The Lort Smith Animal Hospital is a non-profit animal hospital located in North Melbourne, Victoria . The hospital has been dedicated to the care and welfare of animals and their owners for more than 70 years. Although always operating from the same site, at 24 Villiers St in North Melbourne , the hospital was completely rebuilt with works finishing in 2000. The new hospital has 8 consulting suites, 4 surgical theatres, a large dental and small procedures room, and 16 animal wards including a dedicated intensive care unit and isolation ward. The hospital also provides care for stray and unwanted animals, a dedicated cattery and kennels reunite or re-home thousands of cats and dogs each year.
The Lort Smith Animal Hospital has consultations by appointment from 8:30 AM to 7:30 PM on weekdays, and 8:30 AM to 5 PM on weekends. An emergency service is available from 8:30 AM until midnight every day.
To make an appointment or for any other enquires,
please call the hospital on 03 9328 3021
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Strays Birthday is a fundraising event for The Lort Smith Animal Hospital and the Animal Welfare League. It recognises the important role pets play in our lives and at the same time acknowledges that for stray pets without a home or family, life is no party.
By throwing a birthday party for your pet or making a donation to Strays Birthday you will help us raise $200,000 to support our shelter program, providing temporary accommodation, care, treatment and a new home to almost 5000 dogs and cats each year. Now that’s worth celebrating!
Joining Strays Birthday is fast, easy and fun. All you need to do is click the "Join" button below and you're on your way.
LORT SMITH ANIMAL HOSPITAL
RAFFLE 2008
Every year thousands of stray dogs and cats come through the emergency doors of Lort Smith in need of urgent medical attention and shelter.
Help Lort Smith care for animals in need by ordering a book of raffle tickets to sell to family, friends or work colleagues.
First prize
White Hyundai Getz
Retail value: $16,530
Manual 3 door, 1.4 litre 2008
Registration and on road costs included. Major prize proudly supported by City Hyundai
For all your car needs phone the City Hyundai hotline 03 8383 1111
Second prize
32 inch NEC Plasma Flat Screen TV
Retail value: $1,299 Proudly supported by Wwave Pty Ltd
Third prize:
Daylesford Country Cottages, Daylesford VIC
Weekend away for two. Valid for 12 months
Retail value: $550 Proudly supported by Daylesford Country cottages
Make sure you tune in and watch Animal Emergency an inspiring new Channel 9 TV series which showcases the love, care and heartbreaking emotion we experience in our every day work within the Hospital, starting Sunday, 16th March at 6.30 pm.
“Hosted by Logie winner Georgie Parker, Animal Emergency will take you from the intensive care unit to the surgery, on the road with the hospital's ambulance service and be there when families arrive with their beloved pets. Viewers will witness the joy of pet adoption, the perils of unusual pet ownership, the incredible will to live that possesses the most determined animals, and the people who have pledged a career to protect them”.
The Lort Smith Animal Hospital are running their next set of fun dog training programs specifically adapted to help a shelter dog settle in to their new home.
Held by well respected and popular professional dog trainer, Paul Gale, the sessions will address any behavioural problems you may be experiencing with your dog as well as basic training. Each set consists of 4 weekly sessions, approximately 1 hour long, designed to be fun and informative. Sessions will include but not be limited to addressing:
Lort Smith Animal Hospital Gala Dinner 2007
Our first ever Gala Dinner promised to be a grand event in Lort Smith’s history and it didn’t disappoint. Hosted by Gold Medallist, Media personality and Lort Smith Ambassador, Giaan Rooney and with the tone set by co-host and talented MC Hamish McLachlan, the evening proved to be an exceptional one. read more...
LORT SMITH ANIMAL HOSPITAL PARTNERS WITH PETS AT HOME TO LEAD CHANGE As a respected animal welfare organisation, we have been concerned by how little things seem to have changed despite years of campaigning with regard to the selling of animals in pet shops and the associated animal welfare problems.
After much debate and discussion, we decided the best way to bring about change would be to work with a leading player in the industry and chose Australia’s first ever pet care department store, Pets at Home.
The Lort Smith 2007 raffle proved to be a big success, raising $52,000 for the hospital. We’d like to say a great big THANK YOU to everyone who sold and bought tickets.
Our 2008 raffle will be launched shortly. Watch these pages for details of how to join our team of raffle book sellers, or when, where and how you can buy tickets and help us continue with our important work.
Due to overwhelming support of our catalogue this year we have sold out of all Christmas Cards, gift wrap and jigsaw puzzles.
We apologise for this inconvenience and will endeavour to have more stock on hand next year.
Containing a beautiful selection of Christmas cards, gift wrap and some fantastic gift ideas, the Lort Smith Christmas catalogue will help you solve you gift idea headache this Christmas while also helping animals in need.
This year we are especially excited to launch our shelter gift range; a unique selection of gift in lieu cards that helps support and rehome surrendered and stray dogs and cats. For more info or to download a copy of the catalogue click here
Latest Companion Now Available
The latest version of our newsletter is now available online. Please click here, or on the thumbnail, to download a copy in Adobe PDF format (350kb).
Sponsor a Shelter Animal Today -
Every year thousands of dogs and cats are brought through the emergency doors of Lort Smith as abandoned or surrendered animals and strays in need of urgent medical attention and shelter.
Cardboard boxes full of underweight kittens, lost dogs that have been hit by cars, stray cats with chronic cat flu or cats and dogs that have outgrown their welcome and are no-longer wanted, are just some of the cases we see here daily.
In the next twelve months over 50,000 Victorian pets will become victims of domestic violence and abuse.
Studies report many different types of violence being directed towards the animals of those living in violent family situations: from cats being smacked and kicked; to dogs being thrown off porches; to burying dogs alive. more...
