Bath Vets

24/12/2025

Guilty looking 12 year old cocker spaniel ‘Reilly’ & his innocent friend ‘Roscoe’ are here to warn you & your pets about the dangers of eating chocolate, or chocolate containing foods, this Christmas! 🎄 🍫
Their owners realised that a tasty present had been snaffled from under the tree which, being a high percentage dark chocolate bar, contained enough of the potentially toxic theobromine to be a significant risk. Because it wasn’t clear who has eaten it both dogs were given an emetic injection to induce vomiting. 🤢 Following this Reilly started on oral charcoal & spent the night in on intravenous fluid therapy.
Other Christmas foods that are dangerous to our pets are all those containing dried fruit like raisins, currants etc so mince pies, fruit cake & Christmas pudding. Any amount of these can potentially be fatal so please ring us or our Vets Now Bath colleagues urgently whatever time of day 🚨

23/12/2025

😻 Doesn’t 2 year old ‘Zadok’ look very festive with his cute ribbon?! 🎀
Zadok enjoyed some lovely waiting room cuddles with Receptionist Savannah on his way to his annual vaccination & health check appointment 💉 with Vet Andrew yesterday . As a member of our great value Pet Health Club this, & his prescription flea, tick & worming treatment were all covered by his owners monthly direct debit - definitely a bonus at this expensive time of year!

22/12/2025

Lovely 14 year old lurcher ‘Daisy’ requires regular bandage changes at our Rosemary Lodge Vet Hospital over the coming weeks whilst she recovers from the surgical removal of a large mass from her leg. ❤️‍🩹
In order to keep her visits fun & festive RVN’s Fran & Emily have been creating some brilliant bandage art which we just had to share 😍🎄 ⛄️

22/12/2025

Vets Now is here for you when your regular vet practice is closed over the festive period. 🎄

We will be open 24 hours on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, the 27th & 28th. For New Year our clinic will be open 24 hours on Thursday 1st of January.

Outside of these dates, our clinic will operate as normal providing our out-of-hours service and care you can count on.

Call us on: 01225 635606

Find us at: Rosemary Lodge, Bath, BA2 5RL

21/12/2025

🎄Our cheeky little elf is back to share some more of our Green Teams sustainability initiatives that helped us secure our Positive Pawprint Status - this time focusing on anaesthesia, a vital part of our work 🌍
🐾 We have audited our anaesthesia induction agent use & reduced wastage by 25%
🐾 We have introduced ‘low flow anaesthesia’ - investing in capnographs (carbon dioxide breathing monitors) at every site and using multi modal analgesia (pain relief) to include local blocks to reduce our anaesthetic gas use.
🐾 We have installed isoflurane recycling units into our anaesthesia circuits ♻️
Thank you to all our team for embracing these changes & here’s to many more waste & planet saving strategies in 2026 🙏

20/12/2025

18/12/2025

🎉Please join us in congratulating beautiful ‘Bella’ on her excellent weight loss! 🙌🙌
This lovely 8 year old Akita cross had a hefty body condition score of 7 out of 9 at her check up 12 months ago but with her dedicated owners concerted efforts to control her diet & increase her exercise she has lost an impressive 3.5kg, 10% of her body weight, & now has a body condition score of 5 out of 9 & much more energy 😍
Overweight dogs can have significantly reduced life expectancy & face health issues including heart disease, diabetes, cruciate ligament disease, breathing issues & high blood pressure. If you need support with your overweight pet please book an appointment with our nursing team

17/12/2025

🎄REMINDER - REPEAT PRESCRIPTIONS & FOOD ORDERS🎄
The Christmas and New Year Bank Holidays are fast approaching & we will have fewer deliveries at all surgeries over this period therefore prescriptions & food may take slightly longer to be ordered and delivered.
If your pet will need a refill of their medication or diet over the next 2 weeks PLEASE ORDER BY THIS FRIDAY, 19th December so we can get it in for you at the beginning of next week 🙏
Rosemary Lodge Vet Hospital
Bath Cat Clinic
Park Road Vets - Bath Vets
The Chapel Veterinary Surgery
Station Road Vet Surgery
Peasedown Vet Surgery

16/12/2025

Aww, our practice elf is doing his festive best to cheer up ‘Minnie’ & her poorly broken leg with an excellent Christmas bandage! 😻🎄❤️‍🩹

15/12/2025

We are delighted to share that following the recent summer upgrade of our Bath Vet Referrals Rosemary Lodge Vet Hospital CT scanner & the associated renovations, which were ably managed by ‘Direct Displays’, they kindly gave us £250 to donate to a charity of our choice! 🙏
Our team chose to donate this generous gift to Bath Cats and Dogs Home and last week their representative Eve visited us to receive the cheque from Martin from Direct Displays our Bath Vets Nursing Manager Lily Harvey. We are grateful to know that this money will go to help many local animals in need 😊
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13/12/2025

Get ready for a paw-sitive festive treat 🐾🎄 It’s Tea-Pawty time!

This December we’re celebrating the season with The Big Festive Tea-Pawty. A cosy, joyful way to raise funds for rescue cats and dogs in need. ☕🍰

Here’s the plan:
Host a coffee morning or bake sale (friends, family, colleagues, everyone’s invited!) 🎂
We’ll send you a Fundraising Pack full of ideas, invites and inspiration.
Every sip, nibble, chat and cake sale helps us transform more lives.

Want to join the fun and make a difference this season? Sign up now to host your own Tea-Pawty! 🐾

Find out more at https://www.bathcatsanddogshome.org.uk/events/the-big-festive-tea-pawty

12/12/2025

🎄Our Green-minded Christmas elf has been overseeing our recycling efforts & he is very proud of our new initiatives - we are delighted to share that we now recycle medication blister packs, soft plastics, batteries & ink cartridges 🤩 ♻️