The Veterinary Clinic – Vets in Rathfriland
Clinic Overview
- Several reviewers praise the clinic’s care and staff attitude, describing the team as patient, friendly and excellent with animals. - Specific examples include attentive treatment for a dog with a serious wound and a detailed account of staff putting extensive effort into caring for a cat with a severe lung infection. - Practical service is also mentioned, including prompt help with a rabies vaccination and pet passport for travel.
The Veterinary Clinic in Rathfriland sees a wide range of animals, from dogs, cats and small pets to birds and larger farm animals. Services cover routine preventive care, diagnostics, surgery, overnight care and urgent appointments, with reviews also mentioning travel-related help such as rabies vaccination and pet passport paperwork. Recent feedback is mostly positive about staff manner and attentive care, though there is also an isolated but serious negative review.
Services
- •Routine and preventive care: health checks, inoculations and preventive medicine, dietary advice, microchipping, and subsidised neutering.
- •Diagnostics and treatment: blood tests, scanning, pregnancy diagnosis, ultrasounds, X-rays, endoscopy, dental hygiene, wound treatment, operations, and overnight/inpatient care.
- •Urgent and farm work: emergency service with priority appointments, plus farm animal care including sheep caesareans and pregnancy diagnosis.
- •Travel-related services: reviews mention a dog receiving a rabies vaccine and pet passport for future EU travel.
- •Animals seen: small pets such as rabbits and guinea pigs, cats and dogs, birds, and larger animals including cows, sheep, goats, pigs, horses and donkeys.
Pricing
No published pricing information is currently available for this clinic.
People
- •Hannah, James and Emese: named in a review praising the care given to a cat with a lung infection, with particular mention of the time spent researching and planning treatment.
- •Reception team and vets: reviews describe the team as helpful, friendly, knowledgeable and kind.
Reviews
The clinic has a 4.7-star Google rating from 94 reviews. Recent written feedback suggests a largely positive experience overall, with a small number of more critical accounts.
- •Several reviewers praise the clinic’s care and staff attitude, describing the team as patient, friendly and excellent with animals.
- •Specific examples include attentive treatment for a dog with a serious wound and a detailed account of staff putting extensive effort into caring for a cat with a severe lung infection.
- •Practical service is also mentioned, including prompt help with a rabies vaccination and pet passport for travel.
- •One negative review raises serious concerns about delays, misdiagnosis and a missed injury, indicating that experiences have not been uniformly positive.
