Category: Pets Clinic

Veterinarians are borrowing big to create palatial pet clinics

, 08/04/2023

Comment on this storyComment To start 2020, Morgan McDaniel fulfilled a lifelong dream: She bought her own veterinary practice, a financial leap that took a $4.5 million loan. Then the pandemic hit, as did America’s pet adoption boom. Cat and dog parents kept asking McDaniel’s Montgomery Animal Hospital in Pineville, La., for more services. Could it provide long-term care for a dog’s torn ACL? Did it offer overnight boarding? McDaniel decided she could, tacking on a $750,000 loan to expand her practice by more than two dozen doggy bedrooms, an exam room for specialty procedures and an artificial turf play…

Animal rescue group help spay and neuter Texarkana pets | Texarkana

, 03/04/2023

TEXARKANA, Ark. – Animal advocates are offering low-cost spay and neuter clinics to help combat the overpopulation of pets in the Texarkana area. Last year, the Arkansas side of the city passed an ordinance requiring pets to be spayed or neutered. The spay and neuter clinic not only helps prevent unwanted litters, or pets that get dumped and left behind, but animal advocates say it also improves or promotes the animal’s health. Friends Furrever, a local animal rescue group, is sponsoring the clinic at the Texarkana shelter. Volunteer Virginia Rice says the clinic is especially helpful for pet owners living…

ZooMiami’s search for plastic bottles includes crocodiles’ guts

, 30/03/2023

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – When a plastic bottle fell into the area where two endangered crocodiles, Leroy and Princess, live at ZooMiami, the fear of a potentially deadly digestive obstruction prompted veterinarians to act quickly. Award-winning photographer Ron Magill, a spokesman for the zoo, reported Wednesday that the Cuban crocodiles had to be sedated to undergo radiographs on Tuesday at the zoo’s animal hospital. “Over the years, everything from cell phones to sunglasses have been retrieved from the bellies of animals at the zoo, causing significant stress and in some cases, physical harm,” Magill wrote in a statement. In 2019,…

I work at a vets and some breeds should come with warning labels – from itching endlessly to always needing sedatives

, 29/03/2023

A VET assistant has revealed the warning labels certain dog breeds should come with – and it’s bad news if you’re looking to get a pit bull or bulldog. Isie also issued a warning to those hoping to bring a German shepherd home. 3 Isie took to TikTok to share the warning labels she thinks some popular dog breeds should come withCredit: TikTok/isie_xxiv 3 She warned pug owners that they would spend their lives cleaning out their dog’s ‘crevices’credit: Getty 3 While Husky fans were warned that their companion is high energy and may need sedativescredit: Getty In a new…

Salem Veterinarian charged with DUII after crash injured 1

, 22/03/2023

A Salem veterinarian has been charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants and attempting to elude a police officer following a collision Saturday that left a pedestrian seriously injured. Dr. Eric Raymond Webb, a small-animal vet at The Pet Clinic, was also charged with second-degree assault, failing to perform the duties of a driver to injured persons, and driving while suspended, according to court documents. The 26-year-old female pedestrian was taken by ambulance to Salem Hospital. She later was transferred to Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. Police received a report of a hit-and-run at about 8:30 pm…