Closed for the day - Emergency service available
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Dr Greg McIntyre
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4/10/2024
DUE TO MAJOR POWER WORKS TO SECURE OUR FUTURE ELECTRICITY NEEDS
We are closed Saturday 5th October.
Basic Emergency Service is available by ringing 54221310
We apologise for any inconvenience and n...
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8th August 2024 - Building and Moving Update - Not Long Now!
The Big Move is Upon Us Soon
It's a little while since we updated you here on our web-page. You can keep current on developments on our Facebook page at McIntyre Vets Facebook Page.
We can advise th...
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Building Update 7 June 2024 2024
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Dr Greg McIntyre
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7/06/2024
Wow - all the joinery is in, floor coverings complete.
Our building programme is on schedule and it's looking great.
It won't be long until the signage goes on the building and the remaining trade ...
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2024 June is Dental Month in our Clinic
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Dr Greg McIntyre
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31/05/2024
FREE NURSE DENTAL HYGIENE CHECKS 🙀
DENTAL MONTH FOR JUNE 👏🏼
FIXED PRICING
Is your pet's breath smelly?
Is your pet struggling to munch and crunch?
Your pet might need a dental hygiene c...
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24 May 2024 Building Project Update
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Dr Greg McIntyre
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27/05/2024
A lot has happened last week:
Some of the joinery has been delivered to the site (with the rest coming this week).
Painting is in progress
Floor vinyl application is in progress
Ceiling installa...
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Chief Veterinary Officer Update on Avian Influenza outbreak.
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Dr Greg McIntyre
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24/05/2024
Please see the attached information from the Chief Veterinary Officer of Victoria.
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Building Update 17 May 2024
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Dr Greg McIntyre
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20/05/2024
Still moving along quickly. Painting starts in the coming week, and it won't be long before the floor coverings and cabinetry are well on the way too. We are full of anticipation for the big move in A...
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Building Update 26 April 2024 - We move on apace!
We have good progress on the fitting out of our new building in Saleyards Road. We are on schedule for handover of the building end of July / early August. Once we have the building, we will have the ...
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Building Update from 19 April 2024
Here's an update on our building project. There has been a lot of internal work done. The electrical wiring, plumbing, and air conditioning have been commenced. The framing for the ceiling and walls h...
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Weekly update on our new hospital progress 12 April 2024
It's all happening now!
We're happy to report that work is progressing on our new veterinary facility in Saleyards Road. Most current work is high level work to be completed before the internal walls...
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We Are moving, but still around!
You've heard the rumours - here are the facts!
You may have heard all sorts of rumours about the future of our veterinary practice. Now, after an exhaustive and exhausting search, we can announce tha...
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Cat Vaccine Availability
Cat vaccine that has been unavailable for some months is now starting to come into stock again. Supplies are still a bit limited, so our staff are contacting clients in order of need, to help get our ...
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We are still here and still Kyneton owned and operated by Greg McIntyre and staff
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Dr Greg McIntyre
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9/02/2024
Hi all,
I thought I would write this blog to answer some rumours that have come back to us.
We have not sold out our practice to any corporate entitiy, nor do we intend to. To facilitate operations ...
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Christmas & New Year Hours & Services 2023 - 2024
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Dr Greg McIntyre
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22/12/2023
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Christmas & New Year Services 2023 - 2024
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Dr Greg McIntyre
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19/12/2023
Dear Clients,
As the Christmas New Year break comes upon us, we would like to advise you how we can help you and your animals with emergency services on the major holidays. As with everyone, our staf...
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Public Holiday for Kyneton Cup Wednesday 8th November 2023
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Dr Greg McIntyre
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7/11/2023
Just a reminder to clients that we are closed on Wednesday 8th November for the Kyneton Cup Public Holiday. Normal services resume from Thursday.
We have a service available for emergencies only by c...
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Global shortage of Feline (Cat) Vaccines 2023
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Dr Greg McIntyre
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21/10/2023
Dear Valued Clients,
There is currently a widespread (world-wide and Australia-wide) shortage of vaccine available for the prevention of core diseases of cats. This shortage is related to production ...
