Posted on May 16, 2025
Rhinotomy surgery was performed on Houdini, a four-year old rhino bull helping him breathing freely again.
Posted on March 04, 2025
The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital (OVAH) at the university’s Faculty of Veterinary Science, is dedicated to helping pets regain their mobility and quality of life.
Posted on February 04, 2025
A six-year-old Yorkshire Terrier named Mia has made a successful recovery after receiving a tracheal stent at the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital (OVAH).
Posted on September 20, 2024
Recently, DVTD staff and graduates have been in the lay press, providing expert advice to the public in their areas of expertise. Prof Anita Michel was interviewed by Beeld about a dog with Brucella canis, and Dr Anthony Craig contributed to Porcus PrimeCuts discussing African Swine Fever and...
Posted on September 17, 2024
Recently, DVTD staff and graduates have been in the lay press, providing expert advice to the public in their areas of expertise. Prof Anita Michel was interviewed by Beeld about a dog with Brucella canis, and Dr Anthony Craig contributed to Porcus PrimeCuts discussing African Swine Fever and...
Posted on June 28, 2024
When a male baboon suddenly appears in the middle of a construction site, it can create quite a stir.
Posted on June 28, 2024
Early on a recent Friday morning the Faculty's wildlife clinic was contacted about a vagrant kudu bull wandering on Airport Road in Doornpoort, Pretoria.
Posted on February 29, 2024
The University of Pretoria's (UP) Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital (OVAH) has recently revealed the largest CT scanner ever used in veterinary practice in South Africa, made possible by a generous R13 million donation from the Roy McAlpine Charitable Foundation.
Posted on September 26, 2023
Having continued her bravery with her recovery from surgery after robbers shot her in the head, the veterinary team that performed surgery on Phoenix at UP’s Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital believes she will continue to live a full life.
Posted on August 01, 2023
While our Faculty's Veterinary Academic Hospital has seen tremendous growth and success over the last few years, we unfortunately have also been impacted by the country-wide shortage of general practice veterinarians that has featured widely in the press.
Posted on July 05, 2023
Wildlife veterinarians Dr Jacques O'Dell and Dr Bart Gazendam, and students of the Faculty recently assisted the City of Tshwane with the capture and relocation of five cheetahs residing in the Rietvlei Nature Reserve.
Posted on June 10, 2023
What do you do when a vulture with a crushed beak needs a new beak and two attempts to fit an acrylic beak fail? You improvise and use the beak of a deceased vulture, successfully enabling the injured bird to feed again.
Posted on May 30, 2023
A veterinary specialist from the University of Pretoria (UP) and the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital has performed South Africa’s first transvenous electrical cardioversion (TVEC) on a horse. It is believed this is the first time this procedure is performed in Africa.
Posted on May 22, 2023
Dr Ross Elliott, a specialist small animal veterinary surgeon at UP’s Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital, worked with a team from Somaliland’s Cheetah Conservation Fund to save Janet, a cheetah, from amputation and euthanasia.
Posted on May 04, 2023
Recently a juvenile Secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) was found collapsed in the Mabula Private Game Reserve by a ranger.
Posted on April 19, 2023
Every year on 4 April, World Stray Animals Day is recognized. It is an emotional day for many dedicated towards animals and a time to show love and attention especially to less fortunate animals.
Posted on October 03, 2022
Staff of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital (OVAH), the teaching hospital of the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Veterinary Science participated in the world-wide rabies day activities by visiting informal settlements in the Moloto-area north-east of Onderstepoort.
Posted on August 16, 2022
Helping to contribute to food security and farming success, veterinary reproduction specialists at UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science performed surgery on a 4-year-old red Brahman bull to restore him to reproductive health.
Posted on October 13, 2021
UP’s Faculty of Veterinary Science has launched an oncology centre with the Southern Africa Animal Cancer Association to conduct animal cancer research.
Posted on April 01, 2020
My name is Andrew and I am, so I am told, a Scottish Terrier. Andrew is apparently a difficult name for humans to pronounce, so everybody calls me “Andy”. Because Scotties are stubborn, independent and proud with a bad temper I do not like it, but I cannot convince them through...
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