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Monday 8:30am - 5:30pm Tuesday 8:30am - 5:30pm Wednesday 8:30am - 5:30pm Thursday 8:30am - 5:30pm Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm Saturday 9am - 12pm

Mittagong Veterinary Hospital

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An Aussie country practice Vet on majestic Gundungurra land. Caring for pets & wildlife of the Southern Highlands since 1974.

Our Mittagong Vet Hospital team says G’Day! A caring, affordable and experienced Veterinary Hospital. We offer off street parking, wheel chair access, are LGBTQI+ friends within our community, and we're here to serve you with country friendliness. All our staff have decades of veterinary experience and you'll know you're animals will be in great hands.

03/11/2026

Crufts, 1929. Best in Show: Heather Necessity, Scottish Terrier. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Nearly 100 years later, and look at that sassiness!
The little chonky legs. That baby wh**ky barrel bod. A tail that’s full mast and says “Tallyho, I’m off to the minibus!”
Short, stout, proud, no-nonsense, aloof. A Scottie isn’t ignoring you. They heard you perfectly well and are weighing their options. That’s Scottitude!
Anyone who has lived with one can confirm that when you give a Scottie a command, the reply is always the same: “Give me a good reason and I’ll think about it.”
They aren’t stubborn. They’re independent thinkers with very healthy self-esteem and a firm belief that they’re the one in charge of the household.
We can attest: Beatrice, now 3, needs reminding every day that she is not calling the shots at home!
Heather Necessity knew she’d won and was just waiting for the slow judges to catch up.
You have to know one to understand. This breed is hilarious, and they’re our Best in Show, in our hearts, all year round. 🖤
Love
Mittagong Vet

15/10/2026

NEW BLOG 🐶🐱 The Microbiome and pets

Did you know your pet's gut is home to trillions of tiny bacteria? Together they make up the gut microbiome, and they do far more than help digest dinner. They work closely with your pet's food, gut lining and immune system to support everyday health. Our new blog explains it in plain language, from a newborn puppy's first drink of colostrum to tailored nutrition for senior pets.

Inside our guide:
🦠 Meet the microbiome: what "good bacteria" actually do
💊 Probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics explained, and how to spot a quality product
🐾 Gut health for puppies and kittens, adults and seniors
🦷 Why dental health matters for the whole body
💉 Supporting the gut after illness, antibiotics or surgery
🥣 What prescription gut diets do
💩 A new BONUS stool guide for dogs, cats and puppies, with pictures and scores. Yipee!
🚨 When to call the vet

Key takeaways:

✔️ Not every pet needs a daily supplement. For healthy pets, a complete, balanced diet comes first.
✔️ Not all probiotics are equal. The strain, the species it was tested in and the quality all matter.
✔️ Cats are not small dogs. Research in dogs doesn't automatically apply to cats.
✔️ Call us if diarrhoea lasts more than 24 hours. For puppies, kittens, very senior pets or pets already unwell, call straight away, as they can dehydrate quickly.

Five everyday habits for a healthy gut:
1️⃣ Feed a complete, balanced diet for your pet's life stage
2️⃣ Change foods gradually
3️⃣ Keep up with dental care and vet checks
4️⃣ Watch appetite, stools, weight and behaviour
5️⃣ Ask your vet before starting supplements or prescription diets

📖 Read the full guide via the link: https://bit.ly/3TXe7Lq

Questions about your pet's digestion or diet? Our team is happy to help. Give us a call or book a visit.

Dr Keith and team at Mittagong Veterinary Hospital!

14/10/2026

Farewell to the Royal Canin TerraCycle Recycling Program 💚♻️

After several wonderful years, the Royal Canin Pet Food Packaging Recycling Program with TerraCycle is coming to an end, and we wanted to take a moment to celebrate what we’ve achieved together.
As an official TerraCycle Collection Hub since 2021, Mittagong Vet has collected pet food packaging from our amazing clients. Thanks to all of you, we diverted over 220kg of packaging from landfill!

Your recycling also helped fund donations to some causes close to our hearts:
🦮 Seeing Eye Dogs Australia, we helped train these incredible dogs who change lives!
🐨 Bangalow Koala Conservation Program, we helped plant koala-friendly trees across the NSW Northern Rivers for our precious koalas!
And in 2024, our little vet hospital was recognised nationally, placing 2nd in Australia for the volume recycled. We’re still so proud of that.

