Thank you to everyone who has nominated our practice or a specific team member to date for the Petplan Veterinary Awards 2025! Here are Paige and Emma receiving nominee certificates, and look in the waiting room when you are next in for our 387 Vets nominee certificate for the 2025 awards too!
The Petplan Awards have been running for 26 years and are designed to recognise the hard work and dedication shown by vet teams and individuals in the veterinary industry.
If you feel 387 Veterinary Centre or a specific team member deserves to be recognised, we’d love your support and for you to tell the judges why we deserve to win! You can nominate in more than one category – there are five in total – and all nominations remain anonymous. Online nominations close on 12th September.
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Welcome back to our vet Emma and our Registered Veterinary Nurse Rachael who both attended International Cat Care’s 2025 World Feline Congress in Edinburgh last week. The event lasted three days, and included lecture streams, seminars and practical sessions given by leading feline experts to help advance feline wellbeing across the veterinary industry and beyond. Topics covered were as diverse as happy vet visits, managing feline behaviour issues, how to best care for poorly newborns, when to use antibiotics, nutritional management of cat diseases, trauma surgery, wound management and much much more! A special shout out to Rachael who was invited by International Cat Care to work for their team as a support volunteer. We’re very proud of you Rachael!
Some of you may remember that International Cat Care came to do some photography and filming last year in our interconnecting West Midlands Cat Clinic. The fruits of their labour are now live! Working in conjunction with Ceva who produce Feliway, the charity has launched a series of training videos to help veterinary professionals reduce stress and improve health outcomes in feline patients. You can imagine Rachael and Emma’s delight on seeing at congress that the West Midlands Cat Clinic spotlights in the promotional literature for the new online cat handling training series! Rachael herself and our Clinical Director Hamish in our West Midlands Cat Clinic have top billing in their literature! We’re super excited that our cat clinic is being recognised on the world stage!
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Yesterday, Our Practice Manager Rachel and Lead Receptionist Angie braved the London heat to attend the Vet Help Direct Best UK Vets Awards for 2025. Held at the Thames Rowing Club in Putney, the glamorous lunch event recognised UK practices shortlisted for an award for the greatest number of positive pet owner testimonials posted on the Vet Help Direct platform over the past 12 months.
We’ve placed a real focus on collecting testimonials for our interconnecting West Midlands Cat Clinic this year to help promote our cat-only veterinary facility. We’re the only one locally, and being cat only makes a huge difference to the wellbeing of feline visitors. We’re keen to spread the word.
A huge thank you to everyone who posted a review in support of us. We were delighted to be hailed yesterday as Best in Staffordshire! Click here to read some of our West Midlands Cat Clinic reviews. If you are a cat owner and have used our cat clinic facility, do feel free to post a new testimonial while you are there!
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This is beautiful Kiko all grown up! The one and a half year old Shiba Inu was in see us earlier this month. Here are photos our Registered Veterinary Nurse Paige took of Kiko over a year apart! Kiko is still a cutie and still has the most beautiful coat!
With temperatures set to soar this week, it’s important to help our canine companions stay cool. As well as helping them feel more comfortable, keeping dogs cool is important for avoiding heatstroke. Heatstroke occurs when a dog cannot cope with their internal rise in temperature and are no longer able to cool themselves down. Triggers are a hot environment or where they generate too much heat from exercise or a combination of the two.
As well as initial illness, heatstroke can result in tissue and internal organ damage and in severe cases can be fatal.
Signs to look out for include excessive panting and breathing issues, lethargy, dribbling, confusion, collapse, vomiting, diarrhoea and fitting. It’s very important you seek veterinary help immediately should you suspect your dog has heat stroke as the condition is a medical emergency. The clinical team will advise you on how best to support your dog on route to the vets. Dogs that are more susceptible to heatstroke include those with longer or thicker coats, older dogs, flat-faced dogs, particularly active dogs, overweight dogs or dogs with health issues.
In warmer weather, walk dogs early in the morning or in the evening when it’s cooler, take a collapsible water bowl with you so your dog can hydrate on route and avoid over exertion. Pavements will be cooler at these times of day for protecting pet paws.
Ensure dogs have plenty of access to fresh water at all times. At home, why not add ice cubes to your dog’s water bowl to keep water cooler for longer. Cool mats are a great option for dogs to lie on, as are damp towels, should they choose. Ensure there are cool, shaded areas they can access both inside and out. You could even put up a doggy paddling pool in the garden.
If travelling with your dog, avoid hotter times of the day. Ensure the car is well ventilated or that the air conditioning is on and that dogs are shaded from the sun. It’s advisable to make frequent stops to check on your canine companion and to let them out to stretch their legs and rehydrate. Never leave your dog in a parked car, even with the windows open, as temperatures can soar scarily quickly.
We hope your canine companion has a happy healthy summer, but if you have any health concerns, please do give us a call.
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Nominations for the Petplan Veterinary Awards 2025 are now open! Hailed as the Oscars of the veterinary world and now in their 26th year, the awards are designed to celebrate excellence in the industry and to recognise vet teams and individuals who go that extra mile to support owners and their pets.
Whilst nominations remain anonymous, every nominee is sent a nomination certificate which gives recipients a real buzz. Shortlisted finalists are invited to a glamorous ceremony later in the year, and it’s here that winners of the five nomination categories will be announced.
If you feel that the 387 Vets’ team and/ or a specific team member deserves to be nominated, we’d love your support. Simply click on this link to share your story.
Nominations are only open online until 12th September so don’t miss out on your chance to place your vote!
For more of an insight into the Petplan Veterinary Awards and to see just how much the awards mean, check out the videos on our ‘About Us’ page (www.387vets.com/about/).
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