Alpine Animal Doctors is excited to announce that Edge 102.1FM and 1566AM 3NE — the region’s two most popular radio stations — have come on board as a major sponsor of Dr Bek’s Carnival at the Vets 2012!
Edge FM and 3 NE are very generously helping us to tell everybody in the region about our Big Day Out for Pets, providing air time to publicise the event and generally getting right behind our goal of making our huge fun day out for local families and their pets an annual event.
Read more →Get ready to Samba with spaniels and Limbo with Labradors — the countdown has begun to what we think is going to be a really exciting and entertaining day for everyone. This year’s Carnival takes place on Sunday, 22 April from 11 am to 3 pm in the Alpine Animal Hospital grounds at 7047 Great Alpine Road, Porepunkah.
Read more →he date for Carnival at the Vets 2012 has been finalised. This year, Dr. Bek’s Big Day Out for Pets will be held on Sunday, 22 April from 11 am to 3 pm.
As usual, Carnival will take place in the grounds of the Alpine Animal Doctors’ animal hospital located at 7047 Great Alpine Road, Porepunkah. Limited parking is available outside the hospital grounds.
Read more →At all the famous Carnivals around the world it’s all about the costumes. In Trinidad and Jamaica, in Rio and at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, crazily colourful costumes are a big part of the fun of Carnival.
Everybody dresses up in wild and wacky outfits featuring feathers and boas and big head dresses, creating a really colourful spectacle. We want Dr. Bek’s Carnival to be the same. One day we want our little country Carnival to feature its very own parade, complete with floats!
Read more →This year, Carnival at the Vets will feature even more fun games and activities for all ages. All your favourite games are back but we’ve added some exciting new ones! From the all-time favourite, Fetch the Sausage to Find Spot’s Spots to new games like Treasure Hunt for the littlies, Carnival at the Vets 2012 promises a feast of fun for the family.
Read more →Adult or child, you won’t go home empty handed from Carnival at the Vets. Get into the Carnival spirit and you’re almost guaranteed go home laden down with goodies! This year we’ve pulled out all the stops to make sure everyone is a winner at Carnival at the Vets 2012, with hundreds of free gift bags plus great prizes valued at over $2,000.
Read more →All of the games and activities at Carnival at the Vets are great fun and we know you love to get involved, but we have much more for you than games. Carnival this year will again feature some popular demonstrations, displays and stalls — something to watch while you catch your breath before the next game!
Read more →Carnival is an energetic day out, especially for the kids, but there’s plenty to eat and drink to keep your energy levels up for the next big game. The sausage sizzle will be going all day and we haven’t forgotten your pets, with a wide range of pet treats and plenty of fresh water available. All proceeds from the sale of food and soft drinks go to local animal welfare charities.
Read more →Putting on an event like Carnival at the Vets is a mammoth exercise for a small rural veterinary hospital like Alpine Animal Doctors. It just wouldn’t be possible without the very generous support of our sponsors, and the help of our supporters and Friends of Carnival.
Whether they’re a veterinary trade sponsor, a local business donating goods or service or a volunteer giving up their time for free, so many people help us out in so many ways. Together, it’s they who help make Dr. Bek’s Big Day Out for Pets a succes, and a really fun time for everyone involved.
Read more →Alpine Animal Doctors have a programme that aims to see every dog and cat in the Alpine region implanted with a microchip. We really want to see that no pet from the Shire ever gets lost.
At this year’s Carnival at the Vets Dr. Bek will be offering a microchip session at a substantially reduced price.
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Come Home Spot is a community initiative by Alpine Animal Doctors that aims to see every pet in the Alpine Shire microchipped so they can be reunited with their family if they get lost.
There are almost six million pet dogs and cats in Australia. Every year thousands go missing. People move and Spot or Kitty decide the new place is not to their liking and set off to head back ‘home.’ They’re frightened by fireworks or thunderstorms and run away, to become lost and confused.
All too often these lost pets never find their families again, ending up at Council Pounds or animal shelters. Some may be rehomed but for many their fate will be euthanasia. The lucky ones — those whose owners had the foresight to have them microchipped — are quickly returned to their families.
Implanting a microchip should be one of the first things you do when you bring a new animal into your home. In fact, it’s a legal requirement in most states. From 1 January 2012 microchipping has been compulsory for all dogs across the whole of Australia, but microchipping legislation generally applies only to dogs and cats, and only to those born after the introduction of the legislation. That still leaves many thousands unprotected.
At Alpine Animal Doctors we have an ongoing program that aims to see every pet in the Shire — from Myrtleford to Mt Beauty — microchipped by 2020. This is not about revenue for our practice. Vets don’t make money from microchips, the low one-off lifetime fee really only covers the costs. It’s about protecting all of those who can’t protect themselves.
Put simply, if every animal owner had their pets chipped, and kept their registry details up to date when they moved house, we might never again see a stray dog or cat have to be put down because we can’t find their owners.
Microchipping is an extremely simple, safe and inexpensive procedure. Just call the hospital and we’ll do the rest.
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