Preventive Care

• Vaccination
  Through millions of years of evolution, many exotic pets have become masters at hiding any symptoms until they become very sick. Even if your exotic pet isn’t showing signs of illness or doesn’t need its vaccinations, it’s always a good idea to have a routine wellness check performed by our exotic pet veterinarians once a year. It will also benefit you to have a well thought out plan in place should you ever encounter a health emergency with your pocket pet.
• Veterinary Ophthalmology
  Dr. Carter graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2006. She graduated magna cum laude in 2002 from Southeast Missouri State University with a BS degree in biology. She worked as an associate at Banfield Animal Hospitals from 2006-2009. Her interests include ophthalmology and soft tissue surgery. Dr. Carter is a Certified Veterinary Medical Acupuncturist and is now offering Veterinary Medical Accupuncture services to patients in the Rowlett, Rockwall, Mesquite, Garland, Dallas, and surrounding areas.
• Behavioral Counseling
  Your visit will begin with a "puppy talk" from one of our experienced nurses. They will send you home with a packet of brochures, samples and written documents on how to care for your new puppy. We will go over the most up to date behavior and training information and help you with potty training, sit/stay/lay down and how to introduce your new puppy to other pets and children.
• Comprehensive Examination
  Once we have an annual physical exam, you can bring your pet in for vaccines and labwork for 365 days without seeing a doctor or paying for another physical exam. We do not have a fee for an "office visit" so if you needed vaccines or labwork drawn, it would just be the cost of that item(s). The only time you would pay for another physical exam would be if your pet is ill or you want to speak to a doctor and have them assess your pet during the year.

Illness Treatment

• Parasites Treatment and Control
  Each puppy receives a clay paw print so you can remember their cute little paws (or big puppy paws depending on their breed)! You will go home with a first free dose of heartworm prevention. Each puppy gets an action plan where we lay out a plan with you for vaccine schedules. Each puppy gets a free nail trim and puppy massage at each puppy appointment because we want to help get them used to having their paws touched for future visits as an adult dog.
• Skin Condition and Allergy Treatment

Infection Treatment

• Leptospirosis Treatment
  There are four vaccination recommendations that we feel all canine patients should have. These are Rabies, DHPP, Bordetella, and Leptospirosis. We can review any previous medical records you may have to determine if your pet is indeed due for all four recommend vaccines. We follow AAHA vaccination guidelines, so there may be some vaccinations your pet has received in the past that we do not recommend and there may be some vaccinations we recommend that your pet has not had in the past.

Chronic Condition Treatment

• Thyroid Disease Treatment

Surgery

• Veterinary Surgery
  We are excited to welcome Dr. Amber Wawak to our team as an associate veterinarian. Dr. Wawak graduated from Texas A&M University in 2016 with her undergraduate degree in Animal Science and attained her DVM degree from Texas A&M University in 2021. Whoop! Dr. Wawak recently became Fear-free Certified. Among her professional interests are feline medicine, soft tissue surgery, and dermatology.
• Laser Surgery
• Declawing

Lab and X-Rays

• Laboratory Services
  We recommend heartworm testing (blood test), intestinal parasite exam (stool test), annual labwork/senior labwork (blood test), and heartworm prevention. We recommend that your pet remain on monthly heartworm prevention for their entire life. There are many different products, in many different price ranges, covering many different parasites that we will discuss with you. We want to help you select the most appropriate prevention for your pet's lifestyle.
• X-Ray
• Microchipping

General Pet Care

• Boarding
  You can view more information about AAHA vaccination guidelines and what the vaccinations protect against at https://www.aahanet.org/Library/Guidelines.aspx. Some of the vaccinations (Rabies and DHPP) can be tri-annual vaccines, meaning they can be given every 3 years. Depending on your previous veterinarians' protocols, your dog may not be due for these vaccines at this time. Rabies is the only vaccination required by law, but we do highly recommend that all dogs remain current on the other 3 vaccinations. Most boarding and grooming facilities and even dog parks and day cares will require at least the Rabies, DHPP and Bordetella vaccinations. Depending on the breed and size of your pet, often times we will recommend splitting up vaccinations over the course of several weeks to minimize the potential for vaccine reactions.
• Grooming
  With 26 years of dog and cat grooming experience, our pet groomer, Kerri Jones knows how to treat your pet to paradise. And with our new super-quick turnaround for dogs, you can drop your pooch off in the morning and by noon she’ll come out looking like the Diva she truly is.
• Dog Training
  So,if you have an unruly dog that you’d like to get under control, or even if you’d just like a quick brush-up on some puppy skills or socialization manners, you might think about signing up for Heath dog training and behavior classes.