Church House Veterinary Clinic- Tebbutts

23/06/2025

UPDATE: we now have access but they remain slow 🌳

We are unable to look at our diary and book any appointments this morning. Unless it is urgent please don’t call the practice this morning.
Thank you in advance 😊

20/06/2025

Miss Rhudi kept cool today by laying in front of our fan. She was loving all the attention from our nurses and vets ☺️

18/06/2025

Please read through this, it contains really useful information on heat stroke!

Hot Forecast Due 🌅 Met Office Heat will build through the week. On Wednesday the highest temperatures values in the UK are expected to be around 27ºC.

Is it true that if we use cold water on heat stroke pets they will go into shock?

One of the most common things we still hear is that we can only use tepid water on a pet with heat stroke, incase they get some complications like hypothermic overshoot, peripheral vasoconstriction hindering a cooling response, and cardiogenic shock...

We have heard not to use cold water in case it causes shock... this rarely happens!

But guess what? In a recent study over 26% of dogs presented with heat stroke died, with flat faced breeds making up nearly half of heat stroke cases seen in the study.

You should:

💧Get someone to call the local veterinary practice and tell them you're going to travel down with a heat stroke patient
💧Pour, hose or if possible immerse the pet in very cold water (this should obviously be done under constant supervision, ensuring the head is fully above water and immersion should not be attempted if the animal is too large, or you are unable to do so without hurting yourself)
💧NB: If using a hose pipe, make sure it has run through until cold, as they can often contain water that is extremely hot in the tubing initially
💧Do not drape in towels and leave them in situ. Keep the cold water flowing.
💧Move to a cool, shaded area
💧Prepare to transport to vets in a cold, air conditioned car

In studies they found that:

🌅International consensus from sports medicine organisations supports treating EHS with early rapid cooling by immersing the casualty in cold water.
🌅Ice-water immersion has been shown to be highly effective in exertional heat stroke, with a zero fatality rate in large case series of younger, fit patients.
🌅Hyperthermic individuals were cooled twice as fast by Cold Water Immersion as by passive recovery.
🌅No complications occurred during the treatment of three older patients with severe heat stroke were treated with cold‐water immersion.
🌅Cold water immersion (CWI) is the preferred cooling modality in EHS guidelines and the optimal method applicable to UK Service Personnel
🌅Studies suggest using either ice-water or cold-water immersion

The best intervention is PREVENTION, but if you find yourself with an animal with heat stroke, using cold water either by pouring, hosing or ideally (if safe) immersion then this may help reduce their temperature to safe levels while you transport to a veterinary practice.

Read more below:

https://www.vetvoices.co.uk/post/cool-icy-cold-or-tepid

17/06/2025

13/06/2025

Puppies again!

A litter of German Shepherd puppies paid us a visit a couple weeks ago. Look how cute they are! 😍

We hope everyone has a great weekend.

27/05/2025

We work closely with Cats Protection, they are always looking for volunteers. If you have any spare time and would like to offer your help, please see the photos on how to go about contacting them.

25/05/2025

This georgeous litter of puppies came in earlier this week! 😍
Any guesses to what breed they are?

22/05/2025

May is Veterinary Nurse Appreciation month,
Here at CHVC we have a team of 5 nurses made up of two students and three registered nurses.

Nurses play a key role at veterinary clinics they take X-rays, monitor anaesthetics, dispense and draw up medication, take blood samples, carry out descale and polishes, care for inpatients, carry out stock checks and run lab tests. There’s much more that we could list so a big thank you to all the nurses!

Again if you would like to nominate any of our nurses for a petplan award nominations are open now!