Our primary theatre table ready to receive a patient.

The theatre light is just above the table, the drip stand to the left and the anaesthetic machine to the right.

Liz and Helen using our secondary operating table to place a catheter into a cat’s leg ready to give her intravenous fluids.

Once an animal is anaesthetised, a tube called an endotracheal tube us placed down the animal’s windpipe. Different sized animals need different sized tube.

These tubes are for rabbits (at the top) down to Great Danes ( at the bottom)

The endotracheal tube is then attached to the anaesthetic machine, which lets the animal breath oxygen and anaesthetic gas. Here Abba is being given a dental by Liz.

The tubes from Abba’s mouth to the anaesthetic machine can be seen.

The surgical instruments are sterilised by our autoclave in packs.

Here Pat is getting the instruments for Patch’s spay.

The pulse oximeter gently clips onto the tongue while the animal is anaesthetised, measuring heart rate and the amount of oxygen in the blood.

Here Patch is ready to be spayed. The pulse oximeter shows she has 98% of her blood saturated with oxygen and a heart rate of 148 beats per minute.

The instruments are placed on a tray ready for the operation. During surgery dirty swabs etc are put into the stainless steel bucket.

From left to right, swabs, scalpel, artery forceps, scissors, tissue forceps, needle holders (Gillies) and needles.

The type of operations we perform vary greatly, from rabbit dentals to bitch spays, from mending broken bones to removing a cat’s thyroid glands.

Here Liz is placing a bone plate into the front leg of Meg the farm collie’s leg.