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Welcome to Longton Vets for Pets! Your locally owned vet practice. Your practice owners are Dr Jane Oakley, Mrs Emma Beardmore and Mrs Rachel Mills.

We can't wait to welcome you and your pets to our practice. Vets4Pets is committed to bringing you affordable, high quality care via a modern, well equipped practice, including a lab, pharmacy, digital x-ray and ultrasound. The friendly team can't wait to meet all of their new clients!

17/09/2025

Adorable Trevor gained quite the fan base whilst in for his castrate yesterday ❤️He spent most of his day having cuddles with the nurses, purring and making biscuits 🐱

14/09/2025

🌈🐾 Today is National Pet Memorial Day, a day to honor the special bond we share with the pets who have touched our lives and crossed the rainbow bridge.

We know how deeply our furry, feathered, and scaled friends leave pawprints on our hearts. 💜 Whether it’s lighting a candle, sharing a memory, or simply taking a quiet moment, today we remember them with love.

To all who are missing a beloved companion, please know you are not alone. 🐾❤️

13/09/2025

🍫🐾 Happy International Chocolate Day! While we humans can celebrate with a sweet treat, remember that chocolate is poisonous to dogs - even small amounts can make them very unwell.

👉 If your dog eats chocolate:

1. Call your vet immediately for advice.
2. Tell them how much and what type of chocolate was eaten.
3. Do not wait for symptoms - quick action is key.

Celebrate with chocolate for yourself, and a safe dog-friendly treat for your pup! 🐶💚

10/09/2025

💚 Today is World Su***de Prevention Day
In the veterinary community, the silent struggles are often hidden behind compassion, long hours, and the drive to care for animals. Veterinarians, nurses, and staff face unique pressures that can take a heavy toll on mental health.

Let’s break the stigma, start the conversations, and remind one another that asking for help is a sign of strength - not weakness. 🐾💚

If you’re in the veterinary field and struggling, you are not alone. Your life matters, and support is out there.

Vetlife offers free, confidential support for the veterinary community, from a 24/7 helpline, to professional mental health care, to financial assistance for those in hardship.

📞 03030 402 551

***deAwareness

09/09/2025

Happy Work Anniversary to our vet Michal! We are so pleased he has managed to put up with us for a whole year 🤣🤣🤣

It's hard to believe it's already been a year since you joined our team! Your care, compassion, and dedication to every patient (and their humans!) has made such a difference ♥️

Thank you for bringing your knowledge, kindness and love for animals into everything you do. We are so lucky to have you as part of our veterinary family 🐶🐱🐭🐹🐰🐢🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

09/09/2025

🎉 Happy Cat Month! 🐱

It’s the purr-fect time to celebrate our feline friends! Cats bring joy, companionship, and a little mischief into our lives every day. This month, why not:

Schedule a wellness check for your cat 🩺

Keep up with vaccinations and parasite prevention 💉

Give extra cuddles, playtime, and love 🐾

Healthy cats are happy cats, and happy cats make happy homes! Share a photo of your kitty in the comments and let’s celebrate them together! 😺💛

08/09/2025

🐾 Fun Fact Monday Series 🐾

1. Health Tip Edition
Did you know… 80% of dogs and 70% of cats show signs of dental disease by age 3? 🦷
Regular dental checkups (and at-home brushing!) can make a huge difference.

👉 When’s the last time your pet had a dental cleaning?

2. Fun Edition
Rabbits can’t vomit 🤯🐇—their digestive system only moves one way.
That’s why a proper diet with plenty of hay is so important!

3. Health Tip Edition
Dogs and cats can get sunburned, especially those with light-colored fur or thin coats ☀️🐶🐱.
Pet-safe sunscreen and shade breaks are summertime musts!

4. Fun Edition
Goldfish actually have a memory span of months, not seconds like the myth says 🐠✨.
That’s why they recognize their owners and feeding times!

5. Health Tip Edition
A cat’s purr can actually help with healing—the vibrations are known to promote bone and tissue repair 🐱💓.
Just another reason those cuddle sessions are good for both of you!

