Our aim is to help you keep your pets as healthy as possible throughout their lives. We understand that your pet is part of your family and will help you make the best decisions for his or her long term health and welfare.

Preventative healthcare services:
Nutrition and weight control, vaccination, parasite prevention, neutering advice, senior pet health screening.

Advice for breeders:
Pre-breeding health checks and advice, Kennel Club Health Scheme services including hip and elbow scoring, whelping and puppy rearing advice, and veterinary legislation.

Consulting and Diagnostics

Kingfisher Vets offers expert veterinary consultations and treatment for all pet animals including exotic pets during our normal consulting hours, with a 24 hour emergency service available outside of these hours. All practices have fully equipped pharmacies so that the vast majority of the time both initial and ongoing treatment is immediately available. Our waiting and consulting rooms are spacious and modern. We have extensive diagnostic facilities: for more information please see the facilities page.

Operating

All of our surgeries have full operating facilities. Most surgeries are performed on site, including soft tissue, abdominal and orthopaedic surgeries. For more information please see the facilities page.

Orthopaedics

A number of orthopaedic procedures are routinely performed. Our visiting surgeon Andy Morris can also perform more advanced orthopaedic surgeries including the TTA procedure for cruciate ruptures. For more information please visit Vetfix

Ophthalmology

Our vet Raman Coore has a Royal College Certificate in Ophthalmology, meaning that he has advanced knowledge of this area of veterinary medicine, together with advanced equipment. All of our vets are trained in ophthalmology but for more complex cases Raman can offer expert care and treatment, together with advanced surgical procedures such as electrolysis for distichiasis and corneal grafting techniques for eye ulcers.

Kingfisher Vets are now working in partnership with Three Counties Veterinary Emergencies, who provide our out of hours emergency cover, including critical in-patient care.

Three Counties Veterinary Emergencies are based Coombefield Veterinary Hospital in Axminster.

This service will be in place whenever the surgery is closed:

• Evenings from 6.30pm until 8.30am the following morning
• Weekends from 1pm on Saturday until 8.30am on Monday morning
• Bank Holidays until 8.30am the next working day

If you phone any of our surgeries outside of opening hours, there is a direct link to our out of hours provider – just press the number for emergencies and you will be put through automatically.

Critical in-patient care is also provided by Three Counties Veterinary Emergencies. If this should prove necessary, staff at our branch will make the arrangements and give you full instructions.