Author : Richard Jones

2026 Bank Holidays

The practice will be closed on the following dates; Friday April 3rd, Monday April 6th, Monday May 4th, Monday May 25th and Monday August 31st We provide an out of hours service for our registered clients only.  If you experience an emergency when clinic is closed call the practice and the relevant out of hours […]

Festive Period Opening Hours

Christmas Opening Hours   Opening times Wednesday December 24th 9am – 12noon Thursday December 25th CLOSED Friday December 26th CLOSED Saturday December 27th CLOSED Sunday December 28th CLOSED Monday December 29th 9am – 12noon Tuesday December 30th 9am – 12noon Wednesday December 31st 9am – 12noon Thursday January 1st CLOSED Friday January 2nd CLOSED Saturday […]

Percy’s Personal Pan-Pan*

Percy is a much-loved cockatiel, so much so, that her owner’s racing boat is indeed named after her, with its hull, sails and racing uniform bearing her image…brilliant! With today’s cockatiels being the descendants of countless generations of birds bred in captivity, ‘natural selection’ has now created birds that are very well adapted to and […]

2025 Bank Holidays

The clinic will be closed Friday April 18th, Monday April 21st, Mondays May 5th & 26th and Monday August 25th. As always we provide an emergency out of hours service for our registered clients. Should you experience an emergency when the clinic is closed call 01606 350410 and the answerphone will give you the relevant […]

Happy Birthday to us!!

Practice management team, Kenzie Dodd and Willow Jones celebrating AVS’s 15th Birthday this week!! We first opened our doors on April 12th 2010 and are proud to have got to this milestone; the past decade and a half has seen growth and change, we’ve gotten through global pandemics (human and bird), met the challenges of […]

Marmite’s Marvellous Mandible

Following a freak accident involving a head on collision with another vulture during a flying display at Muncaster Castle, Marmite the hooded vulture was left with an open fracture to her jawbone/lower beak, which is a serious, potentially life-threatening situation. The fracture was clearly very unstable with significant bleeding from the oral cavity and so […]

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