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Swale Veterinary Surgery We are a mixed veterinary practice in Richmond, North Yorkshire with our own 24hr emergency cover.
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Small Animal 01748 826600
Large Animal and Equine 01748 822389

06/03/2025

If you fit the criteria, please contact Pepperfield Farm Hedgehog Rescue. Let’s help the little piggies 🦔

04/03/2025

❌❌ Warning contains eyes 👀 ❌❌

Sight for sore eyes….literally! 😳🐮

This poor calf had a bit of an unfortunate accident when its mum decided to stand directly on its face and left eye!! 🐄

Quick thinking from the farmer and with our vet, Lesley getting there as soon as; Lesley amazingly managed to get the eye back into its rightful position! 👁️

Brilliant job Lesley, and I’m sure the calf is also very grateful! 💙

As we are getting into the full swing of lambing and calving time, keep your eyes (sorry!) peeled for some more pictures/stories of the new mums and their new additions to the herd/flock! 🐑

03/03/2025

For Rio ❤️🌈

With permission from Rio’s parents we have created this post. We would like to thank them for trusting us and Improve International with Rio.

“When I said goodbye to Rio I allowed him to go for Veterinary research, it was something that I thought long and hard about but decided if Rio could support veterinary training it can only be a good thing. Today his ashes have been returned to me in a beautiful box.

Thank you to Swale Veterinary Surgery who arranged to work with a priceless gift so that my wishes could be carried out. They hadn’t had anyone ask for this before and did some research themselves but became a registered vet.

I hadn’t heard of them before a friend shared a post on Facebook so maybe by me sharing this it might make one of my friends do something similar.”

We have been trained and are being supported by Improve International and are offering Medical Research as an option for if it is something you would like to do once your pet has passed away.

This is not for everyone so please do not feel pushed into this but there are some clients, like Rio’s parents that wanted to do this. If you are interested please ask to speak to a member of the team who would be happy to discuss or please use the below link to look into this.

https://apricelessgift.com

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25/02/2025

SWEET ITCH VACCINATIONS 🐴 💉

Following on from our previous post a few weeks ago, we have completed the main batch of sweet itch vaccinations but if we have enough interest we can do another date. If interested please let us know as soon as possible!

Give us a call ASAP ☎️

21/02/2025

A second chance for baby Gerald 🐐

Last weekend Louise our vet, got a call from Wear Referrals in regards to a member of the public finding a young kid goat tied up to a lamp post in Trimdon. Wear Referrals hadn’t got the facilities to treat a “large animal” so he was brought to us to be cared for!

Albeit a little cold, hungry and covered in lice, Gerald (who one of our nurses Kelly, called him) has thrived!! Kelly took Gerald home for a few nights to care for him and bottle feed him (and no we aren’t kidding 😉) and very much fell in love with him 🥰

This week Kelly spoke to a lady at Big Sheep Little Cow, in Bedale and they were more than willing to take Gerald on! Kelly dropped Gerald off at BSLC on Thursday and he is doing brilliant, and we think they have also fallen in love with him!

Take a look on their page to see many videos and pictures of Gerald, and why not support a local business and go and see him in person!

We loved having Gerald with us and we can’t wait for him to have the life he deserves! We have a number of goat crazy staff members 😍

P.s. don’t tie up animals to lamp posts, take them to a vets or rescue centre….this could have been a very very different outcome if someone hadn’t found him in time 😢

Have a fun filled life Baby Gerald 💙

18/02/2025

Appreciation post ❤️🍰

Not really animal (or veterinary related!) but how AMAZING is this cake?!

Our wonderful new vet Zoe, made all the staff this absolutely gorgeous belated Valentines Day cake, chocolate orange and fudge!! It tasted just as amazing as it looks!! 🤤

So a massive thank you to Zoe, she’s one very talented lady! 🩺 💕

15/02/2025

Spreading some belated Valentines Day love ❤️

Meet some of the cuties we’ve had in this week! Thank you to the owners for letting us post their pictures 📸

1 & 2 - Daisy & Poppy for their vaccinations 💉
3 - Cedric for a sore leg 🩹
4 - Twiggy & Monty for their vaccinations & a dental chat 🦷

Please do let us know if this something you’d like to see more regular, our team love taking pictures of your fur babies and a lot of our clients also love seeing them too 💕

10/02/2025

SWEET ITCH IN HORSES 🐎

Does your horse suffer from sweet itch?! 🍬

A course of injections can be used in the management of sweet itch, but for the best results we would recommend to start the injection course prior to the start of the midge season! 🏥

If you are interested in getting booked in for the course of injections or would like some more information please ring the practice on 01748 822389 and our equine team would be happy to help! ☎️

Please let us know before Wednesday 12th February! 🐴

07/02/2025

Warning!! VERY cute post alert!!! 🥹❤️

“This little piggy came to Swale” 🐷🐷

This week we had a very special patient, who was absolutely adorable!! We couldn’t resist but take lots of photographs and videos and with the owners permission we can post them for you all to adore too!!

