Bloorcourt Veterinary Clinic

06/22/2024

Whiskers & cones! ❤️ Sweet boys Bobby & Goliath visited for their post-neuter rechecks this week and black & white Bobby fell asleep with his chin in Dr. Krystyna’s hand!

06/19/2024

There's a heat warning until Friday - here's a fun way to keep your pets cool + the top 3 ways to protect them from heat exhaustion, heatstroke and burns!

1) If your pets go outside, make sure that they have a shaded place to get out of the sun + cool water available at all times. It's safest to keep them inside.

2) Never leave your pet (or a dependent human!) in a parked car. Even in the shade or with the windows partly open, a car traps the heat like a greenhouse and can reach dangerous temperatures in just minutes. Take your pets inside with you or - even better - leave them at home to stay cool

3) Try to walk your dogs in the morning and evening when air and pavement temperatures are cooler. If you have to go out in the sun, keep walks short and test the pavement temperature by holding your hand or bare foot on it for 5 seconds - if it's uncomfortable for you, it will burn your dog's paws!

BONUS ACTIVITY- keep your pets cool while providing mental enrichment and hydration by freezing a water balloon. You can go small or huge - just cut balloon off, rinse under hot water to remove any residue, and put it in a baking dish big enough to let them bat it around and contain the water when it melts!

06/19/2024

Keep your pets safe & cool during this early heat wave!

This week is forecast to be very hot in Toronto. When thinking of ways to beat the heat, don’t forget about your pets! Cats and dogs do not regulate body temperature the same way people do, and keeping cool in high temperatures can be challenging – especially young, old, overweight or short-muzzled pets, who are at the highest risk of overheating.

We have some tips on keeping your pets safe and cool (including some you’ve probably didn’t know!)

1) Limit exercise on hot days. Just like you, your pets don’t want to go jogging in the scorching heat! Adjust the intensity and duration of walks depending on the temperature, and try to limit exercise to early mornings or evening hours when the sunshine is not as direct. Avoid walking on asphalt on hot days, as it can become superheated and easily burn your pet's paws. If it’s too hot to hold the back of your hand on the asphalt for more than 10 seconds, it’s too hot for your pets! If you must walk on asphalt, consider putting "booties" on your pet for protection.

2) Don't forget to take breaks. When outside, sit in a cool, shaded area. Tree shade is ideal, as it does not obstruct airflow. Indoors, ensure your pet can relax away from the heat. Cats and dogs regulate heat different than humans, and fans alone do not cool them effectively.

3) Hydration is key! Staying hydrated helps combat overheating, so ensure your pets can access lots of cold, fresh water. Add ice cubes or change their water regularly to keep their water bowl cool. When going outside, bring a water bowl with you so your pet can have a drink!

4) NEVER leave your pets in a parked car. It doesn't matter if the windows are cracked or if it's only for a short period of time. The temperature inside a vehicle can quickly rise to deadly levels. Shade offers little protection on a hot day and will not keep your car cool. If you're going somewhere where you'd need to lock your pet in the car, leave them at home instead!

If you see a dog unattended in a parked car, call 311 and stand by the car until help arrives. If a dog appears to be in distress, call 911.

06/13/2024

Congratulations Caitlin! Our lovely receptionist has been accepted to vet school at the Ontario Veterinary College, and is graduating today from Guelph with her Bachelor of Science in Animal Biology!🎓

We’re looking forward to calling you Dr. Caitlin, and welcoming you back each summer until then! ❤️

06/11/2024

🎉 Thank You for Celebrating Our 40th Anniversary! 🎉 If you couldn’t make it, please enjoy this video tour.

A huge thank you to all of you that attended and made the event so special. We were thrilled that you took the time to join us for the celebration.

Thank you to our wonderful suppliers for providing the delicious sandwiches, snacks, beverages, cupcakes, and cookies; the 5 amazing gift baskets for our raffles; and the gift bags full of dog and cat treats that everyone took home.

We want to give a special shout-out to our amazing staff for their hard work planning the celebration - they created 9 informative & fun stations covering everything from dentistry and blood pressure to parasite prevention and pet care tips. This was a true team effort! ❤️

Here's to Bloorcourt’s next 40 years of exceptional pet care! 🐶🐱

06/06/2024

Meet magnificent Bobby & Goliath! These Maine C**n brothers just turned 1 and were neutered today by Dr. Krystyna, plus Bobby had a gingivectomy to remove an overgrowth of gum tissue caused by juvenile gingival hyperplasia. If not treated, the excess gum tissue traps bacteria and can cause dental disease at a very young age.

To give you an idea of exactly how big these boys are, they needed medium dog-sized cones instead of cat-sized cones for their post-surgery recovery!

We absolutely loved spending the day with them, but their biggest love was for each other - when we took them out of their recovery cages, all they wanted to do was lick each other’s heads! ❤️

06/03/2024

says: don’t be fooled by my smile. not only is my mummy going to europe today without me, but I also had to go to the vet this morning for a blood test! seems fair 🙄 BUT this was the first time I didn’t growl or snap at the vet and my mummy is soooo proud of me 🩷

05/31/2024

There’s still time to visit our 40th Anniversary Open House, until 7pm! Stop by for yummy treats, giveaways, and demos like Dr Kayla’s jello ultrasounds & Dr Krystyna’s teddy bear surgery!

