Belconnen Animal Hospital
1 Belconnen Way
Contents
Hospital Information
Office Hours
We are open
between
Key responsibilities
We are a
small animal veterinary practice. We
treat all small animals, mainly dogs and cats, but also “pocket pets”, rats,
mice, rabbits, ferrets, birds and exotics, as well as wildlife.
Personnel
Three vets
work here, Rob Boxall,Wendy Boxall and Steven Mac. We do have locum vets working here occasionally
too. Our vet nurses are Tamara Ward,
Peta Easton and Katie Boxall.
Location
Our address
is 1 Belconnen Way, Weetangera, ACT.
We are on
the corner of Belconnen Way and Coulter Drive, Weetangera, in the suburb of Belconnen
in Canberra.
We are on the corner marked BAH.
Interesting Links
Contact Details
E-mail address
Web address
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/robbox
Office phone
02 6254 2122
Lost a pet?
- Contact Domestic Animal
Services, check the found pets and place a lost entry on their website at DAS.
- Contact the RSPCA, and notify
them of your loss, you can check the found entries on their website at RSPCA-ACT
- Ring your local vets and leave
a message with them.
- Door knocking the neighbours.
- Posting notices at the local
shops.
Microchip
problems?
There is a
lot of misinformation about microchips out there. All dogs and cats in NSW are supposed to be chipped and
registered with the local Council before sale.
The new owners then get a form to change the registration to their local
council in their name and address. This
is not the case in the ACT, where the system relies on yearly payment of
registration and tags on the collar for dogs (cats are not registered). Registering dogs is compulsory in the ACT,
and this can be done on line conveniently at DAS.
Sadly, many
people think that if their pet has a microchip that all will be fine if they
get lost. However owner information has
to be entered on a national database for the system to work. There are three commonly used databases
(just to confuse the issue further!).
We enter our client’s pets on the Australian Animal Registry,
all contact details are here, you can e-mail
them, but you cannot update details on the web. One of the others is the Central
Animal Registry, who are set up to do detail changes on the web. The third one is Petsafe, which is also web-user
friendly. Remember, the system only
works if the database is kept up to date, so keep your address and phone
numbers current. Feel free to e-mail us if you have any questions.
About
us
We have
over 40 years of experience in general practice, having run a busy mixed
practice in
Last
revised: 06/06/06