Preventive Care

• Dental Care
  If you’re looking for a highly trained veterinarian in [Savannah], [GA], we’d love to help you care for your cat and any other pets that you have. The first order of business is to get your cat in for their dental exam to ensure they don’t have any potentially harmful disease hiding in their mouth, so please call us right away at 1-912-352-3081.
• Vaccination
  To alleviate vaccines that may not be needed for your pet, the veterinarians at our animal hospital tailors each pet’s vaccination schedule based on their lifestyle and the latest recommendations made by AVMA and AAHA. We will determine your pet’s vaccine requirements based on the information you provide during your wellness visit.
• Veterinary Ophthalmology
  Eye Care: Our doctors are trained to recognize feline specific eye disease and choose treatments based upon efficacy and your cat's tolerance to specific treatments
• Nutritional Counseling
  Cats can develop things like feline leukemia if they’re not vaccinated before being exposed. Sometimes cats with feline leukemia get sick, and they don't always make it. If your cat goes outside, we need to keep them up on their intestinal parasite deworming because if they do get these worms, they're giving up some of those valuable nutrients, and it can cause severe GI symptoms and weight loss.
• Comprehensive Examination
  Preventive care for your cat is about being preemptive about general health, and that ranges from their diet to enrichment and even toys, bedding, and housing. It also expands here into the veterinary clinic for vaccines and annual wellness exams (more often for kittens and seniors) for your cat to make sure that everything looks healthy. With preventive care, we’re setting your cat up to live as healthily as possible for as long as possible. Again, cats are known for being stoic creatures, so if you wait until they show signs that something is wrong, the disease has often progressed too far to treat it effectively.

Illness Treatment

• Parasites Treatment and Control
  Flea & Tick: We employ various safe and effective flea & tick prevention and treatment methods for your dog's health and comfort
• Pain Management
  Much like seeing your children in pain, it’s difficult to see your dog struggling, and sometimes it’s challenging to even notice since they don’t vocalize it. If your dog is acting out of character and you suspect they might be in pain, you’ve probably already turned to the internet for answers. At Case Veterinary Hospital, we work extremely hard to get you the accurate information you need. Unfortunately, many well-meaning pet parents or bloggers share material that isn’t factually accurate or what your veterinarian would want you to know or do. That’s why we’ve taken the most frequently asked questions about dog pain management and answered them thoroughly and accurately, as a dog in pain is not something you want to overlook.
• Vomiting Treatment
• Diarrhea Treatment
• Skin Condition and Allergy Treatment
  Allergy Testing: Cats commonly face a number of allergens that can cause a wide variety of symptoms, allergy testing can help us to identify and properly treat the root cause of some issues
• Upper Respiratory Illness Treatment
  Dog owners whose dogs are coughing or showing other signs of respiratory disease should not participate in activities or bring their dogs to facilities where other dogs can be exposed to the virus.
• Injury Treatment
• Intestinal Foreign Object Removal

Infection Treatment

• Leptospirosis Treatment
  Getting back to other vaccines, we also routinely do leptospirosis, a bacterial organism often found in areas where wildlife congregates and any wet environment. When people think about wildlife, they think of the woods in the streams. Still, even small rodents in your area could potentially cause or carry leptospirosis, so we must protect our pets.
• Parvovirus Infection Treatment
  The first thing that comes to mind is diseases that we prevent in dogs with vaccines. Rabies is one that's required by most state laws, and that's required because it's a public health issue. Rabies is fatal when contracted by animals—there's absolutely nothing we can do, and it is contagious to people. The second most common vaccine that we give is the distemper combination vaccine. That includes distemper, adenovirus (a type of virus that causes hepatitis), and parvovirus, and I think everyone is relatively familiar with parvovirus. It can be a deadly disease, usually affects puppies, and is incredibly expensive to treat, and we’re rarely successful in doing so. There’s also a fairly critical vaccine for parainfluenza, a respiratory virus sometimes associated with kennel cough.
• Feline Retro Virus Treatment
  We like to see kittens about every three weeks, starting at about six weeks old. We do general checks on them. We test them for things like the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) and feline leukemia virus (FeLV) to ensure they don't have those. And we get them started on their vaccine series that we do about every three weeks until they are four months of age. We’re trying to to establish a healthy immune system that will protect them from diseases after they no longer have immunity from their mother’s milk. Vaccinations help prevent and fight various serious, even potentially fatal diseases that cats are at risk of contracting. They also help prevent the spread of diseases between felines, as well as to human beings.
• Ear Infection Treatment
  Despite the cause of the allergy, it is common for the animal to get secondary skin and/or ear infections. If we cannot get the underlying cause of the allergy under control, we often cannot get the infections under control.