We’ll be collecting the final plastic pet food packaging until Friday 23rd October 2026, ready to send off to TerraCycle. Please drop your clean, empty packaging into our collection box before then.

What’s next?
You can still recycle your clean, empty soft plastic pet food bags and pouches through the national Soft Plastics Stewardship Australia (SPSA) program at participating Woolworths stores. Search “Woolworths soft plastics recycling” to find your nearest drop-off point.

While this program is ending, our commitment to sustainability isn’t. We’ll keep finding ways to reduce waste and recycle in everything we do because our commitment to care doesn't end with animals; it extends to the planet, too!

Our Donation Station in the waiting room is also staying put, collecting quality pet food for the Mittagong Vinnies Food Pantry to support local pet owners going through financial hardship. Every bag and tin makes a real difference.

A huge THANK YOU to our wonderful community for being part of this awesome journey with us. We couldn’t have done it without you! 🙌

Love from Dr Keith and team at Mittagong Vet!

13/10/2026

MEET ARCHIE – A VERY SMALL DOG, WITH A BIG ATTITUDE AND ZERO REGRETS.

Meet Archie, a long-haired Chihuahua cross Pomeranian cross Papillon. We’re not even going to attempt to name that hybrid!

This little dynamo dropped into Mittagong Vet looking like he’d just ridden a motorbike through a cyclone. And we love it!

* The Hair? Officially uncontrolled.
* The Ears? Picking up radio signals from Canberra.

* The Attitude? Enough for three Rottweilers.

And that squeaky little voice? Don’t be fooled. Archie has some VERY strong opinions, and he’s not afraid to air them. Unfortunately, they come out sounding like someone’s stepped on a rubber ducky.

Archie firmly believes he’s a 60kg guard dog trapped in a 3kg body, and frankly, we’re not game enough to tell him otherwise.

He didn’t come here to make friends. He came to be admired, mildly inconvenienced by The Dogtor (aka Dr Keith), and ensure everyone understood who’s really in charge.

Archie’s official statement: “Yeah, … Nah.” ggrrrrrrr

Please join us in raising a toast and giving three big cheers for Archie – our local Pom-Papi-Huahua!

With love (and slightly ringing ears),

Dr Keith and the nurses at Mittagong Vet

09/10/2026

At Mittagong Veterinary Hospital, we know that pets are so much more than animals. They’re family, loyal companions, a source of unconditional love and, for people living alone or experiencing isolation, often an invaluable source of comfort, connection and emotional support.

When times are tough, the last thing anyone should have to worry about is whether they can afford to feed their beloved pet a healthy, nutritious meal.

Thanks to the kindness and generosity of our wonderful Mittagong community, we’re helping to make sure that local pets don’t have to go without, and that the special bond between people and their animals can continue to thrive.

As Mother Teresa so beautifully said “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

A heartfelt thanks to everyone who has contributed. Your generosity reminds us what a caring community we are lucky enough to be part of.

Our wonderful vet nurses Britt and Hayley are pictured with a big box of delicious, quality pet food, which we donated to Vinnies Mittagong’s food pantry this week. Because looking after animals also means looking after the people who love them!

From all of us to you,THANK YOU for caring and sharing!

Dr Keith, and all the nurses at

08/10/2026

Happy Vet Nurse Day! 🐾

Today we’re celebrating our wonderful vet nurses: Brittany, Hayley, Susie and Luca. Where would we be without them?

They work incredibly hard, they care for every patient as if it were their own, and they keep our veterinarians going through thick and thin, in every hairy (and quite literally furry and feathered) situation.

There’s never a dull day in a vet hospital, but our vet nurses sure make it brighter. Thank you for everything you do. We’re so lucky to have you! 💚

And to celebrate, here is a little appreciative pawetry:
With gentle hands and hearts of gold,
they soothe the young and calm the old.
Through fur and feathers, claws and paws,
our vet nurses deserve ‘ah-paws’!!! 🐾

Yay! Happy Vet Nurse Day bestest nurses Brittany, Hayley, Susie and Luca!
Dr Keith and Dr Chris and Mon and all the animals at Mittagong Vet

06/10/2026

AND THE BEST PAWTRAIT PRIZE GOES TO… BONNIE!!
Some dogs have a good side, but Bonnie the Staffie has ALL the sides. Seriously. You cannot take a bad photo of this girl.