06/09/2025

SEPTEMBER: PAIN AWARENESS MONTH

Thank you to Veterinary Voices UK for this great post, please have a read and see if you recognise any of these signs in your pets. As part of our ongoing commitment to improving animal welfare and providing the best service we possibly can, you may find that you will be given questionnaires to fill in after your pet has had surgery. We want to find out if the current analgesia protocol we have in place is sufficient for your pets needs. This is also part of our aim to become accredited by the The Zero Pain Philosophy as a Pain Free clinic. We are very grateful for your help with this.

There are many conditions and diseases in animals that cause pain and discomfort.
➡️According to the Animal Welfare Act it is your duty of care to ensure you take reasonable steps to meet the welfare needs of your animal including...
➡️...need to be protected from pain, suffering, injury and disease!
But there are two big differences in the main types of pain we see... The one that most owners recognise is acute pain because it's usually dramatic and sudden!
✅ACUTE PAIN
Acute pain is an emergency strategy to help remove ourselves from a noxious (painful) stimulus to protect the body from harm!
Acute pain is self-limiting and is provoked by a specific disease or injury and as stated above serves a useful biologic purpose.... To keep us alive and free from traumatic injuries!
✅CHRONIC PAIN
The pain that is often under recognised but equally important in animal health and welfare is chronic (long term) pain. Chronic pain in contrast to acute pain may be considered a disease state; it is a pain that lasts for 3 months or more.
With chronic pain there are also changes in the brain and spinal cord that can cause pain ‘wind up’, causing exaggerated pain response.
The pain outlasts the normal or usual time of healing and is associated with a disease or injury. It serves no biologic purpose, and has no recognisable end-point which is why it extremely important to manage it to the best of our ability for your pets quality of life. Commonly seen in disease like osteoarthritis it is often picked up late because the symptoms can be subtle and vague.
✅ CLINICAL SIGNS
Clinical Signs of pain depend on a number of factors:
1️⃣ Type of pain.
As well as being ACUTE or CHRONIC as mentioned above we can also break pain down into:
Somatic pain -from bones, muscles and skin
Visceral pain - from internal organs
Neuropathic pain -from nerves and spine
2️⃣ Species
Each species and individual animal will react differently to pain. Our idiographic gives some examples in cats and dogs.
Also remember that prey species are extremely good and compensating for pain and hiding it to avoid predation! So we must be extra vigilant in these animals like rabbits and guinea pigs.
3️⃣ Existing pain can make other sensation worse
If our pets experience chronic (long term) pain the repeated and sustained stimulation of our pain receptors can result in peripheral and central sensitisation or pain ' wind up'.
This results in a non painful stimulus being perceived as pain to our pet. This is know as allodynia and hyperalgesia

05/09/2025

🐾✨ Happy Friday, friends! ✨🐾

The weekend is almost here, and we know your pets are just as excited as you are! Whether it’s extra cuddle time, long walks, or a cozy nap, we hope you and your furry (or feathered, or scaly!) loved ones get some well-deserved relaxation. 🐶🐱🐰🦎🐦

💡 Friendly Tip: Weekends often mean more playtime and treats, just remember to keep snacks pet-safe and always provide plenty of fresh water. 💧🐾

We’d love to see how your pets are kicking off the weekend! Drop a photo in the comments and spread the Friday smiles. 📸❤️

Have a paw-some weekend! 🐾🌟

04/09/2025

🌊🐾 Did you know we have Hydrotherapy facilities for your pets? 🐾🌊

Hydrotherapy is a safe, low-impact way to support your pet’s health and recovery. It can help with:

✅ Recovery after surgery (such as cruciate or spinal operations)
✅ Managing arthritis or mobility problems
✅ Building muscle strength and fitness in a gentle way
✅ Weight management and general wellbeing

Our purpose-built hydrotherapy unit is designed to make your pet feel comfortable and supported, while giving them all the benefits of exercise without the strain on their joints. 🐶💦🐱

We’d love to show you around and explain how hydrotherapy could help your furry friend. If you’d like to find out more or book a session, just give us a call on 01782 332400.

