Small Animal Services

From the first visit and throughout their entire life, we’ll be there to provide the absolute best care for your pet. Our pet preventive health care measures can maximize the fullness of that life both in terms of what your pet can do and for how long.

These visits include:

• Physical Exams: A thorough physical exam of your to evaluate your pet’s eyes, mouth, ears, heart/lung sounds, joints, skin, and more.
• Vaccinations: Our team will perform a risk assessment of your pet to determine the best protection plan for your pet. Outside of our core vaccine recommendations for puppies and kittens, each animal may have different needs based on its environment and lifestyle. Indoor/Outdoor status, hiking, hunting, travel, grooming, shows, and training can all affect our recommendations. Our veterinarians will work with you to develop a comprehensive vaccination schedule to protect your pet.
• Health Screening: Dogs and cats are very good at masking illness. Disease may be present in dogs and cats that appear healthy. If a disease can be detected before a dog or cat is showing signs of illness, steps can often be taken to manage or correct the problem before permanent damage occurs.

Emergencies happen–no one can predict or plan for them. If something emergent happens during business hours, they are a priority and our team will is here to help and advise of the best course of action. When the clinic is closed, a call to our main number will give you the best number to reach the doctor on call. Critically ill or injured pets will be seen as time and staffing allow or you will be advised on the best course of action at home or with another veterinary facility.

We’re pleased to be able to process a wide array of diagnostic laboratory tests with our in-house laboratory. It is difficult to see your pet in pain or suffering and not know what’s wrong. Our team provides in house diagnostics to help us learn what’s wrong and provide an accurate diagnosis. A quicker diagnosis leads to quicker treatment! We maintain relationships with multiple veterinary diagnostic labs and specialists to select the best tests to reach the fastest answers for your pets.

Parasites and the illnesses they can cause can be prevented with proper medications and maintenance.

Fleas are small, jumping insects that live off of the blood of animals. They can carry dangerous diseases and will often cause severe itching from allergic dermatitis in our pets. Even indoor or mostly indoor pets can be at risk of us carrying in a hitchhiker and starting an infestation. The best defense against fleas is with a consistent regimen of preventative medications for all animals in the household. In fact, it can often take a few months to break the flea’s entire life-cycle in the environment with consistent treatment. Most home remedies do very little or nothing.

Ticks are another blood-feeding external parasite that can transmit diseases such as Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever to us and our pets.

Our doctors view the disease caused by Heartworms as the most dangerous, and easily preventable, risk to our pets. Common mosquitoes serve as carriers and infect our pets with immature heartworms when they bite them. Control can be reliably achieved by giving your pet a monthly heartworm preventative, such as Heartgard. This prescription-only product effectively removes all baby heartworms from your pet every month, before they can increase in number and become dangerous adults.

Internal parasites, such as roundworms, hookworms, whipworms, tapeworms, giardia, lungworms and coccidia. These bothersome critters can be diagnosed with fecal exams and prevented with dewormers and preventatives included in the monthly heartworm preventatives. Working with you, we will develop a prevention plan based on your pet’s unique risks.