Trafford Veterinary Centre

Just a quick reminder that we are CLOSED Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. We hope all our clients have a fantastic and safe weekend. Remember to keep chocolate and anything toxic to your pets away from them like lillies, daffodil bulbs or food items that contain raisins etc. We are open Saturday for emergencies from 9.30am till 11.30am Thanks for your patience 🐶 🐱 🐰 🐹

Hopefully some handy tips for anyone with currently unvaccinated puppies or kittens. We are hoping to have updates regarding primary vaccine courses next week and will keep our clients updated as soon as know anything.

Great post by Kate regarding recent updates on allowing cats outside during Covid 19

COVID 19 Practice Update!
New opening times
Monday to Friday 9am till 4.30pm... Saturday 9.30am till 11.30am Closed Sundays
Easter Hours
Closed Good Friday Open Saturday 9.30am till 11.30am Closed Easter Sunday Closed Easter Monday
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Just for a bit of fun for anyone self isolating or social distancing 😊 will reveal answers later on tonight! Good luck! 🐶 🐱 🐹 🐰

Thank you to all our clients for their patience and understanding during this difficult time. Please please remember if you do have to come to the practice to maintain 2 metres social distancing from us as well as each other.
Just a reminder we are open
9.30am till 3.30pm Monday to Friday ... 10am till 11am Saturday
Easter Hours
We are closed Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday.
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With Easter coming and vets around the country limited both in hours and staff, this is a great article on chocolate poisoning over the Easter period. We will always be here for emergencies and for advice so don’t hesitate to ring us for advice 🐶 🐱 🐰 🐹

⚠️Practice Update⚠️ New Opening Hours during Covid-19 Crisis starting Monday 30th March
Monday-Friday 9.30am - 3.30pm
... Saturday 10am-11am
CLOSED Sunday (including Sunday 29th March)
✔️We are open for emergency and urgent cases as well as repeat prescriptions ONLY.
✔️We will, as always, be available for advice on the phone.
✔️Under guidelines from British Veterinary Association we cannot see routine cases at the moment, this includes ANY vaccinations.
✔️Carrington branch will remain closed during the pandemic.
✔️We may take longer than usual to answer the phone or emails due to skeleton staffing.
✔️Thank you for your understanding during these challenging times.
✔️For any true emergencies during out of hours, Woodcroft Hospital is working hard to provide care and can be reached on 0161 486 2333
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This is a little cheeky video to hopefully bring a smile to everyone’s faces but also highlight what we in the veterinary profession are currently trying to achieve by staying open. We have cancelled all routines appointments and operations but are here over the phone to help

PRACTICE UPDATE
We are still currently open Monday to Saturday for emergency appointments and repeat medications, please ring 0161 747 9002 rather than coming down and for further advice or information.
Just to let our clients know we are no longer open on Sundays for 3 weeks until we have further updates regarding the current virus situation.
... Our current guidelines are no clients are allowed into practice but we can take your pet off you at the door and take any payments over the phone. We will not accept cash payments.
We can offer over the phone veterinary appointments that are payable over the phone and we can then decide if we need to see your pet for an emergency appointment.
Thank you for your understanding and patience during this very difficult time
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PRACTICE UPDATE
Please be aware due to government guidelines of limiting routine operations and appointments, our Carrington branch is CLOSED until further notice. We apologise for any inconvenience and have contacted clients this will affect.
Urmston branch is currently open with restrictions in place.
... Please ring 0161 747 9002 for any questions, repeat medication requests or advice on the health of your pets.
Please bear with us during this time, it is a very difficult situation in which we are trying to maintain the high level of care we always give to our wonderful clients and their animals.
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This is a fantastic and helpful veterinary guide to what is happening in practices currently. With the UK approaching lock down we have to be as careful and limited contact as possible. Please ring us before coming to the practice on 0161 747 9002 for any questions or for further information

COVID 19 UPDATES
Like Tinkerbell, a lot of our clients are self isolating and keeping themselves safe at home.
Under new guidelines we are cancelling any routine appointments or operations to limit contact with clients both for your safety and our own.
... Anyone attending practice must come in on their own, we are allowing one owner per appointment to minimise contact and maintain social distancing where possible.
We are asking clients to ring us first and we will book you in if we feel it is absolutely necessary and organise any repeat prescriptions.
We will be taking payment over the phone for any repeat prescriptions, food etc to limit contact time with clients again for our safety and yours.
We are also offering phone consultations that we can book in with our vets at an appropriate time for you and our staff.
Any weight checks for flea treatments or worming we ask clients to weigh at home and ring us.
We are trying our best to keep providing the highest standard of care we can whilst keeping within government and RCVS guidelines.
Thanks in advance for your co operation!
For our Urmston branch please ring 0161 747 9002 For Carrington please ring 0161 776 0686
Thank you to Emma from Tinypawz for allowing us to share this photo of Tink, I think she has the right idea today! 🐶 y
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Fantastic and useful post. We love seeing and chatting to our clients and meeting and greeting their pets, but right now your and our health is important in us being able to continue treating your animals, so please please try and follow guidelines 🐶 🐱 🐰 🐹 😊

Bit of a light hearted one in these uncertain and crazy times!

⚠️Practice Update!⚠️ We are aware these are worrying times, so we would like to reassure you we have updated some of our policies and procedures to ensure we take care of both our clients and staff in the current Covid-19 situation
✔️ We are very used to using strict hygiene precautions but have introduced extra measures. We ask that ALL people coming to the practice wash their hands both before and after visiting according to current NHS guidelines. We have handwashing facil...ities in both consult rooms, please ask a member of staff.
✔️We are frequently wiping down surfaces, doorhandles, card payment machines and staff are taking precautionary measures themselves and updating protocols when advised to do so.
✔️Staff have been advised that physical contact should be avoided, so please do now be offended if we cannot respond in our usual way.
✔️To reduce overcrowding in our waiting rooms, please allow your pet to bring only one owner to their appointment. Should you wish to wait in the car please call us to let us know you are here and we will call you into the practice when the vet is ready to see you.
✔️We would like the avoid cash payments when possible so please bring your bank card, or we can take payment over the phone for any medications or food pre ordered if this is more convenient.
✔️To reassure you the current advice from WHO is that there is no evidence that pets can be a source of infection or that companion animals can spread the virus to people.
✔️We are ALWAYS happy to give advice over the phone to try and limit any unnecessary trips for you and your pet.
✔️If anyone in your household is currently unwell with symptoms consistent with Covid-19 infection or are in self isolation and your pet requires veterinary assistance please call us on 0161 747 9002 (Urmston) or 0161 776 0686 (Carrington) but we respectfully ask that you do not visit the practice.
✔️As a practice we have split into 2 teams to minimise the risk of the whole practice being forced to close. This means at times staff will be stretched so, on occassions, you may not be able to be seen at your usual practice or by your preferred member of staff. We are sorry for any inconvience this may cause and ask for your understanding in the current challenging environment.
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Cats are so funny, they get themselves in to a right pickle sometimes! We would love to see pics of your cats getting up to no good.

We are currently in the busiest time for sheep farmers - lambing season! Below is a picture of our vet Holly's lovely flock of sheep with their lambs and we want to stress the importance of keeping your dogs on a lead when there is livestock around.
Please keep your dogs and sheep safe and keep them under close control anywhere there may be livestock.