A mobile vet practice serving Greater Manchester. M, WA, SK, OL postcodes.
No carrier across town in rush hour. No 90-minute drive at 7pm with a distressed cat. One of our four vans dispatches to your door. The vet examines your pet in your kitchen, your living room, your garden. Wherever your pet is calmest. We pay later, only if we could help.
I. The visit
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A two-minute call with a qualified nurse.
Our dispatcher is a registered vet nurse, not a call-handler. She takes the symptoms, the address, your concerns. She tells you the ballpark cost before anyone is dispatched. If a fixed-clinic A&E hospital is the right call, she'll say so and tell you the nearest one.
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A van dispatches, average within fourteen minutes.
You'll get a text. The vet's name, their photograph, a live ETA from our tracking. The vet calls you en route. If the symptoms have changed by the time they call, the triage adjusts.
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The vet arrives. Examination at home.
Average on-site within seventy-eight minutes in our core M postcodes. The vet examines your pet wherever your pet is calmest. Treatment, meds, fluids, behavioural assessment. If the issue needs imaging or surgery, we stabilise and refer to a partner clinic, callout fee waived.
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Card payment, itemised receipt, follow-up call the next day.
We accept pet insurance direct claims. Klarna for visits over £200. Nobody is turned away from urgent care because of payment. The next morning, we call to check how your pet is.
II. Coverage
We dispatch from hubs in Didsbury, Stockport, Bolton, and Altrincham. Core coverage is the M postcodes and parts of WA, SK, OL. Enter your postcode below and we'll tell you whether we can reach you tonight, and what the average on-site time would be.
III. The team
Most practices rotate locums you'll never see twice. We don't. The vet who arrives at your door tonight is the same vet who treated your neighbour's spaniel last week.
Dr. Emily Ashworth
Founder, lead vet · twelve years
Spent seven years on the emergency floor at a Manchester clinic before starting Pawline in 2022. Particular interest in chaotic spaniels and any cat over fourteen. Lives in Stockport with two retired greyhounds and a very tolerant tortoise.
Dr. Rahul Mehta
Senior vet · nine years
Trained at the RVC, spent four years in out-of-hours practice in Birmingham. Specialises in feline medicine and in the kind of cases where the owner is more distressed than the patient. Patient with both.
Dr. Sarah O'Connell
Vet · six years
Trained in exotic medicine. The vet most likely to be sent out when the call mentions rabbits, ferrets, guinea pigs, or the occasional small parrot. Calm in unfamiliar living rooms.
Dr. James Whitlock
Vet, end-of-life specialist · eight years
Background in palliative and end-of-life care, including home euthanasia where it's the right time. The hardest part of what we do, treated with the dignity it deserves.
An honest scope.We're a same-day, same-evening service. Available until 10pm on weeknights, 9pm at weekends. For a true 3am emergency you need a fixed-clinic A&E pet hospital. Our dispatcher will happily tell you which one is nearest, even if it means we don't take the visit.
IV. What it costs
The callout fee is the fixed component. Treatment cost depends on what's needed and what's used. The dispatcher gives you a specific cost band on the phone before we dispatch.
The callout fee is waived if no treatment was given, or if we referred you to a clinic. Pet insurance accepted with direct claim processing for most major insurers. Klarna available for visits over £200.
Our thirteen-year-old Bengal stopped eating on a Sunday evening. I called at twenty to nine. Dr. Mehta arrived by quarter past ten and treated her in our kitchen. He stayed twenty minutes after she'd settled. She was eating again by Monday lunch.
Hannah B. · Didsbury · January 2026
V. Common questions
How fast do you actually arrive?
In our core M postcodes, average on-site time is seventy-eight minutes from your call. Outer areas average between one hundred and ten and one hundred and forty minutes. The dispatcher gives you a specific ETA on the call before you commit.
What can you actually treat at home?
Most consultations. GI episodes. Urgent skin and eye issues. Suspected sprains. Behaviour assessments. Palliative care. End-of-life. We can administer most injectable medications and IV fluids on-site. For major surgery, broken bones, or anything requiring imaging, we stabilise and refer to partner clinics.
Are you actually qualified?
Every vet is RCVS-registered. Every visit is documented in our practice management system. We carry full professional indemnity insurance. Six to twelve years of clinical experience per vet. We are a vet practice that happens to drive to you, not a tech-platform wrapper.
Do you take pet insurance?
Yes. Direct claim processing for Petplan, Animal Friends, More Th>n, Bought By Many, Tesco, and most major UK insurers. Bring your policy number to the visit.
What if we can't pay there and then?
Tell the dispatcher when you call. We offer no-interest Klarna for visits over £200. Nobody is turned away from urgent care because of payment, and we'll find a way through with you.
VI. A callback
Three fields. Read by a vet nurse, not a chatbot. We call you back within fifteen minutes during dispatch hours, eight in the morning until ten at night.
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