Chronic Condition Treatment

• Arthritis Treatment
  Acute pain means sudden onset pain, such as a fractured bone, torn nail, or laceration. Chronic pain is long-term and something that your dog has lived with for weeks, months, or years. An example of chronic pain would be something like osteoarthritis. We treat acute and chronic pain in dogs quite differently.
• Hip Dysplasia Treatment
  The most common pain medications we use are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs, similar to Advil or Tylenol in humans, but unlike Advil, Tylenol, or other human NSAIDs, we'd prescribe medications designed to be safe for dogs and easy to metabolize. We won't want to use those in some cases, such as if an animal has organ dysfunction. Another medication we commonly reach for at Case Veterinary Hospital is Gabapentin, a pain management medication that works well for nerve pain. There is also a very effective monthly skin injection called Librela for chronic joint pain. Joint supplements and Omega-3s aren't necessarily for pain, but they can help arthritic dogs. We can also use adjunctive pain management, such as laser therapy and acupuncture. We treat every pet and every condition differently, so we’ll work with you and your situation at home to figure out the best way to treat your dog.
• Obesity Treatment
  Another part of preventive care that people might not realize is such a critical facet of a good regimen is cat nutrition. Raising a healthy cat depends heavily on the type and amount of food they consume on a daily basis. Low-quality cat food and treats high in fat or carbohydrates can negatively affect many aspects of your cats health. Feline obesity is the most common health problem we see in our otherwise healthy cat patients. Developing a nutritional plan from the kitten stage that includes a diet selection, a feeding plan, and an exercise plan is the best way to avoid feline obesity. Cats will have different nutritional requirements during each stage of their lives which include...
• Diabetes Treatment
• Thyroid Disease Treatment
• Heart Disease Treatment
  Case Veterinary Hospital offers cutting-edge diagnostics, including ultrasounds and echocardiograms (ultrasound of the heart) with review by board-certified radiologists and cardiologists. We also take referrals for ultrasounds and echocardiograms from Savannah area veterinarians.
• Kidney Disease Treatment
  Historically, we've most commonly prescribed non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to injured cats and those who have arthritis. In cases of arthritis, we now have a safer option- Solensia, a monthly skin injection which is extremely effective. This is exciting news because prior to Solensia, NSAIDs were often our only choice to effectively relieve pain in cats, but NSAIDs can also be detrimental to kitties with present or developing kidney disease, especially when used long-term.
• Periodontal Disease Treatment
  Because dogs can't speak for themselves, we have to look at their teeth and decide if there are any problems because dental issues can cause pain in their mouths. From a broad perspective, keeping their teeth clean can keep that bacteria from spreading into their bloodstream and impacting the heart valves, kidneys, liver, and immune system. This kind of preventive care for periodontal disease can extend the quality and duration of the dog’s life.
• Cancer Treatment
  Cancer treatment: Our communicative, community approach to cancer treatment makes all the difference for you and your dog

Emergency Care

• Seizure Treatment
  Anesthesia is a medically-induced loss of consciousness, preventing pain or a response to a stimulus. It works by interrupting the nerve signals in the brain and body, preventing any human or pet under anesthesia from processing pain or remembering what happened during the procedure.
• Wound and Fracture Care
  Dogs require anesthesia when they undergo surgery and other types of painful procedures, such as wound repair requiring stitches, a dental procedure requiring x-rays, and keeping their mouth open for an extended period. A veterinarian might also recommend anesthesia when a dog needs diagnostic imaging if it’s unlikely they’ll remain still long enough for the team to take the images.

Surgery

• Veterinary Surgery
  We understand that a dog veterinarian is only as good as his or her ability to successfully prevent, diagnose, and treat whatever ailment a dog may be facing. Equally as important is our ability to listen and communicate well with owners to make sure they understand their dog's health concerns and how to make the best choices for their dog. This is why our dog hospital is capable of handling any procedure, including preventive care, medical diagnosis, and emergency surgery.
• Laser Surgery
  Lasers are a minimally invasive alternative to traditional surgery. Lasers replace scalpels in many procedures and are useful for a wide range of conditions, from routine spays to tumor removals. Laser procedures result in less pain, less bleeding, and less swelling. They reduce the risk of infection and result in less post-operative discomfort. We use the laser for ALL our routine animal surgeries (spay, neuter, declaw) and most other pet surgical procedures.
• Spaying and Neutering
  You can find us at the 19th annual Wag-O-Ween October 26 and 27 2024, a multi-day event across Savannah, Ga. Dress up with your pet to go “Trick or Treating” at local businesses and vendors throughout Downtown and the Starland District, and you’ll be helping to support 12 local animal rescues. This event attracts over 3k people yearly and raised over 100K for community spay and neuter services in 2023.

Lab and X-Rays

• Laboratory Services
  Age – Age plays a factor in anesthesia since senior dogs may have compromised organs and systems, and puppies’ organs aren't quite mature. This is why pre-operative exams and blood tests are essential – to assess risk factors and ensure your dog is healthy enough to endure a procedure under anesthesia.
• X-Ray
• Dental Radiology
  The biggest reason early detection and diagnosis of dental disease in dogs is so important is that the earlier we find something, the easier it is to fix it. And so, when we find early dental disease, we can typically resolve it with a cleaning. And before we do that cleaning, we do a complete examination of the mouth and take dental x-rays to look for underlying problems. A mild case of Gingivitis is relatively easy to fix. When dental disease goes unchecked for years, however, we often end up having a lot of tooth decay, leading to several extractions—making it a much more involved and invasive procedure and more expensive than it would be if we had stayed on top of simply cleaning the teeth under anesthesia to reach disease hiding under the gum line each year.
• Microchipping
  Microchips have helped reunite thousands of pets with their families. We offer the most widely used microchip products to increase the chances of a safe recovery. For your pet’s comfort, a perfect time to place a microchip is when your pet is undergoing a procedure that involves anesthesia.

General Pet Care

• Boarding
  Case Veterinary Hospital: Located at 111 Eisenhower Dr., Savannah, GA 31406, our veterinary hospital offers a range of services, from wellness exams to pet vaccinations, dental care, surgery, pet boarding, and grooming. You can contact us at (912) 352-3081. Having served the local Savannah area since 1909, Case Veterinary takes pride in providing personalized, compassionate, award-winning care to both their patients and their families.
• Grooming
  One part of feline preventive care that people often forget about is bathing and grooming because we all know that cats are fastidious groomers. Through self-grooming, a cat can manage their own skin, fur, and digestive health. However, what many cat owners don’t realize is there are things you can and should do as a cat owner to ensure optimal hygiene.
• Senior Pet Care
  Ideally, caring for your senior pet should focus on preventative measures. Whenever possible, it is better to prevent a problem from occurring than to wait for a problem to develop. Detecting disease in the early stages greatly improves the outcome.