Stonehouse Veterinary Practice

04/06/2026

🌀We’re hiring - Full time Registered Veterinary Nurse position🌀
🔹 Are you kind, caring and compassionate? Have excellent communication skills? Enjoy being part of a supportive, independent practice?
🔹We’d love to hear from you 💙

✍️Apply by sending CV and covering letter to [email protected]

29/05/2026

*Veterinary Nurse Position*

Breadstone Veterinary Practice and Stonehouse Veterinary Practice are independent small animal practices located in South Gloucestershire, with great reputations in the local community. Breadstone Vets opened in July 2025, following the success of Stonehouse Vets which opened in January 2022. Both practices are rapidly growing, and we are looking for a new member of staff to play an integral role in our team.

We aim to provide the best possible care to our patients, using recent medicine and look after each pet as if they were our own. We also pride ourselves on excellent client communication and care.

We are looking for a hard-working, kind, caring, compassionate, and dedicated qualified veterinary nurse to join our team. We are also looking for somebody who would be interested in being a clinical coach for a student veterinary nurse.

Facilities include Idexx haematology and biochemistry machines, digital DR x-ray, dental CR x-ray, ultrasound, ECG, multiparameters, tonometry, infusions pumps, patient warmers, and well-equipped surgical kits for both soft tissue and orthopaedic surgeries.

Opening hours are 8.30am-7pm Monday to Friday and Saturday 8.30am-3pm. No OOH. We are looking for somebody who can work full-time and participate on a 1 in 4 Saturday rota. Salary commensurate with experience.

To apply, please contact Maria (practice manager) and Dan (director) via email at [email protected]

www.stonehousevets.co.uk
www.breadstonevets.co.uk

Breadstone Veterinary Practice is a vet in Breadstone, offering expert care for pets in Dursley, Berkeley, Cam, Slimbridge, Frampton & Sharpness.

24/05/2026

It’s the end of Veterinary Nurse Awareness Month.
It’s important for you all to know, that being a Vet Nurse does not mean that you ‘get to cuddle puppies and kittens all day’ - a phrase we hear often.
I mean. We do, obviously, at any opportunity! But you are more likely to find us monitoring anaesthetics, taking blood samples, putting pets on a drip, mopping the floor, running lab samples, prepping for surgery, answering the phone, running clinics, emptying the clinical waste bins, sterilising surgical kits, changing dressings, assisting with X-rays, cleaning teeth, picking up poo/vomit/pee, dispensing medication, giving advice, injecting medication, comforting and supporting a client when their pet is end of life, painting the walls… oh this list is ENDLESS!!
All we know is this - our fabulous Vets could not do the wonderful work they do, without our incredible Nurses.
Thank you, to all the Veterinary Nurses out there - we see you, we hear you, we appreciate you and we LOVE you! 💕🐾

15/05/2026

10/05/2026

Give a great big CONGRATULATIONS to lovely Abi! She is now a fully fledged RVN after passing her final exams. We have to make do with a photo of her new badge and her little crew from home. Well done Abi, this was really well deserved. We already know what a superb Vet Nurse you are 😁 This is what she says;
“I came to veterinary nursing after working at a wildlife hospital for over a decade. While I love my work with cat and dogs I still have a keen interest in our more unusual furry (or feathered) friends. I have had a variety of pets over the years from dogs and cats to snakes and a parrot. I currently have 2 dogs - Jingle & Ernie, a parrot called Toby and 2 tanks of tropical and marine fish.
In my spare time I enjoy taking part in agility with Jingle and singing in my local pop choir.”

04/05/2026

💉🩺 Book the Booster! 💉🩺
When we send a reminder for your dog (or cats) vaccination - book them in!
This is Dodger, an absolutely gorgeous 10yr old JR terrier (I’m biased - he’s mine 🥰)
Now I’ve been a Vet Nurse & Receptionist for over 30yrs (🫣👵🏻) and when I booked Dodger in for his vaccinations, I did not foresee this. Dodger shows no clinical symptoms, no exercise intolerance- he’s his normal (crazy) self.
But - a booster appointment is when the Vet gives a full health check, once a year.
Joe the Vet gave Dodger his nose to tail check - and then broke the news that Dodger has a heart murmur. Significant enough to warrant an Echocardiogram (an ultrasound of the heart).
Thank goodness we went for his booster- Dodger is now on medication for a heart condition that is common in small dogs as they get older - Mitral Valve Disease. Early detection is key.
So - when that reminder comes - book the appointment! An annual check of your cat & dog is crucial for the Vet to pick up issues that we as owners cannot always see.
Thanks to Joe, Abi & Carrie for looking after him - Dodger is being a good boy and taking the medication 🥰

29/04/2026

Matchy-Matchy 😁 Love the pink stethoscopes 🩺 Pablo & Charlotte looking positively mischievous 😆

27/04/2026

Ticks....urrgghhhh....
Tick season is well under way, and all dog and cat owners should be aware that these creatures (related to spiders, scorpians and mites) can carry diseases such as Lyme disease.
These clever critters climb up the stalks of long grasses and plants, and wait for their new host....they ‘quest’, by holding up their front legs, waving them around to detect body heat, carbon dioxide from their hosts breath, warmth, mositure and vibrations. They cannot jump or fly, and so will scramble very quickly onto their new host. They need to feed on blood at every one of their life stages...6 legged larvae, 8 legged nyph and then adult.
They can be hard to spot at various stages as they are so small...they can be poppy seed sized...
However - prevention is the best cure! We have many treatments that will kill the tick before it has a chance to infect your dog or cat (IF it is carrying a disease) - or you can remove any tick you see with one of our very simple to use tick removers. As long as you remove a tick within the first 24 hours, the risk of disease is greatly reduced.
Phone us or pop in for any more information!

24/04/2026

🐶Foreign Body Friday🐶 What do you think the first photo is?? We have no idea what it was originally, but once it was removed from insides of the dog we gave it a prod and a squeeze (yes of course, we washed it first 😆) and we still don’t know. We went in looking for chewed up sofa pieces and instead found this!
The second one (from a different dog) was a ball. The owners didn’t recognise as one from home - they had no idea where he got it from, or indeed that he’d eaten it!
Both dogs went on to make a full recovery 🥳Oh and they aren’t labs this time…

10/04/2026

*Foreign Body Friday!*
Would you be interested in seeing the things we sometimes remove from our patients?! Comment below if you are! This is a needle that was removed from the back of the throat of a dog. It was removed and the dog suffered no complications.
The owner had no idea where he found the needle - nobody in the house hold does any sewing 🧵 🪡!
Can you guess the breed of dog that ate it..?! It’s the most likely breed to eat something it shouldn’t 🤪🫣🐶.