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NEW EXPRESS GROOMING SERVICE
To mark the arrival of TESCO KILDARE to KILDARE town Groome Pet Vets are launching for the new year a new express grooming service with prices for a trim, ears, nails, wash/dry special ranging from 15 to 40euro.
Just ask for the express service next time you are considering pampering your pet with a manicure/pedicure/coat trim
Groome Pet Vets now even more convenient service – simply drop your pet before you shop at TESCO KILDARE.
Take the first left at the new lights at TESCO KILDARE
Then find our sign for KILDARE VET SURGERY at the Carmelite Church car park.
DOG walking, pet creche, pet sitting service also available.
AN ALL IN ONE FLEA and WORM for your pet now from 5 to 10 euro.
PROPAK, SPECIFIC, and PEDIGREE FOODS available See our new range of pet products. Professional petcare products at superstore prices
Happy New Year to All !
WE would like to inform our customers of opening times and services over the remaining holiday period;
Kildare Vet Surgery open Thursy 29th and Friday 30h 9am -6pm saturday 31sy open 9am- 1pm
CLOSED MONDAY 2nd januaryreopen 9am-6pm Tuesday 3rd january
Portarlington open 29th and 30th 10-12am and 6-7.30pm Saturday 10am-12am
week of 3rd january- 8th January open 12am and 6pm-7.30pm
please note as our nurse Claire Gallagher is awayuntil 9th January we will be taking no bookings for pet grooming this week
You save KILOS when your dogs eat PROPAC PETFOODS
PROPAC are an extensive new range of deluxe Vet only dog foods for any and all medical and developmental needs your pet may have. The LOW FAT range is combatting canine obesity and acheiving real weight reduction in our patients we have prescribed it to. The SENSITIVE and LAMB AND RICE varieties are showing real curative benefits in cases of dogs experiencing eczema, food allergies, protein intolerance, inflammatory bowel, anal gland disease. There are several types of Propac puppy food from sensitive to low protein to performance puppy. Large Breed adult and large breed puppy which we recommend for retrievers, german shepherds, rottweilars and other large breeds of dog.
NOW Interchem the suppliers of Propac are introducing a unique discount scheme – each bag of propac now has its own 10% kilogram voucher . A 3kg bag carries a 300gram voucher – when you have saved 3 kilos of food vouchers we give you a free 3kg bag of the Poroac food of your choice.
Now when you dog eats MORE- you save KILOS!
Petcare you can TRUST- Value you can measure
PORTARLINGTON PROMOTION> PORTARLINGTON PROMOTION> PORTARLINGTON PROMOTION
Portarlington Vets at Patrick Street have an AUGUST SPECIAL OFFER on PET GROOMING.
wash, dry, trim, nails, ears all 20euro for small dogs and all 30 euros for medium dogs.
In the new business reality of 2011 we know you, our customer need to make every euro count. Thats why I slimmed my prices down 20% again in June 2011and now after consultation with many customers to find out just what YOU want I am launching a new pricelist where every possible routine procedure I can itemise for you is now clearly and transparently list priced individually.
Have a look on our PRICE link to see the value we now offer and enjoy the peace of mind of knowing you will NOT be hit with any unexpected bills on a trip to
KILDARE VET SURGERY or PORTARLINGTON VET CLINIC.
Welcome to Groome PetVets
Excellence in Veterinary when You Need it Near You.
Our aim is caring, wise and excellent standards of Veterinary medicine and surgery. We are a “one stop shop” for all your petcare needs and queries.
Call us for a competitive quotation on any Veterinary service from Vaccination, Consultation, Neutering as well as Grooming, Boarding/ Kennelling, Pet foods and supplements from our state of the art Hospital in Kildare town and newly expanded pet clinic and shop at Patrick Street Portarlington.
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This weeks News for customers-
OUR NEW ONCALL SERVICE PROVIDER
Dublin Animal Emergency clinic 1890 564036
Please note Portarlington Vet Clinic is no longer open on Sunday mornings.
NEW MORNING PRICES MONDAY TO FRIDAY 9am to1pm-
Consultation Fee 25 euro
Booster Fee dog or cat 25 euro
BITCH SPAYS 108 euro *** under 20kg and under One Year Old
DOG NEUTERS 88 euro ***under 20kg and under One Year Old
(heavy dog or older dog Spay price is 140 euro and neuter price is 110+
GROOMING
Small dog grooming fee is now 40 euro only
For Cavalier size dogs and smaller. Larger dogs on request.
Curioser and curioser.
” If you dont know where you are going then you can start from almost anywhere” Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.
The parallel universe into which Alice descended in Lewis Carrroll’s hallucinatory novel was an obtuse satire of it’s day. The object and intent of Carroll’s commentary would be lost on us today. Except that in the broadest sense if one suspends disbelief as Alice had to, the colour, pomp, nonsense and impossibilities of Wonderland find parallel in political events this week in our dull Autumnal, bewitched, bankrupt emerald isle.
