About us

Your local independent and trusted vet

Our practice was founded by Rip Kirby in 1992 with the ethos of being a friendly and approachable place to bring your pet. We are still committed to this, whilst providing the best possible care and treatment for all your pets. The practice remains independently owned by the vets who work in it, the only one in the area now. Being independent ensures the practice employees are motivated only by making pets better, not by keeping shareholders happy.

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We're a gold standard Cat Friendly Clinic

We make an extra special effort with all our feline patients, as we know how upsetting a trip to the vets can be for them. We're proud to have attained the Gold Standard Cat Friendly Clinic award, which means your cat is in safe hands.

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We have highly trained and experienced staff who will work with you to keep your pet in the best of health. We offer a full range of veterinary services, preventative health care, consultations, in-house diagnostic testing, imaging, and surgery. We have also partnered with Virtual Veterinary Specialists to ensure almost every problem imaginable can be dealt with right here at Castle Vets. We also offer a monthly budgeting plan and provide our own out of hours care to all our registered patients.

Many clients have been with us years and we consider them old friends, but we are always happy to welcome new faces, paws, tails and whiskers! Please do not hesitate to contact us about any matter big or small.

Reviews

Meet just a few of our happy owners and their pets!

Great service for our fur babies. Only charged for necessary treatments. Recommended

Martin Alway

Top Vet - very caring very friendly very helpful. Wouldn't go anywhere else

Mark Taylor

Castle Vet's lovely. Welcoming! Organized! Knowledgable! And friendly!

Lainey Ross

I can safely say this is the best vets ive taken my dog too, and ive tried them all. Fantastic staff, the vet doesn't make you feel rushed and explains things in detail to make sure you know what choices of treatment your pet has. 100% recommend this vets for your fur babies.

Sharon Young

Kind, friendly and very thorough - certainly the best vets I have been to with my cats.

Alison Allison

Totally professional and compassionate vets made a very hard time easier with their support with our tess

Nina Walker Was Hall

I have been using Castle Vets for many years. I've always had excellent service from kind, thoughtful and highly trained staff. My dogs love trips to the vets.

Carol Osborne

Absolutely lovely people. So caring, update you. My Pup loves them all. Have complete confidence leaving my pets with them.

Lue Wellman

My 16 yr old cat became suddenly very ill, I rang Castle vets and I saw us the same day. They were incredibly caring and reassuring towards my pets needs. Reception staff are also amazing and very friendly. I will never take any of my pets any where else. Thank you Castle vets.

Gillian May

Lovely people friendly service

Ian Thorneway

Absolutely outstanding service. All staff wonderful and the vets are incredible. Highly recommend

vanessa turner

They are amazing and really care about our pets!

Dana Sousa Machado

So good. So professional. Lovely service. Very happy.

Sarah Rowe

Fast and efficient service, friendly.

Nanny McCphea

We have had 2 late night accidents resulting in an off duty call and requiring subsequent surgical procedures each time. All of the staff were so reassuring and looked after our dogs with such care. One of our dogs, Izzy had to return for dressing changes once every few days. The care she received was in my opinion better than in any human hospital, using a mixture of modern and natural techniques. The bill was amazingly reasonable too. Thank you all so much

Tina Lancaster

They are really good vets! They look after my dog and he even likes going to see them

steven dickens

Very friendly and helpful.

Justin Obeirne

Highly recommend Castle Vets . Had to call them out sadly to put my 13 yr old dog to sleep, it was done with the most loving care & respect for Bracken . They never fail in there treatment of my animals ,

Pat Goddard

Brilliant quick service

kim critchell

Great friendly Vet Practise. Staff are always knowledgeable, caring and always seem to go the extra mile for our furry friends.

Matt Seymour

Very satisfied with the service i recieved from castle vets.Would recommend to any one to take there.

Andrew Meir

Brilliant vets ,competitive pricing and staff are fabulous!

Samuel Schofield

Such a good vet. Been with them for years for both my dogs. Trust them implicitly.

Linsey Binks

Lovely kind staff. Great facilities.