How do I know if the food I'm giving my dog is making them sick? - Neighborhood Vets Mobile Care

If your dog throws up or has a loose stool after you feed them, or they have excessive gas or excessive salivation after eating, then you're probably giving them the wrong diet.

Can I feed my dog human food? - Neighborhood Vets Mobile Care

Truthfully, in my opinion, it's okay, but it should be only a supplement to your pet's complete and balanced diet. It's really important that the diet is complete and balanced, and adding things from your table is a nice treat, but it's no substitute for that complete and balanced diet.

How do I know what foods are toxic to dogs? - Neighborhood Vets Mobile Care

Grapes and raisins have been determined to be toxic to dogs. I guess they always have been, but now we actually know it, and some other foods are toxic to your dog, but grapes and raisins are the big ones that you need to be familiar with. There's a poison control center for dogs, so if you think your dog's gotten into something toxic, you can call the poison information center.

If my cat needs extractions, will pain medication be given? - Neighborhood Vets Mobile Care

Absolutely, yes. We know for sure in veterinary medicine that our patients recover much more quickly if we control their pain, so absolutely. We use pain control when they get their teeth pulled.

How long does a cat dental appointment take? - Neighborhood Vets Mobile Care

In our practice, usually about an hour and a half. We always take blood and do pre-anesthetic blood work before cleaning the teeth. With the sevoflurane that we use to maintain general anesthesia, they usually wake up really quickly, so they get to wake up in their home rather than in a clinic.

Will my cat be intubated to have cat dental work done? - Neighborhood Vets Mobile Care

Yes. We use sevoflurane anesthesia, and we administer that through an endotracheal tube that we place when we induce the anesthesia with an iv.

Who monitors my cat while on anesthesia? - Neighborhood Vets Mobile Care

In our case, it's my assistant and me, but we do that with electronic monitoring. Of course, we're watching your cat's breathing cycle and ensuring that his pulse oximetry is adequate, his EKG is doing well, his blood pressure is okay, and all that gets monitored electronically. So it's really safe, although it didn't used to be 48 years ago when I started.

Why does my cat need anesthesia for teeth cleaning? - Neighborhood Vets Mobile Care

I'm certain that all of you who are looking at this video have had your teeth cleaned at the dentist's. The reason for that is that a cat just won't allow us to put that piezoelectric dental scaler or a polisher with a grid on it to polish his teeth in his mouth. So that's why general anesthesia is required.

is there anything I can do to help my cat prepare for a dental appointment? - Neighborhood Vets Mobile Care

Not much. If we do your cat's dentistry, and we arrive at your driveway, you just have to bring them out to our van, and we do the whole procedure there. Our dental squeeze is behind the door behind me, and we'll take care of cleaning his teeth.

What common flea pesticides are toxic to cats? - Neighborhood Vets Mobile Care

Cats are sensitive to chemicals, but if you are using a prescription product made for cats, you don't really have any worries.

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