Maidstone Vets for Pets

07/10/2026

‼️Cuteness Alert ‼️

Today we had the most delicious little pup come to visit Marie.

Meet Honey the adorable Corgi.

She melted our hearts!

I think Marie was trying to dog nap her but we managed to get her back safely to her owner.

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01/10/2026

🐾💙 Veterinary Receptionist Appreciation Day - 1st October 💙🐾

Today, we're celebrating the incredible team at the heart of our practice who keep everything running smoothly from the moment you walk through the door or pick up the phone.

A huge thank you to Jason, Lisa, Jane, Phoebe, Tia, Chloe and Claire for everything you do, each and every day. 🌟

Our reception team are often the first friendly faces you see and the reassuring voices you hear when you're worried about your beloved pets. They juggle busy phones, appointments, insurance queries, payments, emergencies, administration and much more, all while providing exceptional care and support to our clients and patients.

Unfortunately, they're also the team who can sometimes receive the brunt of frustration and upset when emotions are running high. Despite this, they continue to show kindness, compassion, professionalism and positivity every single day.

We see the hard work, resilience, patience and dedication that goes on behind the scenes, and we couldn't do what we do without you. ❤️

Please join us in showing some love and appreciation for our wonderful reception team in the comments below. 👏🐶🐱

Thank you, Jason, Lisa, Jane, Phoebe, Tia, Chloe and Claire. We appreciate you today and every day! 💙

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30/09/2026

🏆 Monthly Competition Winner 🏆

This month our competition winner is the cutest little pup Mocha with his pumpkin, perfect photo for October. Congratulations Mocha you will be our profile picture for October

Thank you everyone for your photos we love them all, there were some fab seasonal ones included.

We will be doing a Halloween Competition soon 🎃 so watch this space.

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30/09/2026

🎉 Happy Birthday, Angela! 🎉

Today we'd like to wish a very happy birthday to one half of our amazing owner team, Angela!

Thank you for everything you do for our team, our clients, and our patients. Your dedication, hard work, support, and passion for providing the very best care never go unnoticed, and we are incredibly grateful to have you leading our practice.

We hope you have a wonderful day filled with lots of celebrations, cake, and everything you enjoy. 🎂🎈

Please join us in wishing Angela a fantastic birthday! ❤️🐾

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28/09/2026

🐾⚖️ Weight Clinic Success! ⚖️🐾

A huge well done to Luna, who has achieved an incredible 2.2kg weight loss through our nurse-led weight clinics! 🎉

Over the past few months, with the dedication of her owners and ongoing support from our nursing team, Luna has made fantastic progress towards a healthier weight. Not only is this a brilliant achievement, but maintaining a healthy weight can also help improve mobility, comfort, and overall wellbeing.

We're so proud of Luna and her owners for their commitment and hard work throughout her weight loss journey. 🌟

👏 Congratulations, Luna! Keep up the amazing work! 👏

If you'd like to find out more about our nurse-led weight clinics and how they can help your pet achieve a healthier weight, please give us a call on 01622 686817 to book an appointment with one of our lovely RVNs.

💜 Join us in celebrating Luna's fantastic achievement! 🐾

27/09/2026

📸🍂 Monthly Competition Time! 🍂📸

It's time again for our monthly profile picture competition!

As always, post a photo of your pet, like and share this post, and the most liked photo will become our profile picture for October! 🎉

🍁 This month's theme is: "Autumn Adventures & Spooky Season Stars" 🎃

Whether your pet is enjoying crunchy autumn leaves, snuggled up in their cosiest blanket, posing among the pumpkins, or showing off their spooky season style, we want to see them!

