Southampton / Cambridge practices - can you help? (Please!)

Re: Southampton / Cambridge practices - can you help? (Please!)

Holly Norman — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 09:36:18 GMT

I'm Peterborough based but I don't think our practice sees enough cat neuters regularly for us to help.

Nearby there is Best Friends Broadway in Peterborough, Pontefract (Clear Ridge), Nuvet, Pengelly & Mizen (worth contacting- quite busy) and Youngs that may have the necessary case numbers. There's also Vets4Pets, Village Vets and Companion Care. Towards Huntingdon, there is the Cromwell Veterinary Group which are very busy and very lovely. I think they also do some of the vet work for Wood Green Animal Shelter so worth getting in touch with them.

Good luck!

Re: Southampton / Cambridge practices - can you help? (Please!)

Rob Loxley — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:48:25 GMT

[quote user="David Mills"]There is a new fancy Blue Cross cat shelter in Cambridge[/quote]

I sure it's been around for getting on 80 years

[quote user="David Mills"]not sure who does their vet work[/quote]

Cambridge Vet School

Re: Southampton / Cambridge practices - can you help? (Please!)

Louise Buckley — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:42:11 GMT

Hi David and "An On",

Thanks for replying and some good suggestions there. We have contacted both and it looks like we have probably now found somewhere to carry out the data collection. I won't say where until I have full confirmation but I will update this thread when I do. In the meantime, any other ideas also welcome as I hate to count my chickens (and all that)!

Best wishes,

Louise

Re: Southampton / Cambridge practices - can you help? (Please!)

David Mills — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:30:07 GMT

Unless things have changed dramatically in the last 5 years she'd only see about 2 cat spays a week at the vet school. There is a new fancy Blue Cross cat shelter in Cambridge though, not sure who does their vet work but they likely have a big throughput. There's also the Wood Green Animal Shelter HQ about 5-6 miles outside Cambridge which may be worth contacting.

In Southampton why not try the PDSA? Most have separate cat wards and around 15 spays a week so should be suitable. RSPCA also have a presence there but not sure to what extent.

Re: Southampton / Cambridge practices - can you help? (Please!)

An On MRCVS — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:18:47 GMT

Louise

If she's on the west side of Cambridge, have you thought about the vet school on Madingley Road? I'd suggest an approach through the animal welfare bods first, as they tend to be a bit less, erm, stuck-up than some of the clinicians

(anon for fairly obvious identification reasons)