🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆 🏆🌟Westport Vet's Local Hero Awards🏆🌟🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆 Westport Veterinary Clinic’s Local Hero Awards has been created to recognise and honour acts of kindness in our local community. ⭐ When Prime Minister Boris Johnson placed the UK on lockdown on March 23rd, Team Westport decided to contribute to their online and local community by posting and sharing information and links to help [...]
Did you know that a cat over the age of 8 is considered to be senior?! In dogs this is a bit more breed-dependant with giant dogs reaching their senior years aged around 6, and smaller dogs up to 8 or 9. Now that your pet is one of our senior citizens, we would recommend booking them in for an [...]
We understand it is stressful when you have to bring your cat to see us. This is why we are proud to have been accredited as an ISFM Cat Friendly Clinic – Silver Award. The ISFM Cat Friendly Clinic accreditation is an internationally-recognised award. It means that we have met criteria to help minimise stress to your cat in our [...]
I feel the kids have become very adept at pushing my buttons and knowing exactly what gets the reaction! Such as answering NO to anything I say sometimes before I have even gotten to the end of the sentence I implemented the snack box for each of them (an idea sourced from Facebook) so they could help themselves to something [...]
SPRING POISONS Spring is a lovely time of year, full of new growth and hope; we just need to be mindful that some things related to Spring are not good for our pets! CHOCOLATE Easter eggs are delicious to us but can also be tempting to dogs and sometimes cats too! Chocolate contains Theobromine, which is toxic to pets. The [...]
A recent study done on five cats in China seems to indicate that SARs-CoV-2 can be transmitted via respiratory droplets to other cats. This work is yet to be peer-reviewed to assess how reliable the information is, although experts do think the findings were credible. Importantly the findings DO NOT indicate that cats can spread the disease to humans. Dogs, [...]