Ears behaving independently? Stunning!
Tongue accidentally left out? Cover girl!
She’d look good in a paper bag.

Miss Sookie-Chops spent the day with us at the vet, and naturally we had to capture this magnificent pawtrait — for her Bravery Award to take home to the fam. She is adorable. Bonnie was extra brave visiting her most favourite Dogtor of all time — Dr Keith.

And because she’s a Staffie — which means there’s usually an extra helping of sookie-chops hiding inside all that Staffie bravado — Bonnie needed to make sure everyone fully understood the gravity of her situation. Just look at those eyes. This is clearly a dog who has seen things - things like… a stethoscope, possibly even a thermometer, and at one particularly difficult moment today, someone may have suggested she stand on the scales. The horror!

But THAT TONGUE! Was it deliberate? We think so…
Fun Scientific fact*: Have you ever tried to be frightened or upset with your tongue sticking out? Exactly. It’s physically impossible.

Clearly Bonnie has discovered a highly advanced Staffie coping technique: when life gets tough, give it all you’ve got - or stick your tongue out. And we’re taking notes. Because Tuesday has officially found its new poster girl — and lo and behold, TODAY IS TONGUE OUT TUESDAY, PEOPLE!
Official Pawtrait: 10/10
Tongue placement: 11/10
Sookie-chops performance: Oscar-worthy
Bravery: DEFINITELY AWARD-WINNING

Well done, beautiful Bonnie, for surviving an entire day with your favourite Dogtor, Dr Keith. It was tough. It was emotional. There may have been a thermometer and scales. But somehow, you made it through!

Love and pats from,
Dr Keith and the team at Mittagong Vet!

*Disclaimer: Scientific fact may not actually be a scientific fact. But just try it — works every time!

03/10/2026

Public Service Announcement: It's Daylight Saving weekend in NSW, and one member of staff has already declared victory. Meet Cecil – resident floof, professional loaf, and the artist sometimes known as the Ginger-Whinger. But we love him.

Now, Cecil has many fine qualities. Patience at mealtimes is not one of them. Actually, he's really bad at it. Think less "hungry cat," more war of attrition – a relentless siege conducted entirely in the key of MEOW Major, by a Kitty that has all day and nowhere else to be.

So we've been trying a little thing called . Like controlled crying, but fluffier and far less successful. The theory: You don't give in, he learns to self-settle. The reality: He gets louder, stares into your soul, and you fold like a deck chair at about minute four.

Which brings us to Sunday. At 2am the clocks spring forward and we humans lose an hour of sleep. Tragic. But what does it mean for the cat??

Well. When our clock says 8am brekkie, Cecil's insatiable stomach still reckons it's 7am. Breakfast is arriving an HOUR EARLY (in his head). Happy days! He won. As far as Cecil is concerned, all that meowing has paid off, the siege is over, and the humans have signed the surrender. That face in the photo? That's the half-lidded look of a cat who backed himself and got the results.

An occasion this momentous calls for pawetry. A cat-haiku:

Clocks spring forward now
Brekkie turns up early, Meow!
The Cat thinks he's won.

We don't even want to think about April. When daylight saving ends, the clocks go back, and brekkie turns up a whole hour LATE according to the Stomach. Nooo. Expect the Ginger-Whinger to file a formal complaint, at volume, from roughly 5am. The agony begins again.

Friendly reminder: clocks FORWARD one hour this Sunday. If your pets run on tummy time too, shift their meals by 10–15 minutes a day to ease in. (Cecil has declined to take part.)

Whinge level: Operatic. Patience: 0%. Smugness: 500%. Control Meowing progress: Pending.

Well played, Cecil. Well played.

