Veterinary Services

A wellness exam is a full physical. We check the eyes, ears, teeth, heart, lungs, skin, and joints, and carefully feel the abdomen. It is how we catch a heart murmur, a lump, or early dental disease months before it becomes an emergency, and where we compare weight and body condition against last year's notes.

Core vaccines protect against diseases that are serious, widespread, or required by law. For dogs that means rabies, leptospirosis, and the combination vaccine for distemper, parvovirus, and hepatitis. For cats it means rabies and the combination vaccine for feline distemper and upper respiratory viruses.

Lifestyle vaccines depend on what your pet actually does. A dog that goes to daycare, boarding, or the dog park benefits from protection against kennel cough and canine influenza. Cats that go outdoors or live with other cats may need feline leukemia. We will walk through the options at your visit rather than vaccinating for everything by default.

A proper dental cleaning happens under general anesthesia. During the cleaning we scale and polish every tooth, probe for pockets, and X-ray anything that looks suspicious. If a tooth is cracked, loose, or abscessed, we will call you before extracting it. Most pets go home the same afternoon and are eating normally by the next day.

Spay and neuter are the most common surgeries we perform, for dogs and cats of every size.

We also perform a wide range of soft-tissue and specialty surgeries in house, from mass and tumor removals, bladder stone removal, and wound repair to more advanced procedures. Every patient is monitored throughout, with pain control before, during, and after.

Our laboratory is inside the building. Blood chemistry, complete blood counts, urinalysis, and cytology are run on site, so in most cases we have results while you are still here and can start treatment the same day.

For anything we need to see, we have digital radiography and ultrasound in house. That covers broken bones, swallowed objects, heart and lung disease, and a look inside the abdomen for bladder stones, masses, or fluid.