- Dorchester (Poundbury) 01305 267083
- Weymouth 01305 813303
- Dorchester 01305 267083
- Weymouth 01305 813303
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'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!
Every time we've had to use Castle everyone you come in contact with is helpful and friendly. Thank you
Good cat friendly service. Able to go in with my cats. Would recommend on my experience so far.
Very pleased with treatment our cat received very kind would recommend this practice to anybody
Great Veterinary Practice. Staff all very welcoming. Would definitely recommend anyone to take their Loved Pets here 🐾💖🐾
Covid safe procedures in place and all clean and bright.
Kind, friendly and very thorough - certainly the best vets I have been to with my cats.
Totally professional and compassionate vets made a very hard time easier with their support with our tess
Good vets, they were really caring when we had to put down my mums dog. Sad times
The team have always been excellent with our late cat Sammy over the 18 years of his life, thank you for everything
These vets are the best I have used. All of the vets and staff are so friendly, caring and compassionate. We recently had to have our handsome boy put to sleep our dog and ourselves could not have been in better hands.A big thank you to all of you for everything.
Always friendly and try to ensure you and your pet are looked after.
Always get good service and the pets are well cared for, not that they enjoy the visits mind you...
Wouldn’t take my cat anywhere else. Caring and professional. Not sure Moo would agree!
1st class. Friendly understanding staff, who are genuinely concerned for welfare of all the animals they see.
I stopped to pick up a wounded hedgehog this morning from the road in Charminster and drove it strait to Castle Vets being the nearest and near where I work.Having never been there before and walking in with this little hedgehog in a bad state the lady I dealt with, Amanda, was so kind, friendly and empathetic.She immediately took him to a nurse to be looked at and took my details to keep me informed as to his condition which she did later that morning.I am so grateful and impressed.Thank you Amanda and Castle Vets team!
Such wonderful professional service.Very sympathetic towards me and my dog when I had to let her go.All staff included especially when I had ring and book my dog on, thank you.
Very friendly. Great vets and nurses.
Lovely, Caring and Realistically priced.
Great vets.
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.
Excellent vets, frendly and helpful staff, highly recommended for all your pets needs.
Had to say goodbye to our friend and the service we received from all staff , from reception to Giles was amazing.Thank you
As usual, excellent service. Little waiting around and dog untraumatised. Best vet I've ever had.
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.
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