Rules
🐾 No humans
🐾 Post your pet's name in the comments
🐾 Only photos posted on the original post will count

🎃 Winner will be announced on Wednesday 30th September PM 🎃

We can't wait to see all your adorable autumnal and spooky season superstars! 🍁🎃🐕🐈

26/09/2026

🐰 It's International Rabbit Day! 🐰

What better way to celebrate than by sharing a photo of these two cuties, belonging to our RVN Ruth! ❤️

Rabbits are intelligent, affectionate animals that deserve the same love, care, and attention as any other pet. From plenty of hay and enrichment to regular health checks, good rabbit care is key to keeping them happy and healthy.

We think Ruth's pair are pretty adorable, but we'd love to know... do they have any competition? Share your bunny photos in the comments!

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19/09/2026

🏆 September Bravery Award - Meet Shadow! 🏆

This month's Bravery Award goes to the incredibly brave Shadow. ❤️🐾

Back in August, Shadow sadly contracted Parvovirus. Despite being fully vaccinated, she became extremely poorly and faced a very difficult battle. Thanks to the dedication of our clinical team, along with the support of a referral centre, Shadow received the intensive care she needed and has since made an absolutely amazing recovery.

Shadow was one of several cases we saw during a particularly heartbreaking period, and sadly not every patient was able to make it through. This makes Shadow's recovery all the more special, and we couldn't be happier to see her back to enjoying life with her family. 💜

As well as celebrating Shadow's bravery, we would also like to use her story as an important reminder about the value of vaccination. While no vaccine can provide a 100% guarantee, vaccination gives pets vital protection and a much better chance of fighting serious diseases such as Parvovirus. We will never know how Shadow's illness may have progressed had she not been vaccinated, but we do know that vaccines remain one of the most important tools we have in protecting our pets from life-threatening diseases.

Over those difficult few days, we sadly saw a number of Parvovirus cases, and not every patient was strong enough to win their fight. Shadow's story is therefore not only one of bravery and resilience, but also one of hope. Her recovery is something truly worth celebrating.

Shadow, you have been an absolute superstar, and we are so proud of how far you've come. Congratulations on being our September Bravery Award winner!

Please join us in congratulating Shadow on her incredible recovery and wishing her all the best as she continues to enjoy life back at home. 💕🐶

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13/09/2026

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Sending love to anyone who has ever lost a pet. They are more than just pets. They become family and friends to us when they enter our lives.

25/02/2024

When Kelly from our Colton store's Pets Grooming salon discovered a lump on the tail of nine-year-old Rufus she suspected something wasn't right, so alerted his owners Les and Andrea so they could get it checked out. They brought him to Vets for Pets Leeds Colton where it was confirmed he had a cancerous tumour which needed surgery.

Les, who adopted Rufus from Dogs Trust in Leeds as a puppy, said: “Rufus is such a big part of our life; we’re absolutely besotted with him. We probably wouldn’t have noticed the lump if not at the groomers as the tail isn’t somewhere you would usually stroke and feel. Kelly loves Rufus and really looks after him, so we want to say a big thanks for spotting it. Who'd have known what would have happened if she hadn’t noticed.”

Rufus had to have his tail removed, but is now making a good recovery. He's been visiting Kelly for a groom every six weeks for the last three years. She said: “You get to know everything about a dog as you groom them. I’ve discovered similar things before on other dogs so I mentioned it to the owners so they could get it checked out. Dogs are my life and you do worry; I’m so pleased they caught it. Now he’s got a fully docked tail like a little bunny rabbit. It’s lovely and suits him – when he gets washed he wiggles his bum.”

21/02/2024

Arthur's owner Louise says he "looked like a brand-new tortoise" after having his beak filed at Sutton in Ashfield Vets4Pets.

Louise adopted the four-year-old Horsefield Tortoise from a family member in October. Although she has had other pets, Arthur is her first tortoise, so she has been doing some research on how to best care for him.

Louise said: "I noticed Arthur's beak was unusually long, so I brought him in to Vets for Pets; I bring all my pets there. When he came out, I thought 'you beautiful boy, look at you – you look so handsome!"

