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Nurse Clinics and Puppy Parties

Puppy Parties and Nurse Clinics

Brookmead Veterinary Surgery offers a range of specialist services for your pets. These include passport advice, weight management sessions, geriatric clinics and other nurse clinics.

We also hold regular puppy parties, which are designed to help puppies with socialisation. Let your pet enjoy a new environment with new friends. Our practice is conveniently located in Cranleigh.

We also offer alternative holistic treatments. Homeopathy has been used with animals for many many years. Veterinary homoeopathy is often called upon when all other conventional options have been exhausted.

Neil Coode, one of our Veterinary directors, is a qualified practitioner and offers homoeopathy and other complementary therapies.

Nurse clinics

At Brookmead Veterinary Surgery, our qualified nurses run a range of in-house clinics. These include:

Geriatric clinics for dogs and cats

These clinics are recommended for cats over 10 years, and dogs over 8 years.

Geriatric clinics are used to identify and prevent the development of age-related problems.

Our qualified nurses will give a thorough health assessment of your pet and perform a number of screening tests. This will include the analysis of your pet’s blood pressure, blood and urine.

Weight management clinics

At Brookmead Veterinary Surgery, we recommend fortnightly weigh-ins, but these can differ with each patient.

Have you ever heard of the phrase ‘killing with kindness?’ Sadly obesity is becoming more and more common with our pets. Diabetes, arthritis and heart disease are just a few of the common conditions associated with obesity.

Like many things, prevention is better than cure. Our qualified nurses are able to provide you with the support and advice you need to help your pet not only achieve, but maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle.

If extra help is needed to achieve you pet’s ideal weight there are veterinary exclusive diets, specifically designed to achieve this. The diets are lower in calories compared to commercial pet food, and specifically designed with a higher fibre content to allow your pet to feel fuller for longer.

Puppies parties

Puppy parties are fun

Our puppy parties are run by Claire Lewis, our Deputy Head Nurse.

The classes run for four sessions, Wednesday evenings 7.30-8.30pm and one out of the four sessions, Mary Foryszewski (Pawfect Dog School), comes along as a guest speaker.

As well as offering valuable socialisation and education, our puppy parties are great fun with lots of games, cuddles and a certificate on graduation.

Teach your New Pet Social Skills at our Puppy Parties

These are a great way to introduce your new puppy to other puppies and get them used to other animals and making friends.

It also helps to begin the training process for your puppy in a social and comfortable environment. This also helps them to associate visits to the practice with having fun!

Contact Brookmead Veterinary Surgery in Cranleigh for further details on the current status of our puppy parties.

Puppy provide many benefits

Find out about our Puppy Parties

Alternative treatments

Homeopathy

Homeopathy has been used with animals for at least 190 years. Veterinary homeopathy is often called upon when all other conventional options have been exhausted. However some people seek homeopathy as a first line treatment, preferring to not follow the route of surgery, or modern medicines.

Neil Coode, one of the Directors, has been qualified in and successfully working with homeopathy and other complementary therapies for over twenty years.

The homeopathic consultation can be more complex than the usual veterinary consultation. It can take a long time, depending on the patients’ complaint. The initial consultation takes approximately an hour, and the follow up consultations vary in length, but it is best to allow twenty to thirty minutes.

Homeopathy appointments can be booked weekdays between 10:45 am – 12.30 pm, and between 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm.

If you have been prescribed a course of homoeopathic treatment, and require additional therapies this can usually be arranged via a telephone consultation, these can be posted directly to you, saving you additional visits to the practice.

Acupuncture

Veterinary acupuncture is becoming more and more popular in the UK, as a sole treatment, or as part of an integrated approach.

Acupuncture was developed as part of traditional Chinese medicine. In recent years it has been adapted to Western methods of working. We primarily use it as an option for helping arthritis though it has many other potential uses.

Partner Neil Coode has been qualified and successfully practising acupuncture and other complementary therapies for over twenty years.

Neil recommends an initial course of 4-6 treatments weekly, but acupuncture can be continued long term. The frequency will depend on the individual animal’s needs, but often top-ups are required to maintain the therapeutic effect in the long term.

The initial consultation takes approximately one hour, and it is best to assume twenty to thirty minutes for subsequent appointments. Acupuncture appointments can be booked weekdays between 10:45 am -12 pm and between 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm.

Most importantly, acupuncture is extremely safe when practised correctly and is well-accepted in the majority of animals.

We usually use traditional acupuncture needles, but for animals who find these uncomfortable we can stimulate points with our K-Laser. Acupuncture works well with K-Laser pain relief therapy.