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HORSE DEATHS REPORTED IN VICTORIA
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Dr Greg McIntyre
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18/07/2023
You may have heard that there have been some so far unexplained deaths in horses in southern parts of Victoria.
The Department of Agriculture is investigating together with other veterinary and healt...
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CHANGES to the VETERINARY SERVICE ENVIRONMENT in KYNETON
CHANGES to the VETERINARY SERVICE ENVIRONMENT in KYNETON
As many would know, Dr Coghlan's veterinary practice (Kyneton Veterinary Hospital), has ceased operating on his retirement at the end of last ...
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Some internal changes to our structure - operations and management unchanged
Commencing from 1st April 2023, we have made a change to the ownership structure of our practice. To facilitate future developments and arrangements our practice is now in a company structure. The own...
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REPEAT MEDICATION REQUESTS - Please give us time to get them ready for you.
In order to help clients and patients with ongoing medication needs, we frequently are able to supply repeat medications for patients we have seen previously and made a diagnosis and recommended treat...
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Changes in our organisation
We are announcing an update to our practice management structure as described below. This commences from next Wednesday 17th August 2022.
Greg continues as owner and General Manager with overall re...
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How can we help you best in these unusual times?
To our dear clients & patients,
We have been very busy and appointments have been hard to get, and we have been doing our best to get to see you as promptly as possible. Please help us by booking rou...
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Change of Policy related to Cancellations
In these extraordinary times, we find our appointments are in very short supply. We are finding that a number of patients are not arriving for scheduled appointments or we are being notified of cancel...
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COVID exposures limit our services
We have been struck by staff shortages and COVID exposures.
Because we only have very limited vets this week we are being forced to cancel non-urgent appointments and can only see very urgent cases a...
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Christmas / New Year Services 2021-2022
Because Christmas & New Year fall on Saturdays we will have a prolonged interruption to regular services this year. Our committed staff have agreed to a roster to be available for EMERGENCIES ONLY ove...
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Facebook Page Up and running again
NEWS! - our Facebook page has been hacked. We have made strenuous efforts to recover it, but now we have set up a new page. Please ignore our old page as it is completely out of our control..
Our new...
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Exciting Times - staff changes
We are pleased (and sad) to advise that our Dr Emma Simpson will be taking maternity leave from after Christmas. We wish her and her family all the best for the remainder of her pregnancy and the birt...
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We Are Open Again from Wednesday 22 September
We have received clearance from the Public Health Unit to reopen our clinic, and we will be open again from 8:30am Wednesday 22 September. After we had an infected person in the clinic for a short tim...
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Tier 2 Exposure Site at our clinic Friday 17/9/21 1215-1235h.
We have just found out we had a COVID case in the clinic on Friday 17 September 12:15-12:35PM.
Any clients who attended during those times and all staff who were in attendance then are required to ha...
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Liver disease affecting dogs eating raw meat products from Gippsland.
For your information we pass on the following:
Primesafe and Agriculture Victoria have issued the following statement for the attention of veterinary practitioners registered and practising in Victor...
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Fee adjustments
As discussed in our previous blog and newsletter, we are keen to continue to provide a quality emergency triage service, to be there for you and your pet either at the end of the phone or in person, i...
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Client Satisfaction Survey
Like to get a $50 voucher for 5 minutes to help us? We are keen to know how to serve you better and what you like about what we do. Please participate in our survey. Click on the link:
Click here to...
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Updates COVID-19 Response Plan 28/5/2021
Clinic Rules for the Duration of the 28 May Circuit Breaker Lock down
In order to comply with government regulations during the current COvid-19 situation we are implementing the following rules:
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CRITICAL SHORTAGE OF VETS FOR RURAL PRACTICE
SHORTAGE of COUNTRY VETS
VETERINARY AFTER HOURS / EMERGENCY SERVICES AT RISK
We wish to acquaint our clients with issues related to provision of after hours, weekend and public holiday emergency vet...
