Stroud Road Veterinary Surgery

17/05/2024

Happy 3 rd birthday to us - thank you to all our staff and clients for making it all worthwhile 😀

26/04/2024

Diamond from St Paul's Residential Care Home inspecting the cat parking facilities 😂

25/12/2023

Wishing all of our clients and their pets a happy and peaceful Christmas. Thank you for all your cards and gifts. We will be open again on Wednesday; our hard working staff are having a well earned break.

13/12/2023

New Arthritis treatment for dogs.

We are pleased to announce that in collaboration with Biobest Laboratories we are now able to offer autologous mesenchymal stem cell treatment. Stem cells have proven application in a range of joint and soft tissue injuries and the team at Stroud Road Vets will assess your pet carefully and discuss possible therapies before embarking on any treatment plan. If your dogs joints are causing a lot of pain or lameness which cannot be easily managed with conventional drugs or if your young dog has developed joint problems, stem cell therapy may be a good choice for long term management.
Please contact the surgery for more information or to arrange an appointment.

Biobest have been involved in the culture of mesenchymal stem cells since 2005 for vets deliverying stem cell therapy for dogs and horses.

26/11/2023

This is Ruby.
Since we opened she cannot resist dragging her owners into reception for her guaranteed pat and treat. This week it was Emily's turn to do the honours!

13/11/2023

URGENT MESSAGE.
We have had a positive case of leptospirosis in a dog from Gloucester. This bacteria can be spread between dogs via urine so we urge all owners to check your dogs are up to date with their lepto vaccines to ensure they are protected from this potentially fatal disease.
PLEASE SHARE.

Additional comment in response to comments below :

To be clear, our intention is not to scaremonger. It is up to each owner to decide if they want to vaccinate or not. We are sharing the fact that we have had a very poorly dog ( not up to date with vaccinations) who tested positive for Leptospirosis that is potentially transmissible to another unvaccinated dogs. Using a social media platform shares this information for people to act as they wish, please do not attack us for trying to do the right thing. Lab results only return with a positive for Lepto not the strain. This result and symptoms presented show the strain in question is one that causes severe illness in dogs.

11/11/2023

A mobile phone was found in our car park last night
Please call the surgery if you think it might be yours

10/11/2023

This is Jack:
He is a border terrier pup who just wasn't thriving; he was quiet and subdued.
Urine and blood tests showed high bile acids indicating a porto-systemic shunt (a congenital defect where a blood vessel directs the blood into general circulation rather than going through the liver for "cleaning"). This condition causes products of digestion to build up in the body causing brain depression and poor growth.
Surgical treatment is very complex as finding and tying off the "rogue" vessel is technically very difficult.
Referral veterinary centres will charge about £7000 pounds to try and fix it but with no guarantees.
As referral wasn't an option, the surgery was carried out by Michael here at Stroud Road Vets and the abnormal blood vessel was identified and successfully tied off. Subsequent tests show that no lasting damage has occurred and his liver is now functioning normally.
Jack started to pick up after a couple of days and over the next few weeks has transformed into a happy puppy; playing and eating well.
He's become a bit of a favourite with our team!

12/10/2023

Its that time of year again. Fun for some but terror and anxiety for our beloved pets.
Contact us now to discuss options for helping your furry friend through the firework season.

28/09/2023

We are really pleased to officially introduce the newest member of our nursing team. Claire qualified in 2008 and has worked most of her career with Erika, Michael and Lauren; so it feels great to have her back with us. She is a great asset to our caring, knowledgeable team. When she's not in work she can be found in the gym, walking Teddy her Labrador, cuddling Crumble, her ginger tom or at the poolside, supporting her sporty sons.
Welcome Claire!

29/08/2023

A number of our patients use this great facility. Their show is a lovely "doggy" day out. 🐕🐕‍🦺🐶.

23/08/2023

If anyone wants to donate some food to Katkinz Rescue Gloucestershire for this influx of kittens, we have a donation point in our reception.

16/08/2023

We are pleased to announce that we are now part of the Cats Protection Neutering Scheme. Over the past 2 years, whilst working with two local cat charities we have seen far too many stray and feral tom cats and pregnant/nursing females, often in a poor state of health.
Under this CP scheme, eligible owners and people looking after a stray can access the scheme and have the cat neutered and microchipped for £10.

Please see the link below.

Are you looking for cat neutering near you? We support thousands each year with our financial assistance schemes and regional campaigns.

14/06/2023

Well done team ... !!

Warning ❗️ graphic images ❗️❗️

I would like to introduce the chap who posted the life saving image of Biscuit whilst he was busy at work. Alex Cresswell 🙌

💖 You are nearly there beautiful girl stay strong we are waiting patiently for you to recover 💖

Massive thank you to the utterly superb team at Stroud Road Veterinary Surgery 🙏💖🙏

Fundraiser below 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 please share we are nearly there 💖💖💖

https://gofund.me/985cca5a

12/06/2023

Bob and Billy are the poster boys for our CAT MICROCHIP AMNESTY. They are chipped and would be reunited with us if they ever stray.

