Cottonwood Animal Clinic

08/17/2024

Today is National Black Cat Appreciation Day, and we can’t help but think that our beloved Bernie was definitely one of the best.

Bernie passed January 2022, but if you were a client at Cottonwood Animal Clinic during the years 2010-2021 when we were still at our old location, there is a good chance you saw him.

He set the bar high for all other clinic kitties. He had the perfect balance of being chill yet also letting you know he was around. He really didn’t know a stranger, and if you were sitting in the waiting room and he sensed you might need purring hug, he was right there. He was sensible enough to not get under anyone’s feet. Bernie was one of the best kitties ever!

08/05/2024

It has been a long while since we have posted anything about vet students at Cottonwood Animal Clinic. Since February, we have hosted 6 different vet students from Oklahoma State University, Oregon State University and Kansas State University. We wish we had gotten pictures of every one, but it has been pretty busy around here, and we only have pictures of half of the students. 😿 Nevertheless, our staff enjoyed getting to know all of them and giving them opportunities to grow in their hands-on practical experiences.

One of the students sent us a very kind note saying, "Mentorship is such a big part of this [veterinary] industry, and it is obvious you all care about the next generation of veterinarians."

We are so very thankful to have our new facility that allows us to be able to offer mentorship opportunities to vet students. It takes more than just the desire/ability to mentor, working space is important, and lodging considerations are important to many vet students who are living on very frugal budgets. We are happy to offer lodging in the private studio apartment for students who are here 1-2 weeks at a time.

07/26/2024

Cottonwood Animal Clinic will be open tomorrow, July 27th for walk-ins, as well as August 10th and August 24th. We try to list this information on our Google Business page, as well.

07/18/2024

If you have Cottonwood Animal Clinic listed in your phone contacts, please make sure that our main line 620-442-8619, is the one you are calling or texting during business hours when you are wanting to get in touch with us.

We have additional unpublished lines that we use to call out on, and we understand that you may have one or more of those lines saved to your phone. We do not receive texts on those additional numbers.

We promise you that we are answering our phones. A lot. All. Day. Long. Our front desk staff have a tough (and exhausting) job fielding all of the phone calls from customers, checking in and checking out the clients who are standing in front of them and getting appointments set up on our text line.

If you have a second, please check that our main business line listed below is saved in your contacts and that it is the one you are calling...and especially texting. We don't receive texts from the multiple roll over lines.

We are grateful that we get to serve so many wonderful clients in the Cowley County area. Thank you for being understanding when it is extra busy around here.

07/12/2024

Many of you may have seen the CCHS post about Red needing a new home. Red came to Cottonwood Animal Clinic because his owner unexpectedly suddenly passed away. Red’s owner loved him dearly. In the difficult hours following his owner’s passing 💔, another family member contacted us looking for help in rehoming Red.

As a courtesy to our former client and his family members, Dr. Carson neutered him, updated vaccines and dewormed him. We have a working relationship with Cowley County Humane Society, and we asked if they might be able to help us find a home for him. His post did receive quite a bit of traffic, but we want our community to know that his owner did indeed care deeply for Red.

The good news is that it appears Red has a home! ❤️ We hope our community will continue to use this energy for the good of many other pets at the Cowley County Humane Society. There are many who still need homes.

05/27/2024

We want to remember those who have courageously sacrificed their lives for the USA.

05/24/2024

Cottonwood Animal Clinic will be open for walk-ins on 3 different Saturdays in June. They are Saturday, June 1st, June 15th and June 29th. We will also update our schedule on our Google Business page, and it is easy to check there during the week for upcoming hours.

05/08/2024

What a beautiful day to spruce up the front porch area with plants from La Hacienda Greenhouse. We sure appreciate Jana's help in picking them out, aren't they gorgeous?

05/03/2024

Just a friendly reminder we are closed again tomorrow (May 4th), but then we plan to be open the following two Saturdays in a row.

