Vets for Pets Morpeth

26/10/2026

🎃TRICK OR TREAT? NOT FOR EVERYONE! 🐾

Halloween and Bonfire Night might be exciting for us, but for some of our pets, it’s an absolutely terrifying time.

Unexpected knocks at the door, unfamiliar costumes, flashing lights, loud bangs and fireworks can turn a perfectly ordinary evening into a frightening experience.

And it’s not just dogs who struggle.

🐶 Dogs may shake, hide, bark or become distressed.

🐱 Cats can become frightened, withdraw or attempt to escape.

🐰 Rabbits, guinea pigs and other small pets can be particularly vulnerable to sudden noises and disturbances.

🐴 Horses and other outdoor animals can also be seriously affected.

But here’s what we really want you to know: you don’t have to just put up with it, and neither do they.

At Vets for Pets Morpeth, we can help with:

🐾 Practical advice on creating a safe, comfortable environment.

🐾 Behavioural support and desensitisation techniques.

🐾 Calming products and pheromone support.

🐾 Prescription medication for animals who need additional help, following veterinary assessment.

🐾 Longer-term plans to help make future firework seasons less frightening.

Fear isn’t something our pets should simply have to endure.

Please don’t wait until your pet is absolutely terrified before asking for help.

Pop in, give us a call or book an appointment. We’re here to help you find the right approach for your individual pet.

💚 Vets for Pets Morpeth
📞 01670 500645

Because feeling safe matters to every animal. 🐾

22/10/2026

🐾 WALLY SAYS WE’RE HIRING! 🐾

Part-Time Veterinary Surgeon | Vets4Pets Morpeth

We’re looking for an experienced vet to join our lovely expanding team here in Morpeth!

We’re a well-equipped, busy first-opinion practice with a genuinely fantastic team of people. We’ve got experienced vets, including certificate holders in medicine and diagnostic imaging, seven brilliant nurses and a wonderful front-of-house team who keep everything running smoothly.

We’re looking for someone who enjoys a good mix of consulting and surgery, is confident with routine surgical procedures and has at least three years’ experience in small animal practice.

So, what’s on offer?

🐾 £65,000–£75,000 FTE, depending on experience (pro rata)

🐾 Ideally two weekdays (9am–7pm) and 1 in 3 Saturdays (9am–3.30pm)

🐾 Flexible days and hours considered

🐾 No nights, no out-of-hours and no Sundays!

🐾 One-hour paid lunch break

🐾 Generous CPD budget, RCVS and VDS fees paid

🐾 Good pension scheme

🐾 Experienced colleagues, excellent nursing support and a varied medical and surgical caseload.

🐾 Parking and excellent public transport links

We’re proud to be a Fear Free and ISFM Cat Friendly practice, and we take looking after our people just as seriously as looking after our patients.

We’re an endometriosis and menopause-friendly workplace, with mental health ambassadors and access to professional psychotherapeutic support.

We believe you should be able to enjoy being a vet, feel supported by your colleagues and have a life outside work too!

There may be some occasional sole-charge work, so we’re looking for someone clinically confident who will enjoy being part of our established team.

We’re not looking for someone to simply fill a gap in the rota. We’re looking for someone who’ll become part of our team.

If this sounds like the sort of practice you’d like to work in, I’d genuinely love to hear from you.

📧 [email protected]

Even if you’re just curious and fancy an informal chat, please get in touch.

And if you know a brilliant vet who might be looking for a change, please give this a share!

Love from Big Wally and the Morpeth team 🐾

21/10/2026

Urgent - please share.

20/10/2026

**Cat Handed In ***

We have had a female cat handed in. Found Kendor Grove area.

Not microchipped.

If you think she may be yours please contact the practice.

Many thanks.
01670 500670

Call now to connect with business.

26/09/2026

🐰💚 Happy International Rabbit Day! 💚🐰

Today we’re celebrating our lovely long-eared patients, and sneaking in an important reminder about just how good rabbits can be at hiding when something isn’t right.

Because they’re prey animals, rabbits will often hide signs of pain or illness. Sometimes the first clue is simply that they’re not quite themselves.

👀 Things we’d never ignore:
Eating less or refusing food
Fewer, smaller or no droppings
Suddenly refusing a favourite treat
Being unusually quiet, withdrawn or hiding
Tooth grinding or sitting hunched up
A swollen or uncomfortable tummy
Changes in drinking or urination
Moving differently or being reluctant to hop around

A rabbit who has stopped eating or producing droppings needs veterinary advice promptly, please don’t wait to see if they’re better tomorrow.

