Welcome to the Little River Veterinary Services, covering Banks Peninsula, with mobile clinics in Akaroa and Diamond Harbour.
We are an independent locally owned and operated business providing vet services, animal health products and pet foods for all types of animals.
Please phone us on
(03) 3251940 or 027 374 5492
Our Vision
To provide personal caring service for all creatures great and small. We realise prevention is better than cure and so aim to be proactive in offering primary health services; animal health planning for all species, targeted vaccination, internal and external parasite control programs, correct nutrition, de sexing, and prophylactic dental treatment among others. We also know the Peninsula is unique and isn’t comfortable with the “one size fits all” approach, so we try to be flexible in our thinking. We are a Christian Business and strive to be ethical and honest.
Hours
We are open weekdays 8am till 6pm, and Saturday mornings 10am till 12 noon. We also do farm and house calls. We provide an emergency service afterhours.
Paul is in Akaroa on Monday and Thursday afternoons, and Diamond Harbour on Tuesday afternoons. House calls along the way on these days are free for mileage, and large animal calls en route on these days are only charged mileage at half rates (shared travel). We can also deliver or drop off pet foods and animal health products along the way.
Dr Paul Williams is our veterinarian. He qualified from Onderstepoort, Pretoria, in South Africa in 1991. He has worked as a mixed species practioner on Banks Peninsula since 2005, and is proud to offer the people and animals of this very special part of the world a choice in veterinary service providers. Paul grew up on a peninsula, and so feels very much at home on this one. He enjoys the work and lifestyle here and is committed to staying and serving the needs of this community.
Heather Williams has joined the team, bringing her formidable planning and business skills to the mix. She was practice manager for Paul’s Cape Town clinic as well as serving as chairperson, treasurer, secretary and member of many Little River community organizations, currently Secretary and Treasurer of the Banks Peninsula A&P Association.
Jo Stuart has worked as receptionist, sales person, animal care giver and theatre assistant to mention just a few of her many veterinary roles on the Peninsula since 2004. She knows most of the veterinary clients, products and suppliers, so is a wealth of information and advice.
Jo and Heather are currently job sharing.
Our Clinic
We operate from Paul & Heather’s property at 32 Breitmeyers Rd, Little River and have set up our theatre and hospital in their cottage, so we offer a full service.
We are proud to be able to offer the latest in anaesthetic and monitoring equipment to make our clinic as safe as we possibly can. We also carry a large range of Hills & Royal Canin cat and dog food at the clinic, as well as offering many other products for sale online.
What we offer
- Experienced and friendly staff
- 24/7 Little River based service including afterhours emergencies and home visits
- Open till 6pm weekdays and 10am-12noon on Saturday mornings
- 24/7 drop offs and pick ups for in patients
- Regular visits around the Peninsula- free or shared mileage if you can work in with our programme.
- Consistent, caring service from the same vet
- Competitive prices as our overheads are low
- Close monitoring of hospital patients day and night
- Modern monitoring and anaesthetic equipment—for safest possible conditions
- Delivery around the Peninsula
- Convenient online sales with home delivery
- Worm and flea mail out programme
- Loyalty schemes for pet food
- Great deals for farm dog food
- Ear tags below recommended retail
- Free animal health planners for all species and monthly email reminders
Discounted Primary Health Care
Beacuse we know how important these are to human and animal health we heavily subsidise
- De-sexing
- Vaccinations
- Prophylactic dental treatments
- De-wormers
- Flea treatments
