Charli is a keen skier and snowboarder. She also enjoys baking, especially her favourite carrot cake.