Vet Steph, who looked after Arthur, says that tortoise beaks continuously grow and normally grind down themselves while they're eating. She said: "Arthur needed a little help as his jaw isn't perfectly aligned; his lower jaw is further out than his top jaw, so I filed it around half a centimetre. He was really good; a real cutie."

18/02/2024

Owner Claire says she couldn't be more grateful to Vets4Pets Hamilton after their quick diagnosis saved the sight of six-year-old Alba.

Claire knew there was something terribly wrong with her miniature dachshund cross when she called her in from the back garden last summer and Alba ran headfirst into a closed patio door. She rushed her to the vets, where investigations led the team to diagnose her with uveitis – an eye condition which causes inflammation of the middle layer of the eye.

Claire said: "It all happened so suddenly; Alba must have heard my voice and guessed where to go. It was quite scary seeing how bad she was. We couldn't be more grateful for the team in Hamilton spotting the uveitis as quickly as they did, otherwise Alba would have gone blind within a matter of days. Their knowledge saved Alba's sight. I still can't believe it happened. It's taken months of treatments, but it's such a relief to have our girl back to being her funny, bossy self."

Vet Neil, one of the team who treated Alba, said: "Alba's pupil was really narrow and wouldn't respond to light properly, which can be a sign of uveitis. Once we had ruled out other conditions, we were able to get her to an eye specialist for ongoing treatment. She's now doing really well."

16/02/2024

Ducky's owner Antonia was in a state of panic when she saw a fox had dug its way into the field where she keeps him – killing two of her other ducks and chickens.

Antonia was about to move her brood into their pen for the evening when she saw what had happened and noticed that Ducky had severe bite wounds under his wing. She rushed him to Vets4Pets Vets Milton Keynes for emergency surgery – and after having his wound stitched up the one-year-old duck is now making a good recovery.

Antonia said: "I was so worried. You don’t often hear of ducks recovering from fox attacks, but there is something about Ducky and the way he was so brave. I'm sure he was protecting a lady duck, as he's a bit of a romantic. It's the first time we've gone to Vets for Pets, and the team were amazing; they've done an incredible job."

Vet Becca, who treated Ducky, said: "He's a really lucky duck, as it was quite a big wound. When he first came in, he was understandably subdued and quiet but when he came back for his stitches to be taken out, he wanted to explore and tuck his head into everyone’s shoulders."

07/02/2024

Well done to the team at Vets4Pets Guildford who've been awarded a silver level certificate for being a rabbit-friendly clinic.

After head veterinary nurse Ella noticed that more customers were bringing in rabbits the practice took a series of steps to give them as stress-free an experience as possible. Ella, who also fosters rescue dogs in her spare time, said: "There was a long list of things that we needed to prove that we did from making sure the rabbits are kept separate from other animals and not booked in at the same time as barking dogs, to providing heated kennels for those who need to stay in, and using special equipment made especially for rabbits."

Practice manager Kevin said: "All of our vets have plenty of experience with rabbits we have some real rabbit geeks here, so it was a big thing to us. There are so many good people in this world and I'm so proud to be around them."

28/01/2024

Beautiful Bear was born deaf, so he's learned to follow his owner Lisa's visual commands.

Lisa, who shops at our Tamworth store – "it's my second home!" – got two-year-old Bear as a kitten and suspected he was deaf when he didn't respond to her voice. She had it confirmed by her vet soon after. She said: "He was very scatty, and scared of people he didn’t recognise. He wasn’t bothered by loud noises like my other cat Emily and when I came home from work he wouldn’t hear the door open.

"He's doing really well though. I try to do some sign language with him – I point at him and do a solid hand sign at him to stop. He picks up on vibrations and scents too. He meows, making a really loud chirping sound which I’ve never heard a cat do before, and he’s always rubbing his head against my legs and following me everywhere. I was advised not to let him out because he wouldn’t hear cars or other dangers, so he comes outside with me every morning to have a sniff around the garden and always comes straight back in." Bear and Lisa's other cat Emily are on Instagram as

27/01/2024

Ten-year-old Dutch rabbit Alfie has been visiting vet Kate at Vets4pets Wolverhampton for dental treatment for the last eight years – and she says he's such a loveable character that he's become "part of the family".

