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Ensure Your Pet's Health with Our Wellness Plans

Our Wellness Plans are essential for maintaining your pet’s overall health. A comprehensive wellness approach ensures your pet lives the longest, healthiest, and happiest life possible. We are committed to providing top-quality, compassionate care throughout your pet’s life.

While any veterinarian can diagnose advanced diseases, the true art of medicine lies in identifying conditions before they become problematic. Wellness exams are an effective way to monitor your pet’s health, allowing us to detect potential issues early.

Our goal is to enhance your pet’s quality of life and longevity. The best way to ensure your pet enjoys a long, healthy, and happy life is through affordable and comprehensive annual physical exams. As new technology becomes available, we expand our care to utilize the most effective tools for your pet’s comfort and well-being.

Our extensive packages include lab and diagnostic services, all performed in-house to reduce costs. This state-of-the-art equipment allows us to complete thorough workups while you wait. We recommend exploring our annual wellness packages before health concerns arise, as we often detect and treat conditions that might otherwise go unnoticed, preventing future complications.

We are pleased to offer two options for canine and feline Wellness Plans: Comprehensive and Standard.

Our Standard Wellness Plan includes a complete blood analysis, electrocardiogram, urine analysis, intestinal and blood parasite screen, video otoscope, vaccinations and physical exam. See the full plan description below.

  • Full examination your pet’s teeth, throat, and oral cavity
  • Convenient administering of vaccinations, including Rabies, Feline Distemper, and Feline Leukemia (All annual)
  • Check your pet’s vision and examine the eyes
  • Conduct a fiber optic exam of your pet’s ears for signs of infection, ear mites, allergic reactions, and other related health issues
  • Examine your pet’s respiratory system
  • Assess your pet’s heart and evaluate cardiac function, ECG (Electrocardiogram)
  • Examine your pet’s lymph nodes and abdomen
  • Examine your pet’s joints and muscles for arthritis and other orthopedic conditions
  • Assess changes in your pet’s body weight, appetite, urination, and bowel habits
  • Examine your pet’s skin for unusual growth developments
  • Conduct FELV-FIV combo test for feline leukemia/feline AIDS (Cats)
  • Conduct blood parasite screen which checks for Heartworms and Tick-Borne Diseases (Dogs)
  • Comprehensive Blood Profile to examine the function of internal organs
  • Complete Blood Count
  • Assess and evaluate general or specific changes in your pet’s health since the last wellness visit
  • Discuss preventive techniques with you, the pet owner
  • Collect and examine fecal samples for signs of deadly parasitic infestations
  • Collect urine samples for signs of infection, diabetes, or kidney disease
  • Evaluate your pet for repetitive licking or biting in one area
  • Assess your pet’s hair/fur and check for matting
  • Inquire about your pet’s regular activity level
  • Demonstrate to you, the pet owner, how to administer at-home medication
  • Engage you, the pet owner, in conversation and answer your questions and concerns

The Comprehensive Wellness Plan goes one step further by including an Abdominal and Cardiac Ultrasound in addition to the items below. Regular Ultrasound examinations allow doctors to visualize the health of internal body organs and observe changes over time.

  • Full examination of your pet’s teeth, throat, and oral cavity
  • Convenient administering of vaccinations, including Rabies, Feline Distemper, and Feline Leukemia (All annual)
  • Check your pet’s vision and examine the eyes
  • Conduct a fiber optic exam of your pet’s ears for signs of infection, ear mites, allergic reactions, and other related health issues
  • Examine your pet’s respiratory system Assess your pet’s heart and evaluate cardiac function, ECG (Electrocardiogram)
  • Examine your pet’s lymph nodes and abdomen
  • Examine your pet’s joints and muscles for arthritis and other orthopedic conditions
  • Assess changes in your pet’s body weight, appetite, urination, and bowel habits
  • Examine your pet’s skin for unusual growth developments Conduct a FELV-FIV combo test for feline leukemia/feline AIDS (Cats)
  • Conduct a blood parasite screen which checks for Heartworms and Tick-Borne Diseases (Dogs)
  • Comprehensive Blood Profile to examine the function of internal organs
  • Complete Blood Count
  • Assess and evaluate general or specific changes in your pet’s health since the last wellness visit
  • Discuss preventive techniques with you, the pet owner
  • Collect and examine fecal samples for signs of deadly parasitic infestations
  • Collect urine samples for signs of infection, diabetes, or kidney disease
  • Evaluate your pet for repetitive licking or biting in one area
  • Assess your pet’s hair/fur and check for matting
  • Inquire about your pet’s regular activity level
  • Demonstrate to you, as the pet owner, how to administer at-home medication
  • Engage you, as the pet owner, in conversation and answer your questions and concerns
  • Cardiac and Abdominal Ultrasounds

 

We highly recommend that a Cardiac and Abdominal Ultrasound be conducted during your pet’s wellness exam. Why? For early detection of potentially life-threatening conditions that are not found during bloodwork, physical exam, or pet history.

Patient: 10 year old, Male, Terrier Mix

Symptoms: Coughing, Fainting, Lethargy

After a physical examination, it was determined a cardiac ultrasound was indicated.

This ultrasound showed an enlarged heart resulting from a diseased Mitral Valve.

This 5-minute procedure did not require anesthesia or sedation.

The patient was prescribed cardiac medications.

Follow-up: Patient’s stamina and activity level significantly improved. Cough decreased. The patient’s quality of life was restored.


Call us at (512) 288-1040 today to schedule an appointment for your cat or dog.

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