05/31/2024

Thank you to our generous 40th Anniversary Open House sponsors for contributing food, drinks, decorations, draw prizes & take-home giveaways for today’s celebration! ❤️

We hope you can drop by between 4-7pm today! All welcome (but please leave your pets at home)!

05/30/2024

THIS FRIDAY 4-7pm, please join us for our 40th Anniversary Open House celebration!
- Visit with our team (yes, Dr. Jack is flying in for the party!)
- Tour the clinic and see how things work behind the scenes
- Kids can bring their stuffed animals in for first aid
- Yummy treats & lots of prizes and giveaways

See you Friday!!!

05/23/2024

We're turning 40 and want YOU to celebrate with us! Please join us next Friday, May 31 for our 40th Birthday Open House. This is a family-friendly event, but pets should stay home since there will be a lot going on. 😀

New faces are welcome, even if you haven’t visited us before & would just like to see how a veterinary hospital works 'behind the scenes'!

We hope to see you next Friday!

05/23/2024

Mosquitos carrying ❤️heartworms❤️ are almost here - make sure your dogs & cats are protected before the high-risk season begins on June 1! Mosquitos and other parasites don't respect our doors, so indoor pets need protection too!

It just takes one mosquito bite for a dog or cat to get heartworms, and they are eventually fatal if left untreated. When a mosquito bites an animal infected with heartworms (such as a coyote, fox or dog), it picks up microscopic baby heartworms and then injects them into every animal they bite in the future. We have coyotes & foxes right here in our neighbourhood, and coyotes have a particularly high infection rate. Heartworm disease is also common in the southern US & warmer countries, and lucky rescue dogs starting a second chance life in Toronto may unknowingly be infected when they arrive. The all-in-one parasite protection that we recommend 12 months a year for dogs protects them against heartworm disease - as long as they don't miss a dose between June and November, the season when mosquitos can transmit heartworms - as well as protecting them from fleas, ticks, and instestinal worms.

Cats are much more resistant to heartworms than dogs, but when they do get heartworm disease it is often fatal, since there is no treatment available for cats - prevention is the only option. It is also much harder to detect heartworms in cats than in dogs, and they usually go undiagnosed - the symptoms may look like asthma or heart disease; or be vague like vomiting, loss of appetite, weight loss or seizures; or there may be no symptoms until a collapse or sudden death. The monthly medication we recommend year-round to prevent and treat fleas, ticks & intestinal worms in cats also protects them from heartworms spread by mosquitos - as long as they take it every month from June to November (the season when mosquitos spread heartworms).

Protect your pets inside and out - learn more and request parasite prevention & treatment for your pets at www.bloorcourtvetclinic.com/fthmeds, or give us a call at 416-537-9677 if you have questions! ❤️

05/17/2024

Happy long weekend! There may be fireworks, so keep your pets inside or well-leashed after dusk, and ensure windows are securely closed, to prevent spooked pets from bolting & getting lost.

We wish you a safe & happy holiday, but if your pet needs medical care when we are closed you can find emergency triage information and a full list of local 24-hour clinics by clicking Emergencies in the top right corner of our website.

We are open until 8pm tonight, and from 9-3 on Saturday if you need to pick up medication or food before the holiday!

05/15/2024

Happy Veterinary Assistant Day to Steph, Alyssa, Maria, Giselle & Mecah! These lovely and skilled ladies care for our patients, our clients and our vets (😂), and we couldn’t run our appointments without them! They are always ready to set a nervous pet at ease, distract them during vaccine pokes, and give them an extra cuddle before they leave. Thank you from all of us!!! ❤️

05/13/2024

**** Missing in our neighbourhood, Xenie escaped on her first night in her new home, will be hiding & scared*** • From : LOST CAT - Please help us get Xenie home 🧡

If you are in the Bloor W/Dufferin area, please keep an eye out for Xenie and check hiding spots on your property. Plus we need volunteers to help with searching, door-to-door flyering and trapping (if you have a spare trap you can lend, we’d appreciate it if you can show Xenie’s adopters how to use it).

If you can help us, please email [email protected] or call/text Melanie at 647-234-5701.

Please share this post so we can get Xenie home ASAP 🧡

05/09/2024

05/07/2024

Sharing from : Community Veterinary Outreach is hosting a Community Support Project. We want to normalize pet loss grief so those struggling do not feel alone.

· Have you or someone you know recently lost a beloved pet?
· Are you struggling to find ways to live with your grief?
· Do you experience feelings of shame and/or guilt?

