Vets2Home - Peaceful Pet Goodbyes

23/10/2024

URGENT! MONTY & DELPHI (both age 15) ARE STILL LOOKING FOR A FOSTER OR FOREVER HOME!!🐾

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5/11 UPDATE UPDATE!!!🐾🐾
THANK YOU for all your help and interest in helping Monty & Delphi.
Looks like we MAY have found a loving home for these lovely elderly kitties🤞😻🤞. More soon.

Please 🐾 Keep registering with us on ([email protected]) for any future long-term fostering/adoption as sadly we get these occasionally.

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Our wonderful senior vet, Dr Jo, was last week called out to euthanise these two lovely elderly kitties, Monty & Delphi, who have lived together all their lives and have a very close bond. When he arrived he was surprised to see two healthy & lively elderly cats, definitely not two cats at the end of their lives!
Sadly, the elderly owner, who has had the cats for their whole lives, simply couldn’t cope with them any more and had exaggerated their ‘poor health’ and age related ailments to justify them needing to be euthanised! Very, very sad.

As they were both curiously circling around his legs for attention, esp Monty being very cuddly and sweet, Dr Jo very soon realised there was no way he would be able to carry out what the owner had asked for… so he asked the elderly owner, if she’d be willing to give them up for long-term fostering, if there was a chance an animal lover with a ‘heart and a house’, would be able to give them a loving home with outdoor access and lots of TLC for whatever time they have left?
Her reply was: ‘Yes, but who would possibly want these two old cats?’…. 🤞🐾

So Dr Jo ended up walking out with these two sweeties in two carrier boxes instead of putting them to sleep – these two little darlings do not know how close they came to an untimely end!
Monty & Delphi are now residing in Dr Jo’s unheated garden shed waiting for someone to step in and save them…. They both had vet check & blood tests last week (including a thyroid check) and have been given the all clear. For their age they are remarkably healthy.

More info:
These two 🐾 are used to having access to the outdoors; Monty loves human attention and life as a predominantly indoor cuddly cat (with the occasional leg stretch in the garden!), while shy Delphi is clearly more independent and prefers the outdoors.

With this rather urgent situation, Vets2Home are proud to kick start and announce our brand new up-start & collaboration with ‘The Angel Fund’ (in Sussex) and new UK charity, ‘Oasis’ (in Portugal), a new charity run by Dr Andrea Wraith, who have a sanctuary in Portugal for elderly, unwanted or abandoned animals there.

Vets2Home will on behalf of every animal we help, support ‘The Angel Fund’ & also Oasis to help re-home unwanted, abandoned or homeless senior cats (12+) who are given up by their owners when they themselves perhaps are forced into the care system or hospitalised or when, for various reasons, they are no longer able to look after their elderly kitties (like Monty & Delphi).

Elderly cats, that if they went into the mainstream large charity centre re-homing system would most likely end up stuck in cages forever or worse, needlessly be put to sleep, much too soon because they cannot be found a new loving home.

To support this much needed work of finding short-term, long-term or permanent forever foster homes for senior cats (12+) in Sussex, Vets2Home is making a donation of £5 to either ‘The Angel Fund’ or to ‘Oasis’ on behalf of every beautiful animal we help send over the rainbow 🌈.

If you can help re-home or foster Monty & Delphi, or other cats that come to us in this sad way in future, please register your interest by email or text/what’s app us at:

+44 (0) 7962 423567

[email protected]

To also find out more about our feline charity work ‘The Angel Fund’ or ‘Oasis’ please go to our website

www.peacefulpetgoodbyes.uk/angel-charity/

‘The Angel Fund’ & ‘Oasis’ welcomes any small (medium or large!) donation to help support this vital work in Sussex and in Portugal: so please donate today or email us to register your interest in providing a foster or forever home in the UK.

THANK YOU 🐾❤️
Dr Suzen, Dr Jo & The Vets2Home Team
(Pictures below are lovely Monty (black) & Delphi (tortie) temporarily residing in Dr Jo’s garden shed as the situation is/was urgent!)
(Sorry for the long post🐾) Winter is coming!

27/08/2024

Happy 1st birthday, big beautiful Quaver! 27-8-24
BIG CONGRATULATIONS & HAPPY CELEBRATIONS OF 🐾 LIFE ❤️🐾🎉🥳 🐾❤️

Quaver is here featured posing with, and belonging to, our wonderful Practice Manager (and Dr Suzen’s daughter), Amanda, in our ‘Celebrating Life’ delivery car (for personally and safely returning ashes of beloved pets to their families).

