Comprehensive Exams
|
Our team believes that preventative care plays an essential role in providing a long and happy life to our companion animals . A comprehensive physical exam can help to detect signs of illness or disease, and monitor your pets response to treatment.
Our veterinarians perform an examination of your pet from nose to tail! They will observe your pets coat and skin for any abnormalities, as well as their eyes, ears, mouth, teeth, and gums, check their lymph nodes for any abnormalities, listen to their heart and lungs, check their growth and development, assess their weight and overall health. |
|
Vaccinations
Your pet depends on your protection in many ways. The common things they need are shelter, food, water, exercise and love. However, diseases spread by other animals are an ever-present threat to the health of your pet. Vaccines offered at Hanover Park Animal Care Center, are only vaccines that pets in our area may need due to environment and what they can be exposed to.
Canines
DHLPP: This vaccine is for canine distemper, parvovirus, hepatitis and leptospirosis. These diseases are typically spread by dogs, foxes, coyotes, raccoons and rodents.
Rabies: This viral disease is fatal for dogs and cats. Rabies is almost always transmitted via the bite of a rabid animal (often a skunk, raccoon, fox or bat).
Bordetella: This vaccine is for an upper respiratory infection that is highly contagious between dogs. Bordetella is commonly referred to as kennel cough, but can effect dogs in daycare settings, grooming, dog parks, and even puppy playdates.
Canine Influenza: In March 2015, a breakout of Canine Influenza hit the Chicagoland area. Since Influenza spores are viable on surfaces up to 24 hours, this enabled Canine Influenza to spread quickly amongst the canine community. Canine Influenza effects the upper respiratory system in dogs and in a majority of cases where the pet was not vaccinated, results were fatal.
Lyme: This vaccine is for the prevention of Lyme disease, which is carried/transmitted by tick bites. Our Lyme vaccine offers protection from 2 proteins ticks expose dogs to when bitten.
Felines
Vaccines are important for both inside and outside cats.
FVRCP: This vaccine protects against rhinotracheitis, calicivirus, chlamydia and panleukopenia which are transmitted by saliva, mucus and other secretions of acutely ill cats.
Feline Leukemia: The feline leukemia virus can infect cats by saliva or nasal discharge, biting, or sharing food and water dishes.
Rabies: Rabies is mainly transmitted through the bite wounds of infected mammals and is highly contagious.
If you have questions about vaccines or general pet care tips, feel free to give us a call!
Canines
DHLPP: This vaccine is for canine distemper, parvovirus, hepatitis and leptospirosis. These diseases are typically spread by dogs, foxes, coyotes, raccoons and rodents.
Rabies: This viral disease is fatal for dogs and cats. Rabies is almost always transmitted via the bite of a rabid animal (often a skunk, raccoon, fox or bat).
Bordetella: This vaccine is for an upper respiratory infection that is highly contagious between dogs. Bordetella is commonly referred to as kennel cough, but can effect dogs in daycare settings, grooming, dog parks, and even puppy playdates.
Canine Influenza: In March 2015, a breakout of Canine Influenza hit the Chicagoland area. Since Influenza spores are viable on surfaces up to 24 hours, this enabled Canine Influenza to spread quickly amongst the canine community. Canine Influenza effects the upper respiratory system in dogs and in a majority of cases where the pet was not vaccinated, results were fatal.
Lyme: This vaccine is for the prevention of Lyme disease, which is carried/transmitted by tick bites. Our Lyme vaccine offers protection from 2 proteins ticks expose dogs to when bitten.
Felines
Vaccines are important for both inside and outside cats.
FVRCP: This vaccine protects against rhinotracheitis, calicivirus, chlamydia and panleukopenia which are transmitted by saliva, mucus and other secretions of acutely ill cats.
Feline Leukemia: The feline leukemia virus can infect cats by saliva or nasal discharge, biting, or sharing food and water dishes.
Rabies: Rabies is mainly transmitted through the bite wounds of infected mammals and is highly contagious.
If you have questions about vaccines or general pet care tips, feel free to give us a call!
Preventative Lab Work / Diagnostics
In addition to a comprehensive exam and vaccines, annual labwork is recommeneded to check your pet for heartworm and intestinal parasites.
Cats and dogs are commonly exposed to hookworms, whipworms, tapeworms and roundworms through other animals feces. We recommend testing your pet for internal parasites once per year. For dogs, check to see if your pet's monthly heartworm preventative has a dewormer that covers these intestinal parasites.
Every dog should have a heartworm test done once per year.
Heartworm disease is a serious and potentially fatal disease in pets in the United States and many other parts of the world. It is caused by foot-long worms (heartworms) that live in the heart, lungs and associated blood vessels of affected pets, causing severe lung disease, heart failure and damage to other organs in the body. Heartworm disease affects dogs, cats and ferrets, but heartworms also live in other mammal species, including wolves, coyotes, foxes, sea lions and—in rare instances—humans. Because wild species such as foxes and coyotes live in proximity to many urban areas, they are considered important carriers of the disease.
Heartworm treatment is costly and as the heartworm disease itself progresses it takes a significant toll on your pet.
It cost just as much to treat a dog for heartworm as it does to give them a preventative year round, for 12 years!
Cats and dogs are commonly exposed to hookworms, whipworms, tapeworms and roundworms through other animals feces. We recommend testing your pet for internal parasites once per year. For dogs, check to see if your pet's monthly heartworm preventative has a dewormer that covers these intestinal parasites.
Every dog should have a heartworm test done once per year.
Heartworm disease is a serious and potentially fatal disease in pets in the United States and many other parts of the world. It is caused by foot-long worms (heartworms) that live in the heart, lungs and associated blood vessels of affected pets, causing severe lung disease, heart failure and damage to other organs in the body. Heartworm disease affects dogs, cats and ferrets, but heartworms also live in other mammal species, including wolves, coyotes, foxes, sea lions and—in rare instances—humans. Because wild species such as foxes and coyotes live in proximity to many urban areas, they are considered important carriers of the disease.
Heartworm treatment is costly and as the heartworm disease itself progresses it takes a significant toll on your pet.
It cost just as much to treat a dog for heartworm as it does to give them a preventative year round, for 12 years!
