Pocket Nook Equine Vets Ltd.

01/12/2025

Thank you so much to Williams mummy for the beautiful flowers and card ❤️ Run fast and free up there Wills 😢 Auntie Emm will miss you so much you gentle giant 💔❤️❤️❤️❤️

01/12/2025

A very sad day for dressage. Rest in peace beautiful boys 😢❤️

Sleep well Blueberry and Uti, two of the greatest horses of our generation.

It is with immense sadness that we have said goodbye to Valegro and Uthopia and without question, this is a loss that just feels hard to comprehend.

Trying to write a tribute to these two horses feels harder than I imagined. The yard just doesn’t feel the same without them, there’s an emptiness in the air.

Valegro and Uthopia did more than win medals and write history, they gave our sport a golden era. They both showed that greatness can be gentle, sensitive and harmonious and they made a nation proud and inspired so many.

Being part of their journey will always remain one of my proudest achievements and the whole team and myself are deeply grateful for the joy they gave to us at home but also to their fans around the world.

Their entire lives ran in parallel; they travelled to the shows side by side, lived in neighbouring stables, grazed in the same fields and retired together. Their bond and companionship were absolute.

As life as old boys advanced, so too did the health challenges, so allowing them to leave this world together was the final act of loyalty and dignity I felt I could give them, honouring a partnership that had never been separated in life.

They leave behind a huge void, and the yard has changed forever and so have we. They were our family and I will love and miss them always. The impact they had will remain but sadly, we don’t get to keep horses forever.
We only get to carry what they leave inside us. And these two left us so much.

Carl x

Photo credit: Rose Lewis

30/11/2025

Winners of the 2025 vet practice of the year!!!!

Thank you so much to everyone involved. From the nomination to judging and organisation of tonight’s event❤️❤️❤️
Thank you to Matthew and John for always being the best assistants and thank you to my children for putting up with my countless hours of work ❤️

I am a normal gal, from a wee council estate in Lancashire, with a dream of being a small town vet that mattered to someone.,.. work hard, live hard and try harder, ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I cannot put into words how I am feeling!! ###

27/11/2025

This weekend is our party night!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳😍😍😍❤️❤️

Thank you so much to everyone that has voted for us. I never thought we’d make make one of the finalists again and here we are!! I’m so super proud and really excited to get a night off!!!

Our amazing neighbouring practice Andrew Mellings, have kindly offered to cover my emergencies so that I can get my glad rags on! Super grateful! How lucky am I to have this team help me out!! Their contact number is 01204 668108 if you are unlucky enough to need them. I will be away Saturday morning from 10am until Sunday dinner time at 12pm. All payments must be made at the time of visit please to Andrew’s ❤️

Best of luck to everyone on the night - I am honoured to be sharing the finalist title with these three practices - they are all so incredible. Also look forward to sitting on th A team table with Lottie Christian photography and Bold Heath - we are going to have the most amazing night at the most amazing event.
Thank you again to all of my clients for voting - you have no idea what it means for us to have another fabulous night feeling proud to be Pocket Nook Vets ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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21/11/2025

Another night another cuddle with baby Gio 🥰 ❤️❤️❤️
Big believer that the kindest horses had the most love at some point in their lives ❤️❤️👌❤️🐎🥕

19/11/2025

🎉🎉🎉 DECEMBER OFFER 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Mulled wine and mince pies also!!! 😅😅❤️❤️❤️❤️🥳🥳🥳 🎅
Foot radiographs are so important when it comes to aiding your farrier in shoeing/trimming your horse to help him/her perform at their best. We can learn a lot from foot balance radiographs and I always start with these before rushing to injectable treatments… So many horses will become much more comfortable if we can increase support from the foundations.

Ulcers and lameness come hand in hand. Any sort of stress placed upon the horse can predispose them to ulcers, and this includes physical stress.

I’m excited to offer a combined gastroscope and foot X-ray clinic here at Pocket Nook! WA3 1AU.

