Peacock Vets offers new and unique Pet Club options
Our Difference Services Top Pet Club Our Team News Contact Register X Find us Peacock Vets offers new and unique Pet Club options Independent Friendly Dedicated Clinical Excellence Cost-effective care Top Pet Club – Nature Care: A new take on care – for your pet, for our wildlife, for our planet This is a story of dogs, cats… and bees. Our Top Pet Club has been a huge success since we started in 2021, offering great value for money for preventative pet care such as vaccinations, parasite treatments and much more. At Peacock Vets we don’t just care for your pets; we also care about sustainability and looking after our planet. We therefore wanted to ensure that we continue to give our clients the great value benefits that they expect, but including unique options to enable us all to care for our pets whilst caring for nature, too. Treating and monitoring for worms, ticks and fleas is essential for the safety of your family, so it is important not to simply stop using parasitic treatments without having a discussion with us first. We can discuss the best options for you, your pet, our wildlife and our planet. Why Peacock Vets are revising their Pet Club for the better. More and more evidence is coming to light that parasite treatments used for our pets are having a major impact on our environment. Some products have already been banned for use within agriculture because their use correlated with a decline in the bee population. In addition, these pet treatments contain substances which also harm aquatic life and other insects, all essential for biodiversity. For these reasons, Peacock Vets has decided to reinvent our popular Top Pet Club plans to include eco-friendly options. Our revitalised plans offer the same excellent value, including vaccinations, free anal gland expression, microchipping and insurance administration, for example, as well as an option for additional discounts on set treatments and procedures. How have the plans changed for the better? We believe that by offering regular monitoring for parasites, there will be significantly less need to introduce unwanted pesticides to your pets via standard parasite prevention treatments. Plan members who choose our Nature Care option will therefore have access to unlimited nurse checks for fleas and ticks, and we will treat only when needed. Nature Care is an option for those owners who wish to reduce their impact on our environment when it is safe and appropriate to do so. Reducing the amount of preventative treatment used is not practical or feasible for all of our clients and it must be the right decision for you, your pet, our wildlife and our planet. We will therefore never force any changes to your pet’s treatment regime unless you agree to them. We will also always ensure safe and appropriate alternatives are available, continuing to provide treatment if this is not the case. Reducing the amount of pesticides that reach our rivers and environment is beneficial, and we believe that reducing the amount of pesticides introduced to our pets via preventative treatments will have a positive impact on nature What else is included? Vaccinations Free 6-monthly health check Free anal gland expressing Free nurse nail clips Free microchipping Free insurance administration Discounts on set procedures and medications (Top to Tail plans) Why is it important to monitor and treat against parasites such as fleas and ticks? Fleas can cause itchiness and dermatitis, and severe infestations can cause severe anaemia in young animals. They can also carry tapeworm. If fleas take hold in your home, it can be difficult to eradicate the infestation. If you choose not to treat preventively, we can assist with flea checks, which are free of charge in our Nature Care option. Ticks can carry other diseases such as Lyme disease. They can transfer these diseases to your pet, but also to humans. As it is unlikely that ticks transfer disease within 24 hours of a bite, if you check your pet daily, there is less risk. Owning a dog or a cat does not increase your risk of being infected with Lyme disease, irrespective of their tick status. We can show you how to effectively check for ticks. Toxocara is a roundworm that can cause illness in humans. Historically, pet owners have been advised to treat their pets every three months for worms. The main risk factors for contracting toxocariasis include contact with soil contaminated with dog or cat faeces, especially in children who play in such areas. (Rarely, it can be contracted by eating undercooked meat). Routine worming of adult pets in low-risk settings does not help to lower the number of worms found in the environment. Treatment can be useful for pets who are likely to be shedding a significant number of eggs. These include puppies and kittens (less than 6 months old), pregnant or lactating females, and dogs who hunt, eat prey or are kennelled outdoors. For this reason, we will continue to provide worm treatment with our kitten and puppy bundles. We will continue to advocate regular worming for Toxocara for clients who have households with young children, elderly or vulnerable people and anyone who is immunocompromised. Lungworm in dogs has become a fairly common issue with potentially serious consequences. The prevalence of lungworm is geographically variable in the UK. While positive cases have been diagnosed in our immediate surroundings, the areas around Chippenham and Corsham are not deemed to be extremely high risk. Our Nature Care option offers testing for lungworm, with treatment only for positive cases. Tapeworm infestations in the UK are likely to be well-tolerated in adult pets, and rarely cause issues. As puppies and kittens are commonly infected, however, we advocate worming young animals. Most cases in the
Why we support local businesses
Our Difference Services Top Pet Club Our Team News Contact Register X Find us Why we support local businesses Independent Friendly Dedicated Clinical Excellence Cost-effective care Our focus is always on looking after your pets like we do our own. To do this, we need to ensure that the products, services, machinery and equipment that we use are effective and fully functioning. We are an independent veterinary practice and therefore don’t have a large infrastructure or facilities management teams to call upon if things go wrong or project manage changes. We believe that by using local firms, they enable us to give you, our clients, the best service we can. We get to know our regular suppliers and any firms we use for ad-hoc services, and they get to know us. We are all one big team. If we have a problem with our computers, for example, we need a quick response to our call for help. PriorityIT, based in Westbury, ensure that our systems are maintained, optimised and monitored for any viruses or malware. They always respond to requests swiftly to ensure that we remain open. When we need building work completed, we understand that it may cause disruption, so we want to use firms that we know and who understand how we work, enabling us to minimise any disruption to our clients. We don’t feel that larger, national firms have the same levels of empathy and understanding. When we started out at Corsham we used Tremlett and Turner, shop-fitters from Bristol. They did such a good job that we used them again for our Chippenham clinic. For a veterinary practice, practicality and professionalism go hand in hand. Our uniforms, for example, not only help us to look smart, but they are also practical, too. We purchase these from Michael Hope Embroidery and Printing in Box. Our stationery, leaflets and flyers are also essential to portray our professionalism. These are printed by Corsham Print (who are based on the Leafield Industrial Estate) and Townsend Design and Print in Chippenham. On a day-to-day basis, we like to support our local business colleagues, too. We regularly use local bakeries and shops for our lunches, snacks and office supplies, for example. We also use local venues for our team get-togethers, too, such as Amore in Corsham and The Wine Monkey in Chippenham. Other key local firms and businesses who help us in a variety of ways: Goughs Solicitors; The Little Kitchen; Digiprint; Parsons; Paula Harsley – wordsmith; May’s Greengrocers; Twigs and Willow and whilst it was trading, Iris used to purchase her shoes from If the Shoe Fits in Corsham, too. It is not always possible to purchase specialist equipment, medication or veterinary supplies locally, but where we can, we do. This includes the doggy ice cream which we sell, which is sourced from Marshfield Ice Cream. We are proud to be an independent veterinary practice, and as a local firm ourselves, we believe that we should support other local, and often independent, businesses, too. About Us Our dedicated team provide friendly, understandable advice alongside excellent clinical care. Corsham: 01249 847 457hellocorsham@peacockvets.co.ukUnit 2 Martingate Centre, Corsham, SN13 0HL Chippenham: 01249 847 186hellochippenham@peacockvets.co.uk23 Borough Parade, Chippenham, SN15 3WL Browse Connect Facebook-f Google-plus-g Instagram