• Westport Vets Local Hero Award – Linlithgow – April 2020 (Lily Green)

    🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆🌟🏆 🏆🌟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 [...]

    Published On: April 30th, 2020

  • Old Friends Check-Ups

    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, [...]

    Published On: April 21st, 2020

  • Cat Friendly Clinic Award

    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 [...]

    Published On: April 21st, 2020

  • Week two of my Stay at home teacher job! And it hasn’t got any easier…..

    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 [...]

    Published On: April 8th, 2020

  • Welcome to Westport Veterinary Clinic’s Spring Newsletter!

    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 [...]

    Published On: April 8th, 2020

  • Pets and SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19)

    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 [...]

    Published On: April 3rd, 2020

  • 💜 Puppies on Lockdown 💜

    We have had lots of enquires this week with concerned new puppy owners during lockdown so have some advice to help. ℹ As it currently stands (08-04-2020), following government guidelines The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons clarification on treatments is that veterinary practices are currently not permitted to do puppy, kitten, or [...]

    Published On: March 30th, 2020

  • March is Pet Anxiety Awareness Month!

    Thankfully, it is now widely recognised in humans that mental health is just as important as physical health; the same is true for our pets!   Our lifestyles are becoming more and more hectic and often we expect our pets to be able to keep up, coping with busy households, traffic, fireworks, moving house, [...]

    Published On: March 9th, 2020