Bergzicht Animal Hospital - Eden on the Bay

21/01/2025

🌟 New Year, New Look at Bergzicht Animal Hospital! 🌟
🪟🐾 Our windows, completed last year, now feature incredible photos of our Pet Photo Competition winners – Zoé, Berta, Boss, Cruz, and Image. 🐶📸 The unique character, beauty, and heart of these amazing pets were masterfully captured by Shuttermutts Pet Photography

A huge thank you to the generous support of Royal Canin SA🐕.

If you haven’t already, stop by to admire our BAH furry superstars! 🌟A heartfelt thank you to our BAH community for helping us bring this vision to life. 🥰🐕

15/01/2025

💝 Let’s Get Ready for the Month of Love! 💘

This Valentine’s Day, spoil your furry companions AND make a difference in the lives of pets in need. 🐾💕

Proceeds from this fundraiser will help The WOW Project reach this goal:
🐾 36 canine castrations (neuters) performed at Bergzicht Animal Hospital.
🐾3x Saturday Vaccination Drives providing veterinary care to more than 400 dogs and cats (vaccinations, deworming, and tick & flea treatments.) These outreach drives are in collaboration with Khula Vet and Bergzicht Animal Hospital.
🐾 Pet owner education and community support, teaching families how to better care for their pets.

How Can You Help?
💝 Order Your Pet's Personalised Treat Jar today!
🐾LARGE (2L): R98.00 (VAT incl) Glass canister with metal lid. Height: 22cm. Black writing.
🐾SMALL (1.2L): R88.00 (VAT incl) Glass canister with metal lid. Height: 12.4cm. Black writing.
🎀 R30 from every purchase willbe donated to this outreach project.

How to Order:
1️⃣ Step 1: Fill in the Google Form with your details and your pet’s names (one name per Treat Jar): https://forms.gle/E3dqYaHuAQke8apS6
2️⃣ Step 2: Collect and pay at Bergzicht Animal Hospital (payment via card or cash).

Important Dates:
🎁 Orders Close: 5 February 2024 at 18h00.
💝 Collections Open: 12 February 2024, from 08h00 at Bergzicht Animal Hospital.

Thank you for Sharing the Love this upcoming February! Together, we can make a difference for pets and their families. 💕

10/01/2025

🌟 Looking Ahead to a Bright 2025 🐾🐕🐈🌿

As we reflect on 2024, we’re filled with pride in all we’ve achieved and gratitude for the incredible people and pets who make Bergzicht Animal Hospital so special. 💚🐾

To our amazing team, your dedication and compassion in ensuring the health 🌡️, well-being 🏥, and happiness ❤️ of all our patients 🐶🐱 is truly what sets us apart. We couldn’t do this without your passion and hard work. 🌟

To our loyal pet owners, thank you for trusting us with your beloved companions. We are truly grateful for the privilege of caring for them. 🫶

From our BAH family to yours, here’s to a brilliant 2025! ✨.

🌍 🐕🐈 ❤️🐾

30/12/2024

New Year’s Eve celebrations can be overwhelming for cats, with fireworks, visitors, and changes to their routine. Stress in cats can lead to serious health issues, including urinary disease. Here’s how to keep your feline friends calm and safe this festive season:

1️⃣ Prepare Their Safe Space:
Set up a quiet, secure room with your cat's favourite bed 🛏️, toys 🧸, food, water 💧, and litter box. Close your cat in this safe space well in advance of visitors arriving or fireworks starting.

2️⃣ Provide Hiding Spots:
Cats feel safest when they have places to hide 🛏️. Provide cosy areas such as boxes 📦, blankets, or access to high shelves 🪜. These spaces allow them to retreat from children, visitors, or other pets.

3️⃣ Use Signs on Doors:
Place signs on doors 🚪 to remind visitors not to enter rooms or leave certain doors open. This prevents accidental escapes 🚫 and ensures your cat remains secure.

4️⃣ Separate Cats and Dogs:
It's advised not to leave cats 🐱 and dogs 🐶 together unsupervised on New Year's Eve. Even if your pets usually get along, stress can result in unexpected behaviour.

