The Veterinary Health Centre Ltd

03/06/2026

02/06/2026

🏃‍♀️ When people think of a Greyhound, they usually think of SPEED! But it may surprise you to know how relaxed they can be 💤

😴 They can usually be found stretched out on the sofa or taking over the bed - saving their energy for a quick burst of zoomies every now and then 😂

🤓 Sighthounds were bred to hunt using their eyesight rather than their sense of smell. They are known for speed and agility but as any owner will tell you, they are just as skilled at napping!

♥️ Whether you share your home (and 75% of your bed!) with a retired racing Greyhound, a pocket-sized Italian Greyhound, a speedy Whippet, or a Heinz 57 Lurcher (⬇️ just like Dexter) - today is a chance to appreciate these gorgeous gentle guys ♥️

❓Do you have a sighthound at home? Share a photo of them enjoying their favourite hobby - being totally horizontal! 😂

01/06/2026

🦔How do you solve a problem like Maria?

😢Maria the hedgehog was brought into us by a member of the public who was concerned about her. After a full check over, she appeared generally well, aside from needing some worming treatment. She was a little quiet, but for a member of a primarily nocturnal species — the European hedgehog — that can be completely normal.

☹️Overnight, once the lights had gone out and the ‘sound of silence’ replaced the sound of staff, Maria did begin to nibble a little. Still, something didn’t quite add up — she seemed more ‘sixteen going on sleepy’ than fully herself.

🤓So Siuna decided it was time for a quick ultrasound… just to check that everything was ‘climbing every mountain, fording every stream, following every rainbow’ in the right direction.

♥️And then came the cutest revelation of all: Maria was pregnant.

🥹Well, that certainly ‘doe, a deer’ explain things.

♥️From there, she was transferred to the Brambles Wildlife Rescue Maternity Suite for some well-earned rest and recuperation — a place that clearly had ‘confidence in sunshine’. And it seems the accommodation was rather too good to leave behind, because Maria decided that if this was home, then home was where she’d stay for the next chapter.

♥️Not long after, she gave birth right there in the suite.

♥️So now we say a very warm ‘so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye’ to Maria’s solo days, and a big hello to the newest arrivals: Louisa, Kurt, Birgitta, and Gretyl.

A proper little von Trapp of hedgehogs 🥰🥰

30/05/2026

💚 Happy Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month 💚

25/05/2026

🚨STRAY DOG🚨
Found St David’s Road North, St-Annes. Please phone us on 01253 729309 if this is your doggy 🥰

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22/05/2026

🚨CAT FOUND🚨
Found Kenilworth Road, St Annes - microchipped to Blackpool - black with white chin, belly, and back paws - name on chip is Socks. We need the owner to contact us urgently please on 01253 729309

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