We value the importance of a thorough physical exam and listening to your concerns. It is our opportunity to discuss your concerns and any changes in your pet’s health, assess their nutrition, supplements, environment, and well-being. As our friend’s age, we recommend more frequent opportunities to discuss and make proactive decisions for your pets.

We utilize not only in-house lab testing for immediate concerns but our reference lab for early detection lab work, chronic disease monitoring, thyroid testing, infectious disease screening, and heartworm screening. While our physical exam is vital, we rely on lab work to tell us the things that we cannot see with our physical alone. We recommend screening all senior animals over 10 years old for common conditions on an annual and biannual basis and larger and giant breed dogs starting at 5-7 years old.

We have a progressive and individualized approach to every pets vaccine and titer recommendations. We will discuss recommendations with you based on your pets lifestyle, focusing on the safety of your pet most of all.

Acupuncture has been used in veterinary medicine around the world in probably every species of animal. Clinical research has shown positive results in both animals and humans. Acupuncture involves the insertion of tiny needles into specific points of the body to produce a healing response by stimulating that spot. It is most known to help with pain, but can be used to treat many disease conditions like allergies, anxiety, airway disease, and disk disease. Dr Hutchings is a certified acupuncturist though the Chi Institute and not only offers dry needling but also utilizes electroacupuncture, moxa treatment, and aquapuncture, which is the injection of things like Vitamin B, as indicated.

Cold laser is a safe, effective way to help with painful conditions and wound healing. It is well tolerated by animals and can help with conditions like disk disease, arthritis, lick granulomas, and other chronic conditions.

We offer house call appointments for routine things like physical examinations, vaccinations, lab work, and blood pressures. It can be a more comfortable experience for cats, anxious dogs, or when it is physically challenging to get your pet into the car and to the clinic.