Valley Exotics

23/06/2025

Our veterinary nursing student Lauren is a bit fearful of snakes. Today, we have got her to a point where she is happy to handle a corn snake!

Lauren is pictured here with our beautiful patient Kovu who was in today for some bloods and aspirates. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for good results 🤞🐍

17/06/2025

Our specialist Tariq is in Newcastle today, teaching VetPartners UK new-grads about exotic animal medicine in GP vet practice.

Similar sessions will be held in Manchester later this week and in London next week.

We believe that it’s important for vets in general small animal practice to have some knowledge when it comes to treating species other than cats and dogs.

At these sessions, we discuss some common case presentations that may commonly present in your average first opinion practice! 🦜🐇🐢🐁🦅🐍

06/06/2025

We are very grateful to our physiotherapy team for the support they give us, especially the help they give so many of our elderly exotic patients with osteoarthritis!

03/06/2025

If you own a parrot, be sure to follow Parrot Awareness Week -PAW this week, for tonnes of useful content on caring for your birds!

🦜 W E L C O M E T O P A W 2 0 2 5 🦜

27/05/2025

We have received some Parrot Care Guides, from Parrot Awareness Week -PAW which are full of useful information, on housing, lighting, diet, health and welfare etc. We will hand these out while they are available!

Be sure to give Parrot Awareness Week -PAW a follow if you own a parrot!

19/05/2025

We have a stray milk snake at Valley Veterinary Hospital. If you think that it might be yours, please email us on [email protected] or call the practice on 02920 001454

13/05/2025

We are delighted to have been awarded Gold status by the The Rabbit Welfare Association and Fund for another year!

To read more about the RWAF's rabbit-friendly vets list, check out this link:

https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/recommended-rabbit-friendly-vets/ #:~:text=We%20don%27t%20appoint%20vets,make%20their%20practice%20rabbit%2Dfriendly.

09/05/2025

Happy Friday!!

We’ve got one more to see this afternoon after Coco, the galah and her matching pink carrier! Coco was in for her annual health check, which she passed with flying colours 😁

What a beautiful bird!

07/05/2025

Chloe and Gabby contributed immensely to Valley Exotics, they always stepped in to help nurse our exotic patients when it was needed with enthusiasm, throughout their time with us and they always did a fantastic job too!

We wish them the very best of luck with their upcoming practical exams! Please stay in touch both!! 🦜🐢🦅🐍🐓🐇🐁

Last week we bid a fond farewell to Chloe and Gabby our two student veterinary nurses. After a years placement with us they have returned to university to sit their final practical examinations.

We would like to wish them all the very best in their nursing careers and we look forward to hearing about their progress in the future. 🐾🐈🐩

21/04/2025

We hope all of our followers are having a peaceful Easter period. Happy Easter! 🐣

10/04/2025

Ace the Harris hawk is never terribly pleased about vet visits. He had some surgery on his foot recently, but thankfully at his first post op check today, everything looks to be healing really well!!

He’s a Harris hawk, a very popular falconry species, native to the Americas, famous for hunting in packs!

What a beautiful bird! 🦅

04/04/2025

Bicketts the Syrian hamster had an accident at home and suffered nasty injuries to one of his back legs. The bones were broken in multiple places. It was decided that amputating his leg was the best way forward.

There are always risks when doing surgery such as this on small patients like hamsters, partly because of the risk with anaesthesia but mostly because of the risk of blood loss. They haven’t got much blood to lose!

Thankfully, the surgery was a success, Bicketts is looking really well at his post-op check, he’s getting around fine on three legs.

He’s been eating a critical care food in addition to his normal diet while recovering from surgery, please excuse the tiny bit that’s dried into the fur in his forehead!!

Definitely a brave little patient!