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Monday 8:30am - 5pm Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm Thursday 8:30am - 5pm Friday 8:30am - 5pm Saturday 9am - 12pm

http://www.towcester-vets.co.uk/

Towcester Vets, Burcote Road, Towcester (2025)

04/12/2025

🌟 Hunter Update! 🌟

🐾 Thank you so much to everyone who shared our posts about stray Sprocker Hunter or offered a potential home.

🐾 Hunter fell into a slightly grey area: he wasn't truly a stray as he had a keeper registered to his microchip meaning the council representatives (dog warden equivalent), although aware of him, did not feel he was under their jurisdiction. However the registered keeper had rehomed him and was not in a position to have him back. Thankfully we have amazing staff at Towcester Vets who are willing to open their hearts and homes to animals in need.

🐾 Sadly, despite best efforts and sharing him far and wide no owner was forthcoming. Following guidance from dog wardens Hunter remained as a foster dog for 28 days before one of his fosterers, Equine receptionist Holly adopted him permanently! ❤️

🐾 Hunter has settled brilliantly with new siblings Millie And Roxie and has definitely found his happy ending 🥰

04/12/2025

🌟 Hunter Update! 🌟

🐾 Thank you so much to everyone who shared our posts about stray Sprocker Hunter or offered a potential home.

🐾 Hunter fell into a slightly grey area: he wasn't truly a stray as he had a keeper registered to his microchip meaning the council representatives (dog warden equivalent), although aware of him, did not feel he was under their jurisdiction. However the registered keeper had rehomed him and was not in a position to have him back. Thankfully we have amazing staff at Towcester Vets who are willing to open their hearts and homes to animals in need.

🐾 Sadly, despite best efforts and sharing him far and wide no owner was forthcoming. Following guidance from dog wardens Hunter remained as a foster dog for 28 days before one of his fosterers, Equine receptionist Holly adopted him permanently! ❤️

🐾 Hunter has settled brilliantly with new siblings Millie And Roxie and has definitely found his happy ending 🥰

03/12/2025

🌟 What We Do Wednesday! 🌟

♻️ Practice Sustainably ♻️

🐾 We are always looking for ways in which we can ensure we are working in sustainable ways, reducing environmental impact.

🔻 We recycle all waste that we are able to at all of our clinics and ensure that any waste requiring incineration is handled by licenced contractors.

🔻 We use scrub hats which can be laundered to prevent single use disposables being required.

🔻 Where possible we are reducing the need for paper documents: booster reminders, newsletters and invoices are currently sent via email and we are hoping to introduce digital consent forms shortly.

🔻 Servicing and monitoring regimes are implemented to ensure anaesthetic devices are safe.

🔻 Multimodal analgesia is utilised in order to reduce the amount of gaseous anaesthetic agents required.

🔻 Various sterilisation methods are available to allow equipment to be reused without compromising patient safety. Loads are run only once full wherever possible.

🔻 Unused or out of date medications can be returned to us for free-of-charge safe disposal by incineration, preventing the contamination of water sources from home refuge collection.

🔻 We have replaced standard lightbulbs with LED alternatives where possible.

🔻 We use energy efficient electrical equipment where possible and ensure servicing and maintenance schedules are followed.

🔻 We have solar energy panels in place where possible.

🐾 We know there is still more we can do, and are constantly trying to improve. We understand how important it is for us to provide excellent veterinary care while minimising our impact on the wider world too.

02/12/2025

Just a reminder to all our lovely clients, we have VETS ON CALL over the festive period 24/7 if you should need us for any emergencies.

From all the team at Towcester Vets we wish you and your pets a wonderful Christmas and a very happy, healthy New Year!

Please share our festive opening hours with your friends in the area, many thanks 🐾

02/12/2025

🎩 Tip Tip Tuesday! 🎩

🌟🥜 Peanut Butter Trick? 🥜🌟

🐾 You may have seen some videos circulating on sites such as Tiktok and Instagram showing people wrapping cling film around their heads before smearing peanut butter on their foreheads in order to distract their dog before clipping their claws.

🐾 Is this a good idea? Frankly…no! Although the clips seem to show everything going well, it could easily go very wrong!

🐾 While peanut butter can be a really useful distraction to our pets, in this case if something shocks or hurts the animal, which is easily possible while clipping claws, their teeth are in very close proximity to your face! Even a warning snap if it connects could end up with devastating consequences.

🐾 Peanut butter applied to a licky mat, kong, bath wall or muzzle can help keep pets still during bathing, grooming or injections, but without the same risk of injury.

🐾 Peanut butter distraction can be useful to prevent self-trauma to wounds, sore skin or broken claws but we would always advise applying it to something that won't get hurt!

🐾 If you need some help with clipping your pets claws feel free to call us for advice or to make an appointment with a nurse to have them clipped for you ☎️

01/12/2025

🌟 Volunteering! 🌟

🐾 Veterinary Surgeon Hannah and Veterinary Nurse Jen, assisted by Equine intern Becky, spent last Friday with our friends at Animals In Need Northamptonshire , working their way through a long list of cat neutering for the charity.