💚 Did you know we offer Complete Care Plans for rabbits too?

Our rabbit plans are designed to help you keep on top of their routine preventative healthcare and spread the cost throughout the year, with the new added bonus or unlimited nurse appointments. If you’d like to know what’s included or whether a plan would suit your bunny, just ask one of the team.

And while we’re celebrating rabbits… we want to see yours!

Drop a photo of your bunny in the comments and tell us their name. Bonus points for ridiculous sleeping positions, enormous ears and photographic evidence of things they definitely weren’t supposed to chew. 😂🐰

19/09/2026

💚 EVEN MORE FROM COMPLETE CARE 💚

We’ve made the decision at Vets4Pets Morpeth to give our Complete Care clients even more value from their plan.

Complete Care members can now benefit from UNLIMITED routine appointments with our experienced veterinary nursing team, including some of those little jobs that can really add up over the year! 🐾

Your unlimited nurse appointments can include:

🐾 Nail clips
🐾 A**l gland expression
🐾 Basic ear cleaning
🦷 Dental health checks
🐶 Puppy & kitten advice
✂️ Neutering discussions and advice
🪱 Parasite prevention discussions
⚖️ Weight & general wellbeing checks
💚 Preventative healthcare advice

Whether you need us regularly for nail clips or a**l glands, want us to check your pet’s teeth, or simply have questions about their routine healthcare, our nursing team is here to help.

It’s all part of our aim to make preventative healthcare easier and help you get even more from your pet’s Complete Care plan.

💚 Join Complete Care today and enjoy unlimited routine nurse appointments alongside all your existing plan benefits.

Ask our team for more information or to get your pet signed up.

Available to active Complete Care members at Vets4Pets Morpeth. Routine nurse appointments only and subject to clinical suitability and appointment availability. Treatments, medications, diagnostic tests and specialist nurse clinics are not included. Terms and conditions apply.

19/09/2026

FREE DENTAL CHECKS WITH OUR NURSING TEAM!

When did you last have a proper look at your pet’s teeth?

Dental disease is incredibly common in cats and dogs, and it’s often much more advanced than owners realise before obvious signs appear. Pets can be remarkably good at carrying on as normal, even continuing to eat despite having a painful mouth.

Some signs to look out for include:

🐾 Bad breath
🐾 Yellow or brown tartar
🐾 Red, swollen or bleeding gums
🐾 Drooling or rubbing at the mouth
🐾 Difficulty chewing or dropping food
🐾 Loose, damaged or missing teeth

We’re currently offering FREE dental health checks with one of our veterinary nurses. 🪥🐾

During your appointment, we’ll assess your pet’s teeth and gums, discuss anything we find and give you advice on keeping their mouth healthy at home. If we think they would benefit from further veterinary assessment or dental treatment, we’ll explain the next steps.

And if your pet does need dental treatment…

Our dental patients can also benefit from K-Laser therapy following their procedure. Laser therapy can be used as part of post-operative care to help reduce pain and inflammation and support the healing process particularly following dental extractions and oral surgery.

Many pets continue eating despite significant dental disease, so don’t wait for them to tell you something hurts.

📞 Call Vets4Pets Morpeth to book your FREE nurse dental check.

Healthy mouth. Happier pet. ❤️🐾

13/09/2026

25/02/2024

When Kelly from our Colton store's Pets Grooming salon discovered a lump on the tail of nine-year-old Rufus she suspected something wasn't right, so alerted his owners Les and Andrea so they could get it checked out. They brought him to Vets for Pets Leeds Colton where it was confirmed he had a cancerous tumour which needed surgery.

Les, who adopted Rufus from Dogs Trust in Leeds as a puppy, said: “Rufus is such a big part of our life; we’re absolutely besotted with him. We probably wouldn’t have noticed the lump if not at the groomers as the tail isn’t somewhere you would usually stroke and feel. Kelly loves Rufus and really looks after him, so we want to say a big thanks for spotting it. Who'd have known what would have happened if she hadn’t noticed.”

