Abbey Veterinary Centre

💚 RVN’s = Really Versatile Nurses! Or Registered Veterinary Nurse for the proper title! As we like to keep on trend with the most current social media platforms, we did this little video to showcase just how versatile our nurses are! This is just a small collection of roles our amazing nurses preform on a daily basis 💚💚💚 💚 Consulting Nurse - here at Abbey Vets have a very busy consulting schedule, where they conduct many different consults including their own specialised consults. Seren has special feline Nurse clinics and is our feline advocate and Nurses Vikki and Jo have special desensitisation clinics, also our Nurse Eleanor has a special interest in rehabilitation clinics. 💚 Dental Nurse - Our Nurses are trained to administer local anaesthetic (and preform nerve blocks) take dental x-rays and preform scale and polishes. 💚 Scrub Nurse - they are responsible for preparation of the surgical patient, setting up theatre and prep, working out and drawing up drugs used for the procedure and lots more. They make the operating day go smoothly and efficiently. 💚 X-ray nurse - as RVN’s they can carry out and preform x-rays, they can also become radiation protection supervisors meaning that they carry out maintenance checks and preform health and safety checks. 💚 Theatre nurse - this includes assisting the vet in surgery, as well as preform schedule 3 surgeries themselves. As you can see our RVN’s are extremely versatile and have many different skills. Go team RVN’s 💚💜💚 We are proud to employ RVN’s that have been through vigorous training to get their RVN status as a protected and professional title. #reallyversatilenurses #rvn #whatvnsdo

😍 Misty 😍 This extremely handsome chap came in for some investigations into why he was struggling to eat his biscuits. On examination it was found he had some ulcers on the tongue, potentially caused by a virus. But we hope, with some medication to help he will be on his way back to his normal eating habits. As you can see he was enjoying his chin scratches after waking up from his sedation. It was a pleasure to look after you today Misty 💙

🎊🏆CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS 🏆🎊

🎊🏆CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS 🏆🎊 The likes are in from both social media platforms and have been counted and verified, I am thrilled to announce that… In FIRST PLACE with 145 likes we have NALA 🥇 Thank you for all of your likes and shares, and in our opinion all of your pets were beautiful and deserved to win 🏆 The winners will be receiving an email shortly to come and claim their prize 🏆 Thanks to all that have taken part- Abbey Vets 💜

🐈‍⬛ Let’s talk about cat carriers!! 🐈‍⬛ We all dread getting the cat box out from the shed, garage or wherever we may store them. Then we have to have a battle to get them in it! BUT there is a better way! One of the main things is making sure your cat has a positive association with the box. Our top tips on how to achieve this include… 🐈‍⬛ Have the box set up at home at all times, with the door always open. 🐈‍⬛Place this in a nice calm and quiet area of the house that the cat has access to. 🐈‍⬛ If you can have the box raised up off the floor as cats like to sleep and relax up high. 🐈‍⬛ Make it a nice comfortable den for your cat, and drape a blanket over the top so they can go and hide in it if they want. 🐈‍⬛ Place some tasty treats in the carrier for your cat to find. 🐈‍⬛ Use calming and relaxing sprays in the box. 🐈‍⬛ Do not ever force your cat in the box. We have put together a short video on how you help you and your cat with transportation and choosing the right cat box. We hope this helps.

✨ ISFM GOLD ✨ Did you know here at Abbey Vets we are a gold standard cat friendly practice award to us from the International Society of Feline Medicine 😻 We take many steps to make sure our feline patients have a stress free visit to us, and we hope this little video will help you all to understand how we achieve this. We offer a special cat clinic that is run by our feline nurse Seren. Our cat clinics run every Wednesday morning, so give us a call if you feel that your cat would benefit from these.

✨💖 Autumn 💖✨ We just wanted to give you an update on Autumn and her progress. She has been coming to see our nurse Jo for her desensitisation clinics for a few months now. She got a bit nervous of the vets after an ear infection, but Jo and her owner have been working hard to get her confidence back. As you can clearly see from the video she loves our nurse Jo, and loves to do her training. Autumn also had two other guests in her appointment, nurse Eleanor and our student nurse Reigner. She did so well and worked very hard even around these new distractions. If your pet is a bit fearful of the vets then why not give us a call to see if these appointments could benefit them ✨💖😍

✨ Isla ✨ This beautiful girl came in to see nurse Jo for her confidence clinic, and was refreshing her scratch board training that she started a while back with nurse Vikki. We are so very lucky to have not one but two nurses who offer these clinics. They have proven to be so beneficial to helping dogs while at the vets, and to help teach them a more cooperative care approach to veterinary treatment. Scratch board training can help manage keep their nails short, a much easier alternative to having to clip the nails. It was lovely to see you again today Isla 💖🙌🏼🥰

We all had a wonderful day at the Dog Show 🙌🏼🐶✨Grinshill Animal Rescue

The viral “hands in” challenge with Ralph 🥹🐶🐾 We like to stay current and down with the kids! So we have done the hands in challenge that is trending at the moment. How cute is Ralph 😍🐾👏🏻