🐾 They managed to neuter 10 cats and kittens, 3 girls and 7 boys! As each male cat could potentially father hundreds of kittens each year and the girls could give birth to several litters each year this is a vital step to help control the cat population. With rescues locally all full to the brim still this is incredibly important!

🐾 Hannah and Jen loved cuddles with the cats from within the community local to the charity. They also had chance to see some of the other amazing pets awaiting new homes! If you are thinking of expanding your family check out their website.

🐾 Beautiful Bill the lurcher (photographed in the car) has sadly been in the kennels for 18 months after his owners sadly died without attracting anyone's attention!

🐾Hannah and Jen’s husbands are relieved that they managed to come home without any new additions to their already extensive gangs….this time! Hannah was tempted to sneak gorgeous wolfhound cross Aura into her passenger seat though!

🐾 They were incredibly grateful for the two loads of donations we delivered too! Thank you to all that contributed.

🐾 There are many ways to support local animal charities, from adoption, fostering, donating and volunteering, please check out their websites if you would like to know more.

30/11/2025

🐾 Staff Pet Sunday! 🐾

🐍 This stunning Royal python is Patch, a 4-year-old snake owned by vet nurse Jen’s 11 year old son.

🐍 After her son had developed a big interest in snakes a few years ago, researching their husbandry and care, Jen took expert advice and decided a slightly older Royal python was a good choice for a then just-turned 9 year old. They tend to be calm and docile snakes, and harder to lose due to their size! They are also non-venomous.

🐍 Royal pythons are also known as ball pythons due to their predilection for coiling tightly.

🐍 Patch has been an amazing pet, his calm demeanor meaning that many children and adults have had their first experience of snake holding with him. Royal pythons sleep tightly coiled in the smallest hide they can fit in, but watching him explore in the evenings is fascinating.

🐍 With all reptiles it is vital that you provide a habitat and diet suitable for the species. Patch has a vivarium with a gradient of temperatures and a UV light, with substrate which is sprayed with water daily to maintain humidity.

🐍 Patch only needs to eat around every two weeks, eating defrosted small rats. Jen’s son has become very good at observing Patch’s behaviour and appearance as he will refuse food if preparing to shed his skin, which he still currently does around once a month. Once fully grown that is likely to reduce to every 6-10 weeks. Ball pythons are well known for going on hunger strikes, able to go more than 6 months without many consequences!

🐍 It can be difficult to determine the s*x of young snakes as externally both s*xes appear the same. As not intending to breed the s*x didn't matter so further testing wasn't performed. As ‘he’ has continued to grow however, it has become apparent that Patch is likely to be female as he is already more than 4 foot long, with males typically stopping at 3-4 feet.

29/11/2025

🤕🤢 Symptom Saturday! 🤧🤒

🌟 Itching 🌟

🐾 All pets will scratch themselves sometimes, but more than five episodes a day of them licking one particular area, scratching or chewing at themselves suggests that they might be excessively itchy.

🐾 Itching can have a variety of causes, but we all know how frustrating and distressing a persistent itch can be so it should always be investigated. Scratching, licking or chewing at an itch can also result in very sore and damaged skin. The itch-scratch cycle can be difficult to break.

🐾 Common causes of itching include:

🔻 external parasites such as fleas, mites and lice

🔻 chronic allergies

🔻 acute allergic reaction

🔻 bacterial or yeast skin infections

🔻 foreign bodies, for example a grass seed in the ear

🔻 Other systemic illness, for example jaundiced patients.

🐾 Sometimes the focus of the response and other signs can allow the vet to determine the cause immediately, while sometimes further investigations might be required. They will be able to provide some medication to help resolve the symptoms no matter the cause.

🐾 If you have any concerns regarding your pet’s skin or potential itchiness please give us a call ☎️

28/11/2025

🐾 Pet of the Week! 🐾

😺 This lovely domestic shorthair cat is Tilly who has unfortunately had an eventful start to her young life.

😺 Two months ago she was discovered by a member of the public, obviously injured. They took her to our colleagues at Vets4Pets in Northampton who provided care and pain relief while trying to locate an owner. When this was unfortunately unsuccessful they contacted local charity Wonky Pets Rescue to take responsibility for Tilly.

😺 The charity contacted Towcester Vets after having worked closely with us several times with strays needing major surgery and arranged for Tilly to be transported to our Towcester Hospital.

😺 There, Veterinary Surgeon Cat anaesthetised Tilly, with x-rays demonstrating the full extent of her injuries. Poor Tilly had broken not just one but three of her major limb bones, with total displaced fractures of her femur in her right hind leg and both radius and ulna in her right foreleg! Tilly was definitely a Wonky Pet!