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April COVID Response Update
Well, hopefully we are all feeling a bit better about living more normally with COVID-19 now that many restrictions are reducing and masks are in our pockets most of the time rather than on our faces....
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Staff Education
We are actively involved in keeping staff up to date on best practice care of our patients. We hold regular staff meetings to learn together as well as to improve our service to you and our patients. ...
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Update on COVID-19 Response
We have all been a bit up and down in regard to Covid-19 restrictions and responses, so we thought it might be timely to advise our current arrangements for your information.
Currently, we require cl...
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New Opening Hours from January 2021
From January 2021 our closing time will be 6pm every weeknight and 12 noon Saturdays (except Public Holidays).
Please try to call early in the day to book appointments as all appointment slots book ...
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Corona Virus Update 3 August 2020
The State Government has increased restrictions in our area.
We aim to be able to continue to provide essential services for the welfare of animals in our care. In order to do this we need to make su...
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Practice Update 4 May 2020
We are updating you on how things are going in the practice.
We are still here and attending to all urgent and emergency cases
Our after-hours service continues as usual. Please remember our on...
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Corona Virus Update 31 March 2020
COVID-19
We are continuing with normal services for all urgent cases, but we need your help.
PLEASE ring us before attending at the clinic
Please advise us if you are in quarantine, self-isolatio...
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Practice Update 27 March 2020 - COVID-19
We are still here!
We are wanting to update you on where we are in maintaining animal care services.
We have had confirmation from the Commonwealth Government that veterinary services are to be cons...
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Corona Virus Update 25 March 2020
We hope you are all OK and coping in these difficult times. We are focussed on providing ongoing care for our patients, our clients and our staff. We hope you will understand and help us as we vary no...
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How is Corona Virus (COVID-19) affecting our practice?
At this stage we are trying to operate as normal.
- If you are required to self-isolate or have at risk symptoms please phone rather than coming in to the clinic so we can work out how to help you.
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How does COVID-19 or Coronavirus affect you, your animals and our veterinary services
As you are aware there is considerable concern in the community and around the world about a new type of Coronavirus that originated in China. This article does not try to cover all the history or med...
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We made a mistake
We made a mistake SORRY - while generating a report send out our newsletter, our system sent an email to the clients selected. We have NOT had a security breach. We apologise for any inconvenience or ...
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Free Bushfire Safety Training for Workers (and everyone) in the Bush
Take a look at this online training on bushfire safety for people working in rural areas.
Click here to access Bushfire Safety Training
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Christmas & New Year Services
Just a short note to let you know we will be open all days except the official Public Holidays. On the weekends. after regular hours and on Public Holidays we have one of our vets on call 24 hours a...
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Making things better for you on our website
We are checking through our website to make it easier to use and to find the information you want. You may see things changing a bit, but not too much - mostly the layout and menu arrangements. Please...
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New sheep owners get a hand
We had the chance to help a couple of new sheep owners through their first lambing recently. Here’s their comment - it’s nice to be able to help.
“Hello, we’d just like to tha...
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Dr Nic is changing his career path and Dr James McClure is coming to join us.
We will miss Dr Nic as he has chosen a new pathway in his career. He has decided to commence work with the Commonwealth Department of Primary Industry to help himself to fulfill his passion for improv...
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Your Dog Can Be a Superhero
IS YOUR DOG:
OVER 12 MONTHS AND UNDER 8 YEARS
OVER 25KG
NOT ON ANY CURRENT MEDICATION
HEARTWORM TESTED
UP TO DATE WITH VACCINATIONS?
YOU CAN HELP!
We are looking for superheros to be on our...
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How do I care for my pets in a fire?
For information about preparing for fires and the care of your pets please refer to Emergency Vic, Agriculture Victoria and CFA websites for an extensive range of material to help you prepare for, cop...
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SUMMER is COMING!
Spring has sprung and summer is not far away. It's a good time to think about preparations for the hotter weather. Here are a few hints we've preared for you.
GRASS SEEDS
When the grass st...
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