Horse & Cat Vet Wairarapa

04/09/2026

Many of you will have met our amazing Nicole. In her spare time, she chooses to keep helping animals!
She is off to volunteer in Samoa - we couldn't be more proud of her ❤️ 🐕🐈🐮🦁🐰🐾🌸https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DFKSc65Lo/

MEET THE TEAM!
This weekend our team of 6 volunteers will arrive in Samoa for another 5 day clinic in beautiful Savai’i.

Leading the team is Dr Lauren Prouting who has done numerous SPAW clinics in Tonga and Samoa and joining her is a very experienced group of repeat volunteers Laura, Yael, Akiko and Nicole. Karen, our SPAW founder and valued board member, is also supporting the team this time, and looking forward to a hands-on experience of the island clinics again.

Join us in wishing our team safe travels and a very successful week in Savai’i.

This SPAW clinic is in partnership with APS Samoa.

With the support of our Impact Partner, The Van Der Brink Family NZ and
Premium Sponsor Zoetis this clinic will be life-changing for so many animals. Thank you!

APS Samoa

30/08/2026

I rounded off the weekend with a little light reading.. I do like my eyes, and horses are very good at injuring them! Thanks Steph for bringing the magazines back from the UK =)

28/08/2026

Plenty of horse work still around to keep us busy 🐎 Now is a great time to get those dentals done before the season ahead. We're also seeing itchy gross skin from the changeable weather, and plenty of abscesses yum! ‼︎

27/08/2026

Nutmeg doing an excellent job of displaying our wide ranging pain relief during and after teeth removals =)
She has a cocktail of injectable pain relief, local anesthetic blocks, and transdermal patch on board

20/08/2026

I tried to get a super cute picture of Apex in the daffodils, to celebrate impending Spring...
None of them are very Insta worthy! Fasting moving cats are not easy to photograph 😢

12/08/2026

The very brave Nala came to visit us lately. She has been trying to protect her territory, and managed to get an awful cat bite abscess in the process. She was much sicker than she initially looked - luckily, she has lovely owners, and is a very strong feline. So, now her main problem is the unfortunate haircut she required to get her surgery all sorted. Sorry Nala, we promise the fur will grow back!

04/08/2026

Snip and Chip is back!
Discounted desexing for cats is back in the Wairarapa from 5th August, thanks to the SPCA subsidies.
Please follow the website link below to find out how to book, including how to get registered and pay your deposit.
We look forward to helping you and your furry friends!
https://hcvet.nz/articles/news/snip-and-chip-for-cats/

04/08/2026

Welcome to our new staff members

28/07/2026

Who doesn't love a gelding on a crispy morning like today!
Lovely Mayo was straight back to the grass, and some mummy time, afterwards. Such indignity during tho, he says

25/07/2026

Meet Millie!
This most gorgeous kitten has had the unfortunate discomfort of soft / smelly poo 💩 and underweight for many weeks. She has had tried all the usual diet modification, supplements and pro / pre biotics to no avail.
Her lovely owner agreed to some further testing, and we used the rather fabulous Idexx PCR diarrhea panel to ascertain that she actually had a Clostridial infection grumbling along in her bowel. These can actually be part of another problem, so we were hopeful but not completely convinced the simple course of antibiotics and continued diet modification would do the trick..
But! Her recheck shows a thriving kitten, bright, happy, putting on weight. So happy to see!
And, no longer passing foul farts - what a win 👏 #👏