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The 2017 British Dog Grooming Championship (BDGC) is taking place on Sunday 29 October!

BDGC 2017 will be held at the Warwickshire Exhibition Centre, near Leamington Spa, and is sponsored by Pet Dandy – a ‘smart’ tag producer which helps re-unite lost pets with their owners.  (Read more…)

On Saturday 14 October, The College of Animal Welfare is hosting its popular Careers With Animals Day at Campus Vets and Pets. For those aspiring to an exciting career working with animals, there’s no better place to find out more about the training and employment opportunities within the animal and veterinary sector. What’s more, entry is completely FREE! (Read more…)

It has now been just over a year since we welcomed our first two students, Jade and Victoria, on the City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate for Dog Grooming Assistants intensive five week block course at our Leeds centre! Both Jade and Victoria passed their qualification with flying colours and returned a few weeks later to undertake the Level 3 Certificate in Introductory Dog Grooming; an indication of the success that has followed the grooming school ever since. (Read more…)

Christmas time can present a number of hazards to pets, with figures from the British Veterinary Association (BVA) revealing 80% of vets saw at least one case of toxic ingestion in pets during the last festive period. (Read more…)

We would like to offer a very warm welcome to Sarah Bell, our new dog groomer who has joined our grooming team here at Campus Vets and Pets. Sarah is an experienced groomer and is very much looking forward to meeting all our clients’ lovely dogs and helping out our new students in the new year. Welcome Sarah!

Christmas is all about giving, and this year we are collecting donations for two local animal charities – Jerry Green Dog Rescue and Cats Protection. Anything you can donate will make a difference, please help us to give the dogs and cats in their care a happier Christmas this year. (Read more…)

The Kennel Club has reminded people about the importance of carefully choosing a dog after the annual John Lewis Christmas advert, featuring ‘Buster’ the Boxer, has sent searches for Boxer dog puppies to record highs.

Figures released by the Kennel Club show that searches for Boxer puppies on its Find A Puppy website, rose by 160 per cent in the day following the release of the advert. The interest continued in the following days, with searches up a total of 169 per cent in the five days since the advert’s release and by 151 percent on the same period in 2015. (Read more…)