Preventative care is the most important thing you can do to ensure your pet keeps living the good life. However, it goes much further than simply keeping up with regular vaccines. Thorough annual examinations detect abnormalities before they start obviously impacting your pet’s quality of life. Regular bloodwork lets us catch illnesses before they show up on exam, giving us more options for treating the issue and a better outcome. Combined with proper nutrition and vaccinations, we can keep your pet happy and active longer and you can feel better knowing your pet is healthy.

Vaccines are an important way to prevent often fatal contagious diseases by training your pet’s immune system so it is ready if they are exposed to a certain disease. As your local clinic, our vaccine recommendations are appropriate for this area, and not another city. We are able to tailor a protocol to best protect your pet based on discussions with immunologists and the risk levels of vaccine-preventable diseases in the area. By partnering with us for all your pet’s life, we can further tailor their preventative medicine. The end result is more quality time with your pet.

You want your new bundle of joy to have the best life can offer, and we want to make it easier for you to provide that! We offer a preventative care package for new puppies and kittens that includes everything they need to stay healthy during the first year of life:
      • Three veterinary visits to keep a close eye on your new furry family member and make sure they are growing and developing properly. If any issues do arise, early intervention leads to a much better prognosis.
      • Initial vaccinations plus two boosters to ensure long-lasting immunity. Puppies and kittens who do not receive enough booster vaccines never develop long-term immunity. Packages include the following vaccines against life-threatening illnesses:
        • Puppies: Distemper, Parvovirus, Parainfluenza, Infectious Canine Hepatitis, Bordetella, Leptospirosis, Rabies
        • Kittens: Rhinotracheitis, Calicivirus, Panleukopenia, Feline Leukemia Virus (screening test and vaccine included), Rabies
      • Comprehensive parasite prevention
        1. Intestinal parasites
        2. Ear mites (kittens)
        3. Heartworm
        4. Ticks (puppies)
      • Free toothbrush and dental care lessons
And…to make sure you have a little left over for puppy classes, that luxury cat tree, or the “must-have” puppy shirt, our puppy/kitten packs include a generous 20% savings on the above services, as well as a 10% savings on your little one’s spay or neuter.

With growing dewormer resistance in parasites, it is no longer good enough to simply rotate dewormers. We need to know if your pet actually needs to be dewormed, which worms are present and which dewormer works. By performing in-house fecal tests, we can quickly tell whether or not your pet needs to be dewormed – and it’s a simple as bringing in a fresh sample of poop you’ve already picked up!

Proper preventative care for your pet goes beyond regular vaccines and deworming. Did you know that the Similkameen valley has been considered a high-risk area for heartworm for several years now? Did you know that ticks in the Princeton area can cause both Lyme disease and Tick Paralysis? Did you know that you can keep your pets safe from these often fatal diseases just by giving them a flavoured monthly chew? Ask us about a preventative program today!

The early stages of chronic disease are the most treatable. Unfortunately, because our pets can’t tell us exactly how they feel, chronic disease goes unnoticed until it has progressed. This doesn’t need to be the case – we can detect early changes on a few routine tests while your pet is in for their regular check-up! And by catching problems early, treatment is more successful, less invasive, and less expensive. Which means we can keep your fur-friend happy, healthy, and loving life for much longer! We can test and have results in minutes to tell if there are any problems with most of your pet’s body, including the heart, kidneys, liver, thyroid, pancreas, and more. Routine screens can also detect early changes from cancer that cannot yet be detected on physical exam. When should you have your pet tested? It’s a good idea to run a few tests sometime shortly after your dog or cat reaches adulthood, usually around age 2. While there’s a good chance (at least we hope!) your pet is still healthy, this test provides a baseline of what’s “normal” for your pet to refer back to later in life and identify health trends and catch any changes. When your pet starts to hit middle age (around 7 years old for most breeds), just like us they often develop problems such as heart disease or diabetes, and an annual blood panel is recommended to catch any issues early.

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