Market Cross Veterinary Clinic Ltd

11/04/2025

We are delighted to announce that we can now offer you online appointment booking. This means you can book a routine, non-urgent appointment at any time of the day or night by simply clicking on the link on our website page. It’s simple and convenient in just three steps:

1. Click here https://www.vetcollection.co.uk/scotland/market-cross-veterinary-clinic/ you will be given a selection of dates and time slots to choose from
2. Select an available date and time that is convenient to you
3. Select the reason for the visit. If you need to book an appointment for more than one pet – you just repeat this easy process for each pet. Once booked, you will receive email confirmation of your appointment.

We look forward to welcoming you back to our practice soon!

Have a lovely weekend all ❤️

09/04/2025

Our fundraising raffle tickets are now live!

Please pop into the practice and donate £2 into our SARDA charity box to be given a strip of numbers.

The winner will take home a lovely hamper for their pet!

Best of luck🥳🤩 🐾

02/04/2025

Fancy getting your hands on a dog hamper? At Market cross vets we are supporting search and rescue dogs working with mountain rescue. To raise money for equipment to dontate to them we are holding a raffel which you can enter to get goodies for your canine companion. Please come into the Practice and donate £2 to enter 🐾🐕

27/03/2025

As always we are doing our monthly profile and cover photo for April. Please comment your best photo of your pets, we all can’t wait to see them 🐾💜

27/03/2025

This is Cozy who was certainly feeling the love and attention after his castration today 🥰❤️

27/03/2025

Good Afternoon,

We hope you are all well.

This is the stunning Sahara who was in today for an aural hematoma surgery.

She is absolutely gorgeous🥰

27/03/2025

Complete care for your furry friends. Join the happy pet club today to save around 20% on preventative health care. We are a family-owned veterinary clinic. Our friendly and knowledgeable team provide outstanding medical, surgical, and dental services to ensure that your furry companion is at the peak of health. Click to book online.

20/03/2025

Good afternoon everyone!

This is the gorgeous Riley who was on his best behaviour when having his dinner in the restaurant. He’s super handsome 🥰🤍

17/03/2025

12/03/2025

Good Morning all!

We hope everyone and their pets are well ❤️.

As you may have already seen, market cross are doing a sponsored walk to raise money for SARDA all the staff will be doing the sponsored walk in fancy dress so if you see us around Dalkeith come and say hello!

We have some interesting information about the charity which can be read below and the £1 donation for a ball is still at reception 🤩

“One of the most astounding aspects of search and rescue dogs is their ability to use scent to locate people. They can pick up minute traces of scent carried by the wind, identify it amidst all other scents, and follow it to its source with remarkable precision. Teamwork is crucial, as handlers carefully search the area to give their dogs the best opportunity to catch a scent carried by the wind. Reading the dogs body language and interpreting this reaction to scent is highly important as well as training the dog to indicate to the handler on a human scent.

Training a search and rescue dog with SARDA Scotland is a rigorous yet rewarding process that typically spans two years. Puppies are often introduced to training early, where finding their favourite toy is turned into a fun game that builds foundational skills. After about a year of training, a dog team can achieve novice status, and another year of dedicated effort is required to reach the level of a fully qualified search and rescue dog team. Formal training sessions take place on the second weekend of every month, but handlers are encouraged to train consistently between these weekends. Each March, we hold our annual assessments to assess our handlers and help them achieve novice or full dog status. It costs approximately £4,500 to train and equip a dog team, and SARDA Scotland incurs annual operational expenses of around £60,000 to maintain our critical services along with the cost of our annual assessment which can cost up to £10,000.

We are requested to attend an incident by either Police Scotland or a mountain rescue team. We are a member of Scottish Mountain Rescue. Depending on the type of incident will depend on how many dogs are sent and also the distance the dog and handler will travel to the incident as we are spread far and wide across Scotland. The handlers are given information from police Scotland or the mountain rescue team and then the handler will work out the best route to cover the ground most efficiently with their dog. This will be in all weather conditions; often challenging terrain and we are available 24/7 all year round. The incidents we attend range from missing/vulnerable people to avalanches. We currently have 23 operational dogs on our call out list and we have 3 trainee dogs up for assessment at the end of March.”

04/03/2025

Good Morning!

Market Cross Vets are raising money for SARDA, Search and rescue dog association by completing a walk, raffle and other surprises! 🙌🏼✨

These dogs help save the lives of missing people up in the mountains often in dark and dangerous terrain. Both dogs and handlers put their own lives at risk in order to save another. The work they all do is incredible and we would like to donate some supplies in order to help with kit that they may need. 🐕 🏔️❤️

We currently have a donation box in reception, donate £1 and take a ball but please note we are limited on how many balls are left and ensure the ball size is correct for your dog in the case it may cause a choking hazard ⚠️

28/02/2025

A new month starts tomorrow which means it’s time to update our profile photos again! 😁🙌🏼

Our staff will pick 3 on Monday for March.

Please comment your favourite photos of your pets and as always, we look forward to seeing them 🐱🐹🐶🐰🦜

28/02/2025

Good evening and a happy Friday to everyone!

This is the gorgeous Milo who was in for a procedure today. He spent his whole afternoon being cuddled from all the staff🥰

Have a lovely weekend all!

27/02/2025

Good Afternoon!
We hope you are all well and ready for the weekend approaching 🌸✨

This is Sapphire who was in today for a blood pressure check, she wanted loads of cuddles and tummy scratches then fell asleep whilst getting her blood pressure checked.

Isn’t she gorgeous?! 😍

20/02/2025

Good Afternoon!

This gorgeous girl was in for her spay this morning, she quickly stole everyone’s heart with how cuddly she was❤️.

If you have any queries or questions about neutering please give us a call, we are always happy to help🥰!

31/01/2025

Good morning and a happy Friday to everyone, we hope you have a lovely weekend planned!

We have updated our cover photo and our profile photo, thank you so much to everyone who let us see their gorgeous pets. 🦜 🐶🐱🤍