Safe Holidays with your Pets

Holidays can be such a wonderful time with family and friends coming home. It can also be a time when holiday treats can easily end up unexpectedly ingested by the family pets. Please be especially careful with the following common holiday treats during the next couple months and seek medical attention if accidentally ingested: Chocolate can cause seizure and death … Read More

BirchBark Foundation

The holidays are a time of giving for people in our community. There are programs in place in our community for families and children, but there is also an incredible local organization helping provide medical care for family pets in need in our community as well. BirchBark Foundation is an organization helping to fill this need for over six years … Read More

Do You Brush your Dog’s Teeth?

It’s that time of year again at your veterinarian’s office where the smell of your pet’s breath is the number one topic. February is National Dental Health Month for Pets. Does your pet have stinky breath? Are his teeth more yellow-brown than pearly white? If so, he may be a part of the 80% of pets that show signs of … Read More

Is My Pet too Old for Anesthesia?

It’s a reasonable question, but one that’s increasingly less applicable to modern veterinary medicine. With advances in veterinary care, our pre-procedure screening, anesthetic drugs, techniques and monitoring tools are safer and more effective than ever before. Age itself is not a disease, however as our pets age the likelihood of developing a disease does increase. It is these diseases (known … Read More