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Fully open providing Specialist treatment and care. Following the Government’s recent announcements, we are pleased to confirm that Kentdale Referrals continues to remain open, providing Specialist care and treatment and we will not be changing our COVID-19 safety procedures. We realise pet owners may be continuing to feel anxious at this time. However, we want to reassure you…
Fold Hill Foods has taken precautionary action to recall several dry cat food diets due to safety concerns. This is a result of a concerning spike detected by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in the number of pancytopenia cases in cats throughout the UK. What should I do? If you have bought any of the…
The tragic loss of two grandparents to dementia has inspired one of our vets to take on a grueling 26–mile trek to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society. Dr Gemma Holloway, Advanced Practitioner in Small Animal Surgery, is taking part in Trek 26, a challenging cross–country hike around the lake and fells at Ullswater in the Lake District on August 7th. Gemma said the pain and anguish of watching her grandparents…
Meet Elmo, a nine-year-old Labradoodle who was referred to Kentdale as an emergency on New Year’s Eve 2020. Elmo was showing signs of being in a lot of pain and was unable to walk on both back legs. Following examination with Veterinary Surgeon Joe Higgins a series of Xrays where undertaken which identified that Elmo…
Meet Ollie a six-year-old life-loving Cocker Spaniel. Along with his best friend Barney, Ollie loves nothing more than a good run on The Lake District’s northern fells. In September 2020 Ollie was referred to Kentdale following an overly enthusiastic dash over a wall to the beach at Tynemouth. Ollie immediately displayed signs of acute pain…
Welcome to our Silver Level Cat Friendly Clinic Through our commitment to the excellent care of cats and their owners, Kentdale has been accredited by International Care Care (iCatCare) as a Cat Friendly Clinic at the Silver Level. At Kentdale we understand that cats are not just small dogs! Cats not only have a different…
Meet Nell, a four-year-old Border Collie who is the fur-baby of Eugenie, Veterinary Physiotherapist at Kentdale Referrals. Having been brought up on a local sheep farm, Nell initially spent some time with one of our senior Vets, who fostered her when the farmer no longer wanted her. Smitten, Eugenie and her husband Gregg, adopted Nell…
Congratulations to Sammie on becoming a Registered Veterinary Nurse. Sammie has been an integral part of our team at Kentdale Referrals since 2017 when she joined us as an Animal Care Assistant. Having progressed to become a Student Veterinary Nurse, we are extremely proud to share that Sammie’s dedication and hard work has really paid…
Committed to Shared Care At Kentdale we have always taken great pride in supporting our Veterinary colleagues throughout the Christmas period, and evermore so this year – ensuring that together we can provide care when it is most needed. Please find below details of our opening hours over the festive period. FREE SPECIALIST…
Meet Dink, a five-month-old Chorkie who was referred to Soft Tissue Specialist Jan Beranek shortly after he joined our expanding Orthopaedics, Spinal and Soft Tissue team in October this year. Dink had been feeling unwell for some time and quickly became much worse several days before her referral. Her owners had found her to be…
Our fur baby Teddy was referred in early Jan and had an operation for lameness in his hind left knee.
The Vet who dealt with Teddy was Joe alongside and the brilliant nursing team.
The care and concern for our Teddy from the start was and is 1st class, I could not speak highly enough of the whole Practice.
A week after his operation Teddy had a set back with a fracture in his leg. Kentdale and Joe took Teddy straight back in at a moment’s notice when he was in great distress and operated the very next day.
They have cared so much for our Teddy and he is just post op but is being kept comfortable and happy.
Again, from the bottom of our hearts. Thank you to Joe and the whole team at Kentdale, we would recommend this Practice to everyone that wants 1st class care for their precious fur babies.
They are doing absolutely everything possible for a positive outcome for our Teddy and we get our baby back tomorrow and their aftercare advice and service has been as top class as all their other care.
We are forever grateful.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Chris Field
We appreciate the clear explanation of what you did in surgery and what aftercare we had to do. We went away feeling completely supported.
Rubi's Mum and Dad
Hello, we had our annual review with Simon today and I would just like to say another big Thank you for transforming our beautiful Buz's life. It’s just lovely to see him so happy, pain free and a typical blooming obsessive mad collie!!! His keeping us fit... can I give him back!!! Anyway, we’re only too glad to give you a testimonial for your new website.
Our dog Buz had severe hip dysplasia, he was referred to Kentdale over 2 years ago and basicaly they have been our saviour!! He was in so much pain, he couldn’t walk far, he didn’t play and was a very sad “lazy” collie. We had a traumatic 18months ending up with 3 hip replacements. However after all of this we have had an amazing transformation, he is pain free, fun loving collie who is just now having his puppyhood! He has gone from one young dog on a serious amount of pain relief to none. He runs and bounds forever! We have been so grateful to the vets and staff to the care, treatment and support they have not only provided to our Buz but also to us! I call Simon our very own “Supervet” but the whole practise is outstanding. Buz is now like the bionic dog. I really thought when he dislocated his 2nd hip it was the end of the line, but no we were reassured something can be done to help make his life pain free. We just had to trust them. We did and we are forever grateful.
Deb & Tom Nicholson
It is now 18 months since our first visit to Kentdale Vets where our dog was referred due to his lameness. We have found all the staff we have dealt with at the practice during this period to be extremely caring and helpful – the vets, physiotherapist, nurses and administrators. They really care about the outcomes for your pet and spend a lot of time explaining both the problems and any proposed treatment to owners. They understand just how stressful it is for owners as well as the animals and how crucial good communication is.
Our dog was initially treated by Graham who carried out an arthroscopy and ulnar osteotomy after diagnosing elbow dysplasia. Graham performed this procedure immediately after undertaking a new scan as the scan provided by our general vets wasn’t fit for purpose and Graham wanted to save our dog the trauma of an additional anaesthetic. The procedure went well and after a few weeks we then progressed to physiotherapy and hydrotherapy with Donna who is highly qualified in this area Although our dog was better for a few months his condition worsened about a year ago. We returned to Graham who then referred us to Simon, the specialist within the practice for the Arthrex Cue procedure. This is a more invasive and complex procedure involving implants which reduce bone rubbing against bone within the elbow joint.
Simon was reluctant to do this procedure initially as it is so invasive, and he didn’t feel our dog was bad enough to warrant it at that stage. We were reassured by their approach which has been about what is in the pet’s best interest rather than that of the practice. Simon was also keen to ensure that there weren’t any contributory shoulder problems too, so our dog underwent diagnostic procedures there.
Further deterioration resulted in our dog undergoing the Arthrex Cue procedure six weeks ago. We met Louise for the first time at his admission for this procedure. She took great care to understand what makes our dog tick so that they could minimise his anxiety whilst there. Our dog was there for four nights, which was twice as long as his previous longest stay and seemed like an eternity for us. However, we were given regular updates during the period and it was obvious that they were taking great care of him and making the effort to engage with him even though he didn’t want to be there. Our x-ray today has confirmed that our dog is making good progress.
We highly rate this little practice which has a great team who go the extra mile. Having confidence in them has made this difficult period easier for us.
It takes us an hour to travel there but we consider this a small price to pay for such good care.
Heskey
Unit 2B Moss End Business Village,
Crooklands, Milnthorpe,
Cumbria, LA7 7NU
Telephone: 015395 67241
Fax: 0845 862 8612
Email: reception@kentdalevets.co.uk
