The night nurse is responsible for administering medications, monitoring drips, feeding patients, walking out dogs for toileting and ensuring each patient is clean and comfortable overnight. This means that they have to maintain ongoing professional training and abide by a professional code of conduct. Every night nurse employed at Mount Vets is registered with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. Overnight, Mount Vets has a qualified veterinary nurse resident on the premises to care for all the patients in the Hospital. Please ask at reception if you would like to see the wards where your pet may stay. There is access to a large grass area for toileting and light exercise. In the dog ward there are spacious walk in kennels for larger dogs allowing them to stretch out and easily turn around.

Many cats prefer sleeping off the floor and this enables them to do so in the Hospital environment. Cat castles reduce anxiety by allowing each individual cat to choose where they would like to sleep. In the cat ward each kennel has soft closing doors to reduce noise and each overnight kennel has a “cat castle” in it.

In all wards we use calming pheromones to reduce anxiety. Every kennel in all wards have orthopaedic mattresses and a vet bed with the provision of heat mats should they be required so that every patient is comfortable and warm. Each ward is temperature controlled to ensure the wards remain at a comfortable temperature. Mount Vets has separate wards for cats and dogs and an isolation ward for potentially infectious patients or species such as rabbits that require a separate area from cats and dogs.

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