😺 All the fractures required surgical stabilisation with Cat utilising pins and plates to hold the bones in the correct alignment for healing. This was easier said than done, as Tilly’s young body had already started trying to repair the fractures even with the bones completely out of alignment! This complicated the repair as before Cat could realign and secure the bone ends she had to break down the callus forming. Thankfully, Cat’s experience and expertise paid off and she repaired all the fractures successfully.

😺 After a night at the hospital for monitoring and pain relief, Tilly was discharged into the care of a foster carer to recover, mainly contained to a crate to maximise healing.

😺 This week Tilly has been back in with us for follow-up x-rays which show that the fractures are all healing nicely. An ovariectomy (spay) was also performed, microchip placed and vaccinations given to start to prepare Tilly for rehoming in a few weeks.

😺 We are so glad that this lovely girl is recovering so well and hope she will get her new start in a forever home soon. If you are interested in rehoming Tilly, or any of the other amazing cats in the care of the rescue please check out their website for rehoming requirements and keep an eye out for when Tilly is ready.

https://www.wonkypetsrescue.com/

😺 If you are interested in contributing towards the care that Tilly and other rescue pets have received, the charity is always incredibly grateful for any help. Their address for PayPal donations is [email protected]

27/11/2025

🌟📱WhatsApp Reminder! 📱🌟

🐾 Our new WhatsApp service has been up and running for a few weeks now and many clients are loving the ability to get in contact in a way they would rather due to personal preference or practicalities!

🐾 Our messaging numbers if you would like to get in touch are:

➡️ Towcester: 07893952368

➡️ Weedon: 07411505320

➡️ Paulerspury: 07400787018

🐾 Our fabulous reception team are however all still here, ready and willing to chat if you would prefer to talk instead, either on the telephone or in person at any of our clinics ☎️

26/11/2025

🌟 What We Do Wednesday! 🌟

🫧Oxygen Therapy 🫧

🐾 The 21% of air made up of oxygen is plenty to keep most of our pets fully oxygenated, but those with compromised cardiovascular or respiratory systems, particularly those with difficulty breathing as discussed on Saturday, may need a bit more help.

🐾 We provide oxygen to all our anaesthetised patients, often via an endotracheal tube (breathing tube), but we also have various ways of providing a higher concentration of oxygen to our conscious patients.

🐾 Oxygen cage: increasing the oxygen concentration of the air within a whole cage or box is a very successful way of supporting a struggling patient. It is very well tolerated and doesn't add any extra stress. Care needs to be taken to avoid overheating however, and concentrations drop quickly when the cage is opened for monitoring or treatment so it is less suitable for those requiring constant hands-on care.

🐾 Masks: A mask removes these complications, with the environmental temperature easier to control and the increased concentration within the mask not altered while examinations, procedures and treatments are performed. They are not always well tolerated however, and require 1:1 care to ensure the mask remains in place.

🐾 Nasal prongs: A common solution in human medication, the large prong size means that this method is only available for our largest patients. The probes are generally poorly tolerated.

🐾 Elizabethan Collar: For patients too big for the oxygen cage another solution is to create a small oxygen chamber around their head using an Elizabethan (lampshade style) collar covered in cling film. The inability to eat or drink means this is only a short-term measure and not one we utilise often.

🐾 Flow-by: increasing the oxygen concentration in the air around a patient by directing a flow of 100% Oxygen towards their nose doesn't provide as much oxygen as other methods but is very well tolerated and doesn't impede at all on injuries, monitoring or procedures.

🐾 If you have any concerns regarding your pets breathing, or if you notice signs such as collapse, loss of consciousness or a blue/purple tinge to their gums and tongue please call us straight away ☎️

25/11/2025

🎩 Top Tip Tuesday! 🎩

🌟 Mould 🌟

🐾 A common theme of our page is the ability of dogs to find anything potentially edible! That applies to food that is way past it's best.

🐾 Unfortunately the toxins that can be produced by moulds, mycotoxins, can produce dramatic and serious symptoms.

🐾 Dogs often present with severe tremors or seizuring, panting, hyper alert and distressed. They often have a high temperature due to the heat generated by the twitching and tremouring muscles. Seizure activity needs to be controlled as prolonged seizures or persistent hyperthermia can prove fatal.

🐾 There are things that owners can do to minimise the risk:

➡️ Keep food waste bins securely closed and away from pets. Once emptied, clean thoroughly to prevent pets licking.

➡️ Take care with the position of bird feeders. Grains, seeds, pieces of fat ball and other bird treats can quickly become mouldy if they fall onto damp ground.

➡️ Keep dogs away when pulling out heavy furniture such as fridges and sofas so they don't consume pieces of kibble or crumbs that may have been under there for some time.

➡️ Keep dogs on leads in areas where a lot of food or picnic waste is scattered such as a park after a fair or festival.

➡️ Be observant in areas where ducks and other waterfowl are fed as excess bread may remain.

➡️ Keep pets away from compost heaps or bins.

🐾 If you suspect your pet may have eaten some mouldy food or they begin to tremor or seizure please call us straight away, no matter the time or day ☎️

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