The Veterinary Health Centre Ltd

31/01/2025

🥰Our very own ‘Charlie’s Angels’ 🥰

30/01/2025

☎️Our receptionists are the first port-of-call for potential emergency phone calls.
😫When your animal is unwell, and you phone the vets for help, our receptionists will ask you a few simple questions in order to determine whether it is truly an emergency.
🤓They will be able to help you with any interventions that you may need to do, such as keeping the room quiet and dark if your pet is having a seizure, or holding pressure onto something that is bleeding.
🤗They will make you an appointment to see the vet, and they will help you to stay calm throughout.

29/01/2025

❓What does a veterinary receptionist do?
🤔Well, a better question may be ‘What don’t they do?’
♥️Our wonderful reception team keep the whole practice ticking over, they answer the phone, book in appointments, take payments, and juggle everyone’s schedules - as well as being calm and patient in very stressful situations, kind and compassionate in sad situations, having amazing attention to detail, and *of course* giving out the best animal snuggles 🥰

28/01/2025

We ♥️ our wonderful receptionists 🥰

27/01/2025

🤢Due to sickness we are very low on reception staff today, so there may be a bit of a wait on the phones. If your query is not urgent you may wish to try again tomorrow - and please be kind ♥️

26/01/2025

🚨STRAY CAT🚨

Found near Queensway Chapel in St Annes, now safe with us at TVHC. Please phone us if this is your kitty on 01253 729309.

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26/01/2025

🚨STRAY CAT🚨

Found in Blackpool town centre, now safe with us at TVHC. Please phone is if this us your kitty on 01253 729309.

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24/01/2025

🤢From as early as the 1400s, humans were attempting to prevent illness - by exposing healthy people to smallpox.
💉In 1796, Edward Jenner inoculates 8-year old James Phipps with the contents of a cowpox sore. Two months later, he inoculates Phipps with the contents of a smallpox sore - and Phipps remains perfectly healthy! Vaccines are born!

🐄The term vaccine comes from the Latin word for cow, v***a.

📸:Some of our vet Sara’s beautiful cows ♥️🐄

23/01/2025

21/01/2025

Such a great idea! Would it work on YOUR dog? 🐾💉

20/01/2025

❓What is a vaccine?
👩🏻🐈‍⬛🐶🦆🐢🐸🐠 All mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish have an immune system.
🦠Special cells recognise the presence of harmful intruders (like viruses and bacteria) and fight them off to protect the animal.
🤔The immune system also remembers these invaders - this saves valuable time the next time the infection appears, as the immune system can get rid of it much faster - meaning the animal recovers much quicker.
🏃‍♂️A vaccine is like a head start. It contains a weakened or dead version of the disease - meaning that the immune system has time to mount a response, fight it off, and take steps to remember it - and the animal does not have to suffer being poorly while this happening.

🥇Vaccination is THE MOST EFFECTIVE method of preventing infectious diseases ♥️



📸: Iván Díaz

17/01/2025

🤔Whenever we get stray animals, we try every possible avenue to find their owner.
Microchipping gives us the best chance to get your baby HOME ♥️

16/01/2025

❓How does a pet microchip work?
➡️A silicon microchip holds the unique identification number.
➡️The capacitor receives power from the microchip scanner, and sends it to the microchip.
➡️The information on the microchip is then picked up through the copper antenna by the scanner.
➡️Everything is housed in a tiny biocompatible container.

15/01/2025

🌍All kinds of animals are microchipped, all around the world.
☺️To make it easier for those who need to scan them - each type of animal is chipped in a certain part of the body, although we we usually check all over if no microchip is found where it should be, as they can migrate!

14/01/2025

Is anyone else’s dog Head of Quality Control when you get home from the shops? 🤣
♥️

13/01/2025

🫶We often tell people to make sure their pet’s microchip details are up to date, but sometimes it can be a bit of a faff! Here is a handy step-by-step.⬇️

🤔Finding out your pet’s microchip number. This should be on their vaccine card, or on paperwork or emails that you received from the breeder or place you got your pet from. If you don’t have any of those, you can pop into any vets and get them scanned - there is no charge for this, and you don’t need an appointment as it only takes a couple of minutes.

💻Check-a-chip.co.uk will give you the phone number for the company that holds your pet’s data. Sometimes phone numbers will only be available during office hours, but you may be able to contact the company another way, such as email.

☎️When you ring the microchip company, they may ask you to confirm some of the details on the chip - such as your pet’s name, or the registered address or phone number.

👍If you don’t know these details - perhaps if you have forgotten them, or you have rehomed the pet from someone else - the microchip company will allow you to change the details to your own after they have attempted to contact the owner that is registered on the microchip and either had no reply, or confirmation that the pet has been rehomed.

10/01/2025

❓Does my elderly pet need to carry on with their vaccines?

🤓In elderly pets, the immune response to known antigens is very good, so continuing with the vaccines they have already been having as they grew up will keep their immune system in good shape and mean they will not contract anything that will put their bodies under pressure.

☺️A vaccine appointment is also a great chance for a thorough checkup, like an MOT and also a chance for you to ask any questions if something has been grumbling away, but hasn’t really made them poorly enough to warrant an extra visit.

👍We can clip their nails and check their overall condition, and arrange any tests that may be needed, such as bloods or X-rays.



📸 Cyrus Chew