Preventive Care

• Dental Care
  Good oral health for your pet, including regular cleanings at the vet’s office, will preserve more than just teeth. It will also guard against potentially serious illness. The mouth is a very vulnerable area for pets, one that can allow many dangerous bacteria into the body. During your appointment with us, your pet’s teeth will be checked and we’ll discuss the possible need for a dental cleaning.
• Vaccination
  When most people think of a visit to the veterinarian, they imagine a routine visit with the annual vaccinations against diseases like rabies and distemper. Those are definitely important services, but from our perspective, they’re also a vital tool in getting to know you and your pets. During those annual visits, we learn about your pet’s health history and personality, so that if there are ever any other needs we’ll have to address, we’ll be familiar with everyone.
• Nutritional Counseling
  Regular veterinary care helps protect your pet from parasites other than heartworm. Hookworms, tapeworms, whipworms, and roundworms are all common parasites. Parasitic infection can lead to weight loss, diarrhea, poor growth, itchiness and loss of appetite, so it is important to detect and treat parasitic infections as soon as possible.
• Comprehensive Examination
  Every pet should have an annual examination, and your vet may want to see your pet more frequently under certain circumstances. Having an established relationship with a veterinarian is important for various reasons.

Illness Treatment

• Parasites Treatment and Control
  Pets get exposed to many different unpleasant pests, from simple fleas and ticks to parasitic worms. The symptoms can range from annoying to dangerous.
• Behavioral Disorder Treatment
  Vaccinations are an important part of regular health maintenance for your pet. We can help you determine the best immunization protocol for your pet, and provide reminders to keep you on schedule. Common vaccinations for dogs include canine parvovirus, adenovirus, canine distemper and rabies. Common vaccinations for cats include feline leukemia, panleukopenia, rhinotracheitis, and rabies.
• Pain Management
  Hopefully, your pet will not need surgical treatment, aside from the standard spay or neutering procedures. If so, it will probably be a stressful situation, so it is good to have a veterinary that you can trust. Our veterinary clinic’s staff members are experienced in administering anesthesia and can help ensure it is provided in a safe and controlled environment. They can also provide pain management to help your pet recover in a low-stress environment.
• Diarrhea Treatment
• Skin Condition and Allergy Treatment
  Note: Adverse immunologic response to otherwise harmless environmental or dietary antigens (atopic dermatitis and food allergies/food intolerance, resp) are important common primary causes of otitis externa. Ignoring their impact is terribly unsound. Ouch.
• Intestinal Foreign Object Removal
  Patients in pain often won’t allow for these procedures to be performed while they are conscious. Thus, general anesthesia is sometimes required. At that time, additional investigation and therapy can be instituted, such as middle ear diagnostics, flushing, imaging, biopsy, foreign body removal.

Infection Treatment

• Parvovirus Infection Treatment
• Bacterial and Viral Infection Treatment
  Cats: can be by extension of infection through the Eustachian tube or as a result of a polyp through the ear drum. It might be associated with viral upper respiratory infection, as well as Mycoplasma and Bordetella, which are difficult to isolate. Bacterial infection often incites accumulation of pus and liquid exudates. Poor kitty.
• Ear Infection Treatment
  Concurrent external ear and middle ear infection frequently have different bacterial populations with different susceptibility to antibiotics.
• Anal Gland Infection Treatment

Chronic Condition Treatment

• Heart Disease Treatment
  What you would expect. Safe. Precise. Timely. ECG monitored. With constant evaluation of depth of anesthesia. Routine surgical procedures, such as spay (ovario-hysterectomy) and neuter (castration), as well as knee surgery, removal of tumors, treatment of abscesses. While considered routine, your operation is anything but routine to your pet and our most important patient. Usually in at 8:30 am and on the way home at 4:00 pm with medicine for soreness.

Emergency Care

• Wound and Fracture Care
  While all surgical procedures have risks, we take every possible precaution to make sure your pet has a successful and uneventful surgery. Post-operatively, the greatest risk to your pet is inflammation or infection of the incision site. To guard against this, we will give you wound care instructions.

Surgery

• Veterinary Surgery
  Most pets need some type of surgery during their lives, even if it’s just a spay or neuter procedure. A comprehensive veterinary care practice like ours can provide these services with uninterrupted, caring attention to your pet’s needs from the same veterinarian who handles routine care.
• Spaying and Neutering
  Spaying and neutering is an important part of being a responsible pet owner. Overpopulation is a very real problem that causes suffering for a lot of unwanted cats and dogs, and you can do your part by spaying and neutering your pets. Spaying and neutering also have positive effects on your pet’s overall health. We make the process as fast and easy as possible for your pet.

Lab and X-Rays

• Laboratory Services
  It is important to screen for heartworm and provide preventative medicine, because heartworm infections are often fatal! Heartworm is a parasitic worm spread by mosquitoes. Heartworm infections can remain dormant after infection for 6 months or longer, and the only effective way to screen for heartworm infection is with a blood test.
• X-Ray

General Pet Care

• Boarding
  A guilt-free vacation. While you are away, Fido will be exercised at least two to three times daily, fed the same food on the same schedule as home. He will be observed constantly and any concerns (appetite, gait, attitude, appearance) mentioned to the vet. In winter, the kennel floor is heated, and in summer the air is cooled.
• Grooming
  Everyone loves a day at the spa and our four legged friends are no different! No matter what time of year it is, it’s always nice to get a new hairdo and have a great bubble bath. Whether it’s a short do to keep cool in the summer or trimming up a long coat to stay warm in the winter, Stephanie can do it!