Blog: General
Packing The Pets
Taking a dog or cat along on vacation seems like a big pain, if you ask me. They get airsick, carsick, lost, scared, denied admission to various facilities and downright stressed by the whole adventure. They can be exposed to exotic diseases, heatstroke, parasites, fungal infections, and stomach upset from...
Local Community Support
We are firm believers in the power and necessity of community support here at Hillcrest Animal Hospital. We have a long tradition of supporting local recreational children’s sports teams as well as a number of higher profile local charities (see our “cyclone” on the lower right corner of our homepage)....
Springtime Parasites – Ticks
There are numerous parasites that rear their ugly heads every spring. These include; fleas, ticks, roundworms, tapeworms, hookworms and whipworms. The earliest “risers” seasonally are the ticks. Ticks are referred to as “cold-weather parasites”. This is due to the fact that the seasons that they are most abundant in this...
Ipad Apps Go To The Dogs (And Cats)
When I turned my iPad into a squeaky toy for dogs, a little voice kept asking, “isn’t there something less than brilliant about this idea?” It was the same voice that nagged me about loading a cat toy game on the iPad, then turning our big tabby Clinck loose on...
