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ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS
Dr. Cooper and the staff at Shadow Lake Animal Hospital cannot stress enough the importance of annual physicals, which may include blood testing, blood pressure monitoring, laboratory tests and preventive treatments to better ensure your pet's well being. Some pets with chronic diseases or conditions or who are on certain medications require more frequent checkups. For senior pets, those cats and dogs age seven and older, health check-ups twice a year are strongly recommended. As our pets age the likelihood of acquiring or developing a condition or disease increases greatly.
It is even more important to keep close tabs on how the organ systems are functioning since physical symptoms of a disease or condition can sometimes be very subtle. Pets can support life with as little as 20% of their kidneys functioning. When they reach that point there is little that can be done to stop or reverse the problem. Blood testing to evaluate the performance of the heart, thyroid function, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, hematologic and immune systems can be done in a prophylactic manner to avoid major consequences of serious health problems. If a problem is detected and it is early in course, sometimes a simple thing such as a diet change may deter worsening of a condition.
Dr. Cooper performs a complete head to tail physical and in addition, your pet's comfort level and will make any necessary supplement recommendations. Modern medicine has provided us with a number of medications that relieve the painful symptoms of some of these problems.
We also offer several types of Value Packages that are for puppies, kittens, annual visits for pets 1 year and older, and pets with certain problems, aimed to target both routine visits and specific health care needs at significant savings
As an AAHA (American Animal Hospital Association) member, we must meet a high standard of veterinary care. Shadow Lake Animal Hospital is equipped with state of the art technology to perform laboratory tests, radiologic evaluations, electrocardiograms and blood pressure monitoring. AAHA requires member hospitals to meet and maintain more than 900 standards of care in all aspects of the veterinary practice in order to maintain their accreditation with them. Ask us about our AAHA accreditation and how it affects your pet.
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