The Barn Veterinary Practice
At The Barn Veterinary Practice in Copdock, we provide expert veterinary care for cats, dogs, and rabbits. Our highly trained team delivers compassionate, high-quality care in a welcoming environment. Our services include vaccinations, consultations, microchipping, spaying, neutering, dental cleaning, and nail clipping, ensuring your pet's long-term health.
Our practice is located in a lovingly restored barn, offering a tranquil and comfortable atmosphere for your visit. Whether it's a routine check-up or advanced treatment, your pet is in capable hands with our professional and friendly staff. Additionally, with our Pet Health Club membership, you can enjoy substantial savings on routine healthcare and receive guidance on nutrition and wellness. Visit us and let us care for your furry friend!
Opening hours
- sunday: (closed)
- monday: 8:30-13h, 14h-19h
- tuesday: 8:30-13h, 14h-19h
- wednesday: 8:30-13h, 14h-19h
- thursday: 8:30-13h, 14h-19h
- friday: 8:30-13h, 14h-19h
- saturday: 9h-12h
Our comment from InfoVet about The Barn Veterinary Practice:
Comprehensive Care and Compassionate Service
The Barn Veterinary Practice, part of the IVC Evidensia Group, provides trusted local pet care in Suffolk for dogs, cats, and small animals. As a member of the group committed to making a "Positive Pawprint," the practice focuses on caring for the planet, people, and patients. They offer the Pet Health Club®, a membership plan designed to help owners save on routine healthcare, vaccinations, and preventive treatments throughout the year.
A Warm and Professional Team
What truly sets this practice apart is the exceptional quality of its staff. Clients consistently praise the team for being friendly, professional, and deeply compassionate. Reviews highlight how the vets and nurses take the time to listen to concerns, explain treatments clearly, and provide reassurance during difficult times. Many owners note that the practice treats pets and their families with genuine kindness, creating a welcoming environment that feels more like a supportive community than a clinical setting.
- Compassionate End-of-Life Care: Owners frequently commend the staff for their dignified, calm, and supportive handling of terminal cases, ensuring pets pass away peacefully and owners are given the space to say goodbye.
- Handling Anxious Animals: The team is highly regarded for their patience and skill in calming nervous, reactive, or grumpy dogs, often going above and beyond to make them feel comfortable.
- Expertise and Trust: Long-standing clients appreciate the consistent high standard of care, noting that the vets are knowledgeable, honest, and focused on what is best for the animal rather than upselling services.
Reliability and Accessibility
The Barn Veterinary Practice is recognized for its reliability and accessibility. Many clients value the ability to get same-day or urgent appointments when needed, including out-of-hours support. The practice is also noted for its efficient administrative processes, such as online booking and a well-organized reception, which helps streamline visits for busy pet owners. With a reputation for being a "family feel" practice, it remains a top choice for locals seeking dependable veterinary care.
Services
The Barn Veterinary Practice: Reviews
Fantastic experience: The reception area is well organised and welcoming. The vets are patient and helpful, explain what they are doing, answer questions, and make recommendations.
Fantastic experience: Have a very grumpy dog but the staff are fantastic
Fantastic experience: Very caring Consultant
Fantastic experience: Very helpful friendly people.
Fantastic experience: The Barn Vets have always gone over and beyond as our vets. I've had to call them several times with regards to an emergency and was seen straight away. Would definitely recommend them as a vet
Fantastic experience: A lovely practice where we feel our pets are well cared for right through to the end where it is dignified and calm. Thank you.
Fantastic experience: A kind welcome, excellent attention to Harry and the lovely vet listened to my concerns and gave appropriate treatment. Very happy to have my animals in your care.
Fantastic experience: I’ve used The Barn Veterinary practice for 4 yrs now and they are exemplary in their care of my two dogs.The vets and nurses are all friendly, caring and professional. The location alone is a good reason to go there!
Fantastic experience: Always friendly an very helpful with any questions I need answering Looked after my little dog well when she was poorly
Fantastic experience: Highly recommend Barn Veterinary Services. They always look after our pet cat, Hardy. Recommending how to give him the best care to ensure he has the best health. Friendly and supportive team.
Fantastic experience: An urgent appointment was arranged same day for my cat and, after a consultation with a very nice lady vet, Mau is recovering well
Fantastic experience: Very friendly and professional and not just after your money like my last vets were
Fantastic experience: They take better care of my cat than I do of myself!
Fantastic experience: Very quiet every time I’ve arrived and been seen straight away. Always respectful of the fact my dog is anxious and always tries their best to make him feel as comfortable as possible
Fantastic experience: Wonderful staff and very caring. You couldn't ask for better.
