Compassionate house call pet euthanasia service for Launceston and surrounds. Monday and Thursday 10-5 by appointment. We can discuss your options before hand.
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The Rainbow Bridge Vet is a part-time business, currently open on a Monday and Thursday 10-5. Occasional appointments available outside of these hours when time permits. I am an experienced veterinarian with over 25 years of clinical practice. I have worked throughout Australia, the UK and NZ - Tasmania is where my heart is and is my long term home. One of the hardest parts of being a pet owner is
seeing our fur-family get older. Unfortunately our pets rarely pass away peacefully in their sleep - and it is difficult to see them struggling or suffering. Although it can be a very difficult decision to make, allowing our furry loved ones to pass peacefully in their own surroundings is a relief to us as owners. Most importantly for our pets, it is a gentle and kind way to end their suffering. My service includes a phone discussion before a planned visit. This may help you decide when is the right time, or to reassure you about what happens in a visit. There is plenty of time in my visit - I allow for up to an hour. Afterwards you may want to bury your pet at home. Alternatively you may wish to have your pet cremated.
I will be away from this Thursday the 22th of Feb until the following Monday the 26th Feb. Off to do the 3 capes Track to celebrate our first Wedding Anniversary! I will have occasional signal for text messages - but will get back to anyone leaving messages as soon as I can.
Thank you
I am away next week, but back to normal working days on Monday 13th November
I wont be easily contactable as I will be in Thailand (long awaited and a tiny bit belated honeymoon) but you can use text, email or messenger and I will get back to as soon as possible on the Monday.
Thanks everyone - I hope all your furry family are safe and well. I have been spending the weekends 'snake fencing' the cat enclosure. Hopefully no more snake encounters...
Fabulous news for Launceston - 24 hour veterinary hospital over the weekends - staffed by Emergency vets and nurses day and night! I hope you don't need an emergency service in a hurry - but if you do you and your fur family will be in the very best hands.
**** IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ****
It’s been a busy time for us at AEH Launceston since our last update with renovations being completed, new equipment to buy, a whole team of enthusiastic veterinary professionals to find, two new veterinary software systems to learn and now finally, the last puzzle pieces have fallen into place.
Our first opening weekend will begin at 5pm on Friday the 29th of September & we will be located at 207 Hobart Road, Kings Meadows.
For many of you, the veterinary clinic located at 207 Hobart Road may be familiar as the previous Kings Meadows Veterinary Clinic, and more recently, Pets Life Veterinary Care. We gratefully wish to acknowledge the team from Pets Life, for supporting AEH Launceston and providing us a place to call home in our first year of business. I would also like to emphasise that we are a completely separate veterinary business from Pets Life Veterinary Care.
So, what’s next?
Dr Lisa is putting her graphic design skills to the test and developing some information posters on the following:
• What to do if you think you might need veterinary assistance from AEH Launceston
• How our triage consultation system will work
• What we offer for overnight and weekend referral care (this is when your regular veterinarian feels your pet needs 24-hour veterinary attention)
• How much will it cost to see a vet over the weekend & ways we can assist you in the event of these unexpected stressful situations
• What to do with wildlife that are injured or unwell
• What can I expect if my pet needs to stay for medical or surgical treatment
We will also be introducing a few of our team members who will be starting with us from the 29th.
Hello!
Just letting you know that I will be having a wee break from next Thursday afternoon the 24th of August, and will be back on deck Monday the 4th of September.
Text, email or messenger is the best way to get in touch for any future enquires and I will check in everyday. I will be on the 3 Capes Track on the first weekend in September and wont have much phone reception but will get back in touch on the Monday I am back to work.
Thanks, Liz
I am off getting married next week 🥰
I will be unavailable from Thursday 23rd February until Sunday 5th March.
I still have availability this Thursday and next Monday - and the odd times next Tuesday and Wednesday.
Emails and messages are the best way to contact me for future enquires if needed. I will check in every couple of days.
Thank you
Liz
I am away on the Overland Track this coming week. I will have phone service again on Friday Night (4th November) - and I will reply to any messages on the Saturday.
I will be available as normal on the Monday (despite it being Recreation Day!)
Toad is a bit sad…
Enjoying the sunshine with my boy. Hope you are all having a great weekend with your fur family 😊
Photos welcome 😁
How eloquently this beautiful woman describes her relationship with her dog...
This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date. I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this. Enjoy the story...
It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.
Here's the thing.
I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.
She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.
She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.
She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.
Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.
She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.
She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.
The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.
She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.
Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.
I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.
She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.
I know that she's not sad about aging or dying. Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.
But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.
I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.
But this decision is instant.
These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.
I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable & comforted & safe & important.
Many of us these days, we dread the death of a loved one. It is the ugly truth of Life that keeps us feeling terrified & alone. I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time. I know that I will feel the most overwhelming knowledge of her, and of her life and of my love for her, in the last moments.
I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.
Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.
When she dies.
So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.
Love,
Fiona
Balancing Rainbow Bridge work with Just Cats shelter work.
People often remark that it must be difficult working as the Rainbow Bridge Vet. It is an emotional job, but rewarding at the same time. It is a privilege to be a part of peoples lives in their most vulnerable moments - and to be able to give peace to their beloved fur family in their time of need.
JustCats is a charity feline shelter - and most days I get to work with kittens and young cats that have been given the opportunity for a new and wonderful life in safe homes.
These two kittens have been in isolation whilst being treated for ringworm (a fungal skin infection) I am fostering them for the weekend to give them some extra love whilst they are recovering.
The combination of these two jobs helps me maintain emotional balance.
It can be such an emotional time when our pets get sick! One of my boys feeling a bit poorly at the moment. At least he gets to be 'hospitalised' at home - and his brother is looking after him. Hugs to all those with pet worries!
Why is Rainbow Bridge Vet Service Part - Time?
On Tuesdays Wednesdays and Fridays I work at Just Cats Tasmania. This is me visiting the Residents at the Longford adoption center (selfie with Grouch)
I mostly work at the Mowbray facility behind the scenes, doing the veterinary work for the cats and kittens coming up for adoption, and for our long term foster cats under our care.
Although I am unavailable whilst working as the Just Cats vet, you are still welcome to send me a text, message through messenger or email. I will get back to you as soon as I can.
Mondays and Thursdays are my official Rainbow Bridge Days, but where I can, I will fit calls in and around other work and when I am available on weekends.
Rainbow Bridge Vet is now up and running
Welcome to the Rainbow Bridge Vet.
This is a compassionate house call pet euthanasia service for Launceston and surrounds.
This service will be available in early February. Date to be announced shortly.
Launceston, TAS
7250
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