Preventive care is the cornerstone of your pet's health

What is preventive care?

Preventive care is the practice of identifying disease EARLY in a pet's life. 
Preventive care medicine has 5 goals for your pet:

• Identify disease early, before it advances to the stage of causing clinical signs
• Improving the chance of CURE for a disease
• Improving quality of life and life span by treating early
• Reducing costs associated with treating advanced disease
• Establishing a normal baseline for healthy pets

Why is preventive care important?

Pets age approximately 5 to 7 times faster than humans do.

Disease is often insidious and can become well advanced before obvious signs in our pets. 

To add to that, pets are instinctually hard-wired to hide signs of disease, resulting in late diagnosis where treatment is costly and less likely to be effective. 
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Preventive testing is critical in identifying disease early, to allow successful management and in some cases, cure. 

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What to expect during your pet's annual health appointment:

• A full history on your pet's day to day health, including travel history and exercise
• A complete nose to tail physical examination, including a dental examination and body condition assessment
• Discussion on parasite protection (for your pet and also for family members, since some of these parasites can be transmitted to people)
• Preventive screening recommendation - we recommend that all pet's (healthy or otherwise) are screened for common diseases (including infectious diseases). We recommend you bring a fresh urine and fecal sample to every annual health appointment.