Proud to be involved (posted 28/05/2008) If you’re a dog lover, make sure you put Sunday 6th July in your diary. It’s the Pride Companion Dog Show, the 5th one that we have organised on their behalf. It’s a charitable event with novelty as well as pedigree classes, which will be assessed by top international judge, Terry Nethercott.

The day kicks off with a fun doggie fashion show courtesy of Mio Minn, our co sponsor and an agility display by The Sussex Canine Centre. Entries are taken from 11.30 with judging starting at 1pm. It’s a great afternoon out for all the family, pets included. Join us on the day for some summer fun.

To find out more visit: http://www.brightonpride.org/pridedogshow.php

Here comes the Judge (posted 19/02/2007)

It must be a total devotion and commitment to the canine world that drives Coastway Vet Andreas Schemel. During his busy working week, he not only heads up the busy Coastway Clinic at Shoreham, but he also conducts several specialist clinics in cardiology at the Brighton Clinic. At weekends and days off when lesser mortals would be perhaps relaxing on the golf course or generally chilling out Andreas is back with the dogs; this time in the show ring.

Andreas has always bred and shown his own King Charles Cavalier Spaniels but for several years now he has taken an interest in judging and is now recognised as an experience and authoritative pedigree show judge for the terrier, toy and utility groups, both in the UK and abroad.

Andreas has been invited to judge at major dog shows in Australia, America and across Europe and has now built a reputation as one of the UK‚s top show judges. This year his judging skills have been recognised and he has been invited by the Kennel Club to judge at the UK‚s top dog show Crufts. Well done Andreas!

New Modern Surgery for Kemptown (posted 3/10/2006)

Coastway is pleased to announce that as of Spring 2007 the Kemptown surgery will be moving from Montague Place to the entrance of the Freshfield Road Business Park, Freshfield Way, off Sutherland Road.

Our brand new premises will provide:

• spacious consulting rooms
• comfortable and modern reception with separate dog and cat areas
• bespoke hospitalisation and intensive care facilities
• a new home for Vetcall our 24 hour emergency surgery
• a veterinary referral centre for specialist cases
• FREE off-street parking for all our customers
• dedicated area selling specialist pet food

Making a song and dance for charity (posted 2/6/2006)

Coastway Veterinary Group are regular supporters of the PDSA and so were delighted to be asked to sponsor an annual concert to help raise money for the charity.

The event was a musical evening headed by Les Crawley who until recently, sat on the Board of Crufts. Held at Brighton College on 18th April the lively concert featured a BBC Big Band singer with musical styles varying from jazz to classical. The event was sold out and by the end of the evening over £800 had been collected for the PDSA making it a profitable end to a great night.

New Coastway brochure (posted 12/10/2005)

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new "bigger and better" brochure. The re-design has been carried out by Gravitate Media and includes in depth coverage of the services at Coastway. The design introduces a new "look and feel" for our brand and uses great photography of our clients with their pets. Make sure you pick a copy next time you're in one of our surgeries.

Thank you for Pudding (posted 8/3/2005)

We were overwhelmed with donations at Christmas to help us treat a badly injured stray cat, nicknamed Pudding by our Portslade staff. The one year old was handed into the surgery on Boundary Road by a member of the public who found her on the Old Shoreham Road. She was struggling to walk as she had four broken legs, a dislocated elbow and a fractured skull. It's more than likely she got her injuries by being hit by a car a few weeks before. The bones had started to reknit but because they hadn't been set they didn't heal correctly and three of them needed operations to reset them, which involved using pins to correct the breaks.

Poor Pudding was in such a state, she lost most of the fur from her head when being cleaned by the nurses. But the plucky, good-natured cat purred whenever she was handled despite her horrible injuries. Usually stray cats will be aggressive when frightened or hurt.

Poor Pudding has already undergone several operations to get her back on four paws, estimated at a cost of around £3500. Thanks to a Christmas feature in the Argus, we Received several hundred pounds towards the cost of treatment from donations from the public for which Pudding and all of the staff at Coastway would like to say a THANK YOU.