With love,
Dr Keith (the owner/enabler of said cat) and all the nurses at

01/10/2026

🐾 BLOAT EMERGENCIES IN BIG, DEEP-CHESTED DOGGOES; THE NIGHT HARRY'S STOMACH TURNED

Harry is a big, thoroughly lovable Great Dane cross who lives for cuddles and the couch. Just a month ago, Big Boi Harry came within hours of losing his life to a condition most owners have never heard of—Bloat (GDV). Luckily, his owner noticed he was suddenly unwell and called our vet hospital immediately; that call saved Harry's life. He was diagnosed with Bloat, a life-threatening emergency requiring immediate surgery.

Bloat happens when a dog's stomach fills with gas, food or fluid and swells. In many cases it then twists on itself, cutting off blood supply and sending the body into shock. It can kill in as little as 2–6 hours, sometimes faster. Even with surgery, 10–15% of dogs with GDV don't survive.

Large, deep-chested breeds are most at risk — Great Danes, Saint Bernards, Boxers, German Shepherds, Dobermans, Weimaraners, Newfoundlands and more.

🚨 Signs to watch for:
A hard, swollen or tight belly
Dry retching with nothing coming up
Heavy drooling, restlessness, pacing
Rapid breathing, weakness or collapse
If you suspect bloat:
❌ Do NOT Google it. Do NOT ask the local Facebook group.
✅ Call your vet or your nearest 24hr emergency hospital immediately and mention you have a large, deep-chested breed.

The good news: a preventative surgery called gastropexy is the best defence against bloat, often done at the same time as desexing.

Thanks to his owner's instinct, fast action and emergency surgery, Harry made a full recovery and is back to his happy self on the lounge 🐶💙 We're sharing his story so more owners can spot the signs early and act fast.

Read Harry's full story and the complete list of at-risk breeds on our blog (link in bio).
Worried your dog might be at risk? Chat with us about warning signs and whether gastropexy is right for your dog.
From Dr Keith at Mittagong Vet, and Dr Chris Watson Veterinary

📍 Mittagong Veterinary Hospital
📞 (02) 4872 2028

20/09/2026

Please enjoy our new promo video! And being a vet hospital, we felt it was entirely appropriate that we play a little 'Bark' (wink-wink)... bon appétit!

MITTAGONG VET — LOCAL. INDEPENDENT. TRUSTED. SINCE 1974. 🐾
Established in 1974, Mittagong Veterinary Hospital has been fully independently owned and continuously operating for more than 50 years — caring for generations of Southern Highlands pets and the people who love them.

Proudly local, Mittagong Vet combines decades of veterinary experience with something increasingly rare: continuity, familiar faces and genuinely personal care.

At the heart of the practice is much-loved GP veterinarian and surgeon Dr Keith McKellar Stewart, who has been practising at Mittagong Vet since 1982. For more than four decades, Dr Keith has cared for generations of local animals and is a trusted and respected member of our Southern Highlands community.

Mittagong Vet is also home-base to Dr Chris Watson, esteemed local veterinarian and orthopaedic surgeon. He brings veterinary GP care and extensive surgical expertise to the practice, including complex soft-tissue procedures and TPLO orthopaedic surgery to our region – providing faster expert orthopaedic treatment, under one surgeon’s care, resulting in better health outcomes for local pets without the need to wait for out-of-area service!

In 2026, Mittagong Vet was proudly recognised as:
🏆 Winner Business of the Year – Southern Highlands
🏆 Winner Outstanding Pet Care

More than the awards, though, we're proudest of the trust local families have placed in us for over 50 years. Located in the heart of historic Mittagong town centre. Fully independent. Proudly local. Experienced veterinary care. Advanced surgical expertise. Familiar faces. Community at heart.

A very special thank you to Shelly Willingham of Headshot Collective Shelly Willingham at www.headshotco.com.au
who created this magnificent video, capturing purrfectly the heart and spirit of our independent ‘country practice’ here in beautiful Mittagong, regional NSW, Kookaburra’s and all! Shelly, thank you for your talent and your loveliness — you absolutely nailed it! ❤️
Find Shelly on Insta at

Mittagong Veterinary Hospital — caring for pets since 1974. 🐾

Address

109 Main Street
Mittagong, NSW
2575

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday	8:30am - 5:30pm
Friday	8:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday	9am - 12pm

Website

http://www.mittagongvet.com.au/, https://bit.ly/4yqXUg8

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