Sandycove Veterinary Clinic

- Recent feedback is strongly positive about the clinic’s overall manner, with owners describing the team as caring, kind, compassionate, and reassuring. - Con is the standout name in written reviews, with repeated praise for gentle, thorough care and for listening carefully to owners’ concerns. - Emergency care is a clear theme: one reviewer describes a cat being stabilised quickly, then referred promptly for CT and echo testing, followed by a check-in call a few days later.

Sandycove Veterinary Clinic is a local practice in Sandycove, Dublin, with reviews consistently highlighting compassionate, thorough care. Owners especially praise Con and the wider team for routine check-ups, calm handling of anxious pets, and quick decision-making in urgent cases. The clinic also appears to offer grooming, including sedation-assisted grooming for some difficult dogs, and refers patients on for specialist imaging when needed.

Services

•Routine veterinary care: Regular check-ups are mentioned, with owners saying issues were picked up during routine visits.
•Urgent assessment and stabilisation: Reviews describe prompt action in emergency situations, including stabilising a cat before arranging onward care.
•Referral for specialist diagnostics: When advanced imaging was needed, patients were referred on for tests such as CT scans and echocardiograms/echos.
•Grooming and sedation-assisted grooming: Grooming is specifically mentioned in reviews, and one owner describes a safer, less stressful grooming process for a very difficult dog using sedation.
•Care for nervous or hard-to-handle pets: Several owners mention patient, non-judgmental handling of anxious dogs and attentive care for foster animals.

Pricing

No published pricing information is currently available for this clinic.

People

•Con (vet): Repeatedly praised for being gentle, thorough, caring, and calm in emergencies. Reviews also mention that he listens well, acts quickly when needed, follows up after care, and does not push unnecessary products or treatments.
•Martha: Thanked by name for a grooming visit.
•The wider team: Described as caring, knowledgeable, patient, and non-judgmental, with positive comments about how they handled foster animals and nervous dogs.

Reviews

Sandycove Veterinary Clinic has 4.9 stars from 180 Google reviews.

•Recent feedback is strongly positive about the clinic’s overall manner, with owners describing the team as caring, kind, compassionate, and reassuring.
•Con is the standout name in written reviews, with repeated praise for gentle, thorough care and for listening carefully to owners’ concerns.
•Emergency care is a clear theme: one reviewer describes a cat being stabilised quickly, then referred promptly for CT and echo testing, followed by a check-in call a few days later.
•Owners of anxious or difficult pets mention patient handling and a much improved grooming experience, including sedation-assisted grooming for a dog that previously found grooming traumatic.

Reviews for Sandycove Veterinary Clinic

Note: Showing the 10 most recent Google reviews out of 180 we track in total. Recent reviews may not be representative of overall sentiment.

Iryna Shevchenko

3 weeks ago

Dr. Con is incredible! He always treats animals with love and has warm words for their owners. I think he's the best vet!

Sine Dunne

1 month ago

Absolutely brilliant vet practice. Caring knowledgeable and there when you need them. Really nice people too.

Alex Dolan

3 months ago

Dog Bless

What can I say about place… the most caring veterinary team I think I have ever come across. The work they do here is phenomenal. Con and the team really do care about all the animals that cross through their doors. I cannot recommend this place high enough. I fostered Cleo for 6 months before she found her forever home in Czech Republic and they did all her work and they treated her with TLC from start to finish.

Lindsay G

4 months ago

Con absolutely went beyond our expectations when we quickly had to bring in our cat Aine for an emergency. We felt safe in his hands and he listened to us. He acted quickly and stabilised her but then our baby needed additional testing that couldn’t be done there (CT scan, echos) to get to the bottom of it and was referred promptly into specialist care. While it was a serious and complex case, in hindsight I wish we just did the scans at the hospital and then brought her back into his care as his level of detail and ability to think critically around complex cases and handle seemed better than the specialist hospital. He even called us days later to check up on her. He truly seems to care about his patients and puts their wellbeing first. We are very lucky to have a vet locally like him.

rebecca stapleton

9 months ago

I absolutely love this vet and would definitely recommend! We moved here from another vet a year or two ago and I'm really happy that we did. I have a really difficult dog that doesn't really let people in, but they are so kind, caring, patient & non judgmental. Over the years trying to get my bichon groomed was so traumatic for him and everyone around him, but now it's a completely different experience as Con & team offer a service of putting him to sleep to get groomed which is so much better and safer for everyone and my dog isn't traumatised from the experience anymore since we started doing this with Sandycove vet. They seem like they genuinely care about all the animals they see and it's not just a business for them. Definitely a great choice for a vet in the area. Thanks for minding my little dog Pai Con & team. :)

Daragh Sheehan

10 months ago

Leona Stephenson

11 months ago

We switched to this vet practice after receiving so many recommendations...so,so glad we did! The beautiful care, kindness and compassion that was shown to our little buddy was beautiful and we are so so thankful ❤️