Little Nugget
Enjoying his belly rubs 🥰, one happy cat.
Christmas Open Hours for Galleywood:
Saturday 23rd - 9am to 4pm
Christmas Eve - 9am to 4pm
Christmas Day - Closed (Contact Vetsnow)
Boxing Day: Closed (Contact Vetsnow)
Wednesday 27th -8am to 7pm
If you require any veterinary assistance outside of our practice open hours, then please contact Vetsnow Witham.
Remembrance Day
💜 Lest we forget – remembering all of the brave people and animals 💜
🎄Elf has been channeling his inner Miley Cyrus this week.
“ I came in like a wrecking ball, I never hit so hard in love” ⛓️
🐶 Today is World Diabetes Day 🐱 💉
You’ve heard of diabetes in humans, but did you know that it can affect our pets too?
Diabetes occurs when there are abnormally high sugar levels in the blood, caused by a problem with insulin.
Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas that works to move sugar out of the bloodstream and into cells after a meal.
Signs to look out for include:
💦 Increase thirst and urinating
Increased hunger, animals may even start to beg for food or raid the bins. (Despite an increased appetite, weight loss is commonly seen).
Your pet may start to vomit more regularly, and become more inactive and have sweet-smelling breath.
To find more about diabetes in pets go to: https://bit.ly/2Tqx0DJ
If you are concerned at all about your pet’s health, then make an appointment with our lovely team of vets.
Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.” – Louis J Comuti
On World Kindness Day, let’s take a leaf out of our much loved pets’ book and think about how to we can be kinder to ourselves and others 💕.
✨ Keeping your pet safe in the dark 🌙
We humans are probably not looking forward to the shorter days of autumn and winter. 🐾
It can have implications for our pets as well, so now is a good time to review what we can do to keep our pets safe in the dark. 🐾
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❤️💜 Remembrance Day ❤️💜
Lest we forget 😪. Today we take a moment to stop and remember all of the tremendously brave men, women and animals whom have fought in the line of duty.
Many animals have served in the War for communication, transporting of ammunition, water and medical supplies to the front and also companionship raising morale and providing comfort during the hardship of war.
🔥 Bonfire night 🔥
💥 Never set off fireworks near livestock 🐑🐄 as frightened animals - especially horses 🐴- can seriously injure themselves when frightened.
💥 Remember, fireworks can also disturb wildlife so steer clear of known habitats like lakes with waterfowl 🦢 🦆 and trees with roosting birds 🦉.
🔥 Check bonfires for wildlife before lighting, as animals like hedgehogs 🦔 may be hibernating.
Our lovely nurses have put together this very informative firework season display board in our Galleywood Branch.
Firework Tip -
Keeping windows and external doors shut during fireworks will stop your pet escaping and reduce the noise. Also make sure that your garden is escape proof - so get checking those fence panels and hedges.
👻🖤 Happy Halloween! 🖤🎃
We hope you and your pets have a spook-tacular day – what are you and your pets up to tonight?
We’d love to see some photos of you and your pets enjoying the spooky season.
Don’t forget everyone that the clocks went back an hour last night ⏰ 🫶. Whoop whoop an extra hour in bed 🙌 - sorry to all you parents and pet owners 😒 🥱
Let us know if your pets didn’t get the memo about the clocks changing 🤦♀️🤦🐶🐱
If you need advice to keep your dog calm on fireworks night, then please speak to our vets and nurses who are always happy to help.
😬 Fireworks 💥
Bonfire Night is only 3 weeks away! Have you thought about what to do with your pets during this period, did you know that for some of our pets the loud sudden noises, bright colours and flashing lights can be very extremely terrifying 😢.
In the run up to fireworks night, we'll be posting some tips to help keep your pets calm and safe. The Healthy Pet Club have also rounded up some top tips on how to keep your pet calm and safe over the fesitivities: https://bit.ly/3SjExRr
🍁 Autumn Pet Advice 🍁
After such a long hot summer, it’s hard to imagine that soon we’ll be back to darker nights with cold, damp days.
Some diseases are seasonal and can be more of a threat during autumn. By learning about them, we can keep our pets safer – read on to find out more. https://bit.ly/3TkbPAW
It’s the 2nd Annual Guinea Pig Awareness Week 26th to 30th September - with the theme being 🎉𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙎𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙖𝙠 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚🎉
This year GPAW will be focusing on the welfare need 𝙀𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩🏡
Giving advice about keeping your cavies indoors or outside, to how to adapt your guinea pigs' housing for the changing seasons🧐. Plus LOTS LOTS more😍.
🐰🫶Happy International Rabbit Day!🫶🐰
To celebrate, we’d love to see some adorable photos of your bunnies in the comments below.