Fantastic experience: You couldn't be in safer, more caring hands.
Negative experience: A litany of poor service, lack of duty of care and extortion of the situation. Was even charged £80 for a referral which couldn't offer the service required. If you care about the health of your pet, avoid this place.
Fantastic experience: Helpful lovely receptionists/nurses and the vets are all brilliant
Many thanks for posting a great review, I will pass on your comments to the staff. Practice Manager
Fantastic experience: Excellent practice. Lovely staff. Would thoroughly recommend.
Fantastic experience: I continue to be happy with The Barn, they are excellent, kind, and careful. Fab.
Fantastic experience: Absolutely amazing, everyone was so kind and friendly and they done everything they could and made our boy better so he could come home
Fantastic experience: Great vet, great service, only been twice over the last 2 years both for vaccinations. I like the ability to book online, close to home and sensible prices. I must add what a brilliant vet I had this week. I sadly had to say goodbye bye to my cat, and the vet and nurse were both amazing, and supportive and dealt with the whole situation in a perfect manner. Not an easy day, but they made a difficult time as easy as possible with great kindness and caring through the whole process. Thank you
Fantastic experience: Kind, lovely vets
Fantastic experience: Very friendly and helpful staff
Fantastic experience: Very friendly, and opening later is a real help
Fantastic experience: Very caring staff, very clean practice and managed to care for my pet in a person centered way.
Fantastic experience: Have visited them several times recently with our cat, Neo, had problems with an infected bite and an eye problem. Both problems were dealt with very efficiently.
Fantastic experience: I have been using this vets for over 20 years and have never had any complaints. They are always very friendly and have time to listen to my concerns. They have treated Archie with immunotherapy since he was a tiny puppy 9 years ago and now with eye ulcers too.. Our Maine coon cats have always just popped in to say hi and be weighed. All the vets are amazing.
Fantastic experience: Lovely staff, helpful and excellent service. Treated Ivy excellent
Fantastic experience: The staff are welcoming and friendly. The vets are professional in their assessment, explaining ailments clearly and explaining the treatments available. They are also kind to the animals and their owners. I strongly recommend this veterinary practice, we have had three dogs that have all needed comprehensive care, the Barn has never let us down.
Fantastic experience: Always had amazing service from Tge Barn vets. From our experience the care & treatment is about what's best for our dog, not what they can charge the most for. Would highly recommend.
Fantastic experience: The care and treatment recently given to my cat was in every way exemplary. A superb veterinary practice, could not be improved.
Fantastic experience: Excellent vets, they make you feel like family …
Fantastic experience: Lovely place to look after your per
Fantastic experience: A very friendly, professional vets
Fantastic experience: Absolutely fabulous people honest and trusted
Fantastic experience: Friendly and caring staff and very good with my dog treating and examining her
Fantastic experience: We registered our little pup with barn the staff are very caring and professional. The vet we see was awsome. So glad we registered here
Fantastic experience: Excellent vets..
Fantastic experience: Friendly, helpful and professional. They took great care of our cat.
Negative experience: Really need to spend some of their cash on updating the tiled floors for older dogs. Wouldn’t open the side door and said it was bolted (get a key then) made me carry my Charlie through reception and he collapsed on gravel drive and the vet just walked back in and left us, with no offer of assistance. Never seen this vet here and shocked being honest. Took Charlie in two weeks ago with onset of condition and there was no follow up call to see how he was . Also didn’t have a good experience putting my 24 year old cat to sleep in January- I wasn’t even given a chance to hold her. Charged £109 for £50 referral to specialist and just to see Charlie and leave him on the gravel collapsed.
Fantastic experience: Caring skilled treatment at all times, highly recommended
Fantastic experience: All staff are compassionate and really care for their jobs and animals. A huge thank you to Mark for saving my precious cat Milo, the care he received was second to none and we received constant updates and reassurance throughout the surgery.
Positive experience: The vets are amazing and are beyond 5 STARS everyday truly !!! Their care for the animals is impeccable. However, it’s really time for a change with the reception staff. I think there may be someone struggling with hearing and being assertive and efficient. Phone calls are very often difficult. People are having to explain things over and over again for “some” receptionists to still not “get” the request. (I don’t wish to hurt somebodies feelings) If it’s a straight booking appointment fine(ish) but add any complication or deviation and nope! I’ve personally experienced it and heard it in person in clinic too. :(
Fantastic experience: Brilliant vet as always and Alfie didn't bite anybody!