Date and time: Thursday, June 13 from 6:30-8:00 pm EDT
Location: Zoom (virtual)
Cost: $15

Registration: link in bio! (Visit ’s Instagram profile for clickable link, or https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/community-veterinary-outreach/events/navigating-pet-loss-workshop/

05/06/2024

Last Saturday was another successful Community Veterinary Outreach clinic for homeless and vulnerably housed pet owners at the Yonge Street Mission. Dr Mark is the regional director of the CVO and we got some good pics of him with the clients, their pets, and all the volunteers (as well as modeling one of the backpacks being given away at the clinic)!

05/02/2024

15 year old Taylor is missing from Christie between Dupont & Bloor! Please keep an eye out for Taylor and check your sheds/garages/hiding places on your property if you live in the area!

05/02/2024

Meet Franklin the Great Dane! He’s an astonishing 80 KILOGRAMS of pure adorable-ness, and almost as tall as Maria! ❤️ With almost every member of our team sticking their head into the exam room to see him, it’s a wonder Dr. Charlotte was able to do her exam 😂thebluegreatdane

05/01/2024

You found WHAT on me?! 😳 A tick Brie, crawling on your ear during your exam! Luckily 2 year old Australian Shepherd Brie was already here for her annual exam, vaccines and tick-borne disease & heartworm testing - and she’s starting Nexgard Spectra parasite protection medication tonight!

We strongly recommend monthly parasite prevention to protect dogs, cats AND their human families from fleas, ticks, heartworms & intestinal worms (many of which can be transmitted to humans). Visit www.bloorcourtvetclinic.com and search for Parasite to learn more & to request preventative medication for your pet - or give us a call at 416-537-9677.

04/30/2024

HAPPY UPDATE - the original owner was located and decided to adopt the puppy out to the person that found him! Thank you everyone for sharing! ❤️

FOUND PUPPY - Lansdowne & Davenport this morning. Do you know this puppy? If so, call us at 416-537-9677 and tell us if it’s a boy or girl and provide proof of ownership, and we will connect you with the person that found them!
Cross-posted & reported. Please help us get this puppy home!

04/27/2024

We couldn't make it through a day without Maria (& Artie!), Giselle, Gemma, Lu, Christina, Andrea, Chelsea & Sam, our incredible reception team! Please let them know in the comments how their compassion & care has made a difference to you and your pets, and help us celebrate them for Veterinary Receptionists Week (and every day of the year!

Two of these wonderful team members have been on emergency medical leave since late winter, and the rest of the team has pulled together to maintain client and patient care in their absence. Thank you for your patience over the past few months as we've adjusted, and we know you join us in wishing them both a full return to health - we can't wait to have the full team back together again!

04/25/2024

Patrick was VERY excited about his first meal after dental surgery! 😂 This sweet boy didn’t show any symptoms but turned out to have serious dental disease. That’s quite common (and one reason why regular physical exams are so important), since cats have evolved to hide signs of pain & illness, which are signs of weakness that put them at risk from predators.

At his last annual exam Dr Rachael noticed that Patrick had significant tartar buildup & moderate gingivitis (gum inflammation), and recommended dental care - but the full extent of Patrick’s dental issues couldn’t be known until his surgery day. Once we did his dental x-rays & a full oral exam under anaesthesia, Dr Krystyna could see that poor Patrick had significant & painful dental disease underneath all that tartar and hidden beneath his gums, including resorptive lesions, where the tooth starts to dissolve and expose the root & nerves. Over the course of two dental surgeries Patrick has had all but 2 of his teeth removed - and he will be feeling SO much better from this point on! This dish of food was clearly the start of his celebration! ❤️

04/18/2024

Hi Mars! ❤️ This lovely 11 week old boy had his first visit today - he came in for a puppy exam, vaccines & deworming with Dr. Rachael. Cuddles with the team were obviously required too! Welcome to the Bloorcourt family Mars! ❤️

04/11/2024

We all agree that Ariel & Muddy are the absolute CUTEST, right?
They both visited Dr. Krystyna (separately) for skin issues recently - both dogs had pododermatitis (inflammation of the paws) and Muddy (with the adorable beard) has been dealing with ear infections as well. These are both common symptoms of allergies, and Ariel is already being treated with a hypoallergenic diet & medication. Muddy's paw inflammation is milder and his ear infections could be from swimming though, so we're hoping he heals up and doesn't turn out to have any underlying allergies!

04/10/2024

Help us welcome Peppa, Dr. Charlotte’s new puppy!!! Adorable Peppa is an 8 week old Corgi & had her first exam today! She was an absolute angel & enjoyed cuddles from everyone - we can’t wait to help you grow up healthy Peppa! ❤️ Congratulations Dr. Charlotte!

04/05/2024

Scary warnings are circulating about the eclipse & pets Monday, so we asked an expert about the real risks. Here’s what at says: Should you be worried about your pet’s eyes with the impending solar eclipse??
The simple answer is no.
While UV and bright may be damaging to our pet’s eyes as it is to ours, it’s unlikely that our pets will be as fascinated by the eclipse as we are.
Staring at bright light hurts! Animals understand this and will instinctually divert their eyes away from it.
If you want to be extra vigilant, or if your pet already has an underlying eye condition, it may be best to err on the side of caution and keep your pet indoors during the eclipse.
Dog Model: Cooper

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