04/26/2024

Just a reminder that the Cottonwood Animal Clinic Saturday schedule for the next few weeks is a little different. We will be closed for Saturdays in a row (starting 4/27/2024), then open for 2 Saturdays in a row to get back on the regular every other Saturday schedule.

Also, we try to update our Google Business page regularly for Saturdays and special holidays. Once you are on the Google page, just go to the hours section, and click on the caret to the right or the drop down menu, and it will show you our business hours for the next 7 days.

04/22/2024

We are trying to make our open Saturdays as regular as possible to help our clients anticipate when we will be open and when we are closed. Due to staffing needs, we needed to do a little switcheroo in May.

We will be closed this upcoming Saturday, April 27th as well as the following Saturday, May 4th, then we will be open 2 weeks in a row to get us back on track for the holiday Memorial Day weekend. We will also post more about Memorial Day weekend, but (head's up) we will be closed that Monday, in addition to the Saturday, May 25th closure.

04/11/2024

We posted a picture of a cow that we recently treated here at the clinic. She had a long line of sutures on her left side of her abdomen. As many of you guessed, she did need a C-section as she was unable to deliver her calf that had already passed in utero.

There were several who also guessed a twisted stomach, as seen on The Incredible Dr. Pol. It is a good guess, but we do not often see twisted stomach in bovine around here as it is usually more often associated with dairy cattle than beef cattle.

04/10/2024

Our doctors worked on a cow last night. She is all better now, and she walked out and loaded the trailer at the end of the night. What procedure do you think she had done? We will give the answer tomorrow (with pictures to follow) but we would like to see what you think?

04/08/2024

Our clinic kitty, Kirk, is not coming in this morning. He said he's got better things than the staff to watch today.

04/05/2024

Another barn baby made his way into the clinic this morning. 🐮

04/04/2024

Five widdle piggies came to Cottonwood last week! So adorable!! 🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷

04/02/2024

Cottonwood Animal Clinic will be open for walk-ins on 2 different Saturdays in April. They are Saturday, April 6th and Saturday, April 20th.

03/09/2024

Here is an opportunity for a student (aged 9 and up) to get to spend the day observing and assisting our veterinarians. VET FOR A DAY is being auctioned off now to benefit the SCK Foundation. It is an online auction, you do not need to be present to win. Go to Theurer Auctions to find out more, or there is a link on the SCK Health Foundation page that we will post in the comments.

02/27/2024

Cottonwood Animal Clinic will be open for walk-ins on 2 different Saturdays in March. They are Saturday, March 9th and Saturday, March 23rd.

02/16/2024

Our very own Gwyneth Abrams is playing Gwendolyn in the Cowley College Theatre production of "The Importance of being Earnest" this weekend. It is an excellent show!

There are many reasons to love Cowley County, KS and our very own Cowley College is one of them! Our "small town college" has some amazingly creative professionals who are training our students. Yes, the students have to really work hard, but the directors and other staff who are using their talents is what is helping them to really bring the whole production to a level of excellence. Thank you for investing into people who are living here in Cowley County!

01/22/2024

You may have noticed that we have gone to being open every other Saturday for walk-ins. We are unsure if this will be a permanent change, but for now it is what we are able to do to help our work flow processes (usually catching up on things) and it also allows for a little extra down time for our awesome staff.

Saturday, January 27th, we are scheduled to be open, and we are posting the February schedule below.

We understand it is a pain to try to remember which Saturdays we are open. Here are some ways we hope that will be helpful.

1) Call or text us at 620-442-8619, and one of our very helpful staff members can tell you the schedule.

2) If you aren't able to connect via phone, you can check out our Google page where we try to keep all of our special hours up-to-date. This is especially helpful on a Friday evening, and you are planning out your weekend to-do's. You would be able to see if our next business day is Saturday or Monday.

