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You are here: Home / Kitty Wisdom / Special Cat Articles 2 / Rewarding Your Vet With the Petplan Veterinary Awards

Rewarding Your Vet With the Petplan Veterinary Awards

October 24, 2013 By: Sparkle Cat6 Comments

photo by Steve GarnerA guest post by Amber Lulu PawPaw, in association with Petplan

For a cat, there is nothing scarier than being ill. (Yes, it is even worse than an empty food dish!) I remember all too vividly the time I became horribly sick after chewing on something I shouldn’t have. I felt awful but even worse, I couldn’t tell my human what was wrong. She kept looking at me and trying to figure out what had happened but unfortunately the message wasn’t getting through.

I began to worry my bad judgement would be the last of me, and that’s when she took me to the vets — the only humans who actually seem to understand our pleas and cries. The treatment I received had an almost magical effect, and before long, I was back hunting my favourite catnip toys, much to the delight of myself and my owner.

So you can see how I gained such a positive view of my vet. You’ve got to admit, whether it’s routine injections, diagnosing problems or performing operations to put things right — they’re always there. Sure, we may not be thrilled with the procedures at the time (who likes that awful medicine they give you? And let’s not even discuss having our temperature taken!), but it really is for our own good. One of my feline friends was rushed to her vets after she was hit by a car, and they worked round the clock to save her life.

So I am one cat who does think this level of care and dedication deserves recognition — and it seems Petplan agree with me! They set up the Petplan Veterinary Awards which let U.K. vets, nurses and support staff know just how good they are. The awards began in 1999, and Petplan has been around for nearly 40 years now.

There are plenty of categories to nominate your vet for, including:

  • Practice of the year
  • Vet of the year
  • Vet Nurse of the year
  • Practice Manager of the year
  • Practice Support Staff of the year

Three finalists will be selected for each category and subsequently invited to the awards ceremony, to be held in April 2014. The winners will be announced at this awards ceremony.

If you kitties in the U.K. want your vet to get a chance to win, then have your human click here to nominate either a practice or a particular individual. They can provide specific details of how this person or practice has stood out to give them a better chance of winning.

Pets all over the U.K. are nominating their vets! Check it out:

If you can’t see the above video, click here to watch it on YouTube!

These awards give us a way to recognize those who do so much for us, but who very rarely get any thanks. In fact, when we kitties are scared, we wind up leaving them with nothing but bite marks and scratches to show for their kindness. And the truth is, the vets and their staff are really just trying to help us feel better and stay healthy. So this is how you can give them a proper thank you. I know I’ll be getting my owner to nominate our local vets — what about you?

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  1. TyBee says

    October 26, 2013 at 11:34 am

    I would nominate my vet. Dr Nancy loves what she does and is so kind and understanding when I go in for checkups. And when my new fur-sister came her to live, she was not feeling so good. My human took her in right away and Dr. Nancy took real good care of Bella. She has a condition called Feline Idiopathic Chronic Cystitis. So Bella takes some meds and is feeling pretty good now. And let me say, she likes to growl and hiss at me lots!!!!! And all I want to do is play!!

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  2. RedSetter says

    October 25, 2013 at 5:44 pm

    Magic and Red are not quite to enthusiastic about this whole ‘vetty’ thing but their housemate with the keyboard has bookmarked the page to go back tomorrow and get voting as she’s been very grateful to the lovely practice who cares for them.

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  3. speedyrabbit says

    October 25, 2013 at 10:16 am

    nah not much fun at all.xx Speedy

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  4. Jaime says

    October 25, 2013 at 7:57 am

    Hi Amber and Abby! Thanks for a very well-done post! I wanted to also share the good news that Petplan pet insurance here in the U.S. (who I work for, full disclosure) also has their own version of the Vet Awards, designed to honor U.S. veterinary professionals! The only difference is, nominations close November 15, and the winners will be announced in Las Vegas in February. To learn more and to help people recognize their amazing vets, vet techs, practice managers and animal hospitals, just visit http://www.GoPetplan.com/vetawards. Thanks again for a great post!

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    • Savannah's Paw Tracks says

      October 25, 2013 at 11:12 am

      Thank you Miss Jamie…I have just the vet to nominate…and her vet techs too

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  5. Ratty says

    October 24, 2013 at 11:11 pm

    The best vet is a hard one. My animals have seen so many. I don’t know the name of my current vet.

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