5️⃣ Provide Separate Spaces for Cats Who Don’t Get Along:
If your cats don’t get along 😾, avoid forcing them to share the same safe space. Create separate areas where each cat can feel secure without added tension.

6️⃣ Follow the Golden Rule for Litter Trays:
Provide one litter tray per cat, plus one extra tray. Clean trays 2-3 times per day — cats dislike using dirty litter boxes. Keep litter trays separate from food and water 💧 bowls, as cats instinctively avoid eating or drinking near where they toilet.

7️⃣ Provide Whisker-Friendly Bowls:
For extra feeding stations, use whisker-friendly bowls—shallow and wide—so your cat’s sensitive whiskers don’t touch the sides. This reduces discomfort and encourages eating and drinking.

8️⃣ Start Calming Aids Early:
Calming pheromone sprays, pheromone diffusers and supplements can reduce your cat’s anxiety. It's best to start them a few days before New Year’s Eve for the best results. 📞 Contact us today to find the right calming solution for your cat!

9️⃣ Play Calming Music and Monitor Food and Water Intake:
Calming music 🎵 or white noise 🔊 can help mask loud fireworks 🎆 or party sounds, creating a more relaxing atmosphere. Place alternative food and water bowls in low-traffic areas to encourage eating and drinking without stress. Offer soft, easily digestible food such as digestive-care pouches if your cat is not wanting to eat its usual food.

🔟 Recognise Signs of Stress and Urinary Disease:
Stress can manifest as hiding 🛏️, vomiting 🤢, not drinking enough water 💧, excessive grooming—or not grooming at all 🐾.

Signs of urinary disease include straining or inability to urinate, inappropriate urination (for example on bedding 🛏️ ), vocalising in distress 😿, showing pain when urinating 🚨.

Important: Male cats are at higher risk of urinary blockages due to their long, narrow urethra (the tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body). These are all concerning symptoms and your cat will most likely need to be examined by a veterinarian asap!

📞 Contact us today on 021 554 5877 for personalised advice on how to keep your cat calm and safe this New Year’s Eve. We’re here to help!

🐾 Let’s make this New Year’s Eve peaceful and stress-free for all your pets. ✨

21/12/2024

🎄 BAH Christmas Charity Drive 🎄 ORDERS CLOSE AT 6PM TODAY! Spread the festive cheer and support a great cause! 🎁 Purchase a beautiful Christmas ball, personalised with your pet’s name, for R45.00 (VAT incl) 🐾

🎀 R20 from every purchase goes directly to W.O.W's account to help fund the treatment of sick or injured cats and dogs in need at Bergzicht Animal Hospital.

The WOW Project is an animal outreach organisation dedicated to promoting animal welfare through education, compassionate care, and community engagement. 🐕🐈 They help provide essential services like veterinary care, feeding programmes, and sterilisation initiatives to improve the lives of animals in underprivileged communities.

How it Works:
1️⃣ Step 1: Follow the link below to place your order. We will require your details and your pet’s name (one name per Christmas Ball). 🐾 Click Here: https://forms.gle/KBYu7w9Ry1tmW5MN6
2️⃣ Step 2: The Christmas Ball is 8cm, gold with be blue writing, beautifully personalised with your pet’s name. 🎄✨ *Red Balls with golf writing are now out of stock*
3️⃣ Step 3: Collect and pay for your ball at Bergzicht Animal Hospital (payment via card or cash). 🎁

🌟 Orders close: Saturday, 21st December 2024, 18h00
🎄 Gift Collections open: Monday, 23rd December 2024, 08h00

Thank you for spreading the love this festive season! ✨

19/12/2024

18/12/2024

🎄 BAH Christmas Charity Drive 🎄
Spread the festive cheer and support a great cause! 🎁
Purchase a beautiful Christmas ball, personalised with your pet’s name, for R45.00 (VAT incl) 🐾

🎀 R20 from every purchase goes directly to W.O.W's account to help fund the treatment of sick or injured cats and dogs in need at Bergzicht Animal Hospital.