Quaver has quickly become Amanda’s trusted co-road warrior, as they’ve done thousands of miles together round Sussex already (seen often with Grandma, riding shotgun as a true family-run practice!).

Quaver is Amanda’s very first dog, and a big, bouncy Golden Retriever and today celebrating their adventurous and fun-filled (but also tough) first year of life together 🎉🥳🐾.

Have a GREAT day, celebrating a seriously spoilt, and much loved 🐾most handsome family member!🐾❤️

(Ps We should mention our four vets have anonymous, private cars for home visits) 🐾

24/07/2024

ANNOUNCEMENT!
We here at Vets2Home, are so incredibly proud to have had the most warm and compassionate human, our triathlon World Champion, Brighton-local and just most amazing Vet, join our small team of especially trained vets in end-of-life care and peaceful home goodbyes.

Dr Emma, our most Jr vet, has been with us little over a year now, helping families say goodbye and we think it’s about time we shine the spotlight on her as the most amazing young vet we’ve ever met!
The whole team feels so very blessed to be able to do our ‘angel work’ with Dr Emma by our side. Her enthusiasm, compassion and warm light just shines through her natural intuitive way of helping both animals and families under her care and hereby help them have the most loving and healing goodbye, a beautiful forever memory.

Please check out the many 5⭐️ reviews (on Google or on our website) Dr Emma already has accrued as a testament to her finding her true calling and proving this in her relatively short time with Vets2Home.
We are just so happy Dr Emma gave up ‘normal vetting’ in a clinic, after 3 years, to follow her heart and found her new ‘home’ with us.

“Dr Emma, thank you for all you do and give, your professionalism, dedication and your true compassion for giving pets and their families the most beautiful goodbye at home. Never rushed and always warm and with loads of time for everyone you meet.
We hope you’ll stay with us for many years to come. You are such an asset to our team. Thank you 🐾🌹”
Dr Suzen❤️

20/06/2024

🐾💔🖤🤍💜❤️🐾🕊️

11/06/2024

Think we all know who they are… In remembrance of….many sittings (incl a certain loo lap cat!) 🐾❤️💔🌹

06/04/2024

BIG CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to our wonderful Dr Jo for having given me (& Vets2Home), the pleasure and honour of working with him for 10 years, this very week. In this decade he has personally helped thousands of much-loved animals peacefully leave their loved ones in the best way possible.

Dr Jo(Joaquin, Ximo), joined me as my very first Assistant Vet on 31st March 2014, just two years after I founded Vets2Home, the first dedicated, end-of-life and palliative care mobile vet practice in all of the UK.

Anyone who has had the pleasure of meeting our soft-spoken Spanish vet, Dr Jo, will know we have been very lucky to have him onboard this pioneering vet service, almost from the start, as the love he holds for helping all animals, great and small, is very strong and clearly his biggest passion, alongside being a great, devoted dad’ to Joaquin Junior.
After reluctantly (Jo was head-hunted for his big animal loving ♥️ ) starting as a ‘home euthanasia vet’, covering for my - rare- absences, Jo realised fairly soon that when he became a vet to ‘save animals’, this could actually also extend to ‘saving them from suffering’ at the end and in the very best way, with a sedation first and while staying at home. Very different to the quick, cold clinic way.

At no other time, than at the end, do we, with our work as end of life vets, help animals suffer less that when we relieve them in the most caring and compassionate way.
Helping families give pets the gentle end, every loved one deserves, animal or human, is truly a big honour and calling for those of us who understand this is the most memorable time.

We know we help families/single owners who are animal lovers, let go of their loved one, in the very best way possible and leaving them with peaceful forever memories of goodbye; peacefully at home, and while gently asleep on a lap or in loved ones arms.
Congratulations Jo, you’ve helped thousands of animals-and their humans suffer so much less by staying at home for this daunting event.
This is the finest task and best reward for any animal loving vet.
It’s been a real honour to have you on my team, nearly more family than colleagues, for a whole decade, while we have balanced raising our own families. It been a joy to watch you being a very hands on dad to a wonderful young boy, who has had his dad (& mum) by his side, every step of his, at times, quite challenging road.
Your dedication to your own family, your patients and their loved ones, has been a joy to watch, work along side and have on our team.
Thank you Dr Jo🐾You are the best - this his clients will also testify to! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ps. You are more than welcome to stay for another decade 😉🇬🇧🇪🇸 🐾 (Dr Jo is celebrating with his dad and family in Spain this coming week)🥳🍾🥂🐾🌹🌹🌹

