Level Three Open Hours

Monday - Friday: 8am-12.30pm & 2pm-5pm
Saturday:  CLOSED during Covid-19 levels 4 and 3
Sunday & Public Holidays: Closed

In Alert Level 3 you can only enter reception if you have an appointment and you must be wearing a face mask. If you are wanting to purchase product/ repeat scripts, please phone the clinic to organise a collection time.

Clients cannot enter the consult rooms. There are four designated seating areas inside reception. If all four seats are taken, please stay in your car and phone reception 09 521 1457. Only 1 client may enter the clinic with each pet.

In level 3 we can see all of our patients for any treatment they require.
Please either email us on reception@kohivet.co.nz or phone 09 521 1457 to book appointments.

Once you have booked an appointment the pre consult questionnaire below must be filled in before you arrive at the clinic.

https://kohivet.co.nz/pre-consultation-questionnaire/

The nurse will take your pet into the consult room to see the vet.  Once the consultation is complete, a vet or nurse will come out to the reception and discuss any treatment. Please stay seated and maintain your distance. We can process payments on the eftpos machine inside the clinic.

Please remember to keep your two-meter distance. It is very important that we all stay safe so this clinic can continue operating.

For surgical procedures, we will email you a link to online consent forms the night before surgery. If you are unable fill in these forms online just send an email confirming that you have read the document and that you give your consent.

If you would like to purchase any food or repeat medication, please phone reception so payment can be done over the phone. When you arrive at the clinic, phone us from the car park. A nurse will then place the food/medication on the collection table outside the front door to avoid you coming inside the clinic.
We now have an online store that can deliver your pet’s products to your home https://shop.kohivet.co.nz/

 You can now purchase your pet products from our Kohi Vet Online Store and have them delivered to your doorstep.

Products Available Online Include:
• Pet food (including prescription diet)
• Flea treatment
• Worming treatments
• Treats Cats + Dogs
• Dental Care products
• Shampoo
• Adaptil/Feliway (Products for stressed pets)

The link to our online store is on our website.

https://shop.kohivet.co.nz/

Vanesa is well known to many of the clients at Kohimarama Veterinary Clinic where she has worked as a nurse for the past 3 ½ years.
Vanesa is an Argentinian Veterinarian who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 2016.
Vanesa's initial job as a Vet was in the shearing season in south Patagonia and her love for sheep was what brought her to New Zealand.

After a year of travelling around, she found a home in this country and got the opportunity to come back to the veterinary profession at Kohimarama Veterinary Clinic, where she worked as a Senior Veterinary Nurse.
In April 2021 Vanesa passed the Preliminary (MCQ) Examination section of the Australasian Veterinary Examination which allowed her to get a Limited Registration with the New Zealand Veterinary Council. This enables Vanesa to work as a veterinarian in training under the supervision of Russell Tucker.
Vanesa is hoping to sit her Final Clinical Examination in June of 2022.

Our three full-time Veterinarians are Dr Russell Tucker, Dr Georgia Child and Vanesa Flagel

There are several ways that you can prepare your pet for Guy Fawkes to help them through this traumatic time.

1. Feliway™ for cats or Adaptil™ for dogs.  We have an in-clinic special on Feliway- get a diffuser and 1 refill, which will last 4 weeks, for $99.00.  Adaptil collars will last 4 weeks and the special price for Guy Fawkes is $79.00.
2. Clomicalm™ is an anti-anxiety medication that needs to be commenced at least 4 weeks before Guy Fawkes to have any effect.
3. Calmex™ liquid for cats or capsules for dogs. This is a natural food supplement that needs to be commenced well before Guy Fawkes.
4. Thunder Jackets. The Thunder Jacket calming wrap applies gentle pressure, similar to swaddling an infant, in order to help your dog, feel safer and calmer. The jacket or shirt helps to calm in over 80% of cases, and can help your anxious dog with panting, scratching, digging, shaking, hiding and many other symptoms of anxiety or fear.
5. Desensitise your dog to loud noise by playing music at meal time and gradually increasing the volume of the music.
6. Which ever method that you use it also helps to keep your pet indoors at night over Guy Fawkes.
7. Diet. Royal Canin have a new diet called Calm® that contains natural supplements which reduce anxiety. This diet is currently only for cats and small dogs, and should be started well be Guy Fawkes.

Calming care is a new probiotic designed to help dogs displaying anxious behaviour such as excessive vocalisation, jumping and pacing.  It helps maintain positive cardiac activity during stressful events and helps maintain a positive emotional state in dogs.
Diet-related changes in gut microbiota influence the brain via the gut-brain axis and in turn influences behaviours such as anxiety.
If anxious dogs are living in a state of chronic psychological stress can cause gastrointestinal distress and contribute to inflammatory bowel disease, suppress the immune system and contribute to skin problems such as pyoderma or skin itch.
It can also have a negative effect on the reproductive system.
Calming Care™ comes in sachets of powder that can be mixed in the usual diet.
Please phone the clinic if you would like to discuss whether Calming Care™ is ideal for your dog.