Rufus had to have his tail removed, but is now making a good recovery. He's been visiting Kelly for a groom every six weeks for the last three years. She said: “You get to know everything about a dog as you groom them. I’ve discovered similar things before on other dogs so I mentioned it to the owners so they could get it checked out. Dogs are my life and you do worry; I’m so pleased they caught it. Now he’s got a fully docked tail like a little bunny rabbit. It’s lovely and suits him – when he gets washed he wiggles his bum.”

21/02/2024

Arthur's owner Louise says he "looked like a brand-new tortoise" after having his beak filed at Sutton in Ashfield Vets4Pets.

Louise adopted the four-year-old Horsefield Tortoise from a family member in October. Although she has had other pets, Arthur is her first tortoise, so she has been doing some research on how to best care for him.

Louise said: "I noticed Arthur's beak was unusually long, so I brought him in to Vets for Pets; I bring all my pets there. When he came out, I thought 'you beautiful boy, look at you – you look so handsome!"

Vet Steph, who looked after Arthur, says that tortoise beaks continuously grow and normally grind down themselves while they're eating. She said: "Arthur needed a little help as his jaw isn't perfectly aligned; his lower jaw is further out than his top jaw, so I filed it around half a centimetre. He was really good; a real cutie."

18/02/2024

Owner Claire says she couldn't be more grateful to Vets4Pets Hamilton after their quick diagnosis saved the sight of six-year-old Alba.

Claire knew there was something terribly wrong with her miniature dachshund cross when she called her in from the back garden last summer and Alba ran headfirst into a closed patio door. She rushed her to the vets, where investigations led the team to diagnose her with uveitis – an eye condition which causes inflammation of the middle layer of the eye.

Claire said: "It all happened so suddenly; Alba must have heard my voice and guessed where to go. It was quite scary seeing how bad she was. We couldn't be more grateful for the team in Hamilton spotting the uveitis as quickly as they did, otherwise Alba would have gone blind within a matter of days. Their knowledge saved Alba's sight. I still can't believe it happened. It's taken months of treatments, but it's such a relief to have our girl back to being her funny, bossy self."

Vet Neil, one of the team who treated Alba, said: "Alba's pupil was really narrow and wouldn't respond to light properly, which can be a sign of uveitis. Once we had ruled out other conditions, we were able to get her to an eye specialist for ongoing treatment. She's now doing really well."

16/02/2024

Ducky's owner Antonia was in a state of panic when she saw a fox had dug its way into the field where she keeps him – killing two of her other ducks and chickens.

Antonia was about to move her brood into their pen for the evening when she saw what had happened and noticed that Ducky had severe bite wounds under his wing. She rushed him to Vets4Pets Vets Milton Keynes for emergency surgery – and after having his wound stitched up the one-year-old duck is now making a good recovery.

Antonia said: "I was so worried. You don’t often hear of ducks recovering from fox attacks, but there is something about Ducky and the way he was so brave. I'm sure he was protecting a lady duck, as he's a bit of a romantic. It's the first time we've gone to Vets for Pets, and the team were amazing; they've done an incredible job."

Vet Becca, who treated Ducky, said: "He's a really lucky duck, as it was quite a big wound. When he first came in, he was understandably subdued and quiet but when he came back for his stitches to be taken out, he wanted to explore and tuck his head into everyone’s shoulders."

07/02/2024

Well done to the team at Vets4Pets Guildford who've been awarded a silver level certificate for being a rabbit-friendly clinic.

After head veterinary nurse Ella noticed that more customers were bringing in rabbits the practice took a series of steps to give them as stress-free an experience as possible. Ella, who also fosters rescue dogs in her spare time, said: "There was a long list of things that we needed to prove that we did from making sure the rabbits are kept separate from other animals and not booked in at the same time as barking dogs, to providing heated kennels for those who need to stay in, and using special equipment made especially for rabbits."

Practice manager Kevin said: "All of our vets have plenty of experience with rabbits we have some real rabbit geeks here, so it was a big thing to us. There are so many good people in this world and I'm so proud to be around them."

28/01/2024

Beautiful Bear was born deaf, so he's learned to follow his owner Lisa's visual commands.

Lisa, who shops at our Tamworth store – "it's my second home!" – got two-year-old Bear as a kitten and suspected he was deaf when he didn't respond to her voice. She had it confirmed by her vet soon after. She said: "He was very scatty, and scared of people he didn’t recognise. He wasn’t bothered by loud noises like my other cat Emily and when I came home from work he wouldn’t hear the door open.

