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As you may know during January 2005, the generosity of our clients, enabled the practice to raise over £4000 to adopt our own Moon Bear, Billy.  We need to continually raise funds to support him in his new life at the Animals Asia sanctuary in China. This year we are promoting the artwork of local artists Kelvin and Pat Wongsom. Some of their beautiful pictures have been loaned to the practice and are on display at our Keyworth branch surgery. For each picture sold the practice will donate £5 to Animals Asia. To purchase a picture use the following link. Kelvin and Pat Wongsam Local Artists Please make sure you let them know you are one of our clients so we can make our donation. Pictures can be collected from the practice by prior arrangement.
 
BILL-BOWLER VETERINARY SURGERY WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE WHO HELPED WITH THE ADOPTION OF OUR MOON BEAR BILLY. BILLY WAS RESCUED FROM A CHINESE BILE FARM BY ANIMALS ASIA IN JANUARY 2005, HE HAD BEEN VERY BADLY ABUSED AND WAS EXTERMELY POORLY, PLEASE HELP BILLY BY PURCHASING PICTURES FROM KEYWORTH OR GREETING CARDS FROM WEST BRIDGFORD.
We would like to thank our special client Mrs Frances Smith who continually makes greeting cards for donations towards Billy Bear`s fund.
Read about Billy`s story below and look at his beautiful pictures as he recovers at the sanctuary.
As you may know we have been using our web site to sell food and to donate the profit to the adoption of our own Moon Bear.
During January our rescued bile moon bear arrived at the sanctuary in China, he is called Billy and is very poorly.
`Billy is middle-aged bear who is the victim of the so-called `humane` free-dripping method of bile extraction. This poor, poor boy is painfully thin and is missing his front right limb just at the elbow as a result of being snared or trapped in the wild. His free-drip site is an open fistula, which seeps pus every time it is squeezed. The ultrasound examination revealed that his gall bladder is misshapen, which indicates that it is diseased. Billy`s lower canines are broken to the pulp and he has broken incisors, molars and premolars - all evidence of stressed and frantic bar biting during his years in cage. Billy also has hyperkeratotic (cracked) footpads from being unable to stand on solid ground in years and is monorchid bear (missing one testicle). He has a cut on his back paw pad and numerous head wounds from frantic bar rubbing and bashing his sad and stressed head against the bars.
Poor Billy was getting on well at first, but regressed a little once in his new roomy recovery cage following his emergency health check. Timid and shy, he has a habit of dribbling, which is probably related to stress. He`s eating well,
but is a typical wild caught younger bear who obviously misses his mum and hates the sight of people.`
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