📍 Longton Vets for Pets – where happy, healthy pets come first!

29/08/2025

Adorable Hudson having a cuddle with Michal yesterday ❤️

25/02/2024

When Kelly from our Colton store's Pets Grooming salon discovered a lump on the tail of nine-year-old Rufus she suspected something wasn't right, so alerted his owners Les and Andrea so they could get it checked out. They brought him to Vets for Pets Leeds Colton where it was confirmed he had a cancerous tumour which needed surgery.

Les, who adopted Rufus from Dogs Trust in Leeds as a puppy, said: “Rufus is such a big part of our life; we’re absolutely besotted with him. We probably wouldn’t have noticed the lump if not at the groomers as the tail isn’t somewhere you would usually stroke and feel. Kelly loves Rufus and really looks after him, so we want to say a big thanks for spotting it. Who'd have known what would have happened if she hadn’t noticed.”

Rufus had to have his tail removed, but is now making a good recovery. He's been visiting Kelly for a groom every six weeks for the last three years. She said: “You get to know everything about a dog as you groom them. I’ve discovered similar things before on other dogs so I mentioned it to the owners so they could get it checked out. Dogs are my life and you do worry; I’m so pleased they caught it. Now he’s got a fully docked tail like a little bunny rabbit. It’s lovely and suits him – when he gets washed he wiggles his bum.”

21/02/2024

Arthur's owner Louise says he "looked like a brand-new tortoise" after having his beak filed at Sutton in Ashfield Vets4Pets.

Louise adopted the four-year-old Horsefield Tortoise from a family member in October. Although she has had other pets, Arthur is her first tortoise, so she has been doing some research on how to best care for him.

Louise said: "I noticed Arthur's beak was unusually long, so I brought him in to Vets for Pets; I bring all my pets there. When he came out, I thought 'you beautiful boy, look at you – you look so handsome!"

Vet Steph, who looked after Arthur, says that tortoise beaks continuously grow and normally grind down themselves while they're eating. She said: "Arthur needed a little help as his jaw isn't perfectly aligned; his lower jaw is further out than his top jaw, so I filed it around half a centimetre. He was really good; a real cutie."

18/02/2024

Owner Claire says she couldn't be more grateful to Vets4Pets Hamilton after their quick diagnosis saved the sight of six-year-old Alba.

Claire knew there was something terribly wrong with her miniature dachshund cross when she called her in from the back garden last summer and Alba ran headfirst into a closed patio door. She rushed her to the vets, where investigations led the team to diagnose her with uveitis – an eye condition which causes inflammation of the middle layer of the eye.

Claire said: "It all happened so suddenly; Alba must have heard my voice and guessed where to go. It was quite scary seeing how bad she was. We couldn't be more grateful for the team in Hamilton spotting the uveitis as quickly as they did, otherwise Alba would have gone blind within a matter of days. Their knowledge saved Alba's sight. I still can't believe it happened. It's taken months of treatments, but it's such a relief to have our girl back to being her funny, bossy self."

Vet Neil, one of the team who treated Alba, said: "Alba's pupil was really narrow and wouldn't respond to light properly, which can be a sign of uveitis. Once we had ruled out other conditions, we were able to get her to an eye specialist for ongoing treatment. She's now doing really well."

16/02/2024

Ducky's owner Antonia was in a state of panic when she saw a fox had dug its way into the field where she keeps him – killing two of her other ducks and chickens.

Antonia was about to move her brood into their pen for the evening when she saw what had happened and noticed that Ducky had severe bite wounds under his wing. She rushed him to Vets4Pets Vets Milton Keynes for emergency surgery – and after having his wound stitched up the one-year-old duck is now making a good recovery.

Antonia said: "I was so worried. You don’t often hear of ducks recovering from fox attacks, but there is something about Ducky and the way he was so brave. I'm sure he was protecting a lady duck, as he's a bit of a romantic. It's the first time we've gone to Vets for Pets, and the team were amazing; they've done an incredible job."

