Pet Wellness Services
At The Pet Clinic of Rocky Mount, we prioritize your pet’s health and well-being. Our comprehensive pet wellness services ensure your furry friends receive the best care throughout their lives. From preventive care to advanced treatments, our dedicated team is here to support you and your pets.
Pet Wellness Exams
Pets benefit greatly from regular wellness examinations. Since our pets age significantly faster than us, we recommend that all pets receive an examination at least once a year. Taking your pet to the veterinarian once a year is the same as if you were to see a doctor for an exam only once every 6 to 8 years. As they get older, more frequent examinations may be necessary.
During our wellness examination, we examine your pet’s heart and lung functions, joints, muscles, hearing, vision, and many other areas. Because so much can change with your pet’s physical health, a regular exam is a must to ensure your pet remains happy and healthy.
Types of Pet Wellness Services We Offer
Our pet wellness services in Rocky Mount, VA, cover a wide range of procedures to meet the diverse needs of your pets:
Pet Lifestage Wellness
Your pet’s health care needs change as they age. Puppies and kittens have health needs that are different from adult and senior pets.
We provide special Puppy and Kitten Wellness Packages that include nutrition counseling, preventive medicine, and behavioral training advice. These exams include diagnostic tests, nutritional counseling, and client education opportunities.
As puppies and kittens grow older, their health care needs change. Your pet enters their adult lives around the age of 2 and their senior years around the age of 7. Adult and senior pets start developing diseases such as heart disease, cancer, endocrine disease, and diabetes. Preventative healthcare is essential for seniors as many of these diseases can go unrecognized earlier in their lives.
You can minimize suffering in your senior pets, avoid unnecessary health risks, and prevent diseases with early detection. We recommend older pets be examined every 6 to eight 8 with complete diagnostic care, including a full laboratory screening.
Pet Vaccinations
Vaccinations are an essential factor in your pet’s preventative health care plan. We create vaccine protocols for your pet that revolve around their unique lifestyle and risk factors, as well as community regulations.
Puppy
One full year after the puppy vaccination series is completed, we recommend yearly vaccinations of Leptospira (a bacterial infection), Bordetella (a kennel cough), and Borrelia (Lyme disease) as needed. We also recommend yearly physical exams and vaccinations for rabies and DHPP (distemper, hepatitis, parvovirus, and parainfluenza), as recommended by our doctors.
Kitten
One full year after the kitten vaccination series is completed, we recommend yearly vaccinations of FeLV (Feline Leukemia Virus) as needed. We also recommend yearly physical exams and vaccinations for rabies and FVRCP (Feline Viral Rhinotracheitis) as recommended by our vets.
If you have any questions about what sort of vaccination protocol is right for your pet, please ask a staff member or veterinarian.
Pet Medical Care
We provide complete care for pets, including services in the areas of ophthalmology, dermatology, allergy, urology, gastroenterology, and hematology.
Our diagnostic services are always available to evaluate the needs of your pets. If your pet shows any signs of diarrhea, vomiting, lethargy, loss of appetite, seizures, weight loss, pale gums, or fever, please contact us to make an appointment.
Pet Parasite Prevention
Parasites can go from being an inconvenience to seriously damaging your pet’s health. Internal parasites (hookworms, heartworms, and roundworms) and external parasites (ticks and fleas) are common in pets. Some of these parasites can go from your pet to you or your family (zoonotic).
To stop parasites from harming your pets and family, prevention is necessary. We recommend routine exams and laboratory testing to screen for parasites. We carry many of the leading medications and preventative medicines, on-hand and available at our practice. We will help you determine which product will work best for your pet.
Pet Microchipping
To ensure that your pet returns home safely, ask us about microchipping. Microchipping is a safe and effective way to be reunited with your pet if they are lost or leave home.
Microchips are implanted into your pet’s skin during a process similar to vaccination. Each microchip is encoded with information about your pet that is tracked in a national database. Veterinary hospitals, clinics, and shelters across the country have special scanners that can detect and read the microchips. If your pet goes missing, their microchip is scanned, and the information is used to return your pet home safely.
