News

What a nice surprise on a wet Monday morning!  We received a certificate in the post today and are thrilled to let you all know that we have achieved the highest status awarded for Veterinary cat care!

Jed is a bouncy, mischievous black Labrador who was rescued by his owners back in 2011 - read his story and see how a nasty tummy upset nearly gave him a heart attack!
Jed is normally full of life and a typically greedy labrador who will eat anything. However prone to the odd tummy upset his owners realised something was very wrong when they woke up and found Jed producing lots of vomit and diarrhoea with large amounts of blood coming from both ends. He was also feeling quite sorry for himself and had completely lost his appetite which was very unusual! They sensibly rushed him straight down to the practice.

Some pets manage to go their whole life without having any real health problems and some seem to attract them. Lulu is one of the latter!

The life of a vet is never a boring one! We had an unusual emergency this morning.

One of our neighbours had seen a collection of small creatures left in a cardboard box in the field out the back of the practice. When she tried to pick it up the wet sodden box fell apart and the little critters all ran away!

One of our more sophisticated and fashion conscious patients at Oak Barn Vets, Lionel is a one year old, miniature smooth haired dachshund with an appetite for socks!

Our Summer Newsletter comes out today - packed full of our news and info to keep your pet's happy and healthy over the summer holidays.

Marley is our amazing case of the month for June!  Many of us know that cats are prone to kidney disease and this is life threatening but read on and see how Marley has survived Acute Renal Failure and with treatment is leading a normal happy life.

With all the recent hot weather and mild winter that we had we are definitely seeing an explosion in tick numbers and this raises concerns regarding the spread of Lymes Disease.  Thankfully for dogs at risk there is now a new Lymes Disease Vaccination available.

Who doesn’t like puppies? You have to have a tough skin not to go mushy for our case of the month for May involving brave Petal and her four pups delivered by emergency Caesarian!

We’re joining TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham and the University of Bristol’s Big Tick Project this summer to look at rising tick numbers and the risk to our dogs and ourselves from tick-borne diseases such as Lyme Disease.