Video endoscopy allows veterinarians to look inside your pet’s body without making a surgical incision. Scopes often consist of fibre optic digital camera combined with mechanical surgical tools (cutters, grabbers) encased in a thin tube. At Southpaws, we have a large number of flexible and rigid scopes combined with high definition digital cameras and lights to obtain the best possible information to aid our diagnosis. Our internal medicine department uses these scopes to examine the gastrointestinal, upper respiratory and urinary tract and nasal cavity. If your pet has ingested a foreign body, a scope may be used to extract it, so that it may be possible to avoid open wound surgery.