Is your pet healthy as a horse, or really sick as a dog? Dr. Windy’s shows why it is important to have regular medical care for our pets

Pet Wellness Care

• There’s a lot more than just shots, or “he’s mostly inside, he’s fine.”

History

• What kind of lifestyle does your pet have?
• Home body?
• Traveller?
• Indoors, outdoors, dog parks, groomers, camping, etc.
• Food habits, activities, what do you notice at home about your pet?

REGULAR EXAMS:

• These may vary from annually to every 6 months, to every 3 or 4 if they have a specific health problem. Many more things that can happen to a pet than fights and infectious diseases.
• Combine what you observe at home with what we can see, touch, hear. (Exam stats for wellness care)
• Common and Usual do not equal Normal

Preventive Care

• _Vaccinations:
• Preventable diseases, some are zoonotic! Rabies still required by law in many states, even for your indoor only cat!
• Parasite preventives: Yes, even your indoor cat. Heartworm, zoonoses!

Nutritional Management

• Obesity, unbalanced or low quality foods, lower their risk for a dozen diseases.
• Dental Care
• Behavioral Development

Early Detection Screening

• Fecal test, heartworm, bloodwork, urine, rads, etc. age and breed specific (large breed dogs and hips and stifles, cats kidneys,etc)
• Organ reserves, hard wired cats and dogs predator/scavenger instincts

What we can’t see on a physical or at home:

• It is always cheaper and easier and more successful to find problems early and small.

Owner Education

• Why do we need to do these things?
• Learn about the problems, diseases that can happen (feline heartworm, etc)
• Baselines, subclinical problems:
• What do we do about it if we find a problem?
• How do I maximize my pet’s longevity AND comfort/quality of life?
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