Buchan Veterinary Clinics

- Positive feedback often highlights a friendly, polite, and helpful team. - Owners have praised quick phone answering, prompt appointment booking, being seen on time, and clear explanations during consultations. - Reviews include a positive example of the practice assisting with an injured bird after a call with Jane.

Buchan Veterinary Clinics in Crimond, Aberdeenshire is part of the CVS group. The practice offers a broad first-opinion service for dogs, cats and a wide range of other species, with in-house diagnostics, surgery, nurse clinics, home visits, and referral options for orthopaedic and soft tissue surgery. Emergency support is available during normal opening hours through the practice, with out-of-hours care provided by Vets Now Aberdeen.

Services

•Routine care and prevention: consultations, vaccinations, parasite control, microchipping, and six-month health checks.
•Diagnostics, treatment, and surgery: dentistry; surgery including neutering; and diagnostic facilities including an in-house lab, X-ray, and ultrasound.
•Nurse-led and additional support services: nurse clinics for blood pressure checks, blood sampling, diabetic care, and anal sac expression, plus grooming, nail clipping, euthanasia, and home visits.
•Referral services: orthopaedic surgery referral and soft tissue surgery referral.
•Species seen: dogs, cats, rabbits, small mammals such as guinea pigs and ferrets, reptiles and tortoises, a range of birds, backyard poultry, and aquarium fish. Reviews also mention the practice helping with an injured bird.
•Training status: listed as a Veterinary Nurse Training facility.

Pricing

Available published prices indicate the clinic sits below average relative to similar practices. Recent reviews on cost are mixed, with some owners describing charges as expensive, including £92 for a first vaccination and one report of £300 for a scan with a £1,800 operation quote.

People

•Jane is mentioned by name in a review about an injured bird, with the interaction described as friendly.
•One reviewer praised a “lady vet” during a vaccination visit and said the receptionist was nice and helpful.
•More broadly, reviews often describe the team as polite, caring, and clear in their explanations.

Reviews

Google reviews show 4.4 stars from 145 reviews.

•Positive feedback often highlights a friendly, polite, and helpful team.
•Owners have praised quick phone answering, prompt appointment booking, being seen on time, and clear explanations during consultations.
•Reviews include a positive example of the practice assisting with an injured bird after a call with Jane.
•Critical comments are mainly about pricing, and one reviewer also reported dissatisfaction over a problem they felt had been missed earlier.

Reviews for Buchan Veterinary Clinics

Note: Showing the 10 most recent Google reviews out of 145 we track in total. Recent reviews may not be representative of overall sentiment.

Albert Bruce

12 months ago

£300 for scan and quoted £1800 for operation. Phoned oldmeldrum vets out of hours they did scan and operation for £709. Rip off Buchan vets all about £££££. Also had dog to them 3 weeks before for same problem which they totally missed useless.

Mario Cassani

1 year ago

Found an injured bird on the beach, Called and spoke to Jane, took it in and they where so friendly! Would definitely recommend and if live here would use them for my pets! Thanks!!

Nicola Prior

Recently moved to the area, visited today for the first time for vaccination and was very pleased the lady vet was lovely and receptionist was really nice and helpful, thank you

Fabio Sousa

2 years ago

Always been using Buchan vet for my cat Good staff always ready to help , Today took my dog for first vaccine and was shocked to be charged 92£ ... Extremely expensive in my opinion. Regards

Loraine “Unic71” Lear

Good veterinary practices, polite and friendly staff. Excellent service

Ewan Sutherland

Didn't even want to leave one star rating disgusting not interested in helping pets owned by ppl on benefits or carer's on very low income only interested in making money at every cost some ppl get to pay up vet bills some don't only vet around this neck of the woods so they hold all the ace cards I personally won't be back

Bryan Hutcheson

3 years ago

This is such a nice friendly place for us and our cat. All the staff are genuinely caring and helpful. The phone is always answered straight away and appointments are made quickly.

Sheena Moonan

5 years ago

I was most impressed by the care both my dog and I got when I took her down. Appointment system working very well, were taken on time and everything explained very well 10/10