3) Share this post so that all of Facebook Land knows they can find the information on the Cottonwood Animal Clinic FB page. :)

01/20/2024

Carter Claxton is a 2nd year KSU Vet student who stayed with us for several days week before last. We met Carter at the KSU Job Fair back in September and we invited him (and everyone who stopped by our table) to visit our facility and get some hands-on experience. Not all students (especially 2nd year) take the initiative to go to a new place and hang out with people they don’t know over their winter break. It speaks volumes about Carter that he is willing to take charge of his learning journey.

Carter got to see and assist all sorts of treatments and procedures with small and large animals at our clinic.

01/15/2024

UPDATE: Owner has been found and the dogs are on their way home, thank you!!

This morning when we arrived, there were 2 doggos without an owner who were looking to get into the clinic. Because it is so cold out, we did let them come in for shelter. One is a friendly, female hound, the other is an in-tact, male heeler who is a bit more nervous, and they seem to know each other. We did not locate a microchip when we scanned them.

Please help us locate their owner(s) so that they can go home.

01/12/2024

We were pleased to have Macy Palmer, a KSU undergrad student join us last week for 4 days during part of her winter break. Macy is planning to apply to vet school in another year.

We were happy to let her see some of the day to day work of our mixed-animal veterinary clinic. For anyone seriously considering a career in the veterinary industry as either a veterinarian or licensed veterinary technician, we would highly recommend getting as many varied experiences as possible. Volunteer at a shelter, help out at a pet boarding or grooming facility. Work with animals on a farm or be a part-time ranch hand. Get a job at a vet clinic as a kennel assistant. Many varied experiences at multiple places will serve that person very well. Not only will it look FABULOUS on an application to vet school, but it will really help guide that person in the veterinary industry. There are so many opportunities to help people with their animals.

We hope Macy found her experience at Cottonwood Animal Clinic to be valuable in her journey walking towards being a veterinarian.

01/09/2024

We want to introduce you Michaela Williams, a 4th year veterinary student from OSU. Michaela spent a couple of weeks with us here at the clinic fulfilling part of her externship requirements to graduate from vet school in May 2024.

Michaela is most interested in working only on large animals, but she had many varied opportunities here at our mixed-animal practice at Cottonwood Animal Clinic. During her time here, she helped with large animal necropsies, show cattle hoof trims, and BSE (bull semen evaluations). On our small animal side, she had opportunities to work on and observe two different amputations, a canine c-section, a diaphragmatic hernia repair, growth removals, dentals and extractions, routine vaccine appointments, several spays and neuters. She also was able to assist with some small animal medical case work-ups.

Michaela is a down-to-earth person with lots of grit. We know she can succeed wherever she decides to land. Michaela said she was grateful for her time here, super grateful to have an extern studio apartment to stay in, and she enjoyed many discussions with our doctors. She also mentioned that while Cottonwood Animal Clinic "closes" at 5:30PM, she stayed helping staff members finish up work until 7 or 7:30 nearly every day that she spent here. We just chuckled and told her Cowley County needs more veterinarians. :)

01/05/2024

Cottonwood Animal Clinic will closed Saturday, Jan 6th and Saturday, Jan 20th. We hope you have a beautiful, snowy weekend where you can stay inside and be cozy.

12/08/2023

Here is a quick reminder that Cottonwood Animal Clinic is closed tomorrow and again two weeks from tomorrow for Saturday walk-ins.

Don't forget that we try to keep our hours on our Google Business Page up-to-date. It shows the next 7 days on the drop-down.

We are open tomorrow for walk-ins from 9AM-11AM, but be sure to check out the other upcoming Saturdays. Also, if you are unsure, we try to update and confirm the hours on our Google business page regularly. We know that sometimes clients try to call on Saturday mornings to see if we are open, but honestly we sometimes do not have enough staff with free hands to answer the phones or texts on Saturday mornings, so checking the Google page might be helpful to some.

12/01/2023

We are open tomorrow for walk-ins from 9AM-11AM, but be sure to check out the other upcoming Saturdays. Also, if