“The love from a cat is seen as an unparalleled gift one may receive.” – Charles Dickens
Your feline friends are an integrate part of your home and family, and though they can sometimes have the reputation of being somewhat temperamental, we all know that the love of a cat is “seen as an unparallel gift one may receive”, as our good friend Charles Dickens once said. We are here to tend to the needs of your precious kitten, be it dental care, vaccinations, treating an illness or just a good healthy dose of love during their annual health check!
We are privileged to have a fully functional hospital on site complete with state of the art equipment for surgery and in-hospital treatment. Our patients are kept comfortable in cages furnished with well-padded mattresses and comfortable bedding. Our clinic is complete with a well-stocked theatre, anaesthetic monitoring and oxygen machines, dental machine and a state of the art digital x-ray machine. We are also equipped with an ultrasound machine and a complete set of blood machines, allowing us to do a vast array of diagnostic blood tests in-house. We offer an array of services for your cat(s). For more detail on these, please read below.
Veterinary Services for Cats
Surgery
- Highest standard in surgical hygiene and anaesthetic safety
- Sterilisations at 6 months
- Orthopaedic and soft tissue surgeries
- Two qualified veterinary nurses dedicated to ensure constant anaesthetic monitoring and safety
- Top quality Pulse and aneasthetic monitoring equipment used during surgery
- Ability to do most surgeries in-house by our experienced surgeons and mobile surgeons
- Good relationships with specialist and special interest vets if the need for referral arises
Regular Health Checks and Vaccinations
- Essential Kitten vaccinations
- Booster vaccinations at 1 year of age
- Essential yearly check-up with full clinical examination and vaccinations
- Deworming, tick and flea treatment
- Nutritional guidance according to size, type and age of each kitten/cat
Radiographs
Top quality Digital X-ray system for highest quality images
Essential tool for diagnosis and evaluating things like:
- Broken bones
- Lung health (feline asthma, lung tumours)
- Heart size and condition
- Intestinal obstruction (Swallowed something)
- Bladder and kidney stones
- Litter size (Pregnancy)
Ultrasound
Essential tool for diagnosis and evaluating:
- Bladder problems (common in cats)
- Stomach ulcers, liver disease, kidney disease
- Abdominal fluid build up
- Abdominal tumours
- Fluid around the heart
- Pregnancy and foetal heart rates
Full In House Bloods
State of the art Idexx Catalyst, Lasercyte and Vcheck blood machines to evaluate a wide range of blood tests:
- Testing Thyroid (hyperthyroidism in cats), and pancreatitis
- Pre anaesthetic blood health profiles
- Kidney and Liver health (3/5 cats over the age of 7 suffer from kidney disease)
- Evaluate red and white cell counts
- Screen for Diabetes and other conditions
- Blood pressure measurements to diagnose hypertension (high blood pressure – common in cats)
Weight Loss Clinic
- FREE weight loss program to help your cat go from chunky monkey to fabulous feline
- Relieve the stress on the joints caused by being overweight
- Step by step guidance on food type and volume
- Free follow up weight in’s and body measurements
Assistance With Traveling (Exports)
- This can be very daunting, but we can help you with step by step guidance of the entire travel process
- INTERNATIONAL travel and travel to NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES
- Navigation of difference between international countries’ requirements
- Assistance in blood work needed such as Rabies titres
- Assistance in the complicated paperwork required for export
Euthanasia
- It is never an easy time, but we do what we can to provide a quiet, peaceful and respectful environment for the final moments with your beloved feline friend
- We have a professional and reputable company we work with to take care of your passed pet after crossing the rainbow bridge
- We have multiple options ranging from a Bio-burial to return of ashes available to our clients to choose from and will take care of everything for you.
- Please keep in mind that we do offer home visits as well, and can have this entire process done in your home environment, where your cat is most comfortable
Dental Hygiene and Care
- FREE dental health assessment check
- 67% of cats suffer from dental disease
- Regular cleaning is essential to the
- Prevention of gum disease, abscesses and inflammation of the gums that can lead to kidney and heart valve damage
Senior Wellness Checks
- We love our senior citizens! These visits are so important as 3/5 cats over the age of 10 develop kidney disease! See our article on Chronic Kidney Disease in Pets
- Keeping your beloved cat comfortable and pain free in his/her senior years
- Arthritis check is also important as cats are masters at hiding pain, and need to be examined for painful/sore joints and backs and appropriate treatment plans put together to keep them comfortable in their older years
- Senior blood work and screening tests
- Advise on nutritional changes for old age
- Advise on additional supplements in his/her old age
Referral to Specialists
- Healthy relationship with Medicine and Surgical specialists around the Western Cape
- We don’t hesitate to recommend referral of our patients if it’s in the best interest of your cat for specialist attention
ALL DAY Consultations Available
- We cater for BUSY cat parents by offering consultations from 8 am to 6 pm on weekdays
- Saturdays from 8am to 1pm
- We try to accommodate everyone’s busy schedules
24 Hour Emergency Service Available:
- Though Teva is not on call every night, we share a rotational on call system between practices in the Helderberg
- There is always someone on call 24/7, 365 days of the year
- Practises work together and share the duties of afterhours emergencies
- Call the Teva Vet’s landline and the on call vet’s number will be provided by the answering machine
- 021 851 3511 – Teva Vet Clinic
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation
- Work together with our physiotherapy partners down the road, Pets in Balance, to provide proper rehabilitation and recovery, be it after operations, after intense illness, or to help them lose weight
- Enhance cat’s quality of life by restoring pain free movement
- They have a full range of laser therapy, therapeutic ultrasound, TENS therapy and more
- Underwater treadmill
Veterinary Acupuncture
- Done by Dr Angela Vorster
- Trained in Eastern Acupuncture (TCVM – Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine)
- Also trained as a Veterinary Chiropractor (IAVC – international Academy of Veterinary Chiropractic)
- Pain control and rehabilitation for cats through acupuncture
- Natural remedies available for a range of conditions from nervousness to allergies
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