The WOW Project is an animal outreach organisation dedicated to promoting animal welfare through education, compassionate care, and community engagement. 🐕🐈 They help provide essential services like veterinary care, feeding programmes, and sterilisation initiatives to improve the lives of animals in underprivileged communities.

How it Works:
1️⃣ Step 1: Follow the link below to place your order. We will require your details and your pet’s name (one name per Christmas Ball). 🐾 Click Here: https://forms.gle/KBYu7w9Ry1tmW5MN6
2️⃣ Step 2: Your Christmas ball will be red with gold writing, beautifully personalised with your pet’s name. 🎄✨
3️⃣ Step 3: Collect and pay for your ball at Bergzicht Animal Hospital (payment via card or cash). 🎁

🌟 Orders close: Saturday, 21st December 2024, 18h00
🎄 Gift Collections open: Monday, 23rd December 2024, 08h00

Thank you for spreading the love this festive season! ✨

17/12/2024

🎄 Holiday Notice 🎄
Dear Bergzicht Family,
Please note that our veterinary services and grooming parlour will be closed from 25th to 29th December. 🐾
🚨 The retail/front shop will still be open and fully operational, so you can pop in for food, treats, and essentials!

To keep your pets happy and healthy over the festive season:
✅ Refill any repeat prescriptions before the closure.
✅ Schedule recurring treatments like Pentosan Polysulphate, Cytopoint, or Librela injections ahead of time.

We’ll be back in full force on 30th December! 🎊
Thank you for your understanding and support. Wishing you and your pets a safe and happy holiday season! 🐶🐱

🛒 For enquiries, contact us at 0215545877 or email us at [email protected]

10/12/2024

🎉 Exciting News from Bergzicht Animal Hospital! 🎉
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our online store! 🛒✨ Now you can shop for your furry friends' needs from the comfort of your home. Visit www.shop.bahbigbay.com

🌟Our online store is growing every day. While prescription diets aren’t available just yet, we’re adding exciting new items regularly – stay tuned for updates! 🛍️✨

01/12/2024

UPDATE: Owner found and collected. Thanks for sharing 💚

Male min pin cross unneutered old boy, no chip, found on the cnr of Newington and Whitehall, Parklands North.

19/11/2024

🎄🐶📸 Just a reminder that this is happening this coming Sunday. Don’t delay, book now.

Call reception at 021 554 5877
Or email [email protected] to secure your slot 🎄

🎄🎅 Christmas Pet Mini Photo Shoots! 🎅🎄

Capture festive memories with your furry friend! 🎁

🐾 What’s Included:
📸 A 15-minute mini photo session
✨ 5-6 professionally edited images

💵 Price: R600.00 for one pet

R200.00 per additional pet (photographed individually or together)
📍 Location: Bergzicht Animal Hospital
📅 Dates: Sunday, Nov 24 & Sunday, Dec 1
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Book now to secure your slot—spaces are limited!
[email protected]
021 554 5877

12/11/2024

🎄🎅 Christmas Pet Mini Photo Shoots! 🎅🎄

Capture festive memories with your furry friend! 🎁

🐾 What’s Included:
📸 A 15-minute mini photo session
✨ 5-6 professionally edited images

💵 Price: R600.00 for one pet

R200.00 per additional pet (photographed individually or together)
📍 Location: Bergzicht Animal Hospital
📅 Dates: Sunday, Nov 24 & Sunday, Dec 1
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Book now to secure your slot—spaces are limited!
[email protected]
021 554 5877

10/11/2024

UPDATE: This event has been postponed. Please watch this space for future updates.

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🐱 Protecting Your Feline Family: Free Client Evening! 🐾

Calling all cat parents! Join us for an informative evening on how to protect your cats from parasites and zoonotic diseases, with expert tips on keeping multi-cat homes safe and healthy. 🏠💙

📅 Date: 3 December 2024
🕕 Time: 18:00 for 18:30
📍 Location: Bergzicht Animal Hospital
🎟️ Limited seats – only 60 spots available!

Learn more about parasites in cats and the importance of prevention, with a focus on NexGard Combo—an all-in-one monthly treatment to keep your cats protected year-round.