"He's doing really well though. I try to do some sign language with him – I point at him and do a solid hand sign at him to stop. He picks up on vibrations and scents too. He meows, making a really loud chirping sound which I’ve never heard a cat do before, and he’s always rubbing his head against my legs and following me everywhere. I was advised not to let him out because he wouldn’t hear cars or other dangers, so he comes outside with me every morning to have a sniff around the garden and always comes straight back in." Bear and Lisa's other cat Emily are on Instagram as

27/01/2024

Ten-year-old Dutch rabbit Alfie has been visiting vet Kate at Vets4pets Wolverhampton for dental treatment for the last eight years – and she says he's such a loveable character that he's become "part of the family".

He's one of the oldest rabbits treated by Kate and the team, and she says his longevity is down to the care and love he gets from his owner Tracy and her family. Kate said: "Alfie is famous in this practice – everyone knows him. We and his family are dedicated to making sure her little old man is happy. The beautiful thing about being a vet or vet nurse is you build these relationships with the owners and their pets – they become your surrogate pets."

Tracy's been keeping rabbits all her life, and says that having space and routine is key. She said: "Alfie is an old man now and has a routine. He goes into a hutch at night and is let out in the morning. He's out all day and has his favourite spots in the house. We clean him out every day and give him a lot of attention. When he was younger he would follow us around; if I was clearing a cupboard out he would be in the cupboard to help. Now he's old and wants to be warm and watch instead. I can't thank Kate and the practice enough. Kate's been fantastic with him."

26/01/2024

Eight-year-old Winnie the Schnauzer cross is running around like a puppy again thanks to laser treatment and physiotherapy after two successful knee operations at Vets for Pets Basildon.

Worried owner Tracy brought Winnie in to the practice after she collapsed on a walk last year – and the team discovered the cruciate ligament in a knee had ruptured. She’s since had ops on two knees and is on a recovery plan led by vet physiotherapist Izzy.

Tracy said: "Winnie has had a tough year with 15 teeth removed, two cruciate ligament operations and two bouts of pancreatitis but thankfully she's hardy. She’s treated fabulously at the Basildon practice. Izzy is great with her – she totally relaxes in her hands and does little snores with her eyes open. Winnie has a new lease of life again and is running around like a puppy."

Izzy said: "When pets have surgery or injure themselves they move differently which causes them to be sore in other places. Winnie has laser therapy then a massage to help the healing process. Laser treatment is a specialist service that not enough people know about – it can help in so many ways after an operation.”

19/01/2024

The team at Vets4Pets Cramlington say greyhound Frank was "an absolute gentleman" when he came in for some dental work.

Seven-year-old Frank was brought in by owner Harriet to get rid of some plaque which had built up and to treat a gum inflammation. Veterinary nurse Vicki said: "Frank was a very good boy and left with clean, fresh and sparkly teeth. It's so very important to get your dog's teeth checked and we advise pets to have an annual dental check. Eighty per cent of dogs over the age of three have dental disease. Prevention is much better than cure and regular checks and routine cleaning keep your pet's mouth healthier for longer and can help to prevent extensive extractions later in life. We are always happy to offer advice on maintenance and dental care at home such as teeth brushing or dental supplements."

18/01/2024

Veterinary nurse Mel from Vets4Pets Bristol Longwell Green loves cats so much she's helped the practice make a number of improvements to give cats as stress-free an experience as possible when they're brought in.

Mel, who has an Advanced Certificate in Feline Behaviour for Veterinary Professionals, helped introduce facilities like a separate feline waiting area and cattery and the use of quiet clippers – and the practice now has a silver level certificate for being a cat-friendly clinic. She said: "I love dogs but I'm really a cat person. Cats can be misunderstood which can lead to them having quite a stressful life, so if we can make things easier for them and help people understand what cats need then everyone will be happier.

"As animal lovers there's always more to learn and understand about what makes them happy. Enrichment at the home is important for a happy cat – and as cats are naturally solitary animals if you live in a multi-cat household it's important to understand what they need. The rule is to have a resource per cat, plus one spare. So if you have two cats you should have three feeding stations, three litter trays and three scratch posts spread around the house so they have the opportunity to move around to wherever they want to go. Scratching is as natural a thing for cats to do as going out hunting is, so if they're unable to go out it's about providing the chance for them to behave as naturally as possible."