University of Glasgow Pet Practice

04/03/2025

Happy Mardi Gras to all our clients and patients! 🙌 The Pet Practice team and final year students were celebrating today with these masks and King Cake made by our wonderful receptionist, Tanya.

02/03/2025

Head nurse Lissy and head vet Lindsay were busy at the Northern Veterinary Student Zoological Symposium teaching students some essential skills for surgery on small mammals.

Thank you to the Glasgow University Vet Zoological Society for organising such a successful weekend packed full of lectures and practicals to educate the future vets about those less commonly treated pets and wildlife!

28/02/2025

If you’d gone down to the woods today, you’d have had a big surprise! Lots of exotic species…? Or the fourth year vet students celebrating their last day of lectures. We’ll be seeing them in pet practice from Easter onwards as they start their final year rotations!

26/02/2025

Important Information for our Dog Owners

From 1st March we are going to be changing our default leptospirosis vaccine from an L2 vaccine to an L4 vaccine.

Q: What is the difference between L2 and L4?
A: L4 protects against 2 additional strains of leptospirosis

Q: Is the L4 vaccine safe?
A: Yes, the L4 product we use has been widely used for 10 years. The rate of adverse events for both the L2 and L4 vaccines are less than 0.05% (that is less than 5 in 10,000 animals)

Q: Why are we switching now?
A: The World Small Animal Veterinary Association (which is an organisation who reviews evidence and gives impartial guidance to vets on best practices) now recommends the use of the L4 vaccine. In addition, L2 vaccines are going to stop being manufactured in the next few months.

Q: My dog already has been vaccinated with L4, what do I need to do?
A: Nothing! We will vaccinate your dog with L4 as normal when their booster is due.

Q: My dog has previously had an L2 vaccine, what do I need to do?
A: When your dog is due its vaccination, we will give a dose of the L4, along with any other vaccination your dog is due. You will need to make an appointment for a second dose of the L4 vaccination 4 weeks after the first dose. We will offer these appointments for the second dose *free of charge* if your dog is over 15 months of age until the end of April 2026.

Q: How do I know if my dog has had L2 or L4 vaccines?
A: If you have a vaccination card, you will be able to see from the stickers inside. Otherwise, we have the information recorded electronically and can tell you when your pet comes in for its booster.

Q: I still have questions, who should I ask?
A: Please phone or email the practice if you are a registered client and you want to discuss your pet's vaccinations and our qualified vets and nurses will be happy to assist you.

22/02/2025

⚠️ IT Issues ⚠️

Unfortunately we are having some IT issues and we cannot access our practice management system which stores your pets information and our appointment schedule.

Our phone lines and emails working, however we won’t be able to schedule routine appointments until our IT issues are fixed. If you have an emergency, please phone as normal.

If you are looking for an appointment, please email us so that we can get back to you once our computers are working again. If you have an appointment with us this morning, we’d appreciate your patience, and if you are coming in for a vaccination then bringing a vaccine card would be incredibly helpful.

Thank you for your understanding ❤️

20/02/2025

Help Moira Macleod raise money to support Blue Cross

23/01/2025

📢 Important Weather Update: Storm Eowyn 🌪️

The Met Office has issued a red weather warning for tomorrow due to Storm Eowyn. While we’ll be here to provide essential care for your pets, we want to ensure everyone stays safe. We advise keeping your cats indoors, keeping dogs to short lead walks to the toilet only and to move any hutches indoors or to a sheltered place.

If your pet’s appointment is not urgent, we kindly ask that you consider rescheduling to a later date when it’s safer to travel. Just give us a call or email, and we’ll be happy to help rearrange it for you.

For those with essential or emergency needs, we plan to have a small team in place to care for your pets. Please travel with caution if you need to visit us.

Your safety, and your pet’s well-being, are our top priorities. Stay safe, and don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions!

📞 0141 330 6467
📧 [email protected]

Thank you for your understanding.

10/01/2025

UPDATE: we are back up and running thanks to a temporary fix! There is a chance that the system will go down again tomorrow morning. If you need to get in contact with us about your pet we’d advise you don’t wait until tomorrow just in case!

Notice: Temporary Network Issue
We are currently experiencing network problems and are unable to receive calls on our usual number.

Please call us on 0141 330 7037.

We apologise for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

01/01/2025

Happy New Year from all of us at the University of Glasgow Pet Practice 🥰

21/12/2024

🎄Festive Opening Hours🎄

While we are closed over the holidays, our wonderful colleagues at the Small Animal Hospital Out of Hours Service will be available if you require veterinary attention for your pets.

The Out of Hours Service can be contacted on: 0141 330 7690

We wish all our clients and their pets a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🎅🏻

18/12/2024

On 10th December the Pet Practice held a Christmas bake sale (with lots of support from staff and students!) to raise funds for Cats Protection and awareness of their Lifeline service.

