Integrated Veterinary Services

01/07/2025

An updated poster of our joint conference between the BVRSMA and ABVA on the 18th October 2025.

Registration forms will be sent out next week for those keen to sign up!

The BVRSMA Committee

28/06/2025

Brilliant 🤩

📣Seminar Speaker📣

🐶Small Animal Speaker🐶

Nicky Grant BSc Hons Physiotherapy, MSc Veterinary Physiotherapy, MCSP, HCPC, RAMP

Nicky leads the team at the Win Clinic in Wellington, Somerset—a physiotherapist-led clinic that treats canine, human, and equine clients. The clinic is a specialist centre for small animal rehabilitation and welcomes a wide variety of dogs, from elderly companions to elite military working dogs.

Nicky has a particular expertise in sporting and working dogs, with a strong focus on optimizing canine performance and managing sports-related injuries and rehabilitation.

Title:
Physiotherapy Considerations in the Management of Elite Working Dogs.

19/06/2025

19/06/2025

Saturday 5th July 2025: Gait Abnormalities and Pain for dog professionals 9.30am to 4pm

This course is open to everyone involved in working with dogs, often the first people to spot problems! If you are a trainer, behaviourist, groomer, vet nurse, hydrotherapist or working in another canine field we know frequently you see signs of pain, or gait abnormalities and sign post people to their veterinarian and therapy.

We are running this course to explore signs of pain/discomfort in dogs, and movement abnormalities. It will be a theory based course with practical elements. Tea and coffee will be provided but please bring your own lunch.
If you have any queries or would like to book on, please get in touch with us at [email protected] or call us on 01823 426490

19/06/2025

16/06/2025

Hi everyone…don’t forget about this!!

Drivers are being urged to "plan ahead" 🚧
Junction 26 of the M5 and the A38 Chelston link road near Wellington are closed for resurfacing.
The official diversion takes vehicles along the A38 between junction 25 of the motorway at Taunton and junction 27 at Tiverton.
Read more ➡️ bbc.in/4jQezlK

15/06/2025

❗️ Reminder ❗️
M5 junction 26 will be closed tomorrow, please allow extra time for your travel to your appointment.

15/06/2025

Very 🤔 interesting…

A groundbreaking study from Sweden’s Linköping University has confirmed what dog lovers have long suspected: the bond between dogs and humans is deeply biological. The key? Oxytocin — the hormone responsible for love and trust.

As wolves evolved into domesticated companions over thousands of years, dogs became genetically tuned to this hormone. Those with specific oxytocin receptor variants are more likely to seek human help, show affection, and thrive in modern environments.

But today, scientists say we’re entering a third wave of domestication — one shaped not by survival or status, but by empathy and adaptability.

Modern service dogs are at the forefront of this transformation. Unlike their ancestors bred for guarding or herding, these dogs are biologically and behaviorally wired to be calm, social, and deeply attuned to humans — even from puppyhood.

This new evolution is reshaping canine genetics in real time. As our cities grow and lifestyles change, so too must our dogs — not just in behavior, but in biology.

➡️ The future of dogs isn’t just about how they look. It’s about how they feel.

12/06/2025

With 30 years of veterinary clinical experience and unique training in end of life care. A multi-disciplinary team approach to exceptional care.

12/06/2025

This course is excellent and well worth doing!

Saturday 5th July 2025: Gait Abnormalities and Pain for dog professionals 9.30am to 4pm

This course is open to everyone involved in working with dogs, often the first people to spot problems! If you are a trainer, behaviourist, groomer, vet nurse, hydrotherapist or working in another canine field we know frequently you see signs of pain, or gait abnormalities and sign post people to their veterinarian and therapy.

We are running this course to explore signs of pain/discomfort in dogs, and movement abnormalities. It will be a theory based course with practical elements. Tea and coffee will be provided but please bring your own lunch.
If you have any queries or would like to book on, please get in touch with us at [email protected] or call us on 01823 426490