🐾 Mobile Vet in Hoy, Orkney

About Mobile Vets

A mobile vet visits your home to treat, vaccinate and check up on your pets - removing the stress of car journeys and waiting rooms for both you and your animal.

Home visits are especially valuable for elderly pets, nervous animals or households with multiple pets that would be difficult to transport to a surgery.

A good local mobile vet builds a relationship with your animals in their own environment, often spotting things that a stressed pet in a clinic might not show.

About Hoy

Hoy is the second-largest island in Orkney and by far the most mountainous, its landscape of steep hills, heather moorland and dramatic sea cliffs standing in sharp contrast to the low-lying farmland of the other islands.

The Old Man of Hoy, a 449-foot sea stack on the island's western coast, is one of the most iconic natural landmarks in Scotland and a magnet for rock climbers from around the world.

Ward Hill, at 479 metres, is the highest point in Orkney and the island's interior is a designated Special Protection Area for its populations of mountain hare, red-throated diver and great skua.

Hoy is reached by ferry from Houton on the Mainland and from Stromness and the Lyness naval base on the eastern shore houses a museum dedicated to Scapa Flow's wartime history.

About Orkney

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Orkney is an archipelago of around 70 islands off the north coast of mainland Scotland, separated from Caithness by the Pentland Firth - one of the most powerful tidal races in Europe.

Of those 70 islands, roughly 20 are inhabited and most of the population of around 22,000 lives on the largest island, known simply as the Mainland, where the towns of Kirkwall and Stromness serve as the administrative and cultural centres.

Orkney's history stretches back over 5,000 years. The Heart of Neolithic Orkney - a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising Skara Brae, Maeshowe, the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness - represents some of the best-preserved prehistoric sites anywhere in northern Europe. The islands were under Norse rule for around 600 years and that Scandinavian heritage remains visible in place names, dialect and culture.

The islands are reached by ferry from Scrabster and Aberdeen and by air from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness. Orkney's economy is built on agriculture, fishing, renewable energy, whisky and tourism and the islands have a quality of life consistently rated among the highest in Scotland.