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.

Our Practices:

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!

Nice friendly staff and good service, but cost of drugs high

Heretwo ThereCars

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

vanessa turner

Always has the pets' best interest at heart, rather than the profit driven experience I've had at other multi national owned vetinary surgeries. Good common sense approach, kind and caring.

GILL MARSH

Covid safe procedures in place and all clean and bright.

Chris Knight

Great Vets.

Mandy

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

The team have always been excellent with our late cat Sammy over the 18 years of his life, thank you for everything

Holly Mercer2

Only used the vets once, it was very well organised for corona restrictions.

fiona s

Wonderful! Fitted us in fast when I was concerned about my dog. The reception staff were friendly and welcoming and the vets were gentle, caring and knowledgeable. They also didn't charge a Kings ransom which was a pleasant change from my previous vets who were not independents.

Jacqui Phillips

Always friendly and helpful, and the dog doesn't mind going there which is a bonus 👍🏻

Gary Watton

Fantastic vets, caring, welcoming, knowledgeable and friendly. Take both my cats here and would highly recommend.

Sian Williams

We have been using this vet practice for about 2 years now. We had three cats when we joined and they have cat surgeries and practioners. I would always take my cats here. I feel listened to and respected. And that the welfare of my cats is important. We recently had to say goodbye to one of our little cats. The care and consideration from the whole practice ( vet Ellie, nurses and reception staff) to us and our special family member was second to none

Amanda Watson

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

Lainey Ross

Great vets.

James Mitchell

Good cat friendly service. Able to go in with my cats. Would recommend on my experience so far.

Louisa Bavington

I have recently changed vets and I'm happy to recommend the excellent compassionate and thoughtful service my pets have received. From the lovely caring receptionists to equally caring and competent vets I am most impressed. I initially thought that this particular veterinary practice would be expensive but have discovered that the prices have been very reasonable and compare favourably. Thank you Ellie, Lucy and Kelly, you are doing a great job!

Moira V Crane

Fantastic friendly service. Vet, we saw Kirsty, was informative and explained problem well. Very well covid organised so felt very safe. Thank you

Jo Leggett

Good vets, they were really caring when we had to put down my mums dog. Sad times

fiona s

They are amazing and really care about our pets!

Dana Sousa Machado

Excellent vets, frendly and helpful staff, highly recommended for all your pets needs.

Martin Worlock

Took my cat in as an emergency as she had suspected eaten a poisoned mouse and seemed really unwell. The vet gave me two options but advised me on the cheaper one being that it was pretty obvious what she had done. He gave her an injection and a few days later she was back to normal. Prices are very reasonable and the desk staff were very pleasant and helpful.

Kate Knight

Really good vets, gave thorough examination of my vizsla and put us at ease, thank you

Dawn Pollard Dickinson

Would be nice if a bench was provided in the car park to sit on. As our appointment was running late and we weren't in a car because Maisie Pearce doesn't like getting in cars. Staff were excellent though.

Susan Atyeo

Did a good job with looking after our dog she is back to her old self...

Heretwo ThereCars

Kind friendly caring staffAffordable and flexible with appointments.Took our cat willow there and they kept her so calm you can really tell all the staff really care about the animals there treating and caring for.Would definitely recommend them to anyone in weymouth or dorchester looking to register their pet for a vet.

Scott collins

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About us

Your local independent and trusted vet

Our Practices:

We're a gold standard Cat Friendly Clinic

We're a gold standard Cat Friendly Clinic

Reviews

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Weymouth