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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…
Fully open providing Specialist treatment and care. We would like to take a moment to update you following the latest ‘stay at home’ orders issued by Government on January 4th, 2021, and to reassure you that Kentdale Referrals continues to remain open, and providing specialist care and treatment while adhering to COVID-19 safety guidelines. Travel…
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…
Through our commitment to the excellent care of cats and their owners, Kentdale is working towards achieving ISFM Cat Friendly Clinic Status (Silver Level) as accredited by International Cat Care (iCatCare). At Kentdale we understand that cats are not just small dogs! Cats not only have a different range of diseases to those of their…
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…
We have been celebrating here at Kentdale after our talented trio of Emily Corrie, Emma Dever and Katie Scott were all honoured with awards by the renowned Myerscough College, in Lancashire. Emily received the FdSc Veterinary Nursing Robert Allan Memorial Award, Emma picked up the Diploma HE Clinical Veterinary Nursing Student of the Year Award,…
We have been made aware by Highways England of planned road maintenance and improvement schemes that will be taking place not far from the practice between September and December 2020. As this may impact clients that are travelling to visit us at practice during the mentioned period, we wanted to share the details of the…
Earlier this year we saw Ziggy, a lovely Staffordshire Bull terrier cross, after she was referred to us here at Kentdale for physiotherapy with one of our Veterinary Physiotherapists, Genie. Ziggy’s Profile 6-year old Staffordshire Bull terrier cross female Rescued by her wonderful owner at 6-months of age Grew to be a fit dog who…
Meet Jessie the Beagle! We first saw Jessie when she was referred to us after being missing for 9 days. At the time she was found, it was apparent that she had been involved in a road traffic collision whilst being missing, and as a result was referred to us to undergo emergency treatment. Once…
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
