Sutton in Ashfield Vets for Pets

Sutton in Ashfield Vets for Pets Your local individually owned small animal and exotic veterinary practice 🩺 RWAF accredited and ISFM Silver 🐰🐈‍⬛
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Vets4Pets is committed to bringing you affordable, high quality care via a modern, well equipped practice, including a lab, pharmacy, digital x-ray and ultrasound. The friendly team can't wait to meet all of their new clients!

🧅🧄⚠️ Onion & Garlic Warning for Pets This Christmas! Stuffing, gravy, leftover dinners and festive recipes often contain...
14/12/2025

🧅🧄⚠️ Onion & Garlic Warning for Pets This Christmas!

Stuffing, gravy, leftover dinners and festive recipes often contain onion and garlic but these ingredients are toxic to pets.

They can damage red blood cells and lead to serious illness, and the effects aren’t always immediate.

Watch out for:
• Christmas stuffing
• Gravy and sauces
• Leftover roast dinners
• Pre-prepared festive foods

If your pet has eaten onion or garlic (raw, cooked, powdered, or in food), contact us for advice straight away.

We’ve had a wedding!! 💒 👰🏼‍♀️🤵🏻‍♂️Please join us in sending the biggest congratulations to our lovely Lizzy and her now ...
13/12/2025

We’ve had a wedding!! 💒 👰🏼‍♀️🤵🏻‍♂️

Please join us in sending the biggest congratulations to our lovely Lizzy and her now husband, Adam, on their wedding day yesterday. What a beautiful day it was 💍
We wish you a lifetime of love and happiness together.

Lots of love to Lizzy, Adam & their little girl Cassie from the team at Vets for Pets Sutton in Ashfield 🤍

🍇⚠️ Christmas Raisin Warning for Pets! Mince pies, Christmas pudding, fruit cake and panettone may be festive favourites...
12/12/2025

🍇⚠️ Christmas Raisin Warning for Pets!

Mince pies, Christmas pudding, fruit cake and panettone may be festive favourites, but raisins, sultanas and grapes are highly toxic to dogs and cats.

Even tiny amounts can cause kidney failure, and symptoms may not appear straight away.

Keep these foods well out of reach:
• Mince pies
• Christmas pudding & fruit cakes
• Panettone
• Trail mixes or dried fruit bowls

If your dog or cat eats raisins or grape products, contact us immediately and don’t wait for signs.

Our Complete Care health plans cover annual vaccinations, as well as providing preventative, year-round treatments tailo...
11/12/2025

Our Complete Care health plans cover annual vaccinations, as well as providing preventative, year-round treatments tailored to pets. These include protection against fleas, worms, ticks and lungworm (for dogs). They also give access to consultations with our expert vets and other great benefits and discounts.

They are designed to work alongside and complement pet insurance, so our patients get the very best preventative treatment, as well as expert care, when they need it. Created specifically for dogs, cats and rabbits, our Complete Care health plans are the most cost effective way to keep pets protected all year round.

10/12/2025

🌿 Festive plants to keep an eye out for!

Some popular Christmas plants can be harmful for pets:

🌸 Poinsettia – irritates gums & tummy
🍃 Holly berries – toxic if swallowed
🌿 Mistletoe – can be dangerous
🌲 Pine needles – sharp & irritating

Keep decorations out of reach and contact us for advice if your pet chews anything suspicious 💚

🎄🐶🐱🐹🎁 Looking for Christmas gifts for your furry friends?We’ve got you covered! At the practice we have: • Natural dog t...
09/12/2025

🎄🐶🐱🐹🎁 Looking for Christmas gifts for your furry friends?

We’ve got you covered! At the practice we have:
• Natural dog treats from Mrs Millwards Dog Essentials (cash only) 🍖
• Toys for dogs 🐕
• Toys for cats 🐈
• Gnaw toys for small furries — perfect for rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, etc 🐇🐹

Pop in to see what’s available- there are lots of lovely gift ideas for Christmas!

Christmas Chocolate Warning for Pets! ⚠️🍫With festive treats everywhere, please remember that chocolate is toxic to dogs...
08/12/2025

Christmas Chocolate Warning for Pets! ⚠️🍫

With festive treats everywhere, please remember that chocolate is toxic to dogs and cats, especially dark or high-cocoa varieties.

Common Christmas risks include:
🎁 Tree chocolates
📦 Selection boxes
🗓 Advent calendars
🍫 Gift hampers and stocking fillers

Even small amounts can cause vomiting, restlessness, shaking, or more serious illness.

If your pet manages to sneak some chocolate, do not wait! Contact us immediately for advice.

08/12/2025

🌈🩷 Unfortunately, we have had an all black, deceased female cat brought in to us this morning. She isn’t microchipped so we are unable to locate an owner.
She was found on Paling Crescent, Sutton in Ashfield.
Please contact us on 01623 557014 if you have any information on this girl.

