Small Animals Blog

As always we had so much fun being a part of the pet and calf days in South Taranaki over the last couple of months. We sponsored the champion calf covers and also had TVC drink bottles and pens given out as spot prizes! Check out some of our favourite pictures below from Tawhiti, Hawera Combined and Auroa Schools. 

Vet Anna and her sidekick Minnie were out visiting Hawera Primary School today, giving a talk on dog safety. We have implemented this programme to educate children about safe ways to behave around dogs in an effort to reduce the shocking number of dog bites incurred by children.

We have now visited all primary schools in our Taranaki Vet area, reaching over 2000 children!

We will continue to visit these schools every two years, targeting the year 1 and 2 students.

For the past four years Carol, Stratford Vet Nurse, has been growing her hair out to be cut off and made into a wig. Being the awesome person she is, she decided to take it one step further and shave it all off as part of Shave For A Cure, Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand's signature fundraising event. Last Saturday was 'the big chop' and Carol raised over $1000! Massive achievement!!