Procedures

Cinque Ports Vets are pleased to be able to offer our clients the option of key-hole (laparoscopic) surgery for routine bitch spays and other procedures where appropriate.

Brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome is the term given to the effects of a significantly shortened nose. 

Ultrasound scanners use high frequency sound waves to look at tissues within the body. 

Once you have made an appointment for your pet to be castrated, please offer a small meal at 10pm the night before the anaesthetic and then withhold any further food. Access to water should be allowed until they are ready to come into the surgery. 

Once you have made an appointment for your pet to be spayed, please offer a small meal at 10pm the night before the procedure and then withhold any further food. Access to the drinking water should be allowed until they are ready to come into the surgery.

These instructions have been prepared to help you with your pet's recovery.

This operation involves removal of the entire uterus (womb) and ovaries via an incision usually made on your cat’s left flank or midline into their abdomen. 

The operation involves surgical removal of both testicles via two small incisions in your cat’s scrotal sacs. It is a straightforward operation performed under general anaesthesia.

This is an extremely important way of identifying your pet should they ever go missing.  We regularly have pets brought in to the surgery who have either strayed or been injured in a road traffic accident with no way of being able to find out who their owner might be. 

Endoscopes are essentially cameras on long tubes which allow us to look inside certain areas of the body.