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:

Dorchester
Weymouth

We're a gold standard Cat Friendly Clinic

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!

Brilliant vets
Kim Critchell
Kim Critchell
1st class. Friendly understanding staff, who are genuinely concerned for welfare of all the animals they see.
Paul Beukers
Paul Beukers
Private practice so helpful and very careing. Piece of mind.
David Smith
David Smith
Very good vets and brilliant staff
van life Cornwall UK Full-time van life
van life Cornwall UK Full-time van life
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
Jacqui Phillips
Have just registered our new pup here after the passing of our old Spaniel. Staff are friendly and ready to answer any questions. Appointments run to time and good parking outside.
Old Crock1928
Old Crock1928
A good professional service
David McCauley
David McCauley
Top Vet - very caring very friendly very helpful. Wouldn't go anywhere else
Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor
Lovely people friendly service
Ian Thorneway
Ian Thorneway
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
Sharon Young
The team have always been excellent with our late cat Sammy over the 18 years of his life, thank you for everything
Holly Mercer2
Holly Mercer2
Always friendly and try to ensure you and your pet are looked after.
Ian Barrow
Ian Barrow
Absolutely lovely people. So caring, update you. My Pup loves them all. Have complete confidence leaving my pets with them.
Lue Wellman
Lue Wellman
Recommended so highly, this place and its staff are all amazing!
Elliot Stone
Elliot Stone
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
Scott collins
Great Veterinary Practice. Staff all very welcoming. Would definitely recommend anyone to take their Loved Pets here 🐾💖🐾
Gracie-Lou Simmonds
Gracie-Lou Simmonds
Just picking up flea treatment for our 7 month old kittens. But very friendly and willing to chat and show interest in what happened to our cat who died, which I appreciated.
Babs Kirby
Babs Kirby
Special thanks to the vet and nurses for looking after Molly my beloved border collie in her final hours , being with her as she past on was so important , very caring and professional team .
Mike Bluck
Mike Bluck
Very friendly, kept everything safe with distancing but still had that personal touch.
Terry Llewellyn
Terry Llewellyn
Always pleasant. No trouble getting an appointment.
Susan Williams
Susan Williams
So caring and efficient, cannot praise the whole team enough for how well they looked after our cat, and us.
Christine Davis
Christine Davis
Fast and efficient service, friendly.
Nanny McCphea
Nanny McCphea
Thank you Castle Vets. My dog had a half-yearly checkup today. The vet has just called me with the results of a blood test for a potential issue identified in the routine assessment. I'm impressed at the scrutiny, turnaround in the labwork, and the follow-up.
Christine Pierce
Christine Pierce
Only used the vets once, it was very well organised for corona restrictions.
fiona s
fiona s
Helped us recapture cat when basket broke open outside!
Jon Riley
Jon Riley
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