June Case of the Month - Rocky!

Rocky is a 5 and a half year  old Jack Russell who we saw lots of in June. Unfortunately we saw Rocky initially with diahorrea. At the time Rocky was quiet and his tummy was hard and bloated ....

Read the story here

Repeat Prescription Request is now available online!

We have been requested by several clients to add on an on line prescription form to our website. So in response our clients are now able to complete repeat prescription requests on line, as well as phoning the surgery.

Many thanks to Mrs C. Johnson, Claire and Miss S Raven for the request and if any other clients have requests or recommendations then please contact the surgery all feedback gratefully recieved.

www.holmesandmurphyvets.co.uk/repeat-prescription-request-form.php

Here is a lovely photo showing Susan in the garden of her new home. After being cooped up at the surgery and only wandering round the cat ward it is so lovely to see her out and about. Her enw owner reports that she has really come out of her shell, and cried when she saw her playing in the garden- bless! We are thrilled things are going so well for her!

 

 

In response to our microchipping offer (half price microchips till the end of June)

We have had two clients email with questions to  clarify. It is not yet compulsory that dogs are microchipped, but here is the official line


Wales

The Welsh Government consulted on proposal to introduce compulsory microchipping of dogs in August 2012. 84% of respondents supported the proposal and the Welsh Government has said that they hope to introduce legislation around compulsory microchipping later in 2013 with a view to it coming into force before 6 April 2016.

Also the microchip is the size of a grain of rice. It contains a number that is unique to the animal it is implanted into. This numbers is then kept on a central database with all the owner information stored on it.

This weekend we have reunited two dogs with their owners one a Jack Russell was a local but Bob the dalmation was here on holiday and thankfully his microchip had a mobile number so he was reunited and able to continue on his holidays!

New section - Case of the Month

Just incase you missed it we have a new section called Case of the Month

Here is an intro but click on the link above for the full story

May 2013 - Isis

Eat your words!

Isis is a beautiful siamese cat that we saw at the surgery after vomiting for 2 days. The owner told us that Isis sometimes ate things that she shouldn't. It was decided to take an xray of Isis to see what was going on.
This below is the x ray of Isis lying on her side

June News - 6 Months!

Well as of June 3rd we have been open 6 months and what a 6 months its has been! We have been very lucky to have registered so many lovely clients. Back in the day when we were sat with the bank manager we had to show how we would survive for the first 6 month and not see anybody. Initially Sarah and Fiona were going to do extra locum work to support the business and having staff wasn't in the plan till year 2 but we have been so busy the locum work was stopped and we are now up to a team of 8! Guess we should have known when we were in painting and had people trying to register!

The first 6 months has been a good learning curve and there have been lots of highlights. The absolute highlight was at our open day when a lovely couple called Mr and Mrs Williams brought Buster along.

Before we set up together both Fiona and Sarah in their previous jobs dealt with Buster. He was very poorly and had a condition that was destroying his red blood cells. The Williams said that without Fiona and Sarah Buster wouldn't be around and had brought him along to show their support on our open day which for us was really lovely and the reason why we do this.

Buster

Other highlights for us and probably the clients involved is that when we first started we had 4 clients (we call them the Awesome Foursome)that came to us the very first week we opened, and in those initial opening weeks we saw them a lot. Now sadly we don't see them as much as their animals are better which is good and bad but ladies we miss you!

• Mrs Edwards
• Miss Federick
• Mrs HoneyMan
• Mrs Lau

Miss Federick and Mrs Honeyman were also at our very first puppy party. These have proved really popular and we now have to run two a week to try and get everyone in!

Since we opened we have been approached by local schools to talk to students.  Rudy the llama is still a popular topic and people still comment on his visit and his photos from the website. He is still probably our most unusal client with Mina the monitor lizard second. Snot face still remains our most unusal clients name and I think that will be a title that no one can beat, thankfully we haven't yet had to call him in from a packed waiting room.

Molly's/Holly's/Tilly's/Milly's and Ben's still remain popular names although in recent weeks we have had a run of Delilah's registering maybe Tom Jones had a birthday or something and it was played a lot on the radio ???

We have managed to rehome 9 stray cats and 3 rabbits although we still have Heidi (our ten year old ginger female) here at the surgery desperately looking for someones knee to make her home, she is very affectionate and looking for someone special to have her.

Heidi - looking for a new home

Thank you for all your support and we look forward to the next 6 months!

To all our clients registered before June 3rd we have sent you out an email with a special offer on it please contact the surgery on 01492 878581 if you did not receive the email