Penguin Vet Centre

31/12/2024

Will you be near FIREWORKS tonight? Or maybe an over-noisy party that may frighten your pet?
1. JIC they do get out: are their microchip details up to date? And are they wearing a collar with easy to read ID? You can write your phone number on with a felt-tip pen!
2. Exercise them NOW. If they've had an energetic time they are less likely to be anxious and disturbed later
3. Give them a generous dinner: a repleat pet is a sleepy pet. Post-prandial dozing at its most useful!
4. Keep them inside, with doors and windows shut, curtains drawn. Then make a safe-spot for them, with a bed, or a box and a blanket that smells friendly.
5. Look out the calming products you may have: a Thunder Jacket? [perfect], Feliway or Adaptil spray?, Lavender Calmative?
5. If you do have therapeutic anti-anxiety medicine, remember to give it BEFORE needed: at least 1/2 hour for many products; often 2 hours is best.
6. Make other local noise: background TV, or music that will mask the scary sounds.
See you soon ... Next Year.

17/12/2024

First 2025 Clinics:
Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd January, 11am - 1pm

Pre-New-Year clinics are on
Monday and Tuesday from 11am - 1pm.

I hope everyone is having a happy and safe Holiday-Time.

17/12/2024

Our first kitten-consignment have all got wonderful homes.
There will be four more in Early January.
All girls: 3 are black, one tabby
Rehoming details are in the post below.
If you'd like to meet one, Phone us dbh 64371331, msg here, or you can text 0408140548

01/12/2024

26/11/2024

Help is here to help you keep your cats confined.
And there are very imaginative, innovative and inexpensive ideas for creating cat-enclosures on the net.
Netting to cordon off a portion of your garden, porch or to create a courtyard can be bought by the metre from Hobart.
"Inside" the cats are so much safer.

18/11/2024

Duran, Herrman, Khali and Jill have now all settled into safe and comfortable new homes.
And this is SUFI, we have 6 kittens his age, and 3 a week younger. They are all being mothered by Khali .... we help with top-up feeds.
They can go to new homes in January, "when they have had their vet work done".
Expressions of Interest are welcome. Penguin Vet 64371331

31/10/2024

This is Duran. Today he helped out behind the counter; this evening he supervised my work, then settled down for a sleep on the cat-scales.
Duran has found a home; we've seen photos and he looks very settled.

He was desexed, microchipped and part-way through a course of F3/FIV vaccination.
Health and temperament assessed, he had been de-flea’d & de-wormed, litter-trained and excellently fed.
He went to his new home with some food, kitty litter and a blanket he was used to, to help him acclimatise.
He also had a “Care Pack” of general cat-advice, info on Cat enclosures, Cat insurance etc. plus treats and a reflective collar ….

He cost $340 ... Phone Penguin Vet 64371331 for information

Thankyou to those who shared the post and helped little Duran.

18/10/2024

Good news, our vagrant little tabby cat has been identified, and been returned safely to her home.

09/09/2024

This is Sioux-Cat: hear him roar!

[He is a lovely cat. The x-ray was of his shoulders ... but then this wonderful head appeared]

01/08/2024

Missing from Riana is chocolate labrador ROSCO. Much missed, very much being searched for. He may have been picked up by a car, and so be quite far from home.
Please be watchful; and Share this post to get him home.
Contacts 0400137339 or let us know at PenguinVet [03]64371331

15/07/2024

Tabby kitten has been FOUND and is SAFE.
Thankyou to everyone who cared, shared and searched.
Special thankyou to the family from Hobart who found her
and returned her safe and sound.

Penguin Vet 64371331, or 0408140548

11/07/2024

IFAW = International Fund for Animal Welfare is where the donations you leave at our counter are sent to. This is just one of the amazing things they have recently been involved in .....

30/06/2024

Penguin Vet's DeTom your Tom cat was in July
$65 for tomcat desex + registered microchip, for residents of the Central Coast.
High participation, Good to see, Thankyou.
64371331

15/06/2024

isn't this great! And the little guy is eating so much!

Although, do be advised, all orphan baby birds do need to be raised by, or under the supervision of, experienced licensed carers. And although the little carnivores love it, meat is NOT a complete diet for them, especially when growing.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/BRxn1igAksVnGrP8/

26/05/2024

Kitten Lucy is OK'd for a new home. She is totally endearing, a purring, gentle, loyal little companion.

Kittens & Cats rehomed from here have often been abandoned by their people when very young and have been raised here, as has Lucy.
They all:
** are assessed for health and temperament
** are de-flea’d & de-wormed.
** are litter-trained
** are desexed here (look for the identifiable tattoo)
** are microchipped, with registration for life in new owner’s name
** receive a 3-dose course of “F3-FIV” vaccination [they will need another in 12 months to complete their Primary Vaccination course]
** come with some food, kitty litter and a blanket they are used to, to help acclimatise.
** receive a “Care Pack” of general cat-advice, info on Cat enclosures, insurance etc. plus a treat, toy or collar ….
Cost $340 ... Phone PenguinVet 64371331

09/05/2024

LOST cat SHEBA is still missing in Penguin, Elizabeth Street area.
Please be watchful. And please share this post.
Her owners have searched everywhere they can, but fear she may have become locked in a shed or garage.

If you see her, or hear her, please phone 64371000, or let us know at PenguinVet 64371331 // 0408140548
It would be so nice to get her home!

08/05/2024

3 new kitten waifs arrived today.
People: no-one needs to 'dump' kittens ... there are systems in place to help you, the kittens, and to help get that mother-cat speyed!
Geordi [ginger male], Lucy [torti female] and Jill [tabby female] seem very healthy and are currently in quarantine. When they grow bigger they can be de-sexed, microchipped, vaccinated and move onto new homes.
Want one?
Scroll down to kitten JED for adoption protocols.

06/05/2024

Great little golden pomeranian who went roaming this morning has been claimed
Thankyou to those who helped.