The Vet Clinic

28/04/2025

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26/04/2025

🐾 April 26th is World Veterinary Day 🐾

An opportunity to acknowledge and appreciate everything your vet, vet nurses and techs, and animal attendants do for animals day in day out.

It truly is a calling 🐾 💜💚

21/04/2025

💔 A few words on loss from Dr Claire 💔

I lost my three beloved greyhounds this year.
⭐️Gia on the first of January.
⭐️Abby was hit by a car on the 14th March.
⭐️Goldie died on my operating table during an emergency surgery on 17th April.

So why did I share this? Because we get it. We are vets, but we are also pet parents who share our hearts and our homes with our animals, just as our clients do. We know what it is like to have to say goodbye. And we know how much it hurts to lose a pet.

And we are hardest on ourselves. With all our training, skills, and knowledge, what does it all mean when we can’t save our own? We know we can’t save them all but my god how we wish we could. And we try so hard for all of them. I tried so hard for my girls, and I know there was nothing anyone could have done for any of them. But I still feel like I failed them.

Simply, we are for them, and we remain here for the lost ones and we grieve for the ones we could not save.

All we can do is love them, in the best way that we can, every day, and remember that tomorrow is never guaranteed to anyone.

So, for Gia. My heart, my bones, my blood. You will always be my beautiful girl. For Abby, the escape artist. And for Goldie, best friend to Mummy Chicken, and unable to walk on the floorboards.
I miss you all and I am sorry you had to leave so soon.

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⭐️✨~ For the lost ones ~ ✨⭐️

No longer my shadow, in this life, though perhaps in the next? No longer my bathroom buddy or my little spoon in my bed.

No more will I hear your nails click clicking on the floorboards. No more will your mousy nose and toothy grin chatter when you smile.

Never again the gentle tapping of your nose against my leg; the delighted bouncing circles, or the full speed zoomies in the yard.

No more your supervision of my cooking, lying in the kitchen next to my feet as I measured and mixed. I still look for you so as not to trip.

Dear Gia, no longer nudging the ducklings back towards their Mama or keeping their nest safe from intruders. Your watch has ended.

Your grace, your tolerance, your sweet, sweet face, will only ever be a memory now. My heart in a black coat and four legs forever in my dearest thoughts.

Gia you understood my words, I know. You always knew just what I needed. Your name was all I had to say, and you would come, or move, or stay. All heeded.

You watched so many pets come and go, always with a gentle sniff and a quiet hello. You made them all welcome in our home, if they were friends to me, you seemed to know.

Goldie, I will no longer wake at 3am to help you with the floor boards you were scared to cross. You would go outside but the floor was lava, and on your return you would be lost.

Your specially pitched yip to tell me you were stuck will no longer be heard in the dead of night. And I will miss it, dear Goldie.

And Abby with your sweet long face and velvet ears, asking for loves with a nose on my knee. Escaping to roam the streets your downfall, why could you not just stay at home?

My beautiful girls, all gone too soon. No more their velvet ears to stroke, their long legs to fold away like origami, their whiskery snoots to boop. They will join the other lost ones, and become another three silver stars in the sky to wish goodnight to every night, for evermore ✨✨✨

15/04/2025

Peanut wishes everyone a happy and safe Easter 🩷

06/04/2025

Every little bit helps 💖

04/04/2025

🦸‍♀️ Not all scarecrows wear capes. But ours does! 😇

🌾 Skye and Tahlia have been hard at work creating our scarecrow surgeon, but she doesn’t have a name 😕

What should we call her?? 🤔
Drop your suggestions below 👇

31/03/2025

💚💜⭐️⭐️⭐️ *We have news!!!* ⭐️⭐️⭐️💜💚

✨We are beyond thrilled to announce that as of today, April 1st, Queen Peanut will be taking over as the new owner and Boss Lady of The Vet Clinic!!✨

🙌🏻 The whole team is super excited to be starting this journey under our new kitty overlord 🐈

Please make sure you curtsey or bow to Queen Peanut when you are next in the clinic 👑

12/03/2025

💜💚 Check out this gorgeous little pocket puppy Lulu modelling her tiniest of tiny PetQuip recovery suit! Weighing in at only 2.2kg, she has been Dr Jodie’s littlest desexing patient so far! She was soooo brave today 🥇🙌🏻💖 Well done Lulu! 👏💚💜

08/03/2025

🙌🏻🩷 March 8th is International Women’s Day 🩷🙌🏻

🤩 A day to celebrate the amazing women in our lives, our professions, and our families. Did you know that over 80% of Australian veterinary graduates are women?! 💃🏼

Check out Dr Claire in this week’s The Leader Newspaper - Barossa Valley

01/03/2025

Poor little snekky 🐍😔

27/02/2025

We’re a little late in posting this, but it’s *never* too late to desex your pet! 🐶🐱

There are soooo many reasons why your male or female dog or cat should be desexed. Here are just a few! 💯

✅ Less likely to roam 🐾
✅ Reduced to zero risk of potentially fatal reproductive organ cancers and infections 🦠
✅ Less aggression to people and animals ‼️
✅ Less anxiety 😰
✅ Less scent marking 🚽
✅ Make better pets 🥰
✅ Urine isn’t as smelly (tom cat wee really stinks!) 🧻
✅ No bebbies to add to the overpopulation! 🤰🏼
✅ It is part of being a responsible pet owner ⭐️

If you’d like more information, please speak with our staff, or pick up one of our desexing information handouts in the clinic, or on the website 📘

23/02/2025

Congratulations to our very own Nurse Tahlia on her *first place* win at Angaston Show for her beautiful Dahlia!🥇🌺 😍💕

20/02/2025

20/02/2025

Introducing our 2025 Major Sponsors!

Thank you for supporting our Show.

Yalumba, Lyndoch Motors, Adbri Quaries, George Western Foods Limited, Ahrens Group, Angaston & District Lions Club, Barossa Quarries, K.A.D.S Truck & Diesel, Vine Inn Barossa, The Vet Clinic & Tom Feist Civil.