With temperatures set to reach record highs this week, trying to keep our pets cool and hydrated is more important than ever. Make sure you leave lots of fresh water stations around the house. Popping ice cubes into water bowls will keep water cooler for longer. Ensure pets have access to shade and cooler spots at all times, and if there’s any chance of a gentle breeze, even better. Indoor fan sales this week must be through the roof! A special shout out to bunnies with this being Rabbit Awareness Week. Keep hutches out of the sun, ensure runs have shade, wipe the tips of your rabbit’s ears to help them cool down, and pop a frozen bottle of water wrapped in a tea towel into their living space so they can choose to lie against it should they wish. Keep water for their water bottles in the fridge – or even freeze them – for a cool refreshing drink.
Here are two of our team’s pets enjoying some super cool fun this week! We’d love you to share pics of how your pets are keeping cool!
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In support of Rabbit Awareness Week (22nd – 26th June 2026), we’re offering free nurse-led rabbit health checks at 387 Vets. Book your bunny in for a happy hoppy health MOT! As well as checking your rabbit is in great shape, we can offer lots of advice around how best to meet a rabbit’s five welfare needs: environment, diet, behaviour, company and health.
Given the intensely warm weather this week, we’re extending our free nurse-led rabbit health checks to run until Friday 3rd July. Give us a call on 01922 411755 to book!
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Today is the first day of Rabbit Awareness Week (RAW) 2026! For their 20th anniversary, RAW is focusing this year on ‘Feeding Bunnies Better’. Did you know that 85-90% of a rabbit’s diet should be high quality feeding hay/grass, and that this is essential for their digestive, dental and behavioural health? Add a small amount of nutritious rabbit nuggets into the mix to provide extra vitamins and nutrients and a handful of fresh greens for variety, and your rabbit has the perfect spread for the day!
Did you also know that rabbits need plenty of living space to help them to balance their diet? If their living space is cramped, movement is limited which impacts their health and wellbeing and makes it harder to encourage natural feeding behaviours like grazing on hay throughout the day. As well as enabling them to stretch and explore, giving rabbits room to roam helps fuel a healthy appetite for tip top teeth and tummy health!
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Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month (which we’re rolling into June), isn’t just about celebrating the role of qualified nurses. It’s also about raising awareness around what the job can entail and championing students currently working towards a career in veterinary nursing. Our student nurse Isobel initially started at 387 Vets volunteering for a day a week whilst studying for an Animal Management Diploma to gain course-required practical experience in an animal-related environment. Three years later, she has just completed the second year of her Level 3 Veterinary Nursing Diploma and, after the summer, will be starting to prepare for her oral Professional Discussion with an industry panel and final practical examinations (OSCEs) to become a Registered Veterinary Nurse! What have been the highlights so far?
“I loved starting in kennels and on cat ward to really get to know the inpatient role properly before moving into other areas in practice. I have had lots of opportunity to take clinics and feel competent running nurse consults. Learning anaesthetics under supervision has been really interesting, and I particularly love seeing pets going through the whole journey now from admit to discharge, and being an active part in it all. It’s like piecing the whole jigsaw together.”
The time has flown! We look forward to supporting Isobel in the exciting months aheads!
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Although Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month officially ended yesterday, we’re also devoting the first week in June to profiling our fabulous nurses and the amazing job they do.
This is a particularly apt photo of our Registered Veterinary Nurse Rachael, which was used by the charity International Cat Care (ICC) to champion veterinary nurses during Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month. With an ISFM Advanced Certificate in Feline Behaviour and a deep passion for all things cats, Rachael is our nurse Cat Friendly Clinic Advocate. Her responsibilities in this role include ensuring our cat facilities meet the highest ICC Cat Friendly Clinic accreditation standards, that we continue to review how we can make in-practice experience better for cats, advising clients on feline wellbeing, signposting colleagues to relevant training and training new team members on our cat friendly policies.
Rachael is also our clinical Dog Friendly Clinic advocate, as 387 Vets is an accredited Dog Friendly Clinic (DFC) with the Dogs Trust and British Veterinary Behaviour Association’s DFC scheme. Rachael’s responsibilities in this area are similar to her cat advocate role. Being dog friendly means looking at ways we can reduce stress and improve wellbeing for canines on vet visits, from being aware of and avoiding situation stacking, responding accordingly to behavioural signals and employing low stress handling techniques to running a variety of clinics that help improve canine confidence.
If you feel your pet would benefit from stress reduction tips around vet visits, please get in touch!
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