Cats are a big part of our veterinary practice and have unique diseases, health concerns, and nutritional needs. Advances in recent years concerning proper nutrition, diabetes management, dentistry and pain management have greatly benefited our ability to help your cat live a healthy and comfortable life.
We conduct thorough history-taking, examinations, and in-house diagnostic testing for many conditions. For more complex conditions, samples are sent for more in-depth diagnostics. With this approach and support we are able to diagnose, treat, or manage diseases of our cat patients.
Until recently, there were very limited pain management options for cats. However, recent research has resulted in the development of protocols for the use of drugs previously used in other species to now be used safely and effectively in cats. It was discovered that we only needed to understand how cats metabolize the drugs and what the appropriate dosing should be. Now we can provide much greater comfort to our feline patients after surgery or dental procedures, as well as for those cats suffering from arthritis or wherever long-term pain management is needed.
Cats are carnivores meaning they stricly eat meat in nature. Traditionally we have fed them a diet that has too many carbohydrates, causing obesity. Consequently, obesity can result in diabetes, arthritis, neuropathies (painful, cranky cats), and urinary trat issues. Therefore new diets have been developed to provide the proper nutrition for the specific needs of feline health and with various lifestyles and health conditions. This has been very helpful especially in the area of managing diabetes mellitus.
Proper oral care is important to the health of cats. Cats are prone to oral inflammatory conditions (stomatitis) and cavitation lesions on the neck of a tooth. Both conditions are painful and serious problems that we can treat or manage as part of dental care.
Cats can develop various skin conditions that may be caused by infectious parasites like fleas, mites, ticks or lice, as well as allergies. Ear infections are also very common. We can diagnose most conditions by examination and testing to help these patients.
Man's best friend and companion. We offer many services for your canine pals, and the following is just a sampling.
Regular wellness exams are recommended to monitor the health of your dog throughout its life.
We are capable and prepared to perform a wide variety of surgical services for our patients. We provide surgery for spaying and neutering, injury repair, tumor removal, intestinal and many bone and joint abnormalities.
There are many times when our patients experience pain including traumatic events, arthritis, in conjunction with a disease, or after a surgical or dental procedure. We have many options currently available to provide comfort for our patient, depending on the condition and level of pain and expected duration of the pain, we will also tailor the therapy based on the wellness of each patient and concerns of the owner.
We can assist you with breeding, timing and insemination as well as pregnancy evaluations, delivery, and if necessary, ceasarian section surgeries.
In addition to wellness diets, we carry diets specifically to aid in the management of many illnesses ranging from heart disease, diabetes, pancreatitis, colitis, kidney disease, aging, arthritis, and obesity.
Oral health and proper care of the teeth and gums can be vital to the health, comfort and life span of dogs. Starting as a puppy with ocncern for tooth alignment and proper permanent tooth eruption and baby tooth shedding to tartar and periodontal disease in adult and aging pets, we will help maintain and treat dental conditions an dperform maintenance care. We have a dedicated small animal dental suite to accomodate the dental needs of our patients. Post dental pain relief and antibiotics are used appropriate to services provided. Home maintenance options are available and encourage to help the owner with providing good dental care.
Dogs are prone to getting ear infections and we can help! Through our history-taking, exams, and some simple diagnostic testing, we can diagnose and treat most ear infections. Skin allergies can also be the root cause of your dogs ear problems and we can provide management for these cases.
Skin diseases are quite common in dogs, and we can diagnose and then either treat or manage most skin diseases.
Emergencies
We are available 24 hours a day for emergencies. If you have an after-hours emergency, call our normal phone number: (541) 567-1138. We can also travel, so don't hesitate to call or come in!
