Small Animals
The following outlines the different aspects of creating and ensuring wellness in your pet at the different life stages in their lives.
Keeping your adult pet healthy is an important part of our mission, but it requires participation from you, the owner and caretaker. Keeping your pet healthy for the long haul requires diligence in several areas.
1) The Annual Physical Exam. Remember, an "annual" exam for your pet is often the equivalent of a 5-7 year interval for yourself ! A thorough physical exam is one of the most important things we do to help you keep your pet healthy and happy. Often, pets don't show obvious signs of disease until the problem is well advanced. An exam will be done that can uncover such problems as dental disease, cataracts, ear infections, heart murmurs, abdominal masses, and pain or disease of the joints.
Keeping your adult pet healthy is an important part of our mission, but it requires participation from you, the owner and caretaker. Keeping your pet healthy for the long haul requires diligence in several areas.
1) The Annual Physical Exam. Remember, an "annual" exam for your pet is often the equivalent of a 5-7 year interval for yourself ! A thorough physical exam is one of the most important things we do to help you keep your pet healthy and happy. Often, pets don't show obvious signs of disease until the problem is well advanced. An exam will be done that can uncover such problems as dental disease, cataracts, ear infections, heart murmurs, abdominal masses, and pain or disease of the joints.
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2) Vaccinations. Keeping vaccines current is an inexpensive way to prevent common contagious diseases. In Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, rabies vaccines is to be given yearly, and the additional recommended vaccines are also yearly.
3) Parasite preventatives at the correct dosages and intervals. Preventable disease doesn't just stop with vaccines. Heartworms are a common local killer spread by mosquitos. Fleas and ticks can carry several diseases and can cause skin issues as well. Intestinal parasite control is also very important as some of these are zoonotic (contractible by people). |
4) Spaying (females)/neutering(males) surgical procedure performed under general anesthesia to remove the reproductive organs to prevent pregnancy. The age of the patient is determined by breed or weight recommendations. Speak to your veterinarian for further information and age of neutering recommendations.
Yearly vaccinations for Cats
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Yearly vaccinations for Dogs
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