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!

Very professional vets have looked after our dog for years always great advice and they talk u through the costs which is helpful. Would recommend these vets to anyone.

Will Smith

Very friendly. Great vets and nurses.

Ruth Goddard

Private practice so helpful and very careing. Piece of mind.

David Smith

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

Matt Seymour

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.

Roy Francis

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

All our cats are registered here. Compared to two other veterinarians in Dorchester, we find these the best. A little bit more expensive, but they do have our full confidence.

Dave White

Fast and efficient service, friendly.

Nanny McCphea

Still an independent practice with real affordable prices

Lollie Lou

Every time we've had to use Castle everyone you come in contact with is helpful and friendly. Thank you

Jo Leggett

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

Always friendly and try to ensure you and your pet are looked after.

Ian Barrow

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

Lainey Ross

Brilliant vets

Kim Critchell

Wouldn’t take my cat anywhere else. Caring and professional. Not sure Moo would agree!

lisa holmes

Great staff, vet was friendly and took his time to explain everything in terms we could understand

Sarah Watton

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

Louisa Bavington

I am so happy to have registered my little dog with Castle vets, they have been fantastic with Flo. They really go above and

Rachel O'Beirne

Highly recommend, We've used this clinic for over 10 years and wouldn't go anywhere else.

lynne white

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

Amazing vets always been there for my animals especially Gill always try to have her for my fury friends she was excellent when i had to say good bye to my Joe Joe dog and now she takes care of my two I have now. All the vets i have seen have been brilliant keep up the good work team

Diana Legg

Just started taking our kitten Nimbus to this vets recently, vet instantly told us hes actually a boy 😂 Extremely friendly vet and reception staff so thankful we chose such a friendly vet. Only thing to mention is theyve got his name on file wrong as Nimba we learnt when i got an email for the cat plan 😂!

Apollo M

Brilliant vets ,competitive pricing and staff are fabulous!

Samuel Schofield

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

Sian Williams

Lovely kind staff. Great facilities.

Louise Kirby

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