Little Hoppers Veterinary Surgery - Staplehurst

02/04/2026

Happy Easter to all our lovely clients 🐇🌷🍫🐣🪻

Please note our opening hours over the bank holiday weekend:

Good Friday (3rd April) CLOSED
Saturday (4th April) 9am - 1pm
Easter Sunday (5th April) CLOSED
Easter Monday (6th April) CLOSED

Our normal opening hours will resume on Tuesday 7th April. In the meantime, Pennard Vets will be on hand as usual for any out-of-hours emergencies (01732 452 344) 🐾

The Little Hoppers Team 🧡

14/03/2026

NOTICE – Saturday Opening Hours 🐾

Our opening hours today, Saturday 14th March, are 9:00am – 2:00pm.

For anything urgent after 2:00pm, please contact our Headcorn branch on 01622 808 675 🩺💊

Our normal Saturday hours of 9:00am – 5:00pm will resume next week.

Thank you for your understanding 🧡

11/03/2026

Ronnie’s story 🐾

TRIGGER WARNING: Graphic image of surgery posted in comments.

Ronnie the Wonder Dog! ⭐ Nine year old Springer Spaniel Ronnie came in to see us for a routine booster vaccination, and during a thorough general health check, our vet Luke could feel a mass in his abdomen.

Ronnie was booked in for an abdominal ultrasound with Luke for further investigation, and unfortunately a very large mass was discovered, occupying almost the whole of his abdomen. It was necessary to send Ronnie for a CT scan to see if the origin of the mass could be determined, but even after a CT scan there were no definitive answers.

We were unsure if Ronnie’s mass would be operable or not, but it was decided with his lovely owners that we would try, knowing that a difficult decision may have to be made during surgery if it was not possible.

We enlisted the help of Andre at SAS - Small Animal Surgery; and after careful assessment, manipulation and surgery, amazingly, Ronnie’s huge mass was able to be removed. The team weighed the mass post-operatively and it was a massive 3.7kg!

Ronnie’s recovery has been nothing short of astounding; he bounced back incredibly quickly and was soon back to his happy, hungry self. We are so proud of him and are so pleased that handsome Ronnie and his family have been given more time for lots of adventures together 🧡

06/03/2026

Best of luck to Louie & Katy at Crufts today! We are all cheering you on 🧡🙌🏻

Exciting news! 🐾

Katy and Louie are competing at Crufts tomorrow, representing the South East and East Anglia in the Inter-regional obedience competition! 🏆🐶

Katy has been working incredibly hard to get Louie ready for the big day, with fantastic support from Siobhan HolisticPet Kent and Brinna from Unleashed Physiotherapy, helping get him in tip-top condition.

We’re all so proud and wish them the very best of luck! 🍀

Show them some love and wish them luck in the comments! 👇

management rehab

23/02/2026

Show us your mucky pups! 🐾

With all the rain we've been having there is more than a little bit of mud around, which the dogs are loving of course! Would love to see your muddiest dog photos 🫣

14/02/2026

Happy Valentines Day to all our lovely clients and patients! 🐾 ❤️ We hope you are all enjoying the sunshine that's decided to show up finally ☀️

06/02/2026

Cutest patient of the week has to go to Warwick the Corgi puppy who charmed the whole team when he came in to see Nicola for his vaccinations! Isn't he beautiful? 😍

31/01/2026

✨ Veterinary Surgeon Spotlight ✨

We are very lucky to have our very own tooth fairy, Dr. Sara Levy DVM GPCert (SADen&OS) MSc MRCVS as part of the Little Hoppers team; Sara is responsible for the advanced dental care that we offer across all our clinics 🪥 🦷

Sara holds a Certificate in Small Animal Dentistry and Oral Surgery, and is equipped to provide advanced dental care such as restorations and maxillofacial repair (e.g fractures) Sara is part of both the BVDA (British Veterinary Dental Society) and the EVDF (European Veterinary Dental Foundation). Sara also takes referrals across the South East for dental surgery. 🐾

When your pet comes for a dental procedure at Little Hoppers, Sara performs a COHAT (Comprehensive Oral Health Assessment and Treatment) in all her patients. This procedure includes:

🦷 Scaling of all teeth
🦷 A thorough dental examination to identify periodontal disease
🦷 Full mouth dental radiography (40-60% of dental pathologies cannot be seen above the gum line, e.g. periapical/root abscesses or granulomas, fractured roots, reabsorbed roots, retained roots)
🦷 Intravenous fluid therapy: gold standard for any procedure lasting longer than 30 minutes or for older patients. This helps to maintain blood pressure and organ function throughout the procedure and speeds up recovery afterwards.
🦷 Local anaesthetic blocks – an extra measure of analgesia to make sure your pet does not feel pain and has a comfortable recovery. Local blocks also allow the general anaesthesia to be low and stable, as your pet does not feel any discomfort during extractions
🦷 Extractions as necessary – these can be simple/closed extractions, or surgical/open extractions where a gingival flap is created to remove alveolar bone, retrieve the root without breaking it and then suture the gingival flap in place.
🦷 Post-operative analgesia and at least 2 post-operative checks with a veterinary surgeon.

Further details on our procedures and pricing can be found on our website: https://www.littlehoppersvets.co.uk/prices but please give us a call with any dental enquiries and the team will be more than happy to help! 🐶🧡🐱

01/01/2026

Unfortunately we had a black kitten brought into us last night that had been involved in a traffic collision near Bumbles garden centre (Cranbrook Road) and sadly had passed away. Not microchipped but if anyone thinks they might be missing this little one please do get in touch. Thank you to the kind people that stopped to collect ❤️

20/06/2025

Apologies - our phone lines are temporarily down, we are working on getting this resolved as soon as possible.

In the meantime please email us [email protected]

Many thanks