Expert care for the pets of Tampa, FL
We want you to feel confident and calm when you bring your pet to see us. Our hospital is equipped with state-of-the-art medical technology, skilled doctors, and registered veterinary technicians to ensure excellence in service. We offer a wide range of veterinary services to keep your four-legged family members feeling their best.
Wellness Exams
From the first visit and throughout their entire life, we’ll be there to provide the absolute best care for your pet. Our wellness care measures can maximize the fullness of that life both in terms of what your pet can do and for how long. Annual physical exams are essential! Many of our younger patients have yearly exams, but we recommend exams every six months for aging pets or those who have medical conditions.
Wellness visits include:
- Vaccinations protect your pet. While dogs and cats have the same vaccinations like rabies and distemper, they also have different vaccination needs based on the diseases that can affect their species. Our veterinarians will work with you to set up a comprehensive vaccination schedule to protect your pet.
- Pet dental care is vital for your pet’s overall health. Like humans, pets need to have regular dental care both at home and at the veterinary office. According to the American Veterinary Dental Society, 70% of adult cats and 80% of adult dogs show symptoms of oral disease.
- We help protect your pet from nasty parasites. Ridding a pet and home from fleas can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars and can be nearly impossible to get rid of as flea eggs can survive for a very long time. We will work with you to set up the best flea and tick preventive plan for your pets.
Vaccinations
Vaccines are special proteins that prime the immune system to fight specific infections. They work in two ways: to reduce the severity of such diseases should they strike or to completely prevent infection.
Several diseases can afflict cats and dogs, but most pets can be protected from the worst of them if they are adequately vaccinated. For dogs, these include parvovirus, distemper, and infectious hepatitis. For cats, these include panleukopenia, feline herpesvirus, and feline calicivirus; for outdoor cats, protection can consist of feline immunodeficiency virus and feline leukemia virus.
Once contracted, these illnesses can prove painful, distressing, and even fatal. Luckily, most of these illnesses can be prevented with vaccination.
Dentistry
Just as it’s crucial for you to see a dentist regularly, it’s essential for dogs and cats as well. Your pet’s oral health is directly connected to their overall health.
Recent studies have shown that 70% of adult cats and 80% of adult dogs show symptoms of oral disease. Most pet parents are not away that their pet is dealing with dental issues. Bad breath, plaque build-up, excessive drooling, decreased appetite, and sore or bleeding gums when eating or chewing are signs that your companion’s teeth may require veterinary attention.
If you notice any of these symptoms, please contact our team, and we’ll be happy to help.
We are proud that we have the most up-to-date equipment to treat dental disease, including digital dental X-rays. This allows us to detect any disease beneath the gum line that we would not see otherwise. Thanks to dental radiographs, we can often see undetected abscesses, broken teeth, resorbed roots, retained roots, and more.
Diagnostics
It is difficult to see your pet in pain or suffering and not know what’s wrong. Our team provides state-of-the-art in-house diagnostics to help us learn what’s wrong and give an accurate diagnosis. A quicker diagnosis leads to speedier treatment! We do diagnostic testing both in-house and with an outside lab to provide results quickly and accurately.
Keene Veterinary Hospital can process a wide array of diagnostic laboratory tests with our in-house laboratory.
Our tests include things like:
- Blood Tests
- Urine Tests
- Fecal Tests
- Parasite Tests
- Digital X-rays
- Ultrasonography
- …and more!
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Surgery
Our team is highly skilled and experienced in performing a wide variety of pet surgeries using modern techniques and cutting edge equipment and always adhering to the strictest standards of safety and care.
We provide surgical options in a clean and safe environment. Most importantly, our veterinary team can closely track each animal’s vital condition during surgery. You can feel confident that your loved one will be in excellent hands with our team when it comes to surgery!
A tailored anesthetic protocol is prepared for every patient. This personalized approach includes careful selection of which sedative drugs are used before inducing anesthesia, pain management medications, antibiotic selection, and fluid therapy during the surgery to help maintain adequate blood pressure.
We offer surgeries like spay and neuters, lumps and bumps, and more specialized surgeries. If your pet needs surgery, please be sure to meet with our team immediately to get all of the information you need.
Parasite Prevention
Parasites and the diseases they carry can all be prevented with proper medication and maintenance. Fleas and ticks are not only a source of irritation to your pet, but they can also harbor disease and adversely affect your pet’s health. Heartworm is a dangerous parasite that lives in the heart of dogs and cats, damages the heart muscle, and can be fatal.
Ridding a pet and home from fleas can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars and can be nearly impossible to get rid of as flea eggs can survive for a very long time. We will work with you to set up the best flea and tick preventive plan for your pets.
Fleas are tiny, jumping insects that live off of the blood of animals. They can carry dangerous diseases and often cause allergic dermatitis or severe itching in pets.
Ticks are external parasites that live off of the bodily fluids of animals. They can carry diseases from one animal to another and are the main cause of the spread of diseases such as Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis/anaplasmosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
A heartworm is a parasite that can live in the heart of dogs and cats. Mosquitoes carry the worm from one infected animal to another. Several hundred worms can live in the heart of a dog, and infection from the parasite causes significant damage and can be fatal.
Microchipping
The chance of being reunited with a lost pet increases significantly if they’re microchipped. Microchipping can offer reassurance that, if lost, animal shelters and veterinarians can identify your pet. A tiny microchip is placed under the skin between your pet’s shoulder blades. The microchip has an identification number, which a scanner can read. A veterinarian’s office or animal shelter can scan the chip to determine who owns the animal.
Pharmacy
You’re able to get the medication you need in our hospital or from our online store. We have options to make your life easier.
You and your pet will benefit from our well-stocked pharmacy. Whether your pet requires medication for a chronic medical condition or needs short-term medication while recovering from an illness, injury, or surgery, you can rely on us.
When you purchase medications from our pharmacy, you can be assured that your pet’s medications were obtained from safe, reliable sources and stored under optimal conditions.
Our trained staff will fill your prescriptions with care and attention to detail and your pet’s specific needs. We will also provide accurate information about your pet’s medications, including proper dosing information, and alert you to any potential drug side effects or interactions.