Pet Pharmacy
Your pet’s medications can be filled right in our office! We carry an extensive inventory of veterinary pharmaceutical items, supplies, and medications. Save a trip and contact us today for your pet’s medication needs.
Pet Breeding Services
Pet Reproduction Planning
The Pet Clinic of Rocky Mount is able to assist pet owners in determining the optimum amount of time to breed your dogs and enhance the success of pregnancy if you’re looking to improve the conception rates in your breeding program.
We’re able to perform vaginal cytology on female dogs to calculate the stage of estrus. This involves taking a swab of the vaginal cells and analyzing them under a microscope. Another method is to perform a simple blood test to determine the luteinizing hormone (LH) surge and pinpoint your dog’s fertile period.
With these helpful tests, we’re able to rule out any potential problems or alert us of any issues that need to be addressed before the breeding process begins.
Pet Caesarean Section
Typically, most animals give birth without any issues or complications. However, there are times when mothers need additional help with their delivery. First, we attempt to resolve the problem using medical therapy, but if that doesn’t solve the problem, we will perform a caesarean section.
Pet Additional Services
Pet Veterinary Specialist Referrals
Our experienced team of veterinarians and vet techs are able to provide a number of services at our clinic, ranging from routine wellness check-ups to advanced procedures and surgeries. Although we have the ability to handle most of your pet’s medical and surgical needs, we occasionally refer our clients and their pets to a specialist when advanced training, equipment, or experience will be beneficial.
We make referral decisions because we want all of our patients to receive the highest standard of veterinary care. Please be assured that when we refer a patient to another hospital, we continue to stay involved with your pet’s care by communicating with the specialist and providing any necessary follow-up care, rehabilitation, instructions, and special notes.
Puppy Training and Behavioral Counseling
Our available training classes are able to teach your newly impressionable puppy basic manners, encourage good behavior, and increase socialization with people of all ages, all while helping you establish a strong and personal bond with your new companion.
If you’re concerned about a certain aspect of your pet’s behavior, please let us know. With advanced training, counter-conditioning, and other beneficial tools, we can modify your pet’s aggressive or inappropriate behavior. Please contact us for a consultation and more information if you’d like to speak with an expert.
Pet Boarding
We are happy to accommodate your pet with our boarding reservations, so you don’t have to worry about leaving your pet behind or relying on a friend or family member to care for it while you’re away. If your pet has any special needs, we’ll be happy to take care of them for you—please just let us know!
We provide clean bedding, food, and water bowls, but if you feel more comfortable bringing your own for your pet, feel free to do so. We also allow you to bring any toys or personal items you think that your pet will feel more comfortable with. We will also administer any needed medication and follow any specific feeding regimen your pet may have. If you’re interested, we can also provide grooming services.
Our veterinary technicians also regularly check on our boarded pets, as well as our kennel staff monitoring the area on a routine basis. If any medical emergency were to happen to your pet, rest assured that our staff will promptly begin the necessary treatment.
To keep all of our patients as healthy as possible, we require that the pets who are boarding with us have current rabies and distemper vaccinations, along with other species-specific vaccinations. Vaccinations are also required to be given at least two weeks before boarding to ensure the safety of all of our patients. Please call us for more information if you have any questions.
Pet Chemotherapy and Cancer Treatment
Treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery may be used to stop the spread of cancer in pets like dogs, cats, ferrets, and rabbits, where we’ll be able to remove or destroy the cancer cells and tumors. Regular veterinary visits can help us keep track of what is normal for your pet in terms of weight, personality, and behavior, as well as detect anything suspicious that may be going on. Unfortunately, your routine visits may only require your pets to come to us once or twice a year, so we need your help! Please contact us right away if you notice any dramatic changes in your pet’s physical appearance or behavior like lumps, bumps, sores, vomiting, diarrhea, changes in eating habits, dramatic mood spikes, and more.
Pet Grief Counseling
We understand how extremely upsetting it can be to lose a pet. Letting go of a pet is never easy when you work to create a strong, loving bond with them.
No matter if your loss is recent or you’ve been grieving for weeks, we’re here to help you in any way possible. Please don’t be afraid to contact us if you’re grieving – we’re here to help.