Pocket Nook Equine Vets Ltd.

Pocket Nook Equine Vets Ltd. Veterinarian 🐴
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I really do have the best clients ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Thank you for being so wonderful 🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️❤️
29/05/2026

I really do have the best clients ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thank you for being so wonderful 🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️❤️

It’s been a busy week with competitions and arena hires 🐎But being on call 📞 24 7 means when an emergency comes in, some...
15/05/2026

It’s been a busy week with competitions and arena hires 🐎

But being on call 📞 24 7 means when an emergency comes in, sometimes my horses have to come too 😅❤️

Whilst competing locally, I always carry my drugs with me so I can get there as soon as possible, without going home for them 😅

Luckily both boys are super well behaved! Bob and Rum - here they are both on emergency visits this week 🙈🙈😅😅❤️❤️❤️
Treats from clients for Bob, and Rum was even put up in his hotel room today 😅😅❤️❤️ Thank you for being so welcoming with them 🩷🩷🩷

Stay safe everyone and have a wonderful weekend ❤️❤️❤️

🎉🎉🎉 MAY OFFER 🎉🎉🎉🎉NEW DATE Sunday 31st MayFoot radiographs are so important when it comes to aiding your farrier in shoe...
07/05/2026

🎉🎉🎉 MAY OFFER 🎉🎉🎉🎉

NEW DATE Sunday 31st May

Foot radiographs are so important when it comes to aiding your farrier in shoeing/trimming your horse to help him/her perform at their best. We can learn a lot from foot balance radiographs and I always start with these before rushing to injectable treatments… So many horses will become much more comfortable if we can increase support from the foundations.

Ulcers and lameness come hand in hand. Any sort of stress placed upon the horse can predispose them to ulcers, and this includes physical stress.

I’m excited to offer a combined gastroscope and foot X-ray clinic here at Pocket Nook! WA3 1AU.

£350 per horse for this combination deal 🎉
Price includes:
🥕Lameness assessment
🥕 Sedation
🥕 Gastroscope
🥕 Lateral and DP foot X-rays of four feet

Usual individual price: £680!

*** Gastroscope only - £200 including soundness consultation and sedation ***

Next clinic
Sunday 31st May

Please pm to book or call 📞 07731498987
Emily Westwood BVM&S MRCVS BSc hons

Injection maintenance - repeat steroids🧑‍🔧 💉 🥕 Research has shown that steroid injections have been effective in initial...
01/05/2026

Injection maintenance - repeat steroids🧑‍🔧 💉

🥕 Research has shown that steroid injections have been effective in initial inflammation- just one injection…. After that, the can actually be harmful to cartilage.

🥕 Steroids actually have an analgesic effect - if your injecting a horse with a soft tissue injury to carry on his job then you will make him feel better initially, importantly not yet repaired, and he can actually end up making this injury worse - this is why it’s so important to get a proper diagnosis before injecting w***y nilly.

🥕 Steroids are associated with steroid induced laminitis - not fun at all. Of course, new research has shown that by giving a drug to reduce insulin in high risk horses, lowers the chance of this,… in my opinion doesn’t make it right to inject windgalls for the show ring.

🥕 If a horse comes with a colour coordinated chart of monthly ‘maintenance’ injections (yes I had actually seen this), it is likely that he is being asked to do far more work than he is actually physically capable of.

🥕 If you haven’t got everything else right - ie shoeing, workload - importantly the correct work, weight, etc … I won’t be picking up the ad-cortyl. Why would you try to patch together the furnishings when the foundation is falling apart?

🥕 Dont forget the infection risk. Everytime we go into a joint, we risk synovial infection - bad…. A hospital job.

🥕 Calcification within tendon sheaths - this happens as a side effect of steroid.

When I see a lame horse, I usually sort out as much of the foundations as I can first before reaching for steroid.
Here’s an example - the horse blocks to the front feet . Foot balance X-rays show us some important info - the heels are reversed/flat, the front of the coffin joint is getting crushed. Make a plan with the farrier - the most important guy at the moment. Rest horse followed by some low level rehab - long reining etc. Put horse on diet.
See again in six weeks with a view to medicate if no improvent. 9 times out of 10 when I see that horse in six weeks he looks better. Better because he’s had a break, better because we have addressed the feet that are holding the horse up 24 hours a day. Now if I would have medicated six weeks back, I would have been the hero and the steroids obviously worked… The real hero in this case is the farrier for helping the foundations, and the owner for sticking to the rehab plan.

Please don’t think I’m one of those holistic, medication is bad type of vets. I do use steroid, but in the correct situations when everything else has been addressed.

Will repeat steroids give you a quick fix? Probably.
Will repeat steroids break your horse faster? Probably.

28/04/2026

To think this horse broke five bones in his back four years ago!
Go Bob you superstar ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Award number 2 ❤️❤️❤️Warringtons best veterinary clinic 2026 ❤️❤️❤️❤️Thank you to Quality business awards and thank you ...
28/04/2026

Award number 2 ❤️❤️❤️

Warringtons best veterinary clinic 2026 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you to Quality business awards and thank you as always to our wonderful clients for you reviews ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Well I’ve never had poo samples for worm egg counts disguised as McDonald’s chips 😆😆😆😆😂😂😂😂😂🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🙈🙈🙈 ###
16/04/2026

Well I’ve never had poo samples for worm egg counts disguised as McDonald’s chips 😆😆😆😆😂😂😂😂😂🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🙈🙈🙈 ###

15/04/2026

Sometimes you don’t need to ride 🐎
Cuddles and chatting about memories of the big adventures you’ve been on as a partnership are enough ❤️❤️❤️❤️

My Rum - 19 years young having a much deserved night off ❤️❤️❤️

One thing I am proud of as a practice, is being able to offer a half way house to those patients that really need it. Of...
08/04/2026

One thing I am proud of as a practice, is being able to offer a half way house to those patients that really need it.
Of course, hospitals are worth their weight in gold! The referal hospitals near me are world class, however for those that aren’t insured, or surgery just isn’t an option, we have been able to admit cases for medical management with 24 hour care.

This offers me so much satisfaction and makes an overall very difficult job so incredibly worthwhile.

And most importantly it teaches my children a lot too - here they both are on grass picking and mash duties for one of our colic patients ❤️

Days like these are just priceless ❤️❤️❤️

A perfect morning back after the Easter break ❤️❤️❤️Baby Spartan was far too tired after too many Easter eggs 🥚 and deci...
07/04/2026

A perfect morning back after the Easter break ❤️❤️❤️
Baby Spartan was far too tired after too many Easter eggs 🥚 and decided he would rather stay lay down in bed for his vaccination today 😅😅❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Pocket Nook Lane, Warrington
Lowton
WA31

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+447731498987

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