⛈️ Thunderstorms ⛈️ Thunderstorms can be unpredictable and scary for our pets. Because of the uncertainty on when they might pop up means that it can be quite difficult for us to desensitise our pets to them. Our nurse Jo shares some top tips on how to desensitise our pets to a thunderstorm. In a recent thunderstorm today she captured just how calm her dog Luna was during this storm, proof that this training can pay off! Jo and Luna put in a lot of work at an early age making sure Luna would be happy and confident when such situation would happen. So let’s find out how to do just that, and remember you can train this at any ages, but from a puppy is best. Jo’s thunderstorm desensitisation top tips ⛈️ start from a young age, you can absolutely do this from a puppy and it is advisable that every puppy had this training! ⛈️ play thunder sounds from YouTube at a quite level first. ⛈️ remain calm and chilled. ⛈️ give your pet a treat for calm behaviour. ⛈️ do this for 1 week then turn the volume up a little. ⛈️ again remain calm and reward your dog for calm behaviour. ⛈️ if your pet starts to get distressed by the noise at the higher level turn it back down and start off at the lower level again. ⛈️ remember we are rewarding for calmness. ⛈️ you can also play the thunder sounds when they are eating or having a stuffed toy with treats. ⛈️ we are adding positive (the food) to the sounds of thunder. *this can also be done for the sounds of fireworks! During the thunderstorm ⛈️ keep everything as normal as possible. ⛈️ reward for calm relaxed behaviour. ⛈️ if your dog has done the training before they should just think it’s part of everyday normal life and not be bothered. But if your pet is scared and or in training for this some top tips to help scared pets through a storm are…. ⛈️ remain calm! Pets can absolutely feed off our energy, so if we are anxious and nervous

🤩 Ralphs vaccination 🤩 Come with us to do Ralph’s 2nd puppy vaccinations. We do everything we can to make their experience as positive as possible, so we set them up for success in the future and love coming to the vets. This is how we achieve a positive association and experience…. 🤩 use super tasty treats 🤩 see them on the floor where applicable (note Ralph had already had his main puppy vaccinations and was being given his 2nd L4 today). 🤩 giving them a lick-e-mat, this helps to focus their attention on something else rather then the vaccination, and allow for a “force free” restraint As you can see Ralph didn’t even realise he was having the vaccination as he was super focused on his tasty treat. #fearfree

🌎🐾 HAPPY WORLD VETERINARY DAY 🐾 🌎 We are all so lucky to have a job that we are so passionate about, always striving to provide the most current and up to date practices, information and gold standard care. Thank you to all our wonderful clients and their lovely pets 💜🩶💜

🩻🦷 Come do some Dental X-rays with us 🦷🩻 Featuring the very gorgeous Rosie 🐈 who came in for her dental procedure yesterday, and had three teeth out. Dental X-rays are so important to help us assess the health of the tooth, as we can visually assess the tooth root via the x-ray 🦷 Fun Fact adult cats have 30 permanent adult teeth!

New Toy Day is the BEST Day!!! Top marks for anyone who guesses our toy theme 🍌🍆🍅🥕

The dreaded scales! We have seen lots of different styles of pets going on the scales here at Abbey Vets. But never have we had one reverse onto them 😝 Luna best have her hazard lights on when reversing!

❤️ Sinus arrhythmia ❤️ This is quite commonly an incidental finding while monitoring our patients when under general anaesthetic. Sinus arrhythmia is most prevalent in young, healthy patients and is an indicator of good cardiac health. So for our nurses monitoring the anaesthetic it’s actually one arrhythmia that we are happy to see! In simple terms the heart rate will speed up when the patient breaths in and slow down when they breathe out, as you can see on the video and was found during a routine castration procedure on a dog 🐶 Our nurses are highly skilled in knowing what is normal and what is abnormal, so they can alert the veterinary surgeon straight away. They continually monitor the patient while under anaesthetic and record the findings on the anaesthetic form, this helps them to see patterns and trends with their vitals, as well as making sure that patient is safely asleep for the surgery 😴 and this all aids for a much nicer recovery too ❤️‍🩹

🤩 Rolo 🤩 This very handsome boy came to see one of our nurses for his 6 months health pet club check. He was such a happy dog and was happy to give a demonstration on how very clever he is. It’s was lovely to see you Rolo

Clever Rolo showing off his tricks 💖

Our team had a special visit from the Easter Bunny this morning 🐰 🐣 Don’t worry all eggs and chocolate were accounted for and kept under lock and key, put safely away from any animals!!!

🌙 Luna 🌙 This little lady Luna had a slip during her agility training resulting in her having a few painful trigger points in her lower back. Trigger points are localised tender points within the muscles that can feel like nodules, commonly refers to knots. Luna was feeling a bit sad and painful, so she went to see the wonderful vet Zoe who did some acupuncture and laser therapy on her back to release the tension. That evening Luna was feeling much better and back to playing with her toys and running round as normal. As you can see from the video Luna loves her laser therapy and was also a super good girl for her acupuncture, and will soon be back to her agility training again.

💜 Roxie 💜

Roxie was enjoying being hand fed by our recovery nurse today, and with lots of TLC Roxie went home with a waggy tail. It was lovely to look after you today Roxie and we hope you get better soon 🐾💜🐾