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Welcome to Dovecote Veterinary Referral Hospital. We are located in Castle Donington 🐾
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Dovecote Veterinary Hospital is a name of CVS (UK) Limited (Company Number 037777473) whose registered office is at CVS House, Owen Road, Diss, Norfolk IP22 4ER

26/06/2024

Tonight is the night! The brilliant Sara Longo is our speaker talking about:
Neurological Presentation of Medical Conditions. Steroids is not always the answer!

25/06/2024

🐰 Awareness week day 2! 🐇 sourced from Burgess excel!

24/06/2024

It's Rabbit awareness week! 🐇

19/06/2024

Coming up! Sara is hosting our next CPD for Veterinary professionals next week! You can book here: https://dovecoteveterinaryhospital.co.uk/cpd-events/ or email [email protected],uk

17/06/2024

👀 This Monday’s Delve a little deeper…. There are lots of considerations and protocols in place to try and reduce infection within the hospital, here are just a few that our surgical patients experience….

14/06/2024

😊 Meet Bubble the Rat! 🐀

10/06/2024

😀This week's issue of Delving a little deeper.... The MRI Scanner...

07/06/2024

It is nearly time for the microchip legislation to change- UK law from the 10th June 2024 requires cats to be microchipped.

03/06/2024

👀 This week on Delve a little deeper….. Our fantastic nursing team - they carry out a plethora of nurse clinics, whether your pet requires a weigh-in, or even some sutures removing they are on hand to assist. 👩‍⚕️ 👨‍⚕️

31/05/2024

The end of Veterinary Nurse awareness month is here! Thank you to all of our Nurses for their hard work! 😍🥰

30/05/2024

Tonight is the night! The brilliant Shirley is hosting a CPD event for Veterinary professionals... 😍

29/05/2024

🥳 Congratulations to Amy for completing her nursing assistant qualification!

27/05/2024

Delve a little Deeper is back again! This weeks edition - IVDD screening…. Did you know Dovecote are a participating centre in the Kennel Club’s IVDD screening scheme?

Want more information? You can contact the practice on 01332 810395 or have a look on the Kennel Club’s page: https://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/health-and-dog-care/health/getting-started-with-health-testing-and-screening/ivdd-scheme-for-dachshunds/

24/05/2024

Vet Nurse Awareness Month! Some interesting facts about Veterinary Nurses!

23/05/2024

🤩One Week to go until the lovely Shirley has her CPD event! 😍
There are spaces still available- you can book here: https://dovecoteveterinaryhospital.co.uk/cpd-events/

22/05/2024

The legislation is changing- Did you know that your cat needs to be microchipped by law before June 10th 2024?

21/05/2024

Meet Dave the American Bulldog who has become somewhat of a regular at Dovecote. Dave was initially referred to Steve and Ellie our Dermatologists at 4 months old as he had severe skin disease. Unfortunately, he had become very scared of the vets and had become fear-aggressive. Dave’s owners worked very hard with Ellie and Steve over a period of months to get his atopic dermatitis and food allergy under control however during that time he developed chronic diarrhoea and so he was referred on to Justine in Internal Medicine.

Just before his appointment with Justine, Dave took a tumble whilst playing and was slightly lame. Unfortunately Dave was had become so scared of the vets that he wouldn’t safely allow Justine, or Chris one of our orthopaedic vets to examine his leg. Dave underwent investigations under sedation, including blood tests, faecal analysis and abdominal ultrasound and x-rays of his back legs. X-rays showed mild swellings in his ankle and knee joints as well as mild hip dysplasia. Dave was diagnoses with further dietary intolerances and the multiple joint swellings where thought to be type III (GI associated) non-erosive immune mediated polyarthritis. This type of polyarthritis will often resolve with treatment of the GI disease, in Dave’s case diarrhoea, and his lameness was mild so he was initially managed with pain relief along with diet change. His diarrhoea resolved with appropriate change in diet to a hydrolysed diet which his owners fed strictly without any treats or human food. Whilst Dave’s diarrhoea improved, unfortunately his lameness progressed significantly, he struggled to get up and had become extremely lethargic and his owners had noticed his urine smelt. He came back to see Justine and Chris who found swellings in joints in his front and back legs, as well as enlarged lymph nodes. Samples were taken from his joints and lymph nodes as well as a urine sample which proved the suspected immune-mediated polyarthritis, reactive lymphadenopathy and a urinary tract infection. For a young dog to have multiple conditions going on at once made Justine suspicious of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) which was confirmed with an anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) blood test.