Vet Becca, who treated Ducky, said: "He's a really lucky duck, as it was quite a big wound. When he first came in, he was understandably subdued and quiet but when he came back for his stitches to be taken out, he wanted to explore and tuck his head into everyone’s shoulders."

07/02/2024

Well done to the team at Vets4Pets Guildford who've been awarded a silver level certificate for being a rabbit-friendly clinic.

After head veterinary nurse Ella noticed that more customers were bringing in rabbits the practice took a series of steps to give them as stress-free an experience as possible. Ella, who also fosters rescue dogs in her spare time, said: "There was a long list of things that we needed to prove that we did from making sure the rabbits are kept separate from other animals and not booked in at the same time as barking dogs, to providing heated kennels for those who need to stay in, and using special equipment made especially for rabbits."

Practice manager Kevin said: "All of our vets have plenty of experience with rabbits we have some real rabbit geeks here, so it was a big thing to us. There are so many good people in this world and I'm so proud to be around them."

28/01/2024

Beautiful Bear was born deaf, so he's learned to follow his owner Lisa's visual commands.

Lisa, who shops at our Tamworth store – "it's my second home!" – got two-year-old Bear as a kitten and suspected he was deaf when he didn't respond to her voice. She had it confirmed by her vet soon after. She said: "He was very scatty, and scared of people he didn’t recognise. He wasn’t bothered by loud noises like my other cat Emily and when I came home from work he wouldn’t hear the door open.

"He's doing really well though. I try to do some sign language with him – I point at him and do a solid hand sign at him to stop. He picks up on vibrations and scents too. He meows, making a really loud chirping sound which I’ve never heard a cat do before, and he’s always rubbing his head against my legs and following me everywhere. I was advised not to let him out because he wouldn’t hear cars or other dangers, so he comes outside with me every morning to have a sniff around the garden and always comes straight back in." Bear and Lisa's other cat Emily are on Instagram as

27/01/2024

Ten-year-old Dutch rabbit Alfie has been visiting vet Kate at Vets4pets Wolverhampton for dental treatment for the last eight years – and she says he's such a loveable character that he's become "part of the family".

He's one of the oldest rabbits treated by Kate and the team, and she says his longevity is down to the care and love he gets from his owner Tracy and her family. Kate said: "Alfie is famous in this practice – everyone knows him. We and his family are dedicated to making sure her little old man is happy. The beautiful thing about being a vet or vet nurse is you build these relationships with the owners and their pets – they become your surrogate pets."

Tracy's been keeping rabbits all her life, and says that having space and routine is key. She said: "Alfie is an old man now and has a routine. He goes into a hutch at night and is let out in the morning. He's out all day and has his favourite spots in the house. We clean him out every day and give him a lot of attention. When he was younger he would follow us around; if I was clearing a cupboard out he would be in the cupboard to help. Now he's old and wants to be warm and watch instead. I can't thank Kate and the practice enough. Kate's been fantastic with him."

26/01/2024

Eight-year-old Winnie the Schnauzer cross is running around like a puppy again thanks to laser treatment and physiotherapy after two successful knee operations at Vets for Pets Basildon.

Worried owner Tracy brought Winnie in to the practice after she collapsed on a walk last year – and the team discovered the cruciate ligament in a knee had ruptured. She’s since had ops on two knees and is on a recovery plan led by vet physiotherapist Izzy.

Tracy said: "Winnie has had a tough year with 15 teeth removed, two cruciate ligament operations and two bouts of pancreatitis but thankfully she's hardy. She’s treated fabulously at the Basildon practice. Izzy is great with her – she totally relaxes in her hands and does little snores with her eyes open. Winnie has a new lease of life again and is running around like a puppy."

Izzy said: "When pets have surgery or injure themselves they move differently which causes them to be sore in other places. Winnie has laser therapy then a massage to help the healing process. Laser treatment is a specialist service that not enough people know about – it can help in so many ways after an operation.”

19/01/2024

The team at Vets4Pets Cramlington say greyhound Frank was "an absolute gentleman" when he came in for some dental work.