This little piggy (12 hours old to be precise!!) had a bit of an accident which had caused a rather large wound on her hind leg, she was admitted by our team to suture it back up and get her back with her mum and siblings.

Vet, Hazell did a fabulous job stitching her up and with close monitoring of our nursing team she recovered all toasty in her kennel and was sent home. Piglets are notorious for struggling to maintain their temperature when put under general anaesthetics, so she was wrapped up warm with bubble wrap booties, lots of blankets, a warm bair hugger blanket and plenty of cuddles!

We had a blast looking after her and she really did make us all smile!! 🐽🐖💕

Happy Friday! ❤️

23/01/2025

🦉Good news!! 🦉

This beautiful barn owl came into the practice earlier in the month after being found in the snow. It can be harder for them to get enough food in the snowy weather as the small mammals they usually hunt don’t venture out as much. He was weak, dehydrated and hungry but fortunately not injured. Vet Dani and the nursing team worked their magic tube feeding him fluids and food initially then moving him on to feeding himself once he was stronger. Last weekend Dani took him to a wildlife centre where he is in his own outdoor aviary to continue his recovery. Hopefully this will allow him to regain his strength to fly before eventually being released. We’ve named him Simon C-owl 😆! Good luck Simon!

31/12/2024

🌟 Wishing all our clients a very healthy and happy new year! 🌟

As usual we are available if you need us 24-7, 365 days of the year ⏰

Today (New Years Eve) we are open until 6pm. From 6pm onwards and into tomorrow (New Years Day) we have vets Danni and Lesley on call. If you need them, give the surgery a call on 01748 826600 and our answering service will pass on your message 📞

Here’s to 2025 🥂

23/12/2024

🌟 We would like to wish all our lovely clients a very Happy Christmas 🌟

We would also like to send a massive thank you to those who sent us chocolates, biscuits, presents…they were greatly appreciated and so very kind, so thank you so much 🥹

We also would like to take this opportunity to send all our love to those who have lost their pet this year, as we know this Christmas will be difficult for them ❤️

As usual we are available 24-7 throughout the Christmas period, we cover our own out of hours service (so that means we have all regular members of staff and more importantly all your pets details/history) and we are still a 100% independent veterinary practice 🐶🐱🐄🐑

We have 2 of Santa’s elves on call this Christmas in the shape of vets, Andrew and Josh 🎄📞 just give us a call on the normal numbers and this will be passed onto them!

We hope you all have a wonderful day and enjoy your Christmas dinners…just like our gorgeous Albus with his chicken 🐈‍⬛💕

Love Team Swale 2024 💚

19/12/2024

Christmas Jumper Days 2024 🎄

Tomorrow (Friday 20th) and Monday our staff members will be raising money for charity (the chosen charity is yet to be decided!) with 2 Christmas jumper days! We’ll be getting in the festive spirit with fancy tops but also some fancy headgear too! 🎅🤶

13/12/2024

Happy Maternity Leave Beth 💙

Today is Large Animal Receptionist, Beth’s last day before she goes on maternity leave! Beth and husband James are expecting a little boy towards the end of January!

We can’t wait to meet the little one 🩵💙

08/12/2024

A happy ending for Billy…. 🩵

2 weeks ago a member of the public found 4 kittens approximately 4 weeks old on the Richmond Racecourse, which we actually suspected had been dumped 💔 They were cold, wet, covered in fleas and starving 😥

Now we are an independent veterinary practice not a rescue centre but our veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses sign onto the RCVS register and ensure we always put animals first so we took the kittens in (all whilst we were looking after Peppa too!). Unfortunately 1 of the kittens did not make it despite all our best efforts, but the other 3 continued to thrive.

Now we often get stray cats in and our nursing team will always give them a name (as we always bond with them!). We decided on a “Peppa Pig” theme (hence Peppa being called Peppa), so we had Peggy, Pandora and Gerald! 🐷💕

Gerald took a turn for the worst the day after the kittens were found and it was very touch and go if he would make it. Our team pushed forward, getting an intravenous catheter in 4 week old Gerald, weighing approximately 330g (which is a challenge!!) getting him on intravenous fluid therapy, glucose and medication to get him through. In all honesty we didn’t know if he would make the night but…he did!! The following morning he was full of beans!! 😀

Fast forward to last week, all 3 kittens were off to their new homes!! Gerald, now named Billy has settled in amazingly and has a new best friend in Woody the Labrador. Below are a few pictures of little Billy.

