Phone: 604-532-7600
#101A - 19475 Fraser Highway
Surrey, British Columbia
EXAMINATIONS: The importance of routine physical exams cannot be overlooked. This veterinarian-performed procedure is valuable to both the pets as well as the owners. Problems can be discovered during a physical exam in apparently healthy pets. The findings of the examination give the veterinarian the necessary information needed to assess your pets' health status. The veterinarian will then make recommendations for any required treatment and any preventive health care procedures such as vaccines.
CANINE VACCINATIONS:
BORDETELLA (Kennel Cough): Both viral and bacterial causes of kennel cough are spread through the air by infected dogs sneezing and coughing. It can also spread through contact with contaminated surfaces and through direct contact. It is highly contagious, even days or weeks after symptoms disappear. Symptoms begin usually 3 to 5 days after exposure.
CORONA VIRUS: The canine coronavirus causes mild gastrointestinal disease, which causes vomitting and diarrhea. Puppies are particularly susceptible to this dsiease.
LEPTOSPIROSIS: Leptospirosis is transmitted by the urine of an infected animal and is contagious as long as it is still moist. Although rats, mice and voles are important primary hosts, a wide range of other mammals including dogs, deer, rabbits, cows, sheep, raccoons, possums, skunks, and even certain marine mammals are also able to carry and transmit the disease. Dogs may lick the urine of an infected animal off the grass or soil, or drink from an infected puddle. There have been reports of "house dogs" contracting leptospirosis apparently from licking the urine of infected mice that entered the house.
FELINE VACCINATIONS:
FVRCCP (Basic Vaccine): Rhinotracheitis is a common cold and upper respitory tract infection. If treated the cat can remain a carrier for the rest of its life. Calicivirus is a major upper respitory infection that is highly contagious. If treated the cat will still infect others. Chlamydophila is a bacterial disease that causes local infections of mucus conjunctiva of the eyes but may involve the lungs. This can be tranmitted to humans with direct contact. Panleukopenia is feline distemper can survive outside the body for up to one year. It can also cause death.
LEUKEMIA (FeLV): Cats infected with FeLV can serve as sources of infection. Cats pass the virus between themselves through saliva and close contact, by biting another cat, through a litter box or food dish used by an infected cat(rarely happens), and from milk during nursing. Transmission can also take place from an infected mother cat to her kittens, either before they are born or while they are nursing. If not defeated by the animal’s immune system, the virus can be lethal. The cat can show no symptoms for months even years before the virus causes death after inital exposure.
FELINE INFECTIOUS PERITONITIS (FIP): is a fatal, incurable disease that affects cats. Cats become infected by inhaling or ingesting the virus. The most commonly cited transmission source is feces, although contaminated surfaces such as food dishes and clothing can transmit the virus as well.
FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (FIV): FIV (Feline Immumodeficiency Virus) is a retrovirus in the same family as the human AIDS virus, with a few significant differences. Saliva to blood (deep biting wounds) is generally accepted as the primary source of spreading the virus. While FIV cannot be cured, it can be managed, in a program of cooperation between veterinarian and the owner.
BOTH FELINE AND CANINE:
RABIES: is a viral neuroinvasive disease that causes acute inflammation of the brain in warm-blooded animals. It is transmitted by animals, most commonly by a bite from an infected animal but occasionally by other forms of contact. The rabies virus travels to the brain by following the peripheral nerves. The incubation period of the disease depends on how far the virus must travel to reach the central nervous system, usually taking a few months. Once the infection reaches the central nervous system and symptoms begin to show, the infection is practically untreatable and usually fatal within days. Routine vaccination is the key to controlling this dreaded disease.
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