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...
Posted on March 26, 2020
Dear Clients of the OVAH During the lockdown, from midnight on 26 March till midnight on 16 April, the OVAH will only render essential services, including those to alleviate animal pain and suffering and to provide life-saving treatment. Our farm animal veterinarians will also be available to...
Posted on June 02, 2017
Prof Marthinus Hartman's breakthrough in the field of veterinary surgery was inspired by procedures carried out on humans when he became the first veterinary surgeon in South Africa to perform laparoscopic sterilisation on lions.
Posted on May 15, 2017
Electric fencing, although economical and effective, often result in the electrocution of non-target species. Among them are tortoises, and they are rapidly moving up on the Cites list of endangered animals.
Posted on August 04, 2016
A new reality/documentary TV series on SABC 3 titled Frontier Vets, depicts the daily lives of six South African soon-to-be-qualified veterinary students from the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Veterinary Science.
Posted on October 22, 2015
Equine surgery has its fair share of challenges, but thanks to the well-equipped Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital (OVAH), equine surgeons such as Dr Arnold Mahne are able to do their utmost for sick and injured horses.
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