We want to spread some Christmas joy but also this post is to show how much our Swale team push on and shows how much we really do care, whether the animal is owned or a stray. It is to prove that we do care, we use our own practice funds to help these little patients and Billy proves how much we want them to live 💙

This post is also a reminder, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do NOT dump your pets. Gerald, Peggy and Pandora were incredibly lucky that someone found them, if not they would be dead. With Christmas being just around the corner, the sale of pets increases, pets are NOT just for Christmas, they are a 13 year+ commitment.

Thank you to Billy’s new owners for these gorgeous pictures! We can’t wait to see him grow into a handsome boy 🐈‍⬛😍

06/12/2024

Lori & Max ✨❤️

Meet the gorgeous duo, Lori and Max. They came in this afternoon for their vaccinations and had a good discussion about dental care/hygiene!

❓ Ever struggled with how to clean your dog/cats teeth?
❓Want our RVN’s to demonstrate how to you how to successfully brush your pets teeth?!

‼️ Welll….the did you know our Registered Veterinary Nurses offer free consultations to help with dental care and tooth brushing? Free expert advice to help benefit your pets oral health care!

📞 If you are interested please give us a call on 01748 826600 or drop us an email on [email protected]

Thank you to Lori and Max’s owners for letting us post this gorgeous picture 📸 ❤️

02/12/2024

💓 PEPPA IS OFF TO HER FOREVER HOME THIS AFTERNOON 💓

‼️UPDATE- we have a lovely client coming to visit Peppa tomorrow afternoon, hopefully all goes well and she have a new home! Thank you for all the shares, likes and comments! ✨

Looking for a lovely new home 🏡

Peppa is looking for a new home with a cosy sofa to curl up on and someone to offer her the attention she craves! She came to us as a stray and no one has come forward for her so we can now legally rehome her.

The practice ourselves have paid for her to be microchipped, FIV/FeLV blood tested and neutered- she will need to come back in approximately 7 days for a final post operative check. Hence we would like a donation to one of our animal charities if you rehome her. She is approximately 4-5 months old.

Peppa is very laid back and is currently being fostered by one of our vets who owns a labrador and Peppa is absolutely fine with him. We would think she’ll be absolutely fine with another cat but we haven’t tried her.

If you are seriously interested in Peppa please ring reception in office hours and ask to speak to one of the nurses.

Please note if you take Peppa she will need to be brought back to the surgery for any further medical issues and we must stress that she will need to be vaccinated - something the new owners will have to pay for, we also will have a contract drawn up (this is to ensure Peppa has stability and also because we like to see how she gets on too!).

Thank you 🐱

28/11/2024

‼️ update- today the dog warden updated us about the French Bulldog, no one came forward for her so she was rehomed. From their point of view they suspect she has been dumped. So she’s got a lovely new home. Thank you for all the comments and shares.

PLEASE BE AWARE THIS IS NOT A SCAM!

We have had a number of people who have contacted us to say that the post put on by the Richmondshire Dog Warden in regards to the French Bulldog is a scam.

It is NOT a scam, we had the dog in our care until the dog warden collected her. She has still not been claimed so sharing is still needed and those who think it is a scam, please remove your comments as this will be hindering her getting back to her family.

Thank you

Address

Fairfield Way
Richmond
DL104TB

Telephone

+441748826600

Website

https://www.swalevets.com/

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Our gorgeous boy Albus enjoying his Saturday morning pamper with RVN Amy 🩵 Albus hasn’t been very well this week and he was hospitalised for intravenous fluid therapy 😢 We were all very worried, as he’s been part of our Swale family for over 10 years now and he’s an older chap! But he’s much brighter today and had his morning breakfast of chicken! ❤️ Ps turn the volume up for purrs!! 🐈‍⬛

FURTHER UPDATE 💙 Today Harley went to his lovely new home. Thank you for all the shares, those who rang and for all the lovely comments UPDATE ❤️ We have had a few phone calls today in regards to our gorgeous boy. We have 2 lovely people interested in him, one met him today and the other will meet him on Monday, we will then decide who fits best with Harley. So he will hopefully have a beautiful home secured by next Tuesday. We are so pleased these 2 ladies can see the potential in him and want to give him his second chance 🥲 Harley Part 2 ❤️ Unfortunately we have had zero interest in rehoming our gorgeous boy Harley 😢💔 This is quite odd as we usually have at least one phone call but we’ve had nothing, not a single call or email 😔 Please please share Harley as much as you can and let’s get him to his loving new home as soon as we can 🤞 He is absolutely desperate for some new fur parents ❤️