Blue Cross Veterinary Hospital
Dog in Cape Town

We offer a full veterinary service at our hospital. Our vets cover the full spectrum of species from horses, sheep, cattle, dogs and cats to birds and all small exotics. We offer the quality care that your pets deserve in all aspects of Veterinary Medicine. We will provide you with clear recommendations and then help you make the best decision for your pet’s health care needs by explaining.
The Blue Cross Veterinary Hospital, issituated in the beautiful suburb of Newlands, in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, Western Cape. This includes medine, injury, but we are staffed and equipped to provide for most any illness, exotic animal care and limited grooming and boarding services for your pet. Our emphasis is on preventative medicine, microchipping, dentistry, surgery, or concern. Our patients not only come from Newlands, but as far a field as Yzerfontein, Rondebosch and Bishopscourt and other suburbs, Claremont, Kenilworth, Stellenbosch Simons Town to Cape Point.

Our Vets have qualified at the University of Pretoria, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Onderstepoort and are members of the South African Veterinary Council (SAVC). Our hospital offers the quality care that your pets' deserve in all aspects of veterinary medicine. We know that each pet is an individual with his or her own personality as wel as being an important member of the family. We want the best standards for our own pets, and we aim to provide that same standard for all of our patients. Animal Hospital Services include staff that are highly trained. Vets Coice and Ultradog are locally produced foods which are of high quality, and also sold in the Blue Cross Shop. Spoil your pets with our range of beds, bowls, toys, leads and more! Situated in the beautiful suburb of Newlands, in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, Western Cape. We offer a full veterinary service at our hospital. This includes medicine, surgery, dentistry, micro-chipping, exotic animal care and limited grooming and boarding services for your pet. He has an interest in surgery, lameness's, endurance horses and equine breeding. He is a part time farmer and loves to go on outrides with his family. Paul has been at the Blue Cross since 2001 as a small animal vet. He has a keen interest in exotic animals and avian medicine and is our resident Pot-Bellied Pig Surgeon. He loves cycling and running and does some events for charity. Liam graduated from Onderstepoort in Pretoria in 2001 and has been with the practice since He enjoys outdoors, camping, climbing, bird watching and surfing when the weather permits. Together with Dr Donnellan he has 2 kids, Tessa and James. With all these years of experience he has a keen interest in opthalmology, surgery and dentistry. Dr Steyn has a keen interest in photography, hiking, reading and a regular gym fanatic. Cynthia is an equine medicine physician and has been with the Blue Cross since She obtained her Masters in Equine Internal Medicine and was a lecturer at Onderstepoort before joining our team at Blue Cross. Cynthia enjoys hiking, camping, climbing, surfing, horse riding and reading. She has been with us since 2015 after obtaining her degree in veterinary medicine at Onderstepoort. Lezanne enjoys keeping active through rollerblading and hiking, and also loves a good movie! Her interests include horse riding, walking her dogs and wine tasting. Philippa is our small animal nurse and is married to our shop manager, Aubrey. With no pets at home, Phil, Aubrey and their kids Olivia and Michael, spend most of their time at their second home; Blue Cross! We have three on-site small animal veterinarians, two veterinary nurse assistants, as well as our kennel orderlies. Our equine section is run by three equine veterinarians, one veterinary nurse assistant, as well as our stable hands.,As continuing education is a top priority for our entire staff, we conduct in-house lectures for our support staff. Our staff are all very knowledgeable and boast pets that range from dogs and cats to horses, birds, rabbits, marmosets and tortoises!