Alice’s disbelief in Wonderland was rebuked by the Duchess ” Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”. Today’s impossible untruths are spun from an axis at the centre of Ireland’s ruling politico-financier-eurocrat matrix such that those who seemed the fringe madhatters a year ago now worryingly make more sense than the official narrative. Arthur Morgan’s few words on “the books” made sense last week, heaven help us; Joan Burton’s grasp of macroeconomics has an air of assurance; Declan Ganleys take on market and bondholder management sounds eminently like what “you and I” might do. All because The Two Brians spinning impossibilities into conventional wisdoms from their Wonderland citadel of Leinster House, like a riddle-spouting Tweedle Dee & Dum ask of us a suspension of disbelief too far.
I give you six impossible things before breakfast this Sunday. Firstly that the 30?Billion plus debts of banking folly our government has stood over will be repaid by this community of one millionish taxpayers. Secondly, that a 3% target of GDP deficit will be met by 2014. Thirdly,that Ireland’s borrowing requirements in the next 12 months can be met without recourse to the IMF or European Stabilisation fund. Fourthly, that a 15 Billion target of cuts can be acheived by this Government without recourse to major public sector restructuring such as Fine Gael’s new reform plan outlines. Fifthly, that a mended sustainable economy can emerge wthout radical stripping down of Ireland’s framework of “Big Government” to use the US Republican phrase. Sixth, that a reimagined better Ireland can be delivered by the same Government which created the imbalanced directionless society we have become in the last decade.
Not to argue readers to despair, I offer converse beliefs. Firstly, the impossible arguments which Tweedle Brians, our Dukes of spinning Wonderland, maintain are part of a crude twohanded roulette. An attempt to spin out electoral damage on one hand and play a massive hand of eurobluff with world lenders at Berlin’s bidding on the other. Quite where plans for the future welfare and fabric of Irish Society fit into all this is hard to figure out. Perhaps the EU, taking up the slack on Irish bond sales as they were this Summer, have quietly promised to allow us default quietly in the quiet future. Perhaps our Brians believe in their own plan in which case we should all be very afraid. But I doubt it.
National and world economic affairs are, like Alice’s adventure in Wonderland, getting curioser and curioser. Ordinary working citizens being mere pawns and bit players will find it harder and harder to distinguish everyday reality and discern where freedoms of choice start and finish. We can all only influence our own circle of people and events around us. Proactively let us look after our own individual reality and security. Through the looking glass our politicians hold up to us, nothing else is as it seems.
Things that go BANG in the night.
Have you noticed a quieter than usual build up to Halloween this year? Reports suggest that rockets, blockbuster candles, blackcats, flares, crackerjacks, parachutes, other fireworks as well as bangers are scarce on the ground.
Trade on the streets is well below normal seasonal levels. If your pets breathe a sigh of relief this year you can thank Irish Customs Officials for a smaller than usual supply to market of Halloween contraband.
A friend stationed in one of the Dublin Garda Stations confirmed that inner city Dublin as well as the rest of the country is having a quieter and more peaceful Halloween this year. You may assume this is another recessionary consequence. In fact a major campaign of clamp down on sales of illegal cigarettes and tough new penalties for smuggling and contraband trading is the real reason for this year’s fireworks shortage.
Losses to the Irish exchequer from black market sales of smuggled cigarettes had reached billions of euros according to Retailers Against Smuggling. The estimated loss to Irish Retailers in 2009 through the black market cigarette trade was placed at 700 million euro while losses to the Irish state from the avoidance of tobacco duty are believed to be worth 600 million euro.
Retailers group, RAS pointed out to government that their cigarette sales had fallen 40% in recent years and signalled that fresh redundancies in the retail sector throughout 2010 would be inevitable. Supported by the tobacco industry it is thought that the group’s input influenced Ireland’s finance bill in March 2010 which increased the maximum fines for smuggling and sale of contraband cigarettes from 12,000 euro to a new maximum of 130000 euro.
The new legislation has had a marked and immediate effect in halting supply of smuggled cigarettes and restoring excise duties as customs officials have increased their efforts and had a number of recent successful seizures. A seizure in Dublin port in June was valued at 7.2 million euro with another in August worth 4 million euro.
The reduction in supply of fireworks and traditional Halloween contraband is a welcome side effect of these successes as gardai confirm that the illegal firework and cigarette trade have always gone hand in hand. Tough new deterrents and greater vigilance at ports are improving the lives of pets at Halloween as well as the bottom line of cigarette retailers. For now at any rate.
The advice to pet owners at Halloween remains the same though, this year as any other. Keep your pets indoors for the next few nights as far as possible. Livestock and horses on land near built up areas should likewise be housed at nightfall. For the particularly nervous and night averse we can dispense some valium, acepromazine or other aids to a good night’s sleep. For your pet’s night’s sleep, that is.