Station House Vets

25/06/2024

Welcome to Day Two of Rabbit Awareness Week 2024 - Healthy Diet, Happy Bunnies!

Today we are hopping right into how what your bun eats affects their health.

Stay tuned, join the conversation, and let's keep spreading the word about rabbit welfare together! 🐰

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24/06/2024

RABBIT AWARENESS WEEK - HEALTHY DIET, HAPPY BUNNIES

Choosing the best rabbit food for your bunnies can seem confusing. They are complex animals that need a balanced diet with the right mix of fibre, vitamins and minerals to stay happy and healthy.

They are herbivores, this means rabbits need a plant-based diet with LOTS of fibre. Fibre is a key part of their diet and it keeps your rabbits’ digestive system healthy and moving, helping to prevent illnesses such as gut stasis. An easy way to get lots of great fibre in their diet is to make sure your rabbits have unlimited access to good quality, dust extracted feeding hay or fresh grass.

The Excel Feeding Plan
Follow the Excel Feeding Plan to help your rabbits get the correct balance of fibre, vitamins and minerals. 85-90% of your rabbits’ diet should be high quality, dust extracted feeding hay or fresh grass. This should be supplemented with a small portion of nuggets, a handful of rabbit friendly fresh greens and constant access to fresh, clean water.

Of course there are also foods that rabbits should not eat - here we feature some poisonous plants - the list is not exhaustive so do your research.

24/06/2024

What are they trying to say? 🐇

Did you know rabbits eat their poo? And it’s really healthy for them! Rabbits need lots of fibre to stay healthy.

Rabbits can’t get all the essential nutrients they need the first time they eat their food. The first time they eat something, like tasty hay, the digestible fibre moves through their gut and is excreted as caecotrophs, which are soft, sticky droppings. Your rabbit will then eat these droppings to get the rest of the vital nutrients. The second time they’re digested they are excreted as round, hard droppings.

This is why lots of fibre, found in hay and good quality nuggets, is so important!

24/06/2024

🐰 It's day one of Rabbit Awareness Week 2024 - Healthy Diet, Happy Bunnies! and we are diving straight into the importance of a healthy diet for rabbits!

Whether one is a well-seasoned rabbit owner or just a bunny lover, there's something for everyone! So let's spread the word and make sure all bunnies are well-fed and thriving🥬

Stay tuned for more tips and info throughout the week, and don't forget to show your support by liking, commenting, and sharing their posts. Let's make the best one yet!💚

22/06/2024

Joint measuring board measurements here at Station House Vets 🐴

Clare our wonderful equine vet is qualified as a JMB (Joint Measuring Board) measurer.

If you are interested in having your horse measured please visit our page on our website as you need to liaise with the JMB first : https://bit.ly/3VI8v66

20/06/2024

Equine laminitis risk....

Laminitis risk app

There is a free app available for those of you with worrying horses and ponies. It may be of help.

Local weather conditions are monitored and are used to predict the rise and fall of non-structural carbohydrates (NSC's) in grass. When the predicted NSC's increase, this is shown as a rise in risk.

The reviews are mixed, with older posts suggesting a lack of accuracy, but more recent reviews generally find it a helpful tool, so worth considering. We would welcome any feedback. Thank you!

The app can be downloaded from the App Store.

19/06/2024

🐱Cats Protection Neutering Scheme🐱

We are delighted that we continue to support the Cats Protection Neutering scheme and we still have a number of neutering vouchers left from Cats Protection and these can be used on owned, feral and stray cats.

To find out more and if you and your cats are eligible visit : https://bit.ly/3XMCidc

To go ahead and book your Cats Protection neutering call us on 01653618303.

Find out more about the Cats Protection Neutering Scheme visit https://www.cats.org.uk/what-we-do/neutering

18/06/2024

🐈🐈CAT MICROCHIPPING OFFER CONTINUES TO THE END OF JUNE🐈🐈

It is now law that all owned cats should be microchipped. This law came into effect on 10 June 2024.

If you own a cat and it isn't microchipped you could risk a fine.

We are continuing our offer for owned cats and kittens to be microchipped until the end of June.

To take advantage of this, call 01653 618303 to book your cat microchip 15 minute nurse consult on 01653 618303 now!

18/06/2024

RABBIT AWARENESS WEEK

We will be supporting this year’s Rabbit Awareness Week (RAW), which takes place from 24-28 June.

We are offering free rabbit nail clips and bunny health checks with our nurses across next week; call 01653 618303 to book in for your free nurse clinic between 24th to 28 June.