Seven-year-old Frank was brought in by owner Harriet to get rid of some plaque which had built up and to treat a gum inflammation. Veterinary nurse Vicki said: "Frank was a very good boy and left with clean, fresh and sparkly teeth. It's so very important to get your dog's teeth checked and we advise pets to have an annual dental check. Eighty per cent of dogs over the age of three have dental disease. Prevention is much better than cure and regular checks and routine cleaning keep your pet's mouth healthier for longer and can help to prevent extensive extractions later in life. We are always happy to offer advice on maintenance and dental care at home such as teeth brushing or dental supplements."

18/01/2024

Veterinary nurse Mel from Vets4Pets Bristol Longwell Green loves cats so much she's helped the practice make a number of improvements to give cats as stress-free an experience as possible when they're brought in.

Mel, who has an Advanced Certificate in Feline Behaviour for Veterinary Professionals, helped introduce facilities like a separate feline waiting area and cattery and the use of quiet clippers – and the practice now has a silver level certificate for being a cat-friendly clinic. She said: "I love dogs but I'm really a cat person. Cats can be misunderstood which can lead to them having quite a stressful life, so if we can make things easier for them and help people understand what cats need then everyone will be happier.

"As animal lovers there's always more to learn and understand about what makes them happy. Enrichment at the home is important for a happy cat – and as cats are naturally solitary animals if you live in a multi-cat household it's important to understand what they need. The rule is to have a resource per cat, plus one spare. So if you have two cats you should have three feeding stations, three litter trays and three scratch posts spread around the house so they have the opportunity to move around to wherever they want to go. Scratching is as natural a thing for cats to do as going out hunting is, so if they're unable to go out it's about providing the chance for them to behave as naturally as possible."

07/01/2024

Four-year-old Sebastian the Jack Russell is back to his usual boisterous self after being treated at Vets4Pets Abingdon for a condition that was causing the knee caps on his back legs to dislocate when he walked.

The condition, known as medial patellar luxation, would cause him to hop or skip when exercising. It's quite common in terriers and small dog breeds, but Sebastian's case was quite severe and he was given surgery by orthopaedic surgeon Joe to deepen the groove his patella runs in on his right hind leg, and also to move and reattach his patellar tendon.

Sebastian is owned by practice vet Hannah who said: "After the operation he just wanted to get back to normal straight away but he couldn't ... and that's where we struggled. He wanted to be out and about, charging around and playing with his toys but he needed to rest." Hannah had to give him medication for six weeks to give his knees time to heal. She said: "He's absolutely fine now – he's fully recovered and running around like a lunatic again!"

05/01/2024

When 11-year-old lurcher Jess was brought into Vets for Pets Leeds Birstall 24/7 Small Animal Hospital on Christmas Eve feeling very poorly with pyometra – a life-threatening uterus infection – the team knew they had to act fast; so vet Emily and nurses JD and Hannah headed straight in to perform emergency surgery on her in the early hours of Christmas morning.

The operation went so well that by lunchtime nurse Krishna was able to call her owner Beth to say she was well enough to come home to recuperate – and Beth made the hour-long drive from her home in Keighley so she could bring Jess home before the family sat down for their Christmas dinner. Beth said: "It was a stressful start to Christmas, as we were worried about Jess because of her age and because she's never had anything wrong with her before. We're so grateful for everything – it was so nice of them to come in on Christmas Day to operate on her, to look after her so well and to get her home on top form. The vets were fantastic from start to finish. Jess is recovering nicely – you can see the happiness is back in her!"

Krishna said: "Our night team always do an amazing job, and performing serious surgery like that at that time of night and on Christmas Day of all days is just brilliant. Jess did amazingly well to bounce back so quickly, and it was amazing being able to call her owners to say that she could come home to spend Christmas with them. It's the sort of call we all love to make, but doing it on Christmas Day was extra nice."

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Monday	8:30am - 7pm
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At Vets4Pets Longton we know your pet is a much loved part of the family and you want them to enjoy a long, healthy life.

This is why our veterinary teams, made up of animal loving experts, firmly believe in providing the highest level of care and treating every pet they see like they would their own.

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