The Gatehouse Vet Centre

09/09/2025

Our day instantly got brighter with this sweet face in the practice 🌟

08/09/2025

Meet Tiffany 🐾🤍

She was the bravest little girl having her microchip implanted!

We can't wait to see her again at our monthly nurse clinics 😁💜

05/09/2025

Pet Health Club members, tell us the best thing about being in the club?

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03/09/2025

📰🐾 Calling All Newspaper Readers! 🐾📰

We’re running low on newspapers, which we use every day to help line our kennels and keep our wildlife patients comfortable and clean. If you have any old newspapers lying around at home, we’d love to take them off your hands!

✨ No glossy magazines or inserts please — just regular newspapers.
✨ Donations can be dropped off at our Lavister practice during our opening hours.

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02/09/2025

🚨 ‼️ Important Notice ‼️🚨

Parvo Virus - rising cases in Wrexham area.

There has been an outbreak of Parvo virus in the Wrexham area. There has been a raise in confirmed cases.

Parvovirus (also known as parvo) is a virus that causes severe illness and death in dogs. It damages the lining of the intestines, causing severe vomiting and diarrhoea. It also attacks infection-fighting cells inside the bone marrow, which weakens the immune system making it very difficult for dogs to recover.

Parvovirus is especially serious in unvaccinated dogs and puppies less than six months old because their immune systems are not as well developed and meaning they are less able to fight the infection.

It is absolutely essential that your dog is up to date with vaccinations to help prevent this fatal disease!

Puppies - from recent vaccination guidelines provided by the WSAVA. We recommend that all puppies should receive an additional DHP (distemper, hepatitis, parvo) vaccination at 6 months of age. Puppies at high risk can receive this additional vaccine at 16 weeks of age, they will not require one at 6 months.

Any questions about your pets vaccination status or puppy vaccination guidelines please contact us on 01244 570364.

Read more about this highly contagious viral disease:

Parvovirus in dogs can be deadly, but with the parvo vaccine you can keep your dog safe. Learn about the vaccine and the stages of parvo from our expert vets.

31/08/2025

Saving money on vet bills while keeping your pet healthy? That’s the idea. 💡

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28/08/2025

Fly strike is a serious risk, but it’s preventable. 🐰

👉 Check your rabbit’s back end each day, keep their bedding clean, and ask your vet about protection.

With Pet Health Club, annual fly strike prevention is included for rabbit members.

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27/08/2025

Please share! We need help! (Again!) Ivy needs to move from her current foster home to a new foster home by the end of September 2025. She cannot stay another winter where she is because last winter was very difficult for her fosterer and for those who visited her.

One of our amazing team members, who is also one of Ivy’s best friends, has offered to accommodate her in her summerhouse as a last resort because we have had no other suitable offers and time is running out to move her. The alternative is just too unthinkable while she is still so full of life and happiness. Ivy really wants to live even if she is a bit messy!

Ivy needs a washable floor wherever she is, and needs not to be allowed to jump down from any height. This could severely injure her spine again, so adaptations need to be made to protect her. If anyone could provide a suitable accommodation for Ivy please let us know asap. We are looking for a forever foster home so we will always be very much dealing with Ivy’s vet care etc but she does require extra cleaning.

If nobody comes forward, or even if they do, we are looking for any local businesses or tradespeople who might be willing to donate materials or volunteer some time to insulate the summerhouse, (or someone else’s summerhouse/outbuilding), to ensure the flooring is waterproofed with non slip vinyl and create some enclosed ramps and shelves for Ivy to look out and enjoy being off the ground.

This particular summer house is much smaller than Ivy’s current enclosure so if anyone was also able to create an outside run off the summerhouse it would add so much enrichment to Ivy’s life.

As part of the adaptations, we would love to be able to run an electric cable from the house to the summer house to provide a low wattage electric heat mat for Ivy to keep her warm in the cold months ahead.

Please get in touch and message Second Chance For Cats - N.E. Wales if you are able to help in any way. Ideally someone would be fairly local to Mold area to reduce the amount of time needed to travel.

26/08/2025

Show off your pooch! Share the silliest photo you have of your dog. 🐶

22/08/2025

The best feeling is hearing "There's nothing to pay today, it's all included in your Pet Health Club membership.” 🤩

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22/08/2025

☀️ BANK HOLIDAY OPENING HOURS ☀️

🫟 Saturday 23rd August - 08:00-15:00
🫟Sunday 24th August - CLOSED
🫟Monday 25th August - CLOSED
🫟 Tuesday 26th August - Open as normal

‼️🚨 In case of emergency over the bank holiday, please call us 01244 570364 for our out of hours providers number ‼️🚨

21/08/2025

💫 MAX 💫

A huge congratulations to lovely Max, who has hit his target weight 🥳 hard work, dedication and new healthy habits are paying off.
Max is 4kg down and a healthy 5/9 body condition score 🥇

It has been a pleasure to aid Max on his journey and we are so proud of him!

Here’s to many more happy, healthy adventures ahead! 🐾😁⭐️