Sweet dreams little one ☁️

🐰💛Two adorable patients hopped in last week: • Duck came in for castration 🐇✂️ • Lark came in for spaying 🐇💉Both were ab...
07/12/2025

🐰💛
Two adorable patients hopped in last week:
• Duck came in for castration 🐇✂️
• Lark came in for spaying 🐇💉

Both were absolute sweethearts and were so well
behaved. Both bunnies are currently in the care of Burrowed Hearts Animal Rescue and will be available for rehoming once they are full healed.

Remember, neutering is not just about population control—it helps keep your furry friends healthy and happy 🐾

🎄 Christmas & New Year Opening Hours 🎄We hope you and your pets have a safe, happy festive season! If your pet should re...
05/12/2025

🎄 Christmas & New Year Opening Hours 🎄

We hope you and your pets have a safe, happy festive season! If your pet should require veterinary treatment during the periods we are closed, please contact our out of hours provider Vets Now Chesterfield on 01246 930562.

🌟 STAR PATIENT - MILO 🌟We would like to introduce little Milo to you. Milo is just 24 weeks old and he came to see us th...
03/12/2025

🌟 STAR PATIENT - MILO 🌟

We would like to introduce little Milo to you. Milo is just 24 weeks old and he came to see us this week suffering from a really severe life-threatening anaemia. A normal kitten's red blood cell count is approximately 25-37% and this is a measure of the number of red blood cells they are carrying in their blood. One of the main jobs of red blood cells is to carry oxygen around the body. Without them, cells die, organs die and ultimately animals can die. A poorly cat's red blood cell level is often 20-25%, a really sick is often 15-20% but Milo's count was at just 6%!!!! 😵😵😵 This meant that he had a severe risk to life...

Milo was hospitalised in order to be stabilised. He was placed onto intravenous fluids, had full blood testing performed to check for any underlying issues and to confirm his anaemia, he was tested for cat aids (FIV) and leukaemia (FeLV) and was clear of those and he had some other tests sent off to the external lab.

Anaemia can occur for many reasons in cats and whilst Milo's test results are still pending, the most likely cause for Milo's anaemia is a bacterial infection called Mycoplasma. This specific type of Mycoplasma infects red blood cells causing them to become damaged and the cells then burst. We are awaiting his test results to hopefully confirm this infection but thankfully it can be treated with very specific antibiotics and he was started on these straight away.

Red blood cells can take weeks to be regenerated and replaced so in order to bide Milo some time, it was essential that he reveived a blood transfusion. This however is not a straight forwards procedure... firstly there isn't a blood store available for cat blood like there is for dogs and humans. Cat blood doesn't store very well and also there are big ethical considerations to be taken when considering whether a cat should donate blood. Dog donations are done conscious as they are excellent patients. Cats however have to be sedated so this poses the first risk to the donor cat. Secondly a very specific volume of blood must be taken from the donor cat in order to fill the collection bag as it cannot be partly filled. For cats, even the smallest collection bag requires the average cat to have 5 times the amount of blood taken that is considered safe to be removed. This then ends up making a previously healthy donor cat extremely anaemic and then poses a risk to their own life... This is why blood transfusions are generally not performed often in cats.

Thankfully however, a cat can receive dog blood as a one off treatment. Whilst this isn't an ideal scenario as clearly blood from the same species of animal would be the best case scenario, this was the best way of getting red blood cells into Milo quickly as a matter of life or death. Blood transfusions, even with blood of the same species, carries a risk of a transfusion reaction which in itself can be life threatening and this risk increases when using blood from another species. The team ordered Milo's blood products from the fantastic Pet Blood Bank located in Loughborough so that Milo could start his transfusion as soon as possible.

Milo required continual intensive care monitoring during his transfusion by our amazing team of vet nurses. They monitored his vital signs as blood went in drop by drop so that if there were to be any problems, then they could alert to vets immediately and his transfusion would be stopped.

Thankfully we are pleased to say that Milo's transfusion was a success!! 💪 His red blood cell count increased from 6% before his transfusion up to 24% after his transfusion. He also became much more lively to the point where he even pulled his IV catheter out. 🙈 He still has a long way to go so we're keeping all fingers and toes crossed for this handsome boy.

Get well soon Milo!! 🖤🖤🖤

Address

10 Priestsic Road
Sutton In Ashfield
NG174EB

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 7pm
Tuesday 8am - 7pm
Wednesday 8am - 7pm
Thursday 8am - 7pm
Friday 8am - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+441623557014

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The practice is run by Veterinary Surgeon and Joint Venture Partner Stephanie Cochrane and Head Nurse and Joint Venture Partner Faye Hearson. We have a team of 4 Veterinary Surgeons, 2 Registered Veterinary Nurses, 3 Student Veterinary Nurses, 5 Receptionists a Practice Manager and a Practice Administrator. We opened our doors in March 2014 and we open 7 days per week!