21/01/2024

As the founder of Vets2Home, I am delighted to finally share our news winning BEST UK MOBILE VETS 2023 (National) & South East (Regional)!
I am truly proud of both being the first winner of this prestigious new award (celebrated in London) but ESPECIALLY as the accolade and honour, is earned solely by votes of our amazing clients with us accruing the most 5 STAR ⭐️ reviews online, for helping family pets peacefully over the rainbow bridge in the comfort of their own home. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR WONDERFUL FEED BACK 👏 ❤️

After being 18 years on the road of Sussex, I am so grateful to have the most amazing team around me, my Dream Team, incl my oldest daughter, Amanda who is now our Practice Manager, making sure every single animal - and family - are looked after as if they were our own, at a most difficult and emotional time 🌈❤️🐾

As big animal lovers, we are all so very humbled to receive this award, with your votes and reading all the heart-warming 5 star reviews. This is a testament that we have actually fulfilled and upheld this sentiment and goal, with dignity, respect and love for our furry family members ❤️

A VERY BIG ‘THANK YOU’ TO ALL OUR AMAZING CLIENTS AND NOT LEAST THEIR BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS FOR THIS HONOUR & CELEBRATION 🐾❤️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❤️🐾🌈
Dr Suzen, Founder & Vet

19/12/2023

It’s been a while since we’ve posted on here (we prioritise serving our patients and clients before social media).
Just a little support of this wonderfully written piece at this particularly difficult time (as the holiday season is) for those of us who have loved and lost special 🐾 family members. Thinking of you 🐾🌹
Dr Suzen & everyone on the Vets2Home Team ❤️😇

YOU DON’T JUST LOSE SOMEONE ONCE
You lose them over and over,
sometimes in the same day.
When the loss, momentarily forgotten,
creeps up,
and attacks you from behind.
Fresh waves of grief as the realisation hits home,
they are gone.
Again.
You don’t just lose someone once,
you lose them every time you open your eyes to a new dawn,
and as you awaken,
so does your memory,
so does the jolting bolt of lightning that rips into your heart,
they are gone.
Again.
Losing someone is a journey,
not a one-off.
There is no end to the loss,
there is only a learned skill on how to stay afloat,
when it washes over.
Be kind to those who are sailing this stormy sea,
they have a journey ahead of them,
and a daily shock to the system each time they realise,
they are gone,
Again.
You don’t just lose someone once,
you lose them every day,
for a lifetime.
©Donna Ashworth

29/08/2023

Rainbow Bridge Rememberance Day - what an important day. Celebrating true love never dies, it lives on in our, at first, broken shattered heart, later in our ‘healed’, and so much fuller heart. As we have truly loved and lost.
And so our soul is awakened through love. And loss 💔

This 🌈 day is for those divine (mostly 🐾 ) creatures who help us lift our, at times, much too heavy load and share our worries. Until they themselves, too, add to our load by leaving us behind much too soon.... 🐾💔❤️ RIP our Little Angel spirits & Thank You for your gifts of love 🐾❤️❤️❤️

22/07/2023

UPDATE MON 24/7: THANKS to all you wonderful people and all the love and shares, lovely Kitty has now found a perfect foster mum/new home with a garden and a full time lap to sit on...
It’s a happy ending all around. THANK YOU ALL, for stepping up like you have to save this little life....Please do check back as hoping for a follow up update/picture - in a few months....
Happy Summer, animal lovers🌹🐾❤️

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Dear animal lovers, senior cat lovers in particular 🐾 NEED A LOVING NEW HOME FOR THIS KITTY (saved from euthanasia!).

This beautiful senior kitty, I was called out to put to sleep last week! She was living in the most terribly sad personal circumstances with her loving mum, who was desperate to help her find peace.
To find peace herself due to personal trauma and loss.

It was definitely not the time for this beautiful little kitty and I offered to take her, there and then, and to try and find a calm, new loving (foster) home for this little sweetie.
Her mum agreed, after some time, although surprised of this option....

This beautiful, 18 year old (looks/acts like a kitten!) kitty is desperately needing someone to love her in a calm no animals or children home!

She is currently in ‘luxury custody’ at a great cat hotel in North Chailey, but time is running out as this is not a rescue place.... more an urgent helping hand, kindly lent, between animal lovers to rescue this kitty...

Although animal loving vets, Vets2Home don’t get involved with rescuing directly, but we do not put healthy (even if very old) animals to sleep.

