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Swindon-based referral service, here for your exotic pet’s every need - from appointments to out-of-hours.
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Based in Swindon, Great Western Exotics is one of the UK’s leading referral services for birds and exotic pets, offering routine appointments and emergency care 24/7. With our vets’ combined expertise, we successfully treat a range of exotic pets, including birds, reptiles, mammals, amphibians, fish and insects. We’ll work closely with your regular vet to deliver the best possible service for you and your pets. We always strive to grow and to enhance our service however we can.

29/08/2024

19/07/2024

Introducing Squeak! Squeak came to see our vets today for a dental scale and polish, as he had a build up of calculus and tartar on his teeth. Here you can see him having his teeth cleaned under anesthesia, and feeling much better once he had woken up.

Ferrets get dental disease, just like dogs and cats, and dental scaling and polishing can help prevent tooth infections and gum disease. We recommend dental checks for your ferrets every 6-12 months to prevent severe dental disease.

27/06/2024

'Fish' can now see. De-bulk surgery completed by Tom and the team.

15/05/2024

So proud of the amazing nurses . Can't thank each of you enough for all your hard work and dedication.

07/05/2024

Last week the team had this little fox cub brought in 😍
He presented dehydrated, lethargic and had a heavy parasite burden.
In the video below, you can see our veterinary nurses taking a small blood sample to run in our laboratory and place an intravenous catheter to start him on fluid therapy.
He spent 2 days in our hospital before being discharged into the care of a local wildlife centre to continue his recovery.

22/03/2024

Skunks are one of our favorite mammals to treat. Although Eleni our new hospital manager still hasn't quite got used to the smell. Lovely Ghost came in for us to treat his infected a**l gland. Such an amazing patient. Hopefully he will be feeling much more comfortable soon.

19/03/2024

Exciting opportunity with us at Great Western Exotics!! Exotic experience not necessary, training provided!

Exotics Veterinary Nurse – Swindon Great Western Exotics Hospital Up to £30,000 DOE plus benefits Join …

02/10/2023

To any of our lovely tortoise clients and the wider community, we'd love to see you there

08/09/2023

Don't forget at the end of the month we're running a CPD on all things Avian so pop us an email of you would like to join

18/08/2023

We're getting excited for our next talk already... come join Dr Gomez discussing all things Avian

03/07/2023

Don't forget we're hosting this Talk later in the month ans super excited to do so

We're so excited to do our first in person CPD event after a little gap. Come join one of our fabulous at his talk all about in July

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06/06/2023

Please get in touch with pictures or identifying features if you have lost your adult Corn Snake in the Chippenham area. We will keep him/her safe warm for the next 7 days, after that we will endeavour to rehome the snake

16/05/2023

Calling all Veterinary professionals, our amazing Ashton is running an online CPD on Rabbit Gut Stasis

11/04/2023

Please make contact with us if you have lost your corn snake in the past few weeks. We have been handed in one and we'd love to get it back to its home (please ensure to provide some detail if you believe it to be yours)

Address

Unit 10 Berkshire House, County Park, Shrivenham Road
Swindon
SN12NR

Telephone

+441793603800

Website

http://www.gwexotics.com/

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Videos

Last week the team had this little fox cub brought in 😍 He presented dehydrated, lethargic and had a heavy parasite burden. In the video below, you can see our veterinary nurses taking a small blood sample to run in our laboratory and place an intravenous catheter to start him on fluid therapy. He spent 2 days in our hospital before being discharged into the care of a local wildlife centre to continue his recovery. #whatVNsdo #VNAM2024

Lead vet Tom Dutton was chatting to BBC Radio this morning about the effect electricity bills are having on Reptile owners.

Last weekend vet Tom Dutton and nurse David Stokes performed a blood transfusion to a very sick Parrot. A big thank you to Birdline rescue for arranging a suitable donor. Quick video of the blood being collected prior to transfusion.

Lloyd & Rose Buck

Lloyd & Rose Buck, who are some of the finest bird trainers in the world, are giving a talk at the Swindon Arts Centre this Monday (26th Feb) and would be delighted to welcome you along! Their presentation will feature some of the most memorable sequences filmed over the past twenty five years, interesting behind the scenes facts and anecdotes, and of course the stars of the show, the birds themselves. For more information about them and their birds, and to see clips of some of their television appearances, please visit their website: www.lloydbuck.co.uk

A Skunk! This is Charlie Brown who visited us for a nail clip and health check last month with his brother Buster. Stripped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) are classified as part of the Mustelidae superfamily which also includes ferrets, stoats, weasels, badgers, mink and wolverines. Striped skunks are the most commonly kept skunk species in the U.K. They are omnivorous mammals whose natural range extends from Southern Canada into the United States and even into Northern Mexico. They are often solitary in the wild and can live up to 7-10 years. Skunks are well-known for their ability to spray predators with a particularly noxious liquid from their scent glands if feeling under threat. They can spray this sulphur containing liquid up to 6 feet with good accuracy to ward off predators! Many different colours of pet skunks are now bred in the U.K including albino, chocolate and lavender varieties in addition to the original black and white colouration. We found that providing a tasty treat of Emeraid whilst clipping Charlie Brown's nails was a useful distraction technique and he seemed to love it!

We wanted to update you with Romeo the rabbits progress since his surgery before Christmas. Poor 1 year old Romeo had an epiphyseal and metaphyseal comminuted tibial and fibular fracture with a medial displacement, due to a trauma! As you know the surgery went really well, Dan did a fantastic job and look at Romeo now!

Beaky Eating Well Post-Surgery with his Acrylic Support

Here is Beaky eating well post-surgery with his new acrylic support. For the full story on Beaky's brilliant recovery and to see photo's of Beaky pre-surgery check out our previous post.

This is Pakete, a rabbit that suffered a horrific injury several weeks ago and had a broken back (see the x-ray in the comments). He was dragging his back legs around. He underwent ground breaking spinal surgery at Great Western Exotics and while he is not perfect, he is now bearing weight on both legs and getting around and as the video shows, he appears to be a lot more comfortable!

Meet Mr Jingles, a green cheeked conure that was admitted out of hours being very poorly with a crop infection. A brief period in hospital and we are pleased to say he is looking much brighter!