Veterinary House Hospital

Veterinary House Hospital Your local mixed animal vet team 🩺
Good medicine. Good humans. Obsessed with animals.
📍 Proudly South African (KZN) 🇿🇦
🚨 082 373 1963
🐕🐈‍⬛🐄🐏🐇🦜🦎 Veterinarian

Driving home from the CrossFit box this afternoon, I had a bit of a revelation.I found myself thinking about our team an...
19/06/2026

Driving home from the CrossFit box this afternoon, I had a bit of a revelation.
I found myself thinking about our team and where everyone found themselves as the weekend rolled around. Some were heading home to their families, some were already on a road trip, some were squeezing in a gym session, some were still out on farm calls, running behind schedule. And a few of us were staying at our posts, ready for whatever emergency might walk through the door.

That’s one of the best things about this team.
We come from different backgrounds, we speak different home languages, we have different cultures, different beliefs, different stories. On paper, we’re all very different people.
But every day, we show up with the same purpose, to help animals and support the people who love them.
And somehow, it just works.

Vet House wouldn’t be what it is without every person bringing their own strengths, perspectives, quirks, and experiences to the table. What we’ve built together in our little corner of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands is something we’re incredibly proud of.

To every client who trusts us with your pets, your livestock, your livelihoods, your most vulnerable moments, and your most precious companions, thank you.
It never stops being a privilege.
🫶🏻🐾🩺🇿🇦🐂

Imagine one minute your dog is sniffing around, living their best life. Then the next thing you know, their face has dou...
17/06/2026

Imagine one minute your dog is sniffing around, living their best life. Then the next thing you know, their face has doubled in size, and everyone is suddenly having a very stressful day.
These two recently came to see us after an encounter with one of South Africa’s most common snakes, the puff adder (puffy, for short).

Puff adder bites cause severe swelling, pain, tissue damage (from cytotoxic venom), potential breathing difficulties, and can become life-threatening if not treated quickly. The good news? Fast intervention makes a huge difference. Don’t wait to see if it gets worse, get to a vet immediately. The best snakebite treatment is action (and fluids and antivenom).

If you suspect your dog has been bitten by a snake:
• Keep them as calm and still as possible.
• Don’t try to cut the wound, suck out the venom, or apply a tourniquet (or put petrol in or on the wound... 😬)

Thankfully, both of these pups have since gone home and are recovering well. 🇿🇦🩺🐾

If there’s one thing we can say about South African farmers, it’s that they’re tough as nails.For months Foot-and-Mouth ...
13/06/2026

If there’s one thing we can say about South African farmers, it’s that they’re tough as nails.
For months Foot-and-Mouth Disease has been at the centre of conversations around dining room tables, braais, campfires and kraals. For many farmers, it’s been more than just a news headline. It’s been a source of pain, prayers, uncertainty and many sleepless nights.
People outside of agriculture will never fully understand the magnitude of this outbreak. The financial loss is one thing, but the emotional weight has been absolutely devastating.
But through it all, farmers kept showing up. They kept fighting for their animals, their farms and their livelihoods.

Over the last 10 days, our large animal vets vaccinated more than 15 000 beef cattle against FMD. And this is only the first round.
That’s a lot of kilometres, and a lot of long days. And these numbers matter, but what matters more is what they represent. Hope.

Hope that herds can finally be protected, that farms can recover, and hope that there are better days ahead.

To every farmer who has carried the weight of this outbreak, we see how hard you’ve fought.
Relief is on the way. And we’re not stopping until it’s done. 🇿🇦🌾🫶🏻

If working with dogs has taught us anything, it’s that you shouldn’t just sit and wait for the perfect day. Live every d...
10/06/2026

If working with dogs has taught us anything, it’s that you shouldn’t just sit and wait for the perfect day. Live every day like it’s the best day of your life. There’s always something to wag your tail about. 🫶🏻🐾🩺

05/06/2026

This week was the kind of week that reminds you that vet medicine isn’t always pretty.
But somewhere between all of it, we were reminded of something important.
Some places become home because of who’s in them. That the best part of this place has never been the building.
It’s the people who show up every day, carrying each other through the hard stuff, celebrating the wins, crying through the losses, and somehow finding reasons to laugh when the wheels are pretty much falling off.

We don’t always get easy weeks, but we do get each other. And after a week like this, maybe the real privilege isn’t just the work we get to do. Maybe the real privilege is also who we get to do it with.

Address

339 Prince Alfred Street
Pietermaritzburg
3201

Opening Hours

Monday 07:30 - 17:00
Tuesday 07:30 - 17:00
Wednesday 07:30 - 17:00
Thursday 07:30 - 17:00
Friday 07:30 - 17:00
Saturday 08:00 - 12:00
Sunday 09:00 - 11:00

Telephone

+27333424698

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