Bird Vet Melbourne

Bird Vet Melbourne

Bird Vet - We provide quality care and treatment for birds, in Melbourne. Bird Vet Melbourne is an avain veterinary facililty - well equipped to offer outstanding care for your sick bird. Dr Phil, Dr Michelle - Studying for her bird specialist exams, and Dr Esther offer Avian veterinary services for birds , parrots, ducks and chickens. . Bird vet Melbourne is a leader in bird care, and avian veterinary in Melbourne. Click on the website www.birdvetmelbourne.com to book an appointment. Our chicken vet wheelchairs
Dr Phil - Dr Phillip Sacks BSc BVSc Hons (Small Animal Medicine), MACVSc (Bird vet)
Dr Pat Macwhirter (FACVSc (Bird Vet Specialist))

Phil graduated in 1990 from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, after which he worked in a small animal practice until called up for his military service. He served as an army veterinarian (with the rank of lieutenant), treating military dogs and horses. In 1992 he was accepted into a residency program in the Department of Medicine at the University of Pretoria. His duties included teaching the clinical pathology course to final year students as well as attending small animal medicine clinics and treating outpatients. In 1997 he graduated with a postgraduate Honours degree. in Small Animal Medicine and Clinical Pathology from the University of Pretoria. He was also invited to become an external examiner for veterinary students at the university. From 1994 he worked in a private practice in Johannesburg (www.birdclnic.net), where he also did relief work for the Johannesburg Zoo. The clinic expanded and Phil found himself doing both veterinary dentistry and exotic animal work. Amongst his achievements there he lists three cesarean sections on pet marmosets in one week, as well as root canals on two Siberian Tigers!, caring for a new born Black Rhino abandoned by its mother, and treating an elephant with an orange stuck in its food pipe.
With his background he joined Melbourne bird Veterinary Hospital was ...read more