Enchanted Oak Animal Hospital

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Enchanted Oaks Animal Hospital has been serving Spring, Texas for over 20 years. Our veterinarians provide comprehensive medical, surgical and dental care for dogs, cats, and small pocket pets. Our staff is committed to compassionate and progressive care with a strong emphasis on preventive medicine. We believe that the best way to ensure your four-legged family members have a long and healthy life is through prevention and early detection of disease. We offer a wide range of veterinary services with this goal in mind. Semi-annual visits, vaccinations, heartworm and flea prevention, intestinal parasite control, routine blood tests, and dental services are all essential to your companions superior health. Please click on the services link to find out more about the services we offer. Thank you for visiting our site.

VetTalk

Wednesday, 09 February 2011 18:00 |

Written by Dr. Tony McCall |

Dental Disease

We talk a lot in our practice about dental disease in dogs and cats. Owners are often reluctant to schedule dental cleanings due to cost, anesthesic concerns, and the fact that many pets need cleanings done every 6-12 months. The frequency of dental cleaning varies from pet to pet depending on genetics, diet, and owner willingness to perform home care. I would like to address these 3 most common concerns a pet owner has for performing a dental cleaning.

The first concern is cost. While the actual cost for the routine cleaning is not much different from what we would pay for our own teeth to be cleaned, in veterinary medicine, we must also factor in the costs for bloodwork and anesthesia, since our pets won’t be still for the procedure to be done without anesthesia. At Enchanted Oaks, we always require bloodwork prior to any anesthetic procedure. This helps us identify any hidden problems that may adversely affect the anesthetic period. In addition, we monitor our patients with pulse oximetry, blood pressure, and EKG during procedures. Additionally, we have registered veterinary technicians performing the cleanings. All anesthetic protocols are ordered and under the direction of one of our doctors. While these all affect cost, we do not feel comfortable performing a procedure that requires anesthesia without these preoperative safeguards in place.

Anesthesia is the second factor that most concerns our clients. While anesthesia ALWAYS carries some risk, proper screening of patients preoperatively with bloodwork and a good physical exam significantly lowers this risk. Everyone has heard Dogs_at_dusk

stories about cases where anesthesia has resulted in the death of a pet. While this is always possible, the risks are minimal, especially compared to the da mage and discomfort that untreated dental disease can do to a pet. The newer anesthetics we now use are much safer, more effective, and have a shorter duration of effect than even the ones we were using only a few years ago. You can expect your pet to be under anesthesia for about an hour, as this is the time required to perform a quality dental prophy (cleaning).

Last Updated (Wednesday, 07 March 2012 05:31)

Health Tips For Cats...

Cat Health Tips...

Heartworms In Cats

Heartworms represent an increasingly recognized problem in cats. As in dogs, heartworms are transmitted by feeding mosquitoes and, once mature, take residence in the right side of the heart and the large vessels of the lungs. For cats, the prevalence of heartworm infection is directly related to the number of infected dogs in the area.

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You may also perform at-home checkups to see if your dog is healthy. Take your dog’s temperature by using a rectal thermometer. The normal temperature is between 100 and 102 degrees F.

Check the dog’s mucous membranes and make sure they are pink and moist.

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