Viking Vets

14/02/2025

❤ VALENTINES DAY CONGRATULATIONS! ❤

We have our winners!! We have been absolutely blown away by all of the cuteness and love over the last few weeks with all of your beautiful photos. In total we have had 135 entries, so we decided to spread the love and pick two winners.

Congratulations to the pretty Peggy, and the magnificent Merlot. You are both well-deserving of our Viking Valentines crown.

We would like to thank all of our entrances for this year. It has been lovely seeing all of your pets relaxed, happy and having fun in their photos, and they have been warming up our reception display board. We wish each and every one of them a happy Valentines day.

10/02/2025

Valentines Update 🥰

I would just like to say a HUGGEEE thank you to everyone that has entered into our Valentines Day competition! Our display board is bursting with your pet photos, and we can feel the love and cuteness resonating from it making our reception area even brighter. Just a reminder there is still time to enter. The winner (or winners) will be revealed this Friday.

10/02/2025

Thank you to everyone who shared, the owner has now been found.

If anyone is missing a young, male, ginger and white cat from the Long Cross area, please give us a call on 0117 9505888.

07/02/2025

Bravery Award- The Beautiful Benji ⭐ (graphic photo warning)

Lovely Benji the 1 year old cocker spaniel was sadly rushed to the emergency out of hour’s vets after being hit by a car. He was stabilised there and transferred to us the following day where we had to perform reconstruction surgery to extensive wounds on his hind legs. The surgery involved cleaning, debriding and stitching the wound back together so that the muscle and skin layers could heal via second intention.

Benji was in almost every day to be sedated and have his wounds redressed and examined. As time went on, his appointments became more spread out and his wounds began to shrink in size. We took regular photos to compare the wounds to the previous visit and whilst it was a long journey, it was amazing to see how well he healed.

Benji became a familiar face here at Viking and it was a pleasure to see his gorgeous face each morning. Benji’s little tail never stopped wagging and he formed a strong bond with the whole team, well done Benji for being such a brave boy.

06/02/2025

Thank you!! ❤

We would just like to say a huge thank you to one of our lovely clients. The owner of beautiful Benji brought these delicious treats down for our team this week when coming in for a recheck. We have got a beautiful story being posted tomorrow highlighting Benji's journey here with us over the last few months. In the meantime thank you again. I can assure you these cookies went down very well!!

01/02/2025

Dog Show 🐶

If anyone is looking for a fun dog-filled event tomorrow, please make your way down to the Avon Centre for their charity Dog Show. Raising money for both The Avon Centre Charity as well as the Bristol Animal Rescue Centre, there will be dog shows, agility and obedience training, stalls, and a woodland walk, with all proceeds going to a lovely cause.

30/01/2025

We have had a male Jack Russel dog handed into us, found in the local area. Please give us a call on 0117 9505 888 if you think he may be yours.

17/01/2025

❤️ Competition Time ❤️

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, here at Viking Vets we thought we would throw a little competition to celebrate our much loved furry friends. They bring us all so much love, joy and happiness every day, and this is an opportunity to share this with the world (or at least Bristol).

We are holding a photo competition. To enter, you need to send us the cutest photo of your pets, the winner will receive a prize. Please do keep an eye on our display board in reception where we will be displaying some of your entries.

*One photo per pet for entry.
*Because every pet is the cutest pet in the world, the winner will be chosen at random.

24/12/2024

Thank you for being wonderful!!

We are humbled by the amazing generosity of our wonderful clients and their pets! We have received a mountain of edible and drinkable gifts, they will be enjoyed by team over the next months.

I am so grateful to have a job that I have loved for 30 years. Even on days that are dark and sad, you know that you are helping people to make difficult decisions for their beloved pets. We do strive to help both our patients and their owners by listening to their individual needs.

Work is often looked at as a necessary evil, but I think it is so important to have a sens of purpose in your life, and if you find the right job it will give you this.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Kind regards
Maria Lowe

PS
Sorry that the elves were rather preoccupied with their own things this Christmas!

20/12/2024

20th of December

The Elves are carrying on with their helpful streak. Today they have been keeping Nigel company while he came in for an investigation. Nigel belongs to Sarah-the vet.

19/12/2024

19th of December

I have not seen the Elves for the last few days!! I was nearly missing them… Turns out they have moved to the garden, now joining the heron scaring team.

19/12/2024

16/12/2024

16th of December

Well, I was dreading the day the Elves were moving upstairs. They have located the mistletoe! Looks like it is being used! I will try and move them downstairs again.

15/12/2024

15th of December

The elves had a lovely time at the Christmas party, enjoying Elfie Selfies with the team. They have been rather quiet today…

14/12/2024

14th of December

Today is party time for us all, so elves having a great time!

13/12/2024

13th of December

The Elves have decided to ‘help’ with the Secret Santa box. They are claiming to work hard to get it ready for tomorrow when we are having the Christmas party. I think they are hoping for an invite!

13/12/2024

The elves were looking at a Sarcoptic mange mite in the microscope yesterday. Sarcoptic mange also known as fox mange, most often seen in dogs , but can spread to other pets as well. They normally burrow under the skin so can be very difficult to find on a skin scrape. They cause intense itching, which causes the pet to start scratching causing secondary inflammation and infection.

12/12/2024

What are the elves seeing? Can you help them?