{"id":4636,"date":"2014-08-07T08:39:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T22:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:47:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:47:47","slug":"rch-meerkats-annual-check-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/rch-meerkats-annual-check-up\/","title":{"rendered":"RCH Meerkats annual check-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4637 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/2-3-jpg-294x280.jpg\" alt=\"2 3 jpg\" width=\"294\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/2-3-jpg-294x280.jpg 294w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/2-3-jpg-589x560.jpg 589w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/2-3-jpg-315x300.jpg 315w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/08\/2-3-jpg.jpg 1344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/>The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) meerkat family received a house call from Zoos Victoria yesterday for their annual check-ups.<\/p>\n<p>As each little mammal was plucked up, the remaining meerkats grew craftier in evading the keepers. However, through a determined team effort, three carnivore keepers triumphed and delivered all eight meerkats to zoo vet Dr. Kate Bodley for their annual weigh-in, eye and teeth checks and vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>While their name may suggest otherwise, meerkats are not part of the feline family. However, they are susceptible to diseases which affect cats, such as\u00a0feline enteritis and cat flu. Yesterday\u2019s treatment ensures the meerkats\u2019 protection against these life-threatening diseases remains current, and they can continue bringing\u00a0joy to RCH patients and families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital meerkat family received a house call from Zoos Victoria for their annual check-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":4638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4639,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/4639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}