From June 2024 the law is changing and all pet cats must be microchipped. We are offering owners half price (£15) to have their adult cats chipped and registered.

Call the surgery today to arrange an appointment; 01452 757000.

20/05/2023

Yesterday marked the 2 year anniversary of Stroud Road Vets. A huge thank you to Erika, Helen, Lauren, Emily and Martin for your hard work, professionalism and care; we are lucky to have such a dedicated team.

(..... and thank you Bertie for disrupting the photo-shoot!! 😆)

Thank you also to our wonderful clients for entrusting your furry family members to us and supporting our little independant practice.

28/03/2023

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAKE!!
17 years old and Michael has been his vet since being a pup.

24/03/2023

This morning a kind lady found this poor Tawny owl dangling from a barbed wire fence near Pound Farm Shop and managed to rescue it and brought it to us.
We managed to remove the wire embedded in its wing and repaired its wounds
Happily RSPCA Oak and Furrows collected it very quickly to help look after it until it heals

21/03/2023

We have had a black and white male neutered stray cat handed in (4 white paws) 10yrs approx . He has been hanging around a garden on Stroud Road ( between St Barnabus and the High school ( allotment side) for the past week. Please share, he looks like he has been loved.

14/03/2023

Stroud Road Veterinary Surgery were pleased to sponsor the Gloucester and District Canine Society's recent 80th Anniversary Open Show. Well done to the organisers and competitors.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1808116512571259/

30/01/2023

We are pleased to announce we can now provide LASER THERAPY for your pets.
Class 4 lasers are used in a wide variety of situations to help with pain and to assist with healing.
They can act as a drug free alternative or adjunct for managing arthritis or muscular pain but are also very good in helping wounds to heal , reducing post operative pain and for chronically painful gum disease in cats.
Treatment is usually done conscious or at the time of surgery and is very well tolerated.
Please call if you would like more information about laser therapy in your pet.

20/01/2023

A huge thank you to our lovely clients who submitted nominations for us in the PetPlan Practice of the Year Awards. It means such a lot to our team. ❤
https://www.petplanvet.co.uk/veterinary-practice-insurance/veterinary-awards/

31/12/2022

It's been a busy year here at Stroud Road and we were reflecting upon the many cases we have seen.
Little Lola stands out as our patient of the year. She, and her devoted owners had a difficult and worrying summer. In July, Lola presented with a fever which, over the coming weeks developed into peritonitis and later into a massive abscess on her spine. It was suspected that a foreign body was to blame for making her so ill but finding it proved very difficult.
She endured blood tests scans, scans, xrays, two surgeries (exploratory abdominal surgery, and one to remove and explore an external abscess) both did not reveal the cause of infection. The last hope was to place a drainage tube into the site to help her body expell the foreign material.
Hope for Lola was fading but 8 weeks after her initial visit her relieved and excited owners called to say that a grass seed had discharged from the site.
Well done to brave Lola and her lovely family. Things were touch and go there for a while.

24/12/2022

Wishing all our clients and patients and very happy and peaceful Christmas. We will be open again on Wednesday 28th December. If you have an emergency over the festive period please call our number to be connected to our out of hours provider. Xx

09/12/2022

Being a vets dog sometimes means you get to help others too. Biscuit donated blood this week to little Mario who was suffering with acute anaemia.
She earned herself an extra dinner; a great prize for a greedy labrador!! ❤

15/10/2022

Willow was found injured near her home and was subsequently referred to us from another practice to repair a comminuted distal fracture of her fibula. We applied a 6 pin unilateral external fixator to keep the fracture stable to allow healing. She was kept inside by her owners but was allowed to walk around inside to keep mobility and muscle mass. After 8 weeks the bones had healed and the metal work was removed.

13/10/2022

Beautiful Obi was brought into us after catching his leg whilst up to mischief at home. Xrays revealed a comminuted spiral fracture. We applied a unilateral external fixator for 4 weeks after which his young bones had healed and the fixator was removed. He has made a full recovery and all credit to his owners who had to keep this lively chap quiet and resting for a month!

10/10/2022

We have had a stray tortoise handed in. If he/she is yours please call 01452 757000.
Please Share.

30/09/2022

***update***
George has now been reunited with his owners; he had dug his way under their fence!!

Thank you to all who shared our post... social media works!!

We have had a friendly little bunny handed in to us today. It was picked up by a BT engineer on Holst Way. Please call the surgery if you are missing one. 01452 757000.

28/09/2022

We are thrilled to welcome Laura Dobson-Frith (Veterinary Surgeon) to the Stroud Road Team. We have known and worked with Laura (who had a strong following of clients in the Hucclecote area) for many years so we know how much knowledge, skill, care and compassion she brings with her. Please call the surgery if you would like an appointment in one of her consultation slots.