Ballarat Country Vets

26/08/2025

Adulting hack… Say no to doing laundry by filling your laundry baskets with puppies instead! 🐶🐶🐾

13/08/2025

❤️ Bruce ❤️

We just love when Bruce comes to visit us. He is always so happy to visit making everyone feel well loved and is also an exceptionally great patient! Despite his excitement he stand like a gentleman to have his bandage changed… as long as there is head scratches of course! ❤️

08/08/2025

Happy international cat day! We think our feline friends are simply pur-fect 🐈🐈

01/08/2025

The 1st of August is the universal birthday for horses.

The tradition of celebrating horses birthdays on the 1st of August in the southern hemisphere has its roots in the breeding and racing industries. The date of 1st August was chosen when breeding practices were less controlled and more dependent on natural cycles. This date was chosen to standardize the age of horses for racing and other competitive events.

We love our horses here at The Ballarat Country Vets so will take any excuse to celebrate them!

27/07/2025

We are back online 🎉

📞Trying to call us?? We are having troubles with our phones this morning and hope to have them back online shortly.

25/07/2025

Them Friday feels!

23/07/2025

Little Stitch the 10 week old French bulldog came to visit for his second vaccination and health check 😍
What a little cutie 🥰

22/07/2025

Some more information on the Parvovirus outbreak in Ballarat

Multiple cases of a highly contagious dog virus have been detected in Sebastopol. Full story: https://bit.ly/46F6lKr

19/07/2025

Meet Roxy, our brave hero!

Our vet nurses dogs, Roxy came into the clinic to donate potentially live saving blood that may help save another patients life. What a rox-star!

Our deepest appreciation to this incredible girl 🥰🐶🐾

18/07/2025

Happy Saturday! We love when we are visited by babies of any kind and these kids are no exception! We hope they brighten your day as much as they did ours.

18/07/2025

** PARVO VIRUS IN BALLARAT **

We have seen reports from other veterinary clinics that there has been a few cases of Parvo Virus in Ballarat.
This is a timely reminder to ensure your dog’s vaccinations are up to date and ideally avoid high traffic dog areas such as dog parks. Be particularly cautious not to take young puppies into public areas until 1 week after their final vaccination.

What is Parvo?
Parvo is a highly contagious virus that commonly affecting gastrointestinal system.

How is Parvo spread?
- An infected dog sheds this virus through their faeces often before the dog is showing symptoms and is commonly spread by faecal-oral route.
- It can also be spread by contact with contaminated objects or surfaces, such as bringing the virus home on your shoes.
- If not disinfected, Pavo can survive in the environment for months or even years depending on conditions.

Symptoms
- diarrhoea which will often contain blood
- Lethargic
- Not eating or drinking
- Vomiting
- Fever or dehydration
Puppies with Parvo virus deteriorate quickly so require urgent intervention.

Prevention
- Ensure your dogs/puppies vaccinations are up to date.
- Avoid high traffic dog areas or being around dogs with a unknown vaccination status.

If you have any concerns, want to check your dogs vaccination status or have further questions then please don’t hesitate to contact us: 4317 5888