Menzies Animal Vet

Two quite different jobs share the word veterinarian in this part of the Fraser Valley. One is companion animal work: the cats, dogs and small pets of a city of ninety thousand plus, handled by clinics concentrated downtown and along Vedder Road, with the usual run of vaccinations, dentals and after hours arrangements. The other is large animal and farm practice, which exists on a scale here that it does not elsewhere in the Lower Mainland, because Chilliwack has more than 700 farms and is the largest dairy-producing area in British Columbia. Bovine, equine and poultry work is a serious business here, run largely out of ambulatory practices covering Greendale, Rosedale, Yarrow and Ryder Lake. Both are listed on this site under one heading.

What is not published is anything to make contact with. There is no number to ring, no site to look at and no street, only the postal code, which narrows it to a few blocks. Anyone weighing up a clinic will want to know things that cannot be answered here: whether there is room for new patients, what happens when something goes wrong outside normal hours, and whether the practice covers anything larger than a household pet. Those are worth establishing before an animal is actually unwell, rather than during.