Lifeline is a free and confidential fostering service for cats whose families are fleeing domestic abuse, so they can rest assured their cat will be taken care of until they can be safely reunited. Referrals are handled by a specialist and experienced team, who support owners referring to the service, arrange to collect cats, and organise foster placements through a wonderful network of dedicated Lifeline volunteers. They can be contacted by phone: 0300 012 0286 or email: [email protected]

At Pet Practice we work with Cats Protection every week and are really glad to be supporting this vital service. Our target for the bake sale was £200, and to date we have raised £497! A link to the JustGiving page is included below, for anyone who would like to help support this wonderful charity.
https://www.justgiving.com/page/pet-practice-fundraise-for-lifeline

14/12/2024

Christmas Jumper Day 2024!! 🎅🎄✨️

23/11/2024

Angiostrongylus Vasorum - that’s “lungworm” to most of us!

This little critter was found in a poo sample of a patient at the small animal hospital - the video is what 💩 looks like under the microscope 🔬

Lungworm has an interesting lifecycle: baby worms are passed out in dog poo and eaten by slugs and snails which are in turn eaten by dogs. The worms travel from the dog’s gut to the lungs where they stay until they are adults. Here, they lay eggs which hatch into baby worms (larvae). The dogs cough up and then swallow the larvae, which pass out in the poo ready to infect the slugs and snails again. 🐌

A particular problem in the UK is that foxes are infected too, and because they aren’t being wormed, they become infected and stay infected - keeping the cycle going 🪱

Lungworm was first found in France in the 1980s and since then has spread to southern England, and then into Scotland (which was previously lungworm-free).

Lungworm can cause various signs of illness in dogs, from coughing and vomiting to uncontrolled bleeding and heart failure.

If your dog enjoys a quiet life indoors away from slugs and snails, you might not need to worry about this worm. However, if your dog goes outside, especially if you live in an area where you see foxes, we are happy to discuss whether it is worth treating your pet. It’s worth mentioning that most of the wormers you can buy from the pet shop without a prescription don’t treat lungworm.

If you are registered with us, get in touch with your lungworm questions - we want to help you keep your pets healthy 🩺

Video credit: Anais Farges
Photo 1: https://www.vettimes.co.uk/article/the-
importance-of-preventing-lungworm/
Photo 2: https://www.esccapuk.org.uk/uploads/docs/
4ide6c4_0988_ESCCAP_UK_Diagnostic_Recommend
ations__Canine_lungworm_v2.pdf

16/11/2024

Health Plan, Pet Plan, Pet Club, Pet Insurance… what do these terms mean?

We offer our clients the chance to sign up to the Pet Practice Health Plan. This is a monthly direct debit of £25.99 which covers all your pet’s vaccinations and parasite prevention, as well as nail trims, weight checks, a**l gland expression and - this is the part our clients love the most - any consultation fees with the vet or qualified nurses!

You might see other practices offer similar plans with slightly different names (pet health club, healthy pet club, pet health plan) - these are offered by the individual practices and the cost and what they cover will vary.

Pet insurance is something you as a pet owner would purchase from the individual insurance companies. These policies typically cover you for bigger bills for new illnesses that happen after you’ve taken the plan out. Most plans have an excess of £60-100, and some also have a “co-payment” which means you might also pay a certain % of what you claim. Ultimately, the responsibility for claiming rests with the client, but we can walk you through the process. We can help by generating the relevant invoices and sending your pet’s notes over to the company.

We have made the graphic below to help highlight the differences between what health plans and insurance is and what they cover. If you want to pay a monthly fee to have both routine and emergency costs for your pet covered, you might choose to take out both plans.

If you are registered with the Practice and you have any questions about the plan or how we can facilitate insurance claims, please get in contact 📞

03/09/2024

The Pet Practice is growing and we are looking for some awesome new team mates.

✨️ If you have a passion for customer service and would like to be involved in an animal care setting then please check out this opportunity to join our fabulous reception team.
https://findajob.dwp.gov.uk/details/15157762?utm_campaign=google_jobs_apply&utm_source=google_jobs_apply&utm_medium=organic

We have amazing facilities, a fantastic and supportive team, wonderful students and gorgeous grounds to be explored. Applications close 23rd September.

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28/08/2024

A few of our lovely Pet Practice patients 🥰 see if you can spot your wee one...

15/08/2024

Our phonelines are down at present, please call us on 0141 674 9225 or email us at [email protected]

11/07/2024

A little reminder to our clients that we are closed on Monday 15th July for the Glasgow Fair bank holiday. Normal service will resume from 8:30am on Tuesday 16th July.

Please let us know ASAP if you need are going to run out of your pet's medications over the weekend 💊

From all of us here at the Pet Practice, we hope you and your pets have a lovely bank holiday ❤️