Home Puppies and kittens
The Best Start Package
Everything your new best friend needs for a healthy start in life.
What is included
- All of your puppy or kitten’s core vaccinations
- Kennel cough vaccination for puppies
- A Best Start advice consultation with a veterinary nurse, to answer all of your questions
- A full nose to tail health check with a vet
- Their first dose of flea, tick and worming treatment
- Four weeks of complimentary pet insurance with Pet Proactive
£45 for Healthcare Plan members, or £90 full price. Prices were correct at the time of publication and may be subject to change.
Their first visit
The Best Start advice consultation is with a veterinary nurse, and it is as long as you need. Bring your questions about feeding, house training, socialising and what to expect over the first year.
A full nose to tail health check with a vet happens at the same time, so anything worth keeping an eye on is picked up early.
Book their first appointmentPuppies
Our best start package is designed to ensure your new best friend has everything they need. It includes:
- All of your puppy core vaccinations
- Kennel Cough Vaccination
- Best Start advice consultation with a Veterinary Nurse to answer all of your questions
- Full nose to tail health check with a Vet
- Their first dose of flea, tick and worming treatment
- 4 weeks complimentary pet insurance in association with Pet Proactive
- Only £45 for Healthcare Plan members, or £90 full price
We recommend coming for your first appointment soon after getting your new puppy. This gives you the opportunity to ask any questions you may have, and get the best advice available from our experienced team.
All puppies should be wormed multiple times whist they are still with their mothers then again once in their new homes.
When you come for your appointment, our team will be ready to advise you on the latest, most effective and safe parasite control options, and our Best Start Package will include your puppies first dose of flea and worm control for no extra cost.
We highly recommend vaccinating all puppies to protect them against a range of life-threatening diseases, a lot of which are sadly still very common. To be fully effective, we advise giving vaccinations at eight and 12 weeks of age.
Some puppies may have already had a vaccination before you take them home. If this is the case, please bring their vaccination record to their first appointment.
Puppies should be fed on a balanced and complete puppy food, formulated with their growing bodies in mind.
With over 1,500 different brands of dog food on the market in the UK it can be extremely difficult to choose one that is actually good for your dog. Ash Tree Vets highly recommend Royal Canin dog food, and are more than happy to talk to you about the pros and cons of a variety of diets.
This is a question we often get asked when we first see a puppy. The answer is dependent on each individual, and we take the opportunity to discuss it in more detail at a FREE Junior Health Check, which you will be invited to attend when your puppy is around five months old.
Settling your new puppy in and teaching them to be a good dog is not always as easy as we expect it to be! Ash Tree Vets have a very experienced team of Veterinary Nurses, all of which are dog owners themselves, who are on hand with advice to help get you started.
We also highly recommend attending a puppy training school.
Since April 2016 it has been law that all dogs in the UK are microchipped before eight weeks of age and registered initially to the breeder, so your new puppy should already have a microchip when they come to you. The breeder should give you a “Transfer of ownership code” (or similar), to simplify the transfer of ownership details on their microchip. If it doesn’t, don’t worry we can help. Our microchipping service is competitively priced, and only a fully qualified Veterinary Nurse or Veterinary Surgeon will implant your puppies microchip.; we only use the market leading microchips, and will register your pet’s details with Petlog, the UK’s largest microchip database, accessible 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
In the distressing event that your dog does go missing, it is essential that you have the best possible chance of being re-united with them.
Kittens
Our best start package is designed to ensure your kitten has everything they need. It includes:
- All of your kitten’s core vaccinations
- Best Start advice consultation with a Veterinary Nurse to answer all of your questions
- Full nose to tail health check with a Vet
- Their first dose of flea, tick and worming treatment
- 4 weeks complimentary pet insurance in association with Pet Proactive
- Only £45 for Healthcare Plan members, or £90 full price
*Prices were correct at time of publication but may be subject to change.
We recommend coming for your first appointment soon after getting your new kitten. This gives you the opportunity to ask any questions you may have, and get the best advice available from our experienced team.
We recommend all kittens are wormed from 2 weeks of age and definitely as soon as they move to their new homes. Flea prevention is often started at 9 weeks old but can be started sooner if required.
When you come for your appointment, we will advise you on the latest, most effective and safe parasite control options, and our Best Start Package will include your kittens first dose of flea and worm control for no extra cost.
We highly recommend vaccinating all kittens to protect them against a range of life-threatening diseases, a lot of which are sadly still very common. Kittens require 2 injections at 9 and 12 weeks old.
Kittens should be fed on a balanced and complete kitten food, formulated with their growing bodies in mind.
With so many different brands of cat food on the market in the UK it can be extremely difficult to choose one that is actually good for your cat. Ash Tree Vets highly recommend Royal Canin cat food, and are more than happy to talk to you about the pros and cons of a variety of diets.
Cats can re-produce from a very young age, so we highly recommend neutering at a young age depending on each individual situation, to prevent any unwanted pregnancies in a young cats. Cats should always be neutered before you start letting them roam outside.
Siblings will mate with each other, so it is essential to neuter at least one of them before there is a chance of this happening.
Yes and it is now a legal requirement to do so before they are 20 weeks old. Cats commonly go missing. They roam for miles and get lost, climb into vehicles and sometimes become involved in accidents. Microchipping is the only reliable way of tracing a cat’s owner when he or she is found and brought to a vet.
Bringing home a new puppy or kitten?
Register them with us and we will book their first appointment.