SLE is a challenging condition to diagnose and treat and prognosis can be variable. Thankfully Dave responded well to high doses of steroids used to supress his immune system and is now, almost 5 months after first seeing Justine, is a bright, happy dog. Dave is still on the road to a full recovery and his diarrhoea and skin disease will always require management. After all the trips to Dovecote Dave has become much braver and, as you can see from the photo even gives Justine lovely sloppy kisses!

20/05/2024

👀 Mondays here, and so is our next instalment of “Delving a little deeper”. We have had quite a few patients with dressings recently- here is a little bit of information on the aftercare…. 🩹

17/05/2024

👩‍⚕️ 👨‍⚕️ 🐕 🐈‍⬛ To become a Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) requires a lot of hard work, dedication and commitment regardless of what training route is utilised. Did you know about the training routes that can be undertaken by RVN’s?👀 🎉

16/05/2024

‼️‼️ We seem to be experiencing issues with our emails today. The team are looking into it.
If you have anything urgent, please call us on 01332 810395 ☎️ ‼️‼️

15/05/2024

🤩 We are very excited to introduce our newest member of the team- Welcome to the Dovecote family Katie! 😍

13/05/2024

👀 This week’s episode- a look at Radiology - see how we keep our superstar Steve busy! 👀

11/05/2024

🚨 hot weather - please make sure your pets are ok! 👀

10/05/2024

🐶 🐱 Veterinary Nurse awareness month…. You would be surprised what a Veterinary Nurse’s day can look like, here is a glimpse at some of the duties they can perform! 🐰 🐭 We are very privileged to work with an excellent team of nurses, they constantly push for a gold standard of care and work hard with our fabulous Veterinary Surgeons, and brilliant reception and support team! 🥰

08/05/2024

😍We would like to show our appreciation to our lovely support team! The team work hard to provide the best care to our clients and patients whilst showing compassion and guidance through their pet's visit.

Whether your pet requires an emergency referral, a vaccination, or a nurse clinic our reception team are ready to handle a multitude of tasks and queries. We would like to recognise their hard work and efforts. 🥰

06/05/2024

👀 Monday’s delve a little deeper- This is just a very small glimpse at some of the additional studying and qualifications some of our Veterinary Surgeons have undertaken to try and improve their standard of patient care! 🥰 Each Veterinary Surgeon has an obligation to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons to complete their required hours of Continual professional Development - we are very lucky that our Surgeons pride themselves on going the extra mile to utilise this and gain more in depth knowledge and skills within areas they have an interest in!

03/05/2024

🔔 🥰 It is Veterinary Nurse awareness month! Look out for Friday posts highlighting some of our Nurses tasks!

29/04/2024

👀 Our fantastic support team undertake training to try and give both our patients and clients the best possible care. 🥰

Address

5 Delven Lane, Castle Donington
Derby
DE742LJ

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 7pm
Tuesday	8am - 7pm
Wednesday	8am - 7pm
Thursday	8am - 7pm
Friday	8am - 7pm
Saturday	8am - 12am

Telephone

+441332810395

Website

https://dovecoteveterinaryhospital.co.uk/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=Yext

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The end of Veterinary Nurse awareness month is here! Thank you to all of our Nurses for their hard work! 😍🥰 #20YearsOfVNAM #vetnurseawareness #VNAM24 #vetnursemonth

⭐ To all of our wonderful clients, our team wish you a very happy new year! ⭐ We hope 2024 brings you lots of memories and most of all, good health 💕

From all of us at Dovecote Veterinary Hospital, we wish you a very merry Christmas! 💕🥰 We hope that you won't need to see or speak to us over the festive period, but if you do.. rest assured that our team are here 24/7 to assist you and your pet with any concerns during the festive period. We hope you have a lovely day! 💕

We just had to share this lovely video of Kora following her spinal surgery with us! 🥰🙌🏻 Our wonderful neurologist Hana, helped Kora get back to her usual playful self after she was referred to us a few months ago. We love seeing photos and videos of your pet post surgery! Please tag us in any content 😍💓

Happy hump day! 🥳 Here is the super lovely Forest 🐱💕 Forest absolutely loved this little cuddly toy we gave him whilst he stayed with us for the day. How cute!