Led by Burgess Pet Care and comprising some of the UK’s largest animal welfare organisations and charities, this year’s chosen theme for RAW is ‘Healthy Diet, Happy Bunnies’. By taking part and raising awareness on rabbit welfare needs, YOUR BUSINESS hopes to reach out to more rabbit owners and ensure the needs of their pets are being met.

Lucy, Vet and Owner at Station House Vets said “We’re excited to support this year’s RAW, which focuses on raising awareness of the importance of rabbits’ diet. The latest PAW Report found that 13% of owners feed muesli mix as one of the main types of food their rabbits eat – these diets have been implicated in a variety of health problems – and only 73% of owners feed hay as one of their rabbits’ main foods; inadequate hay provision is associated with rabbit obesity.

“To encourage rabbit owners to learn more about their pets, we’ll be holding free rabbit health check clinics with our nursing team from 24-28 June."

RAW is an annual event that brings together vets, pet retailers, welfare charities, manufacturers and consumers to raise awareness about rabbit welfare issues and to encourage responsible pet ownership.

To find out more about RAW, please visit https://rabbitawarenessactiongroup.co.uk

Keep an eye out for variety of posts - and pictures of your lovely rabbits making an appearance throughout the week!

17/06/2024

Travelling abroad this year with your pets? ☀🕶✈️🛳🏝

Lucy and Vicky are Government Official Veterinarians (OV) for Animal Health Certificates (AHC's) and are very experienced in pets and travel.

This is a service we offer to anyone (you don't have to be an ongoing client with us) as not all veterinary practices will have an OV who can offer this service.

The most important thing is the timings! So, as soon as you know when you'd like to travel with your pet, get in touch and make an initial consult appointment with either Lucy or Vicky. For this consult you will need all your microchip and vaccination history.

They will run through all the necessary paperwork and relevant dates for your journey, and will then book your Animal Health Certificate appointment for you which will be closer to your date of travel.

If you have any questions give our Client Care Team a call who can book your initial consult for you -01653 618303.

For more information and pricing visit https://bit.ly/4clTTi0

14/06/2024

Hi it's Hilda here, 👋

Hopefully the warmer weather is just around the corner🤞

When it gets very warm and sunny mum has lots of tips and tricks to cool me down. She says its very important to keep your pets cool during the summer as heatstroke can be very dangerous. 🌞

Top tips for keeping your pets cool include:

Keep your dog hydrated. Keeping your dog hydrated is the most important step to preventing heatstroke. You should give your dog plenty of opportunities to drink cool fresh water. 💧

Walking your dog at cooler times of the day. Walking in the midday heat can be very dangerous therefore we advise that they should be walked first thing in a morning or in the evening. Walking in the heat also risks their paw pads getting burnt. 🐕‍🦺

Placing a cold wet towel over them. Wetting your dogs coat can help to lower their body temperature, leave the towel on for short periods of time and make sure you remove the towel once it has tired as it may make your dog warmer.🛁

Getting a fan. Place a fan next to your dog's usual lounging spot, make sure that your dog can avoid the cool breeze if they choose. 💨

That's all from me!

Enjoy the sun .... when it finally appears! ☀️

Hilda 🐾

11/06/2024

Online repeat medication ordering

Did you know? for your convenience, we offer our clients repeat medication ordering online via our website.

Repeat medication for your pets and horses can now be ordered online using our quick and simple form.

Find out more : https://bit.ly/46YUO6k

And to complete the form : https://bit.ly/3Dn7juP

10/06/2024

Diabetic Awareness Week

Diabetes Week is a week to make some noise, raise awareness and shout about the things that matter to people with diabetes, shining a light on what it’s like to live with day in, day out.

So we thought this was an opportune time to also raise awareness of diabetes in our pets.

What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a condition that causes a person's blood sugar level to become too high.

There are 2 main types of diabetes:
Type 1 diabetes – a lifelong condition where the body's immune system attacks and destroys the cells that produce insulin
Type 2 diabetes – where the body does not produce enough insulin, or the body's cells do not react to insulin properly

So what about dogs and cats?
In our pets - cats are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes and dogs are more likely to develop type 1

Both dogs and cats with diabetes can be treated; watch out for more information later in the week.

10/06/2024

Happy Birthday to us! 🥳 🎂

It’s three years today since Clare, Lucy and Vicky took over Station House Vets!

Where has that gone?!

We had a celebration cake… made in the Station House Vets colours of course, lovingly made by Dogh Welburn.

Congratulations ladies! Three cheers to the next 3, and the next 3 and….🥂🥂🥂

Proud to remain independent!

09/06/2024

Looking for a local independent practice with 5 star google reviews?

Here are just a selection of what some of our clients think of us. https://bit.ly/41ZVrdD
Head over to our Google profile to view more.