He's one of the oldest rabbits treated by Kate and the team, and she says his longevity is down to the care and love he gets from his owner Tracy and her family. Kate said: "Alfie is famous in this practice – everyone knows him. We and his family are dedicated to making sure her little old man is happy. The beautiful thing about being a vet or vet nurse is you build these relationships with the owners and their pets – they become your surrogate pets."

Tracy's been keeping rabbits all her life, and says that having space and routine is key. She said: "Alfie is an old man now and has a routine. He goes into a hutch at night and is let out in the morning. He's out all day and has his favourite spots in the house. We clean him out every day and give him a lot of attention. When he was younger he would follow us around; if I was clearing a cupboard out he would be in the cupboard to help. Now he's old and wants to be warm and watch instead. I can't thank Kate and the practice enough. Kate's been fantastic with him."

26/01/2024

Eight-year-old Winnie the Schnauzer cross is running around like a puppy again thanks to laser treatment and physiotherapy after two successful knee operations at Vets for Pets Basildon.

Worried owner Tracy brought Winnie in to the practice after she collapsed on a walk last year – and the team discovered the cruciate ligament in a knee had ruptured. She’s since had ops on two knees and is on a recovery plan led by vet physiotherapist Izzy.

Tracy said: "Winnie has had a tough year with 15 teeth removed, two cruciate ligament operations and two bouts of pancreatitis but thankfully she's hardy. She’s treated fabulously at the Basildon practice. Izzy is great with her – she totally relaxes in her hands and does little snores with her eyes open. Winnie has a new lease of life again and is running around like a puppy."

Izzy said: "When pets have surgery or injure themselves they move differently which causes them to be sore in other places. Winnie has laser therapy then a massage to help the healing process. Laser treatment is a specialist service that not enough people know about – it can help in so many ways after an operation.”

19/01/2024

The team at Vets4Pets Cramlington say greyhound Frank was "an absolute gentleman" when he came in for some dental work.

Seven-year-old Frank was brought in by owner Harriet to get rid of some plaque which had built up and to treat a gum inflammation. Veterinary nurse Vicki said: "Frank was a very good boy and left with clean, fresh and sparkly teeth. It's so very important to get your dog's teeth checked and we advise pets to have an annual dental check. Eighty per cent of dogs over the age of three have dental disease. Prevention is much better than cure and regular checks and routine cleaning keep your pet's mouth healthier for longer and can help to prevent extensive extractions later in life. We are always happy to offer advice on maintenance and dental care at home such as teeth brushing or dental supplements."

18/01/2024

Veterinary nurse Mel from Vets4Pets Bristol Longwell Green loves cats so much she's helped the practice make a number of improvements to give cats as stress-free an experience as possible when they're brought in.

Mel, who has an Advanced Certificate in Feline Behaviour for Veterinary Professionals, helped introduce facilities like a separate feline waiting area and cattery and the use of quiet clippers – and the practice now has a silver level certificate for being a cat-friendly clinic. She said: "I love dogs but I'm really a cat person. Cats can be misunderstood which can lead to them having quite a stressful life, so if we can make things easier for them and help people understand what cats need then everyone will be happier.

"As animal lovers there's always more to learn and understand about what makes them happy. Enrichment at the home is important for a happy cat – and as cats are naturally solitary animals if you live in a multi-cat household it's important to understand what they need. The rule is to have a resource per cat, plus one spare. So if you have two cats you should have three feeding stations, three litter trays and three scratch posts spread around the house so they have the opportunity to move around to wherever they want to go. Scratching is as natural a thing for cats to do as going out hunting is, so if they're unable to go out it's about providing the chance for them to behave as naturally as possible."