Flett & Carmichael Vets

16/12/2024

🎄📣Reminder📣🎄

📣📣LAST ORDERS 📣📣

🐾🎄Please get your pets medication and prescription food orders in by Tuesday the 17th of December 🎄🐾

15/12/2024

Our fantastic team hung up their scrubs for the night and enjoyed a much deserved Christmas night out.

Lovely food, cocktails and great company at the Ayre Hotel last night 🍹💃🏼

13/12/2024

🎄Festive Opening Hours🎄

Please see below a list of our opening hours over Christmas and New Year. If you require urgent veterinary assistance at any time please contact our 24/7 Out of Hours emergency service on 01856 872859. 😊

12/12/2024

Update: Owners have been found. Thank you to everyone who shared our post. 💙

We have had a young entire male grey cat handed into us this evening. He has been hanging around Munros/Hatston Motors Garage in Hatston all afternoon. No microchip or collar but very friendly & vocal! 😄 If you think he may be yours please call us on 872859. Thank you. 🐱

10/12/2024

📣📣LAST ORDERS 📣📣

🐾🎄Please get your pets medication and prescription food orders in by Tuesday the 17th of December 🎄🐾

02/12/2024

🐾 Bravecto injection for dogs is here!

💉One yearly injection
⛑️Protection against fleas and ticks for puppies and dogs over 6 months old.

Please get in touch with us for an appointment on 872859.

01/12/2024

It's great to see that hopefully these peedie pups will now have a fighting chance 💙🦭

30/11/2024

This female adult cat was unfortunately hit on the road close to the airport yesterday evening, when she ran in front of a car. She is not microchipped and is suspected she may be a wild feral cat. If anyone recognises her please contact us on 01856 872859 as soon as possible.

29/11/2024

🐾 Our team had a great morning today at the Developing the Young Workforce Orkney Careers Week at Stromness Academy.

🩺 Thank you to everyone who visited our table, we enjoyed meeting and chatting to you all. We hope that the information and advice we gave was beneficial, and gave you an insight into the career options in veterinary practice.
We look forward to seeing you if you choose to do work experience with us in the future 🙂

27/11/2024

☔️🐴 It's mud fever season ☔️🐴

🐴Mud fever is not a single disease but a collection of diseases that cause
inflammation of the skin of the lower limbs. These diseases may occur singly
but commonly occur in combination.

🦠Causes
The most common cause is bacteria, such as Dermatophilus congolensis, that live on the skin become active when the skin is damaged by wet or muddy conditions

⚠️Signs
Red, sore areas of skin that can develop into scabs, matted hair, loss of hair, itching and a thick creamy discharge

👩‍⚕️Treatment
In order to be able to heal the infectious agents need to be eliminated and the cycle of inflammation broken.
☔️Removal from wet, muddy, unhygienic conditions
👩‍⚕️To avoid further irritation treatment should be targeted and restricted to only the medications that are truly necessary.
🧼Cleansing with antibacterials. Even if not primarily infected by bacteria, lesions will often become infected. Removal of the crust and application of antibacterial medications such as chlorhexidine (hibi scrub) is important in eliminating bacterial infection.

⚠️Removal of the crust is often painful and sedation may be required to enable it to be removed⚠️

✂️Prevention
Moving the horse to a drier field or improving drainage in the current field, clipping feathered breeds legs.

☔️Complications
If left untreated, the infection can spread to deeper tissues, causing cellulitis, a painful condition that makes the limb hot, swollen, and very painful

🐴Prone horses
Horses with white legs, pink skin, or particularly hairy feathers are more likely to develop mud fever

❗️❗️Remember, mud fever can be very painful and cause secondary infections. Please contact us on 01856 872859 for advise and further treatment.

Liphook Equine Hospital also have some great information if you are looking for some bedtime reading 😝
https://liphookequinehospital.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/mud-fever.pdf

21/11/2024

❄️❄️ W I N T E R I S C O M I N G ❄️❄️

Correction.... winter is here ⛄️🫣

🐾Please see below for some top tips from Dogs Trust , to help keep you and your canine companion safe this winter 🐾

🌟We have plenty of flashing collars/tags in stock 🌟

18/11/2024

🤩We loved being part of The Orkney Branch of the Pony Clubs wonderful dog show the other weekend.🤩

What a lovely, fun and dry🌧 event 😁

Well done to everyone who took part and those involved in organising

15/11/2024

Cat been found at the lorry park at the Orkney Auction Mart car park on Friday 8th November. If it looks like it could be your cat please contact us on 01856 872859.

12/11/2024

Lots of these available again! Free to collect from the surgery

FREE! To collect from the practice. Insulated clean cool boxes, including cool packs. Great for food and Christmas posting 🙊

05/11/2024

🦔 Remember hedgehogs and other wildlife this bonfire night!🔥

If you are planning a bonfire, please remember to move the pile just before lighting & always check for any nesting hedgehogs or other wildlife.

28/10/2024

🎆🎇 F I R E W O R K S🎇🎆

💙Top tips to keep your pets safe this season💙

Every year thousands of pets will suffer as a result of fireworks being let off. Blue Cross animal hospitals see a marked rise in pets requiring medication during these times.