Fantastic experience: I cannot recommend this practice highly enough. Every visit has been handled with empathy and care
Positive experience: The receptionist was lovely, friendly and efficient. However the vet kept us waiting ages when we arrived to collect our kitten after castration. We could hear him crying in the back room!
Fantastic experience: Helpful, kind and understanding practice. The customer and patient service is carried out with empathy and compassion. I would only recommend this practice as I wouldn’t go anywhere else. All the vets are lovely and the administrative staff and genuinely caring. Thank you for your service and keep up your incredible work.
Fantastic experience: Excellent vets, friendly & helpful
Fantastic experience: A lovely vets, real homely feel . Staff are warm and welcoming.
Fantastic experience: Kind, caring and efficient vets.
Fantastic experience: My dog and I love the Barn Vets because they are really friendly and knowledgeable, we always come away feeling happy and grateful.
Fantastic experience: Really caring and helpful. Probably saved my cats life with the quick veterinary care. My concerns were listened too fully and things were explained to me. Thank you
Fantastic experience: Up to the usual excellent standard I expect from our brilliant veterinary practice. Been with them since they first started under the ownership of Robert Hill. When he retired he made sure the practice was run the way he used to run it. Would not go anywhere else.
Fantastic experience: Great vets, and very friendly. They always look after my cat very well. There are other vets closer to where I live but I wouldn't go anywhere else.
Fantastic experience: Barn vets are a very professional veterinary practice. Grayling in particular is a very professional vet who understands horses and takes the time needed to calm and settle a horse around vets. Highly recommend the practice.
Fantastic experience: Very lovely people everyone has a puppy cuddle
Fantastic experience: Amazing team
Fantastic experience: The Barn Vets have been wonderful at looking after our beloved dog Poppy for almost 15 years. They were sensitive and kind when we had to make the heart breaking decision to have her put to sleep, and we wouldn't hesitate to recommend to others.
Fantastic experience: Our dog needed consultation, xray and op which were all carried out on a Saturday in quick succession. Brilliant service.
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, welcoming vets practice. I've used them for several years with numerous pets and they have always provided me and my pets with a good service and looked after them well. I subscribe to their monthly plan for my dog which covers the cost of regular flea/worming treatment and her annual vaccination boosters. They take the time to care for your pet, I have a highly strung labrador and the last vet we saw took the time to try and calm her before the vacc was given and suggested medical help for her stress/anxiety levels which we are now trying. I could see the care she was giving my dog and it was lovely, not rushing and lots of great advice. Highly recommended practice.
Positive experience: Excellent service from vets, however charging £50 for a 5-10 minute consultation on top of any medication needed is expensive
Negative experience: My first time at the barn copdock ..I normal go to Ashcroft practice..But I must say the vet who my beloved Bella (a corgie/jack Russel called Bella is under has been lovely she realised I was quite distraught &she treated me so kind ..thanks Grayling .
Thank you for your lovely feedback. Did you mean to put a 1 out of 5 start rating?
Fantastic experience: As I am new to PDSA process the receptionists was extremely helpful and patient: Listened to my concerns and got my dog booked in instantly: Faultless and professional:
Fantastic experience: Very professional, friendly vets and staff members, very rarely not be able to get an appointment quickly when needed. The Copdock practice is situated in a lovely area with grass and space for the dogs can relieve themselves before or after the visit.
Fantastic experience: I can't praise The Barn Vets in Wenham highly enough. Everybody working there are very friendly and very knowledgeable. My dog (Cooper) was very calm during her consultation. Five star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Negative experience: So booked an appointment for them to see my pet regarding an issue, didn’t have a look and had a 2 minute chat suggesting to give it a few days and coming back if still an issue. Still charged £50 for an appointment where they didn’t touch him! Disgusting service and will be speaking with RCVS!
Fantastic experience: The staff welcomed us and the pups, helping to get them into the consultation room and making ready for vaccination a chipping. All went really smoothly and none of the pups were frightened or alarmed so future visits should be stress free…hopefully with no painful memories. They had treats and playtime afterwards, so a very laid back experience. Thank you, Amanda Bishop
Positive experience: I. have been so happy with the treatment and care of my my pets . All the staff explain what's happening properly . Also I have found it is quite easy to get appointments which can be vital at times.
Fantastic experience: Our two cats are always excellently looked after here and there are always convenient appointments available. Would definitely recommend.
Fantastic experience: My Springer is always looked after well and always had a good experience. The vets especially Grayling and Alice are first class and couldnt ask for nicer, knowledgable vets. Just what you want for your pet. Dawn on reception always helpful too. Thank you all ☺️
Fantastic experience: Thanks for helping us to feel at ease with a diagnosis and treatment
Fantastic experience: Excellent service and excellent handling of the animals
Fantastic experience: A clean and welcoming environment, always feel reassured when taking our dogs to the vets.