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08/06/2024

*Warning contains graphic photos*

Meet Magpie the lovely lurcher.

Poor Magpie was brought into the clinic out of hours after she had two nasty wound to her front leg. She was brought into the practice at 10pm on Friday night where she was met by familiar faces; vet Vicky and nurse Nicole.

Vicky assessed the wounds and gave Magpie pain relief and antibiotics. Once stable Magpie underwent a general anaesthetic to have her leg x-rayed, wounds flushed and debrief and then closed with stitches. She then had an immobilising bandage placed called a Robert Jones to support her limb and help the wound heal.

She then spent 24 hours recovering at the practice and was discharged home on Sunday morning, prescribed with strict cage rest, antibiotics and pain relief.
We saw Magpie for her 1st bandage change, where she seemed much less painful and the wounds were healing very well. Vicky was very pleased with her progress so far.

We are sure that Magpie will keep improving and be running around in no time at all! Look out for more Magpie updates!

Lucky Magpie saw her usual vet and nurse at the practice even though it was night time and was very happy not to have to go to a different site. Don’t forget we are here for your pets 24hours a day 365 days a year.

07/06/2024

Hi, It's me Hilda,

It's been a sad end to the week here at the practice, with Lynn leaving after 23 years. Yesterday was a lovely sunny day so we has her leaving lunch party in the garden.

It was so lovely to see everyone and I got to be the hoover for cleaning up any crumbs that had dropped on the floor!

.welburn provided us with a lovely lunch, it was so nice to have everyone together!

Have a great weekend!
Hilda
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06/06/2024

NEXT EQUINE GASTROSCOPY CLINIC AT STATION HOUSE VETS

Our next equine gastroscopy clinic is Wednesday 26th June here at the practice.

To book your horse into the clinic and get the special price of £150 call our equine team now on 01653 618303.

05/06/2024

World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated annually on 5 June and encourages awareness and action for the protection of the environment. It is supported by many non-governmental organizations, businesses, government entities, and represents the primary United Nations outreach day supporting the environment.

As we are Investors in the Environment Bronze accredited we are focusing today on ensuring we are maximising (or minimising) our impact on the environment in everything we do. Our team have been asked to take extra consideration around the practice to see if there is anything more we can do and share it with our team.

We encourage our clients, partners and peers to do the same.

04/06/2024

How to educational / support video's!

Our wonderful team of nurses - and vets - have been busy making you some how to video's to watch at your leisure.

To watch the video's you can visit our website and click on Blog & Advice or click on this link : https://bit.ly/4bXzgZw

What else would you like to see? Comment below with your ideas and we can add them to the list!

03/06/2024

🐱Cats Protection Neutering Scheme🐱

We are delighted that we are able to support the Cats Protection Neutering scheme and since joining the scheme we have helped the Cats Protection achieve their objective of reaching more owners to get their cats neutered. All of the cats that are neutered apart from farm or feral cats have been microchipped as this is included in the £10 scheme.

We still have a number of neutering vouchers left.

To find out more and if you and your cats are eligible visit : https://bit.ly/3XMCidc

To go ahead and book your Cats Protection neutering or microchipping call us on 01653618303.

Find out more about the Cats Protection Neutering Scheme visit https://www.cats.org.uk/what-we-do/neutering

03/06/2024

Today is NATIONAL HUG YOUR CAT DAY

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Need we say more except embrace your little bundle of furry joy and take some time to appreciate them!

Feel free to post your pics of your cats 'allowing' you to hug them on their special day - or any day - or your cats/kittens hugging each other.

PS: don't forget 10th June is the deadline for microchipping your bundles of joy!

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31/05/2024

🐈🐈CAT MICROCHIPPING🐈🐈

In just 10 days it will become law for all owned cats to be microchipped from 10 June 2024.

If you own a cat and it isn't microchipped by 10th June you could risk a fine.

Last chance ! Call 01653 618303 to book your cat microchip 15 minute nurse consult on 01653 618303 now!

30/05/2024

Pet and equine emergencies - can and do happen anytime.

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We do our own emergency out of hours - and we are very proud to offer our lovely clients this service.

But what exactly does that mean?

✅ For all of our clients we offer emergency out of hours cover 24 hours a day 365 days a year

✅ Our daytime vets and nurses literally cover 24 hours per day on a rota basis to ensure you have emergency support all year round

✅ You will ALWAYS see one of our regular vets and nurses who will most likely have met your pet during the day at some point

✅ The vets and nurses have access to your full records and history - and if needed they can liaise with other members of our team for input, if by chance they haven't already met you

✅ You come to our practice - so you and your pet are familiar with the surroundings you are coming to

We acknowledge that your pet and equine emergencies are already daunting times, so keeping everything as normal as possible to minimise any additional stress to you and your pets is really important.

We are PROUD to be one of the few independents in the area and can offer our own emergency out of hours service to our clients.

To register to benefit from this important service visit https://bit.ly/3yjK0i1

An independent vet practice near Malton providing first opinion services for dogs, cats, rabbits and equine offering emergency out of hours

29/05/2024

After 23 years with Station House Vets, Lynn, our Equine and Insurance Manager has decided to hang up her headset and sadly will be leaving Station House Vets in June.

Lynn is looking forward to enjoying a (hopefully) sunny summer off and then looking for something part time while enabling her to enjoy current hobbies and start with new ones.

Lynn joined Edmund and Clare in the practice back in the days when we were based at Station House, just the other side of the A64.

Lynn started as a nurse and receptionist and since then has worn many hats ending her career with us managing the insurance for all our clients and their pets, as well as managing all of our equine clients, and all our equine vets!

Lynn has become the go to person for many of our clients because of the relationships she has built up, and we know you will all miss her, as we will.

Lynn’s last day with us is here in the practice is 7th June and we would like to take this opportunity to thank Lynn for her hard work, dedication and commitment to Station House Vets from back in the day through to now.

We would like to wish Lynn all the best for the future.

29/05/2024

Vet Nursing Awareness Month May 2024 - Student nurses

On the theme of 'Progression' we want to talk about student nurses.

We are committed to continuing to train and develop veterinary nurses, and we work very closely with Askham Bryan College. Currently we have a student nurse from each of the 3 years of study... a great sign of 'Progression'!

Atlas is in his 3rd year and just completing his final exams
Amy is in her 2nd year and just completing her second year of placement
Alex is in her 1st year and just starting her first year of placement

28/05/2024

Vet Nursing Awareness Month May 2024 - Senior pet clinics

Our senior pet clinics allow you to ask one of our qualified nurses any questions you may have regarding your pet's health as they get older.

In our nurse clinics we will give your pet a health check, weight check and discuss preventative healthcare. The clinics give you an opportunity to discuss your pets diet as their nutritional needs change as they age. It also provides an opportunity to detect any early age related issues with a view to prolonging good quality of life.

Book in for your free senior pet clinic with our nursing team on 01653 618303.

Note : there is a charge for blood pressure checks and urine sample testing if required.

28/05/2024

EQUINE ACUPUNCTURE

We offer your horses acupuncture and electroacupuncture here at the practice or at your yard.

Vinny came for his first acupuncture session last week and he was such a good boy. Kayleigh did a full assessment by palpation and then used specific acupoints to maximise the positive effects of his session.

As you can see Vinny had needles in his sacral region, his thoracic musculature, his chest and even on the side of his face.

As this was his first session Kayleigh wanted to make it as calm and relaxing for him as possible, so the needs in the chest (Lung 2 and Kidney 27) were placed to help him be calm. Acupuncture has been proven to have an effect on areas of the brain, most notably the limbic system which is involved with emotional regulation and is responsible for the 'sedative' effect acupuncture has on the majority of horses.

27/05/2024

Vet Nursing Awareness Month May 2024 - Puppy/kitten/new client-pet welcome cuddle clinic

All new pets, puppies and kittens can book in for a free welcome cuddle clinic with our nursing team. This is an opportunity for you to meet our team, us to meet you and your lovely pets. Whether they are babies or more mature it gives them chance to come to the practice for a nice relaxed welcome session (without having any needles, tablets etc!!).

Book your pet in for their free cuddle clinic with our very cuddle loving nursing team on 01653 618303.

26/05/2024

Vet Nursing Awareness Month May 2024 - Pet nutrition clinics

As a Hill's Pet Nutrition practice we recommend Hill's cat and dog food but we understand you may already be feeding a good nutritional balanced diet.

We offer nutrition clinics where we discuss your current feeding regime, weigh your pet and give them a body condition score, taking into account all the information you tell the nurses about their exercise regime and their diet (including the odd treat!)

Nicole and Karo are both Hill's nutritional ambassadors and have done the full training course. Helena and the rest of the team are well acquainted with the products and can recommend the ideal products for your pets.

There are two product ranges - a Vet Essentials range and the Prescription diet ranges - both of which can only be purchased through veterinary practices.

If you'd like to discuss your pets diet, call the practice on 01653 618303 and book in for a free nurse nutrition clinic.

Note : For all clients on Hill's you get a £10 introductory discount and up to £10 off per bag (size dependent) via the Hill's loyalty scheme; and for all clients on the Wellness Plan you get 10% discount off the full range of Hill's food. What's not to like!