£350 per horse for this combination deal 🎉
Price includes:
🥕Lameness assessment
🥕 Sedation
🥕 Gastroscope
🥕 Lateral and DP foot X-rays of four feet

Usual individual price: £680!

*** Gastroscope only - £200 including soundness consultation and sedation ***

Next clinic
Sunday 14th December 2025

Please pm to book or call 📞 07731498987
Emily Westwood BVM&S MRCVS BSc hons

18/11/2025

Look at this for a difference!

This horse has been bandaged for weeks following a field injury and unfortunately developed what we call ‘proud flesh’ - this is an excess of granulation tissue which is quite common with wounds to the lower limb due to the poor blood supply.
To help this we can debride the area - we basically get a scalpel and trim it all back.
However, I prefer my miracle cream! It’s not real miracle cream, or as my daughter would say ‘unicorn cream’… 🙈😅😅😅
It’s steroid and antibiotic cream. We can make a big pot up in house for the cost of a good Chinese 🍲 and look at the difference in less than two weeks!

I’m all for less invasive methods whenever we can, and obviously with some extra glitter and stardust magic 😅😉😉😉

Thank you so much to this owner for allowing us to share and thank you to this horse for being such a wonderful patient 🥰

07/11/2025

Pocket Nooks new foal Global Force AKA Gio ❤️❤️❤️

Reminds us of why we fell in love with horses in the first place ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

04/11/2025

Most of you that know me know I have just got the sweetest and most handsome little foaly in the whole wide world 🌍

Today was his first ever vaccination and it’s so important to make sure that it’s as stress free as possible.
I always always always ask the owner to scratch the neck. Like really hard… like the best groom ever… This way, most horses don’t even feel the needle, and if they do, it’s counteracted by good feelings too. The only horses that I have had real trouble getting a needle near (bar about two 🧐🙈😩), are those that have had a bit of a drama at some point with an injection…

There aren’t such things as bad horses, just bad experiences.

Well done brave baby Gio ❤️❤️❤️

01/11/2025

Veterinary ambassador 2025 announcement 📣

Thank you so much for everyone that took the time to enter. Honestly, if I could, I would have selected every single one of you. Your stories were so moving and it made me so proud to be part of a lot of your journeys.

Apologies about the delay, we were waiting on the embroidery!! 🧵 I really wanted to make this as personal as possible so we did a surprise visit 😂😂 Sheryl was so shocked as she didn’t even realise she had been nominated!! Haha I had called to say I was nipping in for a quick picture of Floyd as part of a new cover photo and dropping off her baby some shoes that no longer fitted harry 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Sheryl Bernadette Buckley and her horse Floyd (aka sick note😅), will be flying the flag for all things veterinary for the next 12 months 🥕🥳🥳🥳

A big thank you to matt and john also for helping with the selection ❤️ it was not an easy task!

Equine Veterinary Ambassador: Sponsored horse/pony🐴

This year, I am on the lookout for a sponsored horse/pony, that you feel really deserves my help ❤️
This isn’t your usual competition sponsorship, it’s more of a helping hand towards veterinary treatment throughout the year.

Someone once gave me a helping hand and I really want to do the same 🐎❤️

What this sponsorship includes;

🐎 Yearly vaccine.
🐎Worm egg counts throughout the summer.
🐎 Foot balance radiographs and farrier consultation.
🐎Soundness MOT.
🐎One emergency out of hours visit and consultation (if you are ever unfortunate enough to have one). This does not include drugs used.
🐎First aid kit
🐎Pocket Nook Equine Vets embroidered rug.

This sponsorship will run for one year from the start date 01/11/2025 and you must be within 20 miles of WA31AU.

In memory of my late friend who would do anything to help anyone ❤️ and a picture of her Gentleman Bob - a true miracle horse 🥕🐎

"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you”. - Princess Diana.

Emily Westwood BVM&S MRCVS BSc hons. Proud to be independent and proud to make my own rules 🥳