And so this is a new situation, where I would love to hear from a suitable (foster) carer, new mum/dad, possibly permanent home for this little angel. ASAP. She needs comfort and stability after all the stress she has been through in latest weeks.

Please PM us on here or call/text 07962 423567 and register your interest for KITTY as we need to find a home before Thursday next week (27/7).
Kitty is female, neutered, 18y, litter trained, outdoors(if safe)/indoors, very chatty, a bit shy and very loving- definite lap cat - and needs a loving lap in a quiet, no kids no animals home, 1-2-1.
Can you help? 🐾❤️
07962 423567 text or leave message.

31/03/2023

RIP Dear Paul O’Grady, one of the greatest Animal Lovers, brave role model and icon for so many without a voice of their own. Much too soon 💔🐾❤️🏳️‍🌈🌹🌹🌹

02/03/2023

💔🐾❤️

19/02/2023

❤️🐾🐈‍⬛ In memory of one special e-Feline and all those who were/are rescued and ‘Second-Hand loved’.

“The greatest thing you will ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return” 🐾❤️🐈‍⬛ (Moulin Rouge)

Give us a ❤️ 🐾 if you, too have ‘learned’ from a very special rescue kittie, (or doggie) 🐾❤️

09/02/2023

UPDATE ON THE RESULTS FOR UKs BEST MOBILE VET- WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN APRIL 2023!🤞 THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT! IT’S BEEN OVERWHELMINGLY HEART WARMING ❤️🐾 Dr Suzen & Team

Dear Animal Lovers & ex-clients,
We need your help! Urgently (In the next 24hrs).
We are so very close to being top of the U.K. BEST MOBILE VETS category at the highly rated & independent review site, Vet Help Direct.

If you have used our service in the past 16 years of us serving beautiful animals and their families, around Sussex, have a peaceful goodbye at home, we invite you to share your experience with a review (before noon tomorrow, Friday) by copy/pasting the link below (or go directly to the Vet Help Direct website) and leave your feed back🌹

We would be so honoured to win this award after helping thousands have a beautiful memory of their special furry family member 🐾

It’s truly been an honour and a privilege to help so many animals at such a difficult time over these many years.
Thank you 💜

Much love,
Dr Suzen, Dr Jo, Amanda, Andrea & everyone on the Vets2Home Team 🐾❤️

Here is the link below to use for your review:

https://vethelpdirect.com/dashboard/write-review?id=1154&color=ffffff&color2=ffffff

30/01/2023

Happy 🐾 Monday Animal
Lovers 🐾❤️❤️❤️🐾
(*** “dog” is interchangeable with companion animal) ❤️❤️

04/01/2023

Happy New Year, all you fellow animal lovers out there.....
Remember what’s truly meaningful and important in life, starting NOW! 🐾❤️

31/12/2022

Dear fellow Animal Lovers,

On our way to 2023, we here at Team Vets2Home, would like to send our love and sympathy to all of you, the families and animal lovers, we have helped in the past many years and especially those who have lost a much loved furry member more recently, here in 2022.

We would like to remind you all to take a few moments at this transitional time, with an ending & a new beginning, to lift your glass, your mug or champagne glass while lovingly remembering - with a smile or a tear, or both - that wonderful furry angel in your life, the life saver, the little love guide, companion, soul mate, love sponge, confidente, the unstoppable joy bundle - literally our ‘everything’ - and thanking them for the short time they were here with us. Thank them for their love & healing powers and all they gave us.

Their “angelic job” with us, whatever it was, was complete in 2022 and so it was their time to move on.
And it was our time to step up and let them go, by gently returning the love they have shared, so generously, by setting them free. In the best, most loving way possible.

We carry them in our paw-imprinted hearts forever.

We remember them🕯

So is the unconditional gift of love.
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I, and everyone here at Vets2Home, would like to say it has been an honour to be with you (and your family) and help you at such a sad but memorable time.
We wish everyone a bright and blessed 2023, hopefully full of (furry) love 🐾❤️.

To a happy, healthy & free New Year.

Dr Suzen, Dr Jo, Amanda & Andrea of

12/11/2022

Have a beautiful glorious late autumn super sunny day, all you lovely animal lovers.
Never forget why we love these creatures so much as THEY MAKE US LAUGH!! & LOVE, UNCONDITIONALLY 🐾❤️❤️❤️
(Check back for the hilarious post coming up, for ‘pilling cats’ too!)

24/7 in-home, end-of-life veterinary care, animal hospice, palliative medicine & pet euthanasia at home - from Dr Suzen Gregersen & her caring team.