Vale Vets Animal Hospital - Portishead

31/08/2025

Come & visit the Vale Vets stall at the Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary Fun Day at Ashton Court today & your pooch can enter one of the dog shows 🐕🏅🏆

28/08/2025

Fly strike is a serious risk, but it’s preventable. 🐰

👉 Check your rabbit’s back end each day, keep their bedding clean, and ask your vet about protection.

With Pet Health Club, annual fly strike prevention is included for rabbit members.

Want to be a member? Join today: bit.ly/JoinPetHealthClub

28/08/2025

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟

We’re thrilled to announce that we have a new Vale Vets practice opening in Clevedon! 🎉

📍 Location: 20-24 Alexandra Road Clevedon Somerset BS21 7QH

You can expect to see everything you already love about Vale Vets, now even closer to home:

🐾 Same friendly team
📅 Same appointments
💙 Same Pet Health Club benefits

Our new Clevedon site means we can care for even more pets in our community — with the same compassion, expertise, and friendly faces you know and trust.

We can’t wait to welcome you (and your pets!) through our new doors. 🐶🐱💙

28/08/2025

Sad news - please share 😢

Sadly a RTA cat has been brought into us. It is a adult male netured black and white cat. It has a microchip but not registered.

He was brought in by a member of the public who found him on the Nore Road in Portishead. If you think he is your cat please give Vale Vets a ring on 01275 847400.

27/08/2025

Come & join the fun on Sunday & our team has a stall so pop & say hello! 👋🐕💙

26/08/2025

It's International Dog Day where we celebrate our amazing pooches in our life🐕🦮🐕‍🦺

Here is a selection of our very own staff canine pets & we would love to see your photos of the special dogs in your life 📸 😍

20/08/2025

Blue-green algae can be toxic to dogs. ☢️

It may appear as scum or green paint on the surface of ponds or lakes, but even a small amount can cause dogs to become seriously ill. Keep them out of water that looks suspicious, and always check for warning signs when out on walks.

Learn what to look for and how to keep your dog safe: https://www.pethealthclub.com/uk/pet-advice/blue-green-algae-poisoning-in-dogs

19/08/2025

📚🐾 Say hello to the paw-sitively gorgeous Chip, showing off our brand new animal-themed community library – brought to you by Vale Vets Portishead! 🐶💛

Swing by, 📖 take a book, leave a book, share a book – it’s all about bringing our community (and our love for animals!) together. 🐾❤️

You'll find it right outside our practice on Beach Road West. Come check it out – and don't forget to tag us in your bookish adventures! ✨📚

18/08/2025

HELP! 🙋‍♀️📰

We are in need of old newspapers for lining our cattery & kennels for our in-patients. If you can help please could you drop off to Reception or leave under our balcony at our Portishead hospital.

Many thanks from the team at Vale Vets 💙

17/08/2025

Pet Health Club has partnered with Cats Protection to help you give your new cat the best start, and through our partnership, you can get a special code to join the Pet Health Club online.

That code offers a 12-month Essential plan membership for the price of 10, including vaccinations, flea and worm treatment, and a healthy pet check every six months.

You’ll also be helping more cats in need, as for every Pet Health Club Essential plan membership sold, Cats Protection will receive £10.

To find out more, visit: https://pethealthclub.com/cats-protection

*Terms and conditions apply. The offer is only valid for the Pet Health Club Essentials plan.

15/08/2025

Please help Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary if you think you could be a foster carer 🐱🐶❤️

We are FULL…foster homes really needed

Holly Hedge are urgently seeking foster homes for some of our dogs and cats who are unable to cope with being in a kennel or cattery environment and need extra TLC.

Some have been with us for a considerable length of time and are desperate for a home environment where their rehabilitation can be continued. Others urgently need to be rescued when we are full and have no space.

Many of our rescues are here through no fault of their own. Some have been abandoned and found straying with dreadful injuries, others have been given up because the owners circumstances have changed and unfortunately can no longer keep their much-loved pets, or just surplus to requirements and sadly unwanted.

We are seeking caring and committed people who can be a temporary half-way house for our less fortunate and vulnerable rescues who need that little bit extra, whether it be a cosy bed after a big operation, recovering from a debilitating illness, the elderly or very young who should not be in a kennel or cattery situation.

Then of course there are always those who require ongoing training that will need experienced foster carers willing to put the time and effort into helping them forget their sorry pasts, paving the way to making all their dreams come true in their longed for forever homes.

Fostering is being a Good Samaritan to those dear souls who have lost their way, lost their homes and the people they love, been abandoned and mis-treated and lost all hope and trust in humans. It takes very special, compassionate animal loving Angels to be there for those that society has failed and are that little bit more challenging.

Working with these victims of ill treatment and neglect and gaining their trust is very rewarding and such a great achievement but also takes a lot of time and patience. Holly Hedge will be there to support you every step of the way.

Please note many of our animals will need an experienced foster home with no other pets, and no young children, and foster carers should be local to Holly Hedge in North Somerset / Bristol and have transport, to bring animals back to the sanctuary for vet visits, and for dogs to meet prospective adopters. For cats, we arrange for prospective adopters to meet them in the foster home, so foster carers would need to be okay with this.

All equipment and food can be provided and all vet bills are covered by the sanctuary.

To apply to be a foster carer or to make any enquiries regarding the animals or fostering, please contact the rehoming team at [email protected] or call 01275 474719 to check if you have the right circumstances to foster.

If you feel you can help, we would love to hear from you otherwise we would be grateful if you could share. Thank you 🙏

14/08/2025

Wilds Birds ⚠️

There has been confirmed cases of Bird Flu in Portishead & we are taking precautions in practice. We ask that anyone visiting with a WILD bird to leave the patient in the car or outside, and report to reception for further instructions.

Ideally please always phone ahead to let us know you are coming. We appreciate your cooperation with this.