Enchanted Oaks Animal Hospital has been serving Spring, Texas for 20 years. Our veterinarians provide comprehensive medical, surgical and dental care for cats, dogs and small pocket pets. Our staff is committed to compassionate and progressive care with a strong focus on preventative medicine.  We believe that the best way to ensure your four-legged family members have a long and healthy life is through disease and parasite prevention and early detection of chronic illensses.   We offer a wide range of veterinary services with this goal in mind. Semi-annual visits, vaccinations, heartworm and flea prevention and routine blood tests 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.

Canine Distemper Virus:

Many of us have heard over the years about canine distemper virus. Canine distemper virus is an RNA virus from the morbillivirus family. In humans, measles is caused by a member of this virus family. Distemper virus is more likely to affect puppies than older dogs. This is probably due immunity acquired through canine distemper virus vaccination or exposure to the virus naturally, leading to immunity. It can affect dogs of any age, though. It causes variable clinical signs which makes ruling it out in a sick dog a difficult process. In some dogs a transient fever, perhaps accompanied by a lack of appetite or mild depression may be the only signs of onset of distemper. Other dogs are affected by a systemic illness with nasal and ocular discharges, coughing, fever, depression, lack of appetite, vomiting and diarrhea. It is not uncommon for dogs to have some but not all signs associated with this disease.