Magnolia House Veterinary Clinic

30/08/2025

In an episode of Behind the scenes at the vet clinic...
Have you ever seen a beating heart? It's pretty awesome! :)
We perform heart ultrasound scans several times a week, and it's easy to forget how amazing it really is to be able to see this!

The main reason for a heart scan is usually hearing a murmur when we listen to a pet's chest, and sometimes we proactively scan breeds at risk of heart disease (as not every heart problem will create an audible murmur, so some problem hearts can sound completely normal).

20/08/2025

Due to urgent electrical works outside. The practice currently has no power. This also means we have no phones or computers.
All inpatients are ok and not affected by this please bear with us.

08/08/2025

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY FROM ALL OF US AT MAGNOLIA HOUSE😻

Here are some of our cute staff kittys - show us yours!! 🐈‍⬛🐈

23/07/2025

🐰🐁🦎🐍🐓🦜🐹🐀🐇
One of our RVN’s Sarah recently spent the day at Bicton College in Devon where she attended a course in musculoskeletal therapies for exotic animals.
She learnt lots of interesting things about transferring some of the treatments we use for musculoskeletal injuries and ailments in cats and dogs to species we don’t often consider treating as extensively due to the subject being so understudied.

Sarah has been putting some of her exciting new skills into practice! You can see here she is carrying out some laser therapy on Kimchi the tortoise who had some nasty wounds caused by a rat/fox attack. The laser helped to rejuvenate the damaged tissues to ensure a speedier healing time whilst also providing some additional pain relief for poor Kimchi🐢

You can also see her carrying out some trigger point release therapy (to address muscle pain/stiffness) on the lovely guinea pig, King Arthur👑 who was loving all the fresh veg being fed to him!

22/07/2025

UPDATE - MR DARCY HAS RETURNED HOME!
Albeit a little bit skinny but completely unharmed, thank you everyone for your shares and efforts 🥰

MISSING FROM TUCKTON/WICK AREA SINCE 20TH JULY💔
This is Mr Darcy, who never usually strays far from home and hasn’t been seen since Sunday.
He is just over a year old and is microchipped.
Please contact the clinic if you’ve spotted him or know of his whereabouts 🙏🏼
Thank you

22/07/2025

RABBIT VACCINE CLINIC💉🐰
We are planning to run another rabbit vaccine clinic for VHD 2 in August, this is an additional vaccine to your rabbits usual booster. Please refer to Stan’s video below for more info!

Comment below if you would be interested in attending our August clinic so that we have an idea on numbers, open to clients and non-clients😊

16/07/2025

Question for the cat people:
Would you like to have a dedicated hour during the week that was reserved for cat appointments only, i.e. no dogs in the waiting room at all unless there was an emergency? Given our usual patient flow, it would need to be in the middle of the day and could not be mornings or evenings. Would that be useful or is the separate cat waiting area enough of a help?

Photo of one of our beasties pretending he did not just leave a stinky poo in the bathroom 😆
(it was in the litter tray at least, but he can seriously clear out a room)

10/07/2025

The heat is on again, be safe out there!

07/07/2025

02/07/2025

Lovely Molly has definitely earned her Superhero of the Month title!

Miss Molly managed to get her paws on her owner's food compost bin and ate everything in it. Decomposing food contains mycotoxins, which lead to severe neurological, cardiac and liver symptoms, including seizures, liver failure, and death. Molly arrived in pretty bad shape, with uncontrolled whole body tremors, a very fast heart rate, high blood pressure, and a high fever. We immediately gave her medication to try to control the tremors, intravenous fluids, supportive care, and started running some blood tests.

Within 30 minutes of being admitted, Molly unfortunately went into cardiac arrest, but was swiftly and successfully resuscitated by our team. She needed an ongoing infusion of an anaesthetic drug to keep her neurological symptoms under control, and an infusion of intralipid which is a special human medication that mops up the toxins in her bloodstream. Our nurses were sitting by her side for the whole day, continuously monitoring her vital signs including ECG and blood pressure, and keeping her comfortable. It was touch and go for a while, but after 8 hours we were able to wean Molly off the anaesthesia, and by the evening she was - although still wobbly - already cheekily looking for food! She remained hospitalised with us overnight and was discharged the following morning, looking amazingly none the worse for her ordeal!

Big shout out to vet student Rachel, veterinary nurses Sarah and Jo, and student nurse Alicia for their brilliant CPR efforts! And to our receptionist Monica for not-quite-speeding 😉 to get Molly's intralipid from our emergency clinic. Also a big thank you to our colleagues at Priory Veterinary Group for lending us some extra anaesthetic agent as Molly needed quite a large supply!

Please be aware of the dangers of decomposing food, and keep it away from your pets at all times! And we have all learned that enterprising dogs can manage to open the standard council food bins, so please keep them not just closed but also out of reach.

We made Molly promise to stay safe and not get into trouble again!

30/06/2025

‘Little Miss’ setting the perfect example on this very warm day☀️👒
Wear your sun protection people! 😂

25/06/2025

‼️BEWARE OF GRASS SEEDS‼️
We had sweet little Rollo come in to see us last week with a rather sore ear 😔
After some sedation and a thorough ear exam we soon found the culprit!
Please be careful everyone as grass seed season is upon us. Avoid long grass as much as possible, check paws and look out for head shaking/ear pain. Any concerns please come and see us 👍🏼