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!

Lovely kind staff. Great facilities.
Louise Kirby
Louise Kirby
Truly caring fantastic vets, my wife and I can't thank and praise them enough, very highly recommended to any animal lover, well done all at Castle vets.
Toby Goddard
Toby Goddard
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
GILL MARSH
Top quality vets with top-notch staff. They really care about running a good and ethical business. I trust them.
Henry Dodds
Henry Dodds
We are Very Happy with the Service, Care and Treatment given to Sydney by Kirsty, Giles and the support team.Highly recommended.
Derrick Stevens
Derrick Stevens
Absolutely lovely people. So caring, update you. My Pup loves them all. Have complete confidence leaving my pets with them.
Lue Wellman
Lue Wellman
Wouldn’t take my cat anywhere else. Caring and professional. Not sure Moo would agree!
lisa holmes
lisa holmes
Very friendly and helpful.
Justin Obeirne
Justin Obeirne
Did a good job with looking after our dog she is back to her old self...
Heretwo ThereCars
Heretwo ThereCars
Our cat has used this place for a good couple of years. He hates it. I don't think that's a reflection on the quality of service, he just doesn't like being checked over. The staff have been lovely. I think their charges are reasonable. I'm sure the cat will continue to use them all of his medical needs.
Brendan Hampshire
Brendan Hampshire
They are amazing and really care about our pets!
Dana Sousa Machado
Dana Sousa Machado
Excellent vets, frendly and helpful staff, highly recommended for all your pets needs.
Martin Worlock
Martin Worlock
They saved my boys life when he broke his leg the other day. And now I can hold onto my purring best friend for hopefully much longer. Amazing team. Thank you so much.
Freyja O'rourke
Freyja O'rourke
Kind friendly staff. Clean and well equipped. Good vets who care for their patients!
Jenny Webster
Jenny Webster
Very good vets and brilliant staff
van life Cornwall UK Full-time van life
van life Cornwall UK Full-time van life
We are new to the area and have had nothing but kindness and professionalism from the vets
Sue Glover
Sue Glover
Have always been brilliant with our girls even 3am in the morning when I'm panicking
Jane Warr
Jane Warr
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
Private practice so helpful and very careing. Piece of mind.
David Smith
David Smith
Top Vet - very caring very friendly very helpful. Wouldn't go anywhere else
Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor
Most caring vets I have ever known...my boy was seriously ill and I couldnt have asked for better care for him...unfortunately he lost the fight but not without vets pulling out all the stops to save him....they let me visit and stay with him for hours while he was still here and after
sharon Price
sharon Price
1st consultation appointment with Eva this evening and can not thank her enough , she was so welcoming to us as a family had already read through missys notes which the past vets hadn't, and gave us more advise and information on an eye issue missy is currently going through than the last 4 vets we have seen. The receptionist were all lively and welcoming and had bloods taken expecting them to be back tomo and recieved a call 15 mins after leaving with the results, can not fault any part of our appointment. Thank you so much 💓
Zoe Greening
Zoe Greening
Friendly knowledgeable staff, very caring and efficient. Highly recommend
Pauline Daw
Pauline Daw
Been going there for more than 20 years with various cats. Wouldn't go anywhere else. They are brilliant
Anthea Anderson
Anthea Anderson
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
Kate Knight
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