Hastings Vets4Pets Ltd – Vets in St. Leonards-On-Sea
Clinic Overview
- Many recent reviewers describe the team as friendly, helpful, professional and caring, with particularly warm feedback from owners of senior pets and a newly adopted rescue. - Communication and aftercare are recurring strengths: owners mention update calls during a cat neuter, a helpful aftercare pack, and clear written instructions with out-of-hours contact details. - Tabita is singled out in more than one review for empathetic, careful treatment, including support for a dog in severe abdominal pain with IV fluids, pain relief and blood tests, and a positive consultation for a senior pug.
Services
- •Routine and preventive care: routine appointments include vaccinations, flea and worming treatment, neutering, and ongoing management for longer-term issues such as allergies, with reviews mentioning regular monthly visits for injections.
- •Diagnostics and monitoring: the clinic lists in-house laboratory testing including haematology and biochemistry, blood pressure monitoring, X-ray and ultrasound. Reviews also mention urgent blood testing including electrolytes and pancreas checks.
- •Surgery, dentistry and general treatment: the practice has an operating theatre and offers procedures such as neutering, lump removal and dentistry. The website also highlights orthopaedics, with a particular interest in surgical correction of the knee joint.
- •Urgent care and inpatient support: website information includes separate dog and cat wards plus an isolation unit. Reviews describe emergency treatment including IV fluids, pain relief, close monitoring over a weekend, and preparedness to escalate to surgery if needed.
- •Paperwork, training and out-of-hours care: Animal Health Certificates are listed, the clinic is noted as a Veterinary Nurse Training facility, and out-of-hours care is provided by Vets Now Eastbourne.
Pricing
Published prices suggest the clinic sits around average, based on a partial sample of comparable services. Recent feedback focuses more on care and communication than on cost.
People
- •Dan — Practice Owner & Veterinary Surgeon, MRCVS; the website says he has a special interest in orthopaedics, especially surgical correction of the knee joint.
- •Arda — Veterinary Surgeon, MRCVS.
- •Hunor — Veterinary Surgeon, MRCVS.
- •Tabita / Tabitha — named in reviews as a vet and repeatedly praised for kind, thorough handling of urgent and senior-pet cases.
- •Martina — named in reviews for long-term support with allergy visits and follow-up after a lump removal.
- •Stejara — named in a recent review.
- •Reviews also speak positively about the wider team of vets, nurses and reception staff.
Reviews
Google shows 4.5/5 from 450 reviews.
- •Many recent reviewers describe the team as friendly, helpful, professional and caring, with particularly warm feedback from owners of senior pets and a newly adopted rescue.
- •Communication and aftercare are recurring strengths: owners mention update calls during a cat neuter, a helpful aftercare pack, and clear written instructions with out-of-hours contact details.
- •Tabita is singled out in more than one review for empathetic, careful treatment, including support for a dog in severe abdominal pain with IV fluids, pain relief and blood tests, and a positive consultation for a senior pug.
- •A smaller number of recent reviews are critical, including complaints about bedside manner and complaint handling, one serious negative account following cat surgery, and a mixed comment about repeated reminders to leave reviews.