👉 To reserve your spot, please email us at [email protected]. Don’t miss out!

30/10/2024

🌟 A Day of Transformation and Growth at Bergzicht Animal Hospital with Khula Vet🌱

We were thrilled to host the Khula Hospital Assistant Workshop on 20th October! It was an incredible day filled with learning, hands-on practice, and connection as we welcomed sixty enthusiastic Veterinary Hospital Assistants from across Cape Town and the surrounding areas, all eager to enhance their skills and deepen their veterinary knowledge. 📚✨

The workshop, led by a team of veterinarians and vet nurses, featured a blend of theoretical training and practical demonstrations. The day began with an inspiring talk from guest speaker Desiré Rees, who explored South Africa’s rich cultural diversity and the positive impact of embracing it on teamwork in veterinary hospitals. 🇿🇦💪

Dr. Charlotte shared essential training on zoonotic diseases, with a focus on rabies, alongside valuable insights into patient care and the veterinary business model. 💼🐶

Dr. Laura, veterinarian and animal behaviourist from Just Nuisance, brought her furry family to demonstrate stress-free handling and canine behaviour. She also discussed methods for managing stress in our feline patients, ensuring their comfort in a hospital setting. 🐱💙

Sr. Chané presented a session on surgical kit preparation, instrument and clipper care, and proper cleaning and disinfection techniques, emphasising the importance of gold-standard practices in sterility and hygiene. 🧼💉

At the diagnostic imaging station, Sr. Carla reminded everyone about radiography safety and covered optimal positioning and collimation to ensure accurate image quality. 📸🐾

One of the day’s highlights was a series of practical canine castrations performed by Dr. Claude and Dr. Rhines. 🐕💛 This hands-on demonstration covered gold-standard patient prep, anaesthetic monitoring, and sterile practices in the theatre – an invaluable learning experience for all! 🩺✨ We extend our thanks to The WOW Project for their incredible welfare work, arranging the four patients who received sponsored sterilisations.

Our practice manager Hermien and hospital operations coordinator Dheral were absolute stars helping to arrange and coordinate the logistics for the day!

A huge thank you to Khula Vet for the impactful workshop and to the fantastic sponsors, Hill's Pet Nutrition and Elanco Animal Health, for their support in making it possible. Together, we’re advancing excellence in veterinary care! 🐾🩺
Hill’s Pet Nutrition
Elanco

11/10/2024

🎉 Happy Vet Nurse Day! 🎉

Today, we’re giving a big shoutout to our amazing vet nurses here at Bergzicht Animal Hospital! 🐾💚

These stars are the heart and soul of our team, always there with a gentle touch, a kind word, and loads of love for every pet that comes through our doors. From calming nervous pets to helping with procedures and treatments and everything in between—they do it all, and they do it brilliantly.

So here’s to our fantastic vet nurses! Drop a comment below to share some love or a favourite memory with our wonderful team. 💖🐶🐱

16/09/2024

🐾👏A huge congratulations to our photo competition winners!!!👏🐾

Boss - 23% with 174 votes received
Zoe - 21% with 158 votes received
Berta - 17% with 129 votes received

We will be in touch to make final arrangements.

Watch this space, our models will be featured here soon 📸

12/09/2024

🐾✨Exciting news✨🐾

Dr Rhines recently had the pleasure of visiting a local school to bring a hands-on, interactive experience to the kids. She brought along some wonderful animals and spent the day teaching the students about animal care, the role of a vet, and the importance of compassion towards all living creatures.

It was a fantastic day filled with learning and fun! A big thank you to the school for welcoming us and to the kids for their enthusiastic participation. We hope they walked away with a newfound appreciation for animals and perhaps even a spark of interest in veterinary medicine! 🐶🐱🐰

10/09/2024

Please take note of our earlier closing time this coming Sunday the 15th of September 2024.

Veterinary Services hours 09:00-13:00 as normal
Retail trading hours 09:00 - 15:00 closing earlier

Consulting by appointment only.

Normal hours to resume on Monday the 16th.