The lovely Diesel came to visit us for his chemotherapy today! He was such a good boy! - look at that smile! 😊. Check out the comments to see him having a quick ball game before treatment! 😍

📯📯Does your dog have a condition similar to this one? - WE NEED YOUR HELP! 📯📯 We have formed a group of veterinary neurology specialists 👩⚕️👨⚕️🩺 and researchers 🔬🥼🧪 within the UK to look into this emerging condition. We are seeing increasing numbers of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels 🐕🐶🐾 with this condition. It is called myoclonus; recurrent and uncontrollable episodes of abnormal jerk-like movements that may commonly involve the whole or part of the body. The condition most commonly affects middle-aged to older dogs. The cause is often unknown but in many cases there may be a presumed genetic component. We are hoping to find people that own, or have previously owned, Cavalier King Charles Spaniels with suspected myoclonus. We would ask you to provide a short video of the abnormal episodes for review by our neurology team, if possible, followed by a short online questionnaire ❓ to further study this condition. It is hoped that we can better understand the ways in which dogs are affected, which may then lead to improved recognition and management of the condition. If you think your dog may be affected, or you would like further information, please contact our very own Matthew Green here at Dovecote, via e-mail; [email protected] Ethical approval for this study has been obtained from the CVS ethical review board. Matthew Green, Mark Lowrie; Dovecote Veterinary Hospital Claire Rusbridge; Wear Referrals Veterinary Hospital

We have just published more research!! You may remember we asked you all to help in contributing information on Sphynx cats with paroxysmal dyskinesia (movement disorder) with help from our friends at VetOracle and International Cat Care. Here are some of the videos we encountered. Matt Green, one of our upcoming neurology stars, wrote the paper which can be accessed here: https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/WBZR3TKSKKFTNTICSVEU/full?fbclid=IwAR1ojPaQw5__k0wMlA0spWs87xUSqVpS_9z5npCB_x02WbEHGGlQ8FEZQAc If you have a cat or dog with a movement disorder then we’d be happy to see you for a consultation, provided you get your vet’s consent, where we can discuss how best to investigate and manage your pet’s condition. If you do see this problem in your pet then remember a video clip of the episode can really help your vet get a diagnosis. Let’s hope this is the first step towards understanding this difficult condition in cats. Thank you to all who helped us with this work 🐾🐾🐾🐱😻😽😺⭐️

We’re going to miss this little cutie💕💕. Polly came to us as an emergency on Sunday for severe tremors that prevented her from walking and they even affected her eyes. After testing she was found to have a condition known as idiopathic generalised tremor syndrome. She has since been on treatment 💉💉 and the second video below shows how she was this morning before going home. Well done Polly, you are one in a million 🐾🐾🐾 Tremors such as this can also be seen with toxicities (e.g. mycotoxins, metaldehyde, pyrethrin/organophosphate), disorders occurring from birth and problems in the blood (e.g. low calcium or glucose). However, toxicity and metabolic causes tend to produce twitches rather than tremors and so can be differentiated by their irregular frequency. Diagnosis of idiopathic generalised tremor syndrome is made by exclusion of other causes. Treatment consists of immunosuppressive therapy with steroids tapered over several months. Prognosis is generally very good. For further reading about the diagnosis of tremor and twitch syndromes by one of our own clinicians see the link below https://bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/inpr.3?fbclid=IwAR3_vt0dMdQLzrC0Lqg93wun32Qg2IkHFgAd3IWf7_uRmxJSs0wmYkcsFVk

Spring lambs 😍

🐑 Spring is in the air! 😍Look at these cuties! They belong to one of our nurses 😍😘😊

Daisy-Doo “Bang Bang” 😂

With all the sadness and seriousness that is happening in the world, let’s bring some smiles... what tricks can your pet do? Let’s see them in action! 👀 🎥 Here is 1 of our nurse’s dogs- Daisy-Doo performing her “bang” trick 😊- She got very excited about it! 🤣😬 If she gets enough likes and replies she may even put her outtakes 🤣😜⬅️ Now in the comments 🙊

Lumbosacral Disease in Dogs

We see a lot of pets with lameness. We need to work-out if they have a problem in the bones in their legs (orthopaedic) or possibly a trapped nerve (neurological). Here's some tips we use...

Orthopaedic or Neurological?

We're often asked how we can tell if a pet has a neurological (brain or spinal) rather than orthopaedic (bone) problem. Here's a little video to help...