The safety of your pet is always our main concern. Our anesthesia safety sheet reviews the precautions we take so your pet has a safe anesthesia experience. Please print out to review and contact us if you have any questions.

Routine surgeries are performed here on a daily basis, and make up the vast majority of surgeries performed here. The most common surgeries we perform are spays and neuterings. Some other routine surgeries include feline front declaws, abscesses and wound treatments. While the patient is here we also check and clean their ears, clip toe nails, check for fleas and ticks, and give dogs a bath as part of their surgery visit.

Orthopedics is a specialized field that includes fracture repair, cruciate ligament repair, patellar (knee) surgery and hip surgery. Orthopedic surgeries are usually followed up by rehabilitation work done both here and at home to return the patient to as normal function as possible. One method of fracture repair we use is called an interlocking nail which is permanently placed in a leg to stabilize it.

Soft tissue surgeries include mass removals, both internal and external, exploratories, organ removal and caesarean sections. Masses can be anything from benign fatty growths (lipoma) to a malignant tumor (such as mast cell tumors). Our doctors perform organ removal surgeries including thyroidectomies and splenectomies.

Laser surgery is improving surgeries for our patients. The benefits of using the laser include when cutting the tissue it sears nerve endings causing a reduction in post operative pain, and it also sears closed blood vessels resulting in less bleeding. The surgical laser is different from other lasers because it does not burn anything, instead it evaporates water from the area it is directed at causing the local cells to evaporate. We use the laser for all declaws now. Cats are now more comfortable and bleed less post operatively. Other procedures it is sometimes used in include spays and neuters, mass removals and some orthopedic surgeries. Another use of the laser is for gingevectomy. This is the removal of overgrown gum tissue from around the teeth.