Fantastic experience: Friendly welcome and professional service
Fantastic experience: Really nice atmosphere, friendly service. The vet was happy to answer any questions I had.
Fantastic experience: Friendly and efficient practice with very knowledgable and kind staff. An absolute pleasure to visit.
Fantastic experience: Staff massively friendly and brilliant with my dog and 2 cats
Fantastic experience: We were given an emergency appointment to attend from the Barn Ashcroft rd vets and the receptionist was concerned when we didn’t arrive at our appointment time. She phoned us and guided us there. Our consultation was excellent and the care for Bailey our 14 yr old dog who had fell and we thought he had broken a leg. The female Vet was excellent and we were told about the care and meds for him for 3 days then if no better to return. We are impressed with this survey as well asking about our experience. A excellent service when you are worried about our well loved dog, Thank-you so much. To all the team. Judith and Paul Crisp and of cause Bailey x
Fantastic experience: Lovely people
Fantastic experience: Lovely staff and not to expensive, clean and welcoming
Fantastic experience: While The Barn is not our nearest vet practice, the warm and friendly, honest service means we wouldn’t go anywhere else.
Fantastic experience: Excellent as usual but not cheap lol
Fantastic experience: Excellent service.
Fantastic experience: Really happy with the treatment my boy received. I wasn't rushed and felt like the vet listened to all of my concerns and was really helpful.
Fantastic experience: I have been bringing my 4 dogs here since I moved to the area over 6 years ago. The practise is excellent in every way, kind, considerate, thorough and very welcoming. The level of service is excellent and I would totally recommend them.
Fantastic experience: It was our puppy’s first visit to the vets and the vet was great with her and very helpful with lots of advice, lovely easy experience
Fantastic experience: Friendly, welcoming reception staff (even to a nervous and sometimes reactive dog!) and the vets are all fantastic - knowledgable, friendly and so good with my nervous pup. The Pet Health Club is brilliant and it really does have a family feel.
Fantastic experience: 5 stars. Would recommended to anyone.
Negative experience: Well we have had a few days to take in the loss of our loved cat and we found this practice was not what we thought when they told us how bad our cats injury’s were we were advised to have him put to sleep we 100% asked to keep him sedated until we could say our good byes but this practice decided no after saying yes you can come and say good bye knowing he would be able to here our voices when we turned up just wanted to know how we were going to pay then gave us our cat in a box’s and get rid of us and trying to say we got it wrong not them no sympathy no condolences nothing a total disgrace
Negative experience: My recent experience of the Barn Vets at Copdock has left our family devastated. Our 6-year-old dog was taken in as an emergency and the practice reacted quickly to see him and provide painkillers for which we were very grateful. I became increasingly worried when he continued to refuse food and water for days and had started vomiting. I called and returned him to the vet with these concerns which were quickly dismissed as a reaction to the painkiller. He was given an anti-nausea injection and different painkillers and told it was too much of a coincidence. Again, I was assured he was not dehydrated. No further tests were done. Then everything started to deteriorate very quickly with emergency calls over the weekend leading to the eventual diagnosis that his kidneys were failing. Nothing could be done at this time, and we lost him. I have had to conclude that nothing could have been done to save him as it is too painful to consider any other outcome, however I cannot forgive the lack of care and professionalism provided that led to the final days of his life. I would strongly urge any owner to reconsider before placing their trust in this practice. Mrs Anja Cartwright - November 2022
Fantastic experience: Each vet we have seen has been kind, caring and understanding, putting our minds at rest. Its a pleasure to recommend them.
Fantastic experience: All the vets here are lovely: talented, professional, honest, friendly and compassionate. The receptionists are also so friendly and most have worked there a long time which is a good sign of a happy and cohesive team.
Fantastic experience: Very good service
Fantastic experience: Absolutely Fabulous always. So so lovely all of You and very thorough a massive thumbs up from myself and Family x
Fantastic experience: Professional and courteous team and practice. Highly recommended . Always on hand in the most difficult of times as well as the simplest.
Fantastic experience: Barn vets are highly recommended,, Graham Rural Agricultural Chaplain for Suffolk
Fantastic experience: The Barn always provides an excellent, friendly and helpful service even when you call the on-call vet in the early hours of the morning! Would thoroughly recommend this practice.
Fantastic experience: Own car park, Lovely environment, always clean, staff great, reception to nurses to vets. So pleased I moved her from my previous vets. They have the personal touch.
Fantastic experience: Excellent service
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