Our practice is comprised of two surgery premises, the London Road Veterinary Centre in King’s Lynn and the Hollies Veterinary Clinic in Downham Market.

These two practices work very closely with full treatment, diagnostic and hospitalisation facilities in King’s Lynn and all day consultations and nurse clinics at Downham Market.

We aim to give local, friendly, convenient service and to take the stress out of your animals’ health care.

This is some of our practice staff members and their own pet dogs.

There are ten people and twenty dogs in the photo, this only represents a small number of the total pets the staff have.
There are 8 more dogs, 25 cats, 2 rats, 7 rabbits, 2 tortoises and 2 snakes.

We believe our own pet ownership helps us to be more understanding of the care our clients wish for their pets.

Our reception team at King’s Lynn.

These ladies are trained to help you on the telephone and in person when you visit the practice – making appointments, ordering medicines, booking clinics etc.

They can offer advice and guidance to start the process of treating your pet when unwell or simply advice on keeping them healthy.

This is Stacy Brook, our Head Nurse with one of our younger and rather playful patients – Peggy-Sue.

The nurses train for over 2 years to qualify and then continue to study and train in other areas of animal health interest such as Pet Behaviour, Nutrition or Surgical Nursing.

The Senior nurses are also trained in how to teach and mentor the new nurses.

This is Helen Dunridge, a Qualified Veterinary Nurse who specialises in Preventative Health Care Clinics for Dogs, Cats, Rabbits and ‘Small Furries’.
These clinics cover areas such as

• New puppy and kittens
  
• Rabbit dental checks
  
• Flea and worm advice
  
• Weight clinics
  
• Dietry advice
  
• Pets over 8 years old

This is Dr Annie McNally our Senior Veterinary Surgeon at King’s Lynn. Annie has tremendous medical knowledge and oversees our medical treatment cases and our in patient care.

She also has a great interest in reptile medicine and regularly treats tortoises, lizards and snakes.

This is Helen Manson, one of our 8 Veterinary Surgeons with Jack who has come in for a health examination and vaccination.

We try to be gentle and friendly with all our patients, as this photo shows!
Vaccination for dogs protects against Distemper and hepatitis, thankfully two conditions we rarely see now, and also, Parvovirus and Leptospirosis which unfortunately we do see in West Norfolk not uncommonly.

There is even some kennel cough protection in our standard vaccine package and more can be added if your dog is regularly kenneled.

Dental disease is very common in Dogs, Cats and Rabbits and therefore dental treatment is frequently required.

Any bad breath, or brown staining on teeth can suggest your pet has dental disease and is possibly in some discomfort. Sadly our pets cannot tell us when they get toothache!

We can offer a free dental check with Helen Dunridge and if required we can arrange for treatment, including a scale and polish which we do in our specially designed dental suite. As you can see in the picture, a vet performs the dentistry and a nurse monitors the anaesthetic.

We carry out a wide range of operations, from emergency surgery of wounds, or accidents, through to routine operations such as spays and castrates.

Here, Mr Dallas, the Practice Owner is spaying ‘Lulu‘ a bitch, with ‘Kay’ one of our nurses monitoring the anaesthetic in our purpose built operating theatre.

Spaying bitches greatly reduces the incidents of mammary cancer and rates of this horrible condition have fallen hugely over the last 20 years. This is mainly due to more bitches being spayed early to prevent this.