Meadow Vet Care assistant · Last updated 14 July 2026
This is a teaching demonstration. Meadow Vet Care is a fictional clinic, created as a classroom demo of AI tool use (Model Context Protocol) for a postgraduate module at the National College of Ireland. It is not a real veterinary practice, it does not treat animals, it takes no bookings and it takes no payments. Nothing here is a real commercial offer, and the prices shown are illustrative.
This assistant is an artificial intelligence system, not a human being and not a veterinary professional. Its replies are generated by a large language model and may be incomplete, out of date or simply wrong. We tell you this up front, on the chat itself and here, in line with the transparency expectations of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) for systems that interact directly with people. Always apply your own judgement, and do not rely on the assistant as your only source of information.
Everything the assistant says, including anything about the weather and walking your dog, is general information only. It is not veterinary advice, not a diagnosis, not a treatment plan, and it does not create any veterinary client, patient or professional relationship. It is no substitute for examination of your animal by a qualified veterinary practitioner registered with the Veterinary Council of Ireland.
You remain solely responsible for decisions about your animal's care, exercise and welfare, including your duties under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013.
If your animal is unwell, injured, or you suspect heatstroke, do not use this chat. Contact a vet or an emergency veterinary service immediately. Heatstroke is a medical emergency and minutes matter.
The walk-safety feature combines live weather with published research on heat-related illness in dogs, principally Hall, Carter & O'Neill (2020), Incidence and risk factors for heat-related illness (heatstroke) in UK dogs under primary veterinary care in 2016, Scientific Reports 10:9128 (doi:10.1038/s41598-020-66015-8).
That research is clear that there is no safe temperature threshold. In the study, the median "feels like" temperature for heatstroke cases was only 16.9°C, cases occurred from 3.3°C to 23.1°C, and most canine heatstroke is brought on by exercise, not by hot cars. So:
The assistant reads live data from third parties, which we do not control and cannot guarantee:
| Data | Source |
|---|---|
| Services and prices | The clinic's own (illustrative) Google Sheet |
| Irish public holidays | Nager.Date, with OpenHolidays API as a fallback |
| Weather and forecast | Open-Meteo |
| Language model | Anthropic (Claude) |
These feeds may be unavailable, delayed or inaccurate. Opening hours and holiday closures shown here are indicative: for a real clinic you should always ring ahead before travelling.
We have deliberately built this to hold as little about you as possible.
The assistant is provided "as is", without warranty that it will be accurate, uninterrupted or fit for any particular purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for loss or damage arising from reliance on it.
We will not pretend to exclude more than the law allows, because a term that tried to would not be binding on you anyway. So, expressly: nothing in this notice excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights under Irish and EU consumer law, including the Consumer Rights Act 2022 and the Unfair Terms Directive (93/13/EEC), are not affected by anything written here, and any term found to be unfair is not binding on you.
Please do not use the assistant to seek emergency help, to obtain a diagnosis or prescription, to submit anyone else's personal data, or to attempt to misuse, overload or manipulate the underlying model or its tools.
These terms are governed by the laws of Ireland, and the Irish courts have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the EU, you keep the protection of the mandatory rules of your own country and may bring proceedings there.