Veterinary Services

Through our ‘one-stop’ Animal Hospital Alpine Animal Doctors offer our clients more than 350 different clinical and surgical services covering dozens of different species and thousands of diseases.

These range from routine procedures such as annual vaccinations to intensive care treatments for infectious diseases and complex neurological conditions, through to extremely complex orthopaedic and soft tissue surgery.

You can find details of our major clinical and surgical services from the menu on the right of this page.

Similar to a major human hospital, our Animal Hospital is designed to be able to undertake almost every procedure a sick animal may ever need, without the need to refer you to other centres. Under one roof, we can treat your precious pets for everything from cancer to physchiatry.

It’s surprising just how many people don’t realise that a vet is a fully qualified and trained doctor, or who think that we’re not ‘real’ doctors. In fact, the requirements to enter veterinary school are as stringent as those to get into medical school, and the length of a veterinarian’s training — 5 to 7 years — is as long as that undergone by your family doctor.

In some ways, veterinary training is actually more complex than that for human medicine. Your doctor must be skilled in the human physiology. Your vet has to be familiar with the differing physiologies and anatomies of dozens of different species — from alpacas to dogs and cats to horses and reptiles, all the way to a Zebra dove. In her time as a vet Dr Bek has treated many different animals, including crocodiles and a lion.

The big difference between a veterinarian and a medical practitioner however is in the scope of what we do. Your vet is not only your pet’s GP, diagnostician and pharmacist, we must also be its radiologist, its oncologist, its surgeon and its dentist, dermatologist, neurologist, ophthalmologist, psychiatrist, ear, nose and throat doctor, physiotherapist, dietician and much more.

Occasionally we may refer an animal to an external specialist — a veterinary opthalmologist for example — but for the most part all of your pet’s treatment can be carried out at our hospital.