Wight Vets

15/10/2024

To all of our registered clients

Following on from our successful out of hours collaboration with the team at The Carisbrooke Vets over the past year we are excited to announce that the team at The People's Vet are joining this collaboration from 28th October.

Practices have traditionally cooperated to provide sustainable emergency care by sharing duty vets on a rota basis. This cooperation between practices is a way to improve sustainability long term for our clinical teams, who provide a 24/7, 365 day a year service to your pets.

If you have a veterinary emergency outside of our normal hours call our usual number 01983 896889 for advice on the best course of action for you pet.

If we are providing after hours care and you have agreed with the duty vet that your pet needs to be seen you will be seen at our Chapel Street Surgery.

If The Carisbrooke Vets are providing after hours care and you have agreed with the duty vet that your pet needs to be seen, you may be asked to travel to their clinic at: 107, Carisbrooke Rd, Newport PO30 1HP. There is parking available on site.

If The People's Vet are providing after hours care and you have agreed with the duty vet that your pet needs to be seen, you may be asked to travel to their clinic at: The Old Granary, Sandy Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 3EA parking is available.

Any patients admitted at The Carisbrooke Vets or The People's Vet outside of our normal hours will be transferred back to us for further treatment on the next working day if appropriate.

Payment will be made directly to the practice at which your pet is seen.

During the working day, we will continue to provide our normal service. Wight Vets remains a separate business to The People’s Vet and The Carisbrooke Vets and nothing else will change.

Full details can be found on our website at www.wightvets.com/services/emergencies/

Thank you for your understanding.

Please direct any queries to our email: [email protected]
Many thanks
The Wight Vets Team.

20/09/2024

Where is Voltie?? Out and about all day yesterday conducting home visits across the Island. Two stops- lunch with a view and a very welcome treat mid afternoon- but do you know where we were?
Hope you all have a super weekend.

19/09/2024

Maddie and Teddie still smiling after their jab today 🥰

25/07/2024

? Ok the last one was too easy! Lets see if you can get this one! John thought he would enjoy a few spare moment after lunch to write up some notes. Let us know your guess in the comments! P.s. Cath had gone over the stile to take this photo from the public footpath!

19/07/2024

As we hit the summer we thought we would start a little game on Facebook! "Where's Voltie?" So over to you to see if you can work out where across the island we have stopped on our travels to enjoy our lunch! Let us know your guess in the comments!

06/07/2024

We are delighted to share with you that we now offer Keyhole (Laparoscopic) neutering for female dogs. Often termed a “Lap spay” this procedure has a much quicker recovery time than a traditional spay. More information can be found on our website www.wightvets.com/lapspay or by contacting our friendly reception team.

13/06/2024

Bold Poppies blooming in the practice garden- seems very appropriate timing for them to bloom just after the 80th Anniversary of D-Day. A moment to pause and remember all the people, and animals who served.

28/05/2024

Worry not! 😊 We are open as usual on a (busy) Tuesday after the Bank Holiday weekend 😊. We’ve had a few concerned phone calls just now from people who have seen a post on social media about a Vet Practice shutting and were concerned. That post does NOT relate to Wight Vets in any way whatsoever so please don’t worry. Wight Vets is owned by John and Emily Knight and is a proudly independent, family run and locally owned practice. For us it’s very much business as usual.

Fact check:- The post that concerned some people related to IVC Evidensia UK announcing they are permanently closing their Isle of Wight practice trading as “The Mobile Vet” at Watergate road from 6th June 2024. That practice has actually been shut since October 2022 when IVC Evidensia UK announced its “temporary” closure. So in reality nothing has changed.

17/05/2024

Well it's all very lovely, but who is the mysterious donor? We have a very nice puzzle for a Friday afternoon. Someone very kind and very generous has sent us a wonderful box of goodies which arrived this afternoon addressed to Wight Vets. However there is no note of who it is from!!! So please let us know if it was you so we can say THANK YOU !! **Solved!! It was some lovely clients who have just moved off the IOW saying goodbye. So glad we could thank them personally.**

10/05/2024

We are delighted that Wight Vets has been Highly Commended by the judges of the Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce Business Awards and we have a rather nice certificate to display in reception. 🤩Congratulations to Wight Coaches who won the category. Thank you to you all for your wonderful encouraging messages - we couldn’t do it without you.

10/05/2024

Friday 10th May 2024. Today’s the day! To enable our team to attend the IOW Chamber of Commerce Business Awards we will be closing a little earlier than usual at 4pm today. In the event of a veterinary emergency after this time please ring the normal number and you will be connected through to The Carisbrooke Vets who will be able to help you as they are very kindly covering our on call. We will share with you the outcome of being shortlisted for “Start Up Business of the Year” but regardless of the outcome we are celebrating our fantastic team, our wonderful clients and of course our amazing patients. 🐾🤞🏆

02/05/2024

We are delighted to welcome Bettina to our team! She is an experienced vet who has lived on the island for many years with her family. Here is Bettina and her beautiful shepherd cross Yuna.

25/04/2024

Had a good chuckle with one of our lovely clients over this sign on their wall at home. Shared with permission for your enjoyment! 🤣🤣🤣

25/03/2024

We have been nominated for “Start Up Business of the Year” !!! We will be waiting with baited breath until 10th May to find out if we have won 🤩.

21/03/2024

Female rabbit just brought in by a member of the public to our Chapel Street surgery. Found straying West Street Newport. Not microchipped. Please contact the surgery on 01983 896889 if she is yours. Thank you.

23/01/2024

Bingo decided to try her paw at running reception this afternoon. 🥰

09/01/2024

We are looking for a small animal vet to join our independent, family-run team on the beautiful Isle Of Wight- just off the south coast of England. We offer a role where you have more time with your patients and clients to deliver excellent individualized, pragmatic care delivered with compassion and understanding. We have a genuinely happy team- please see their feedback quotes!! Hours and exact job role tailored to suit. Constant reinvestment in the practice and team- lap spay equipment coming soon!
Don't believe practices like ours exist?! - they do!- please get in touch we would love to chat with you.
[email protected]

We run open recruitment policy and are currently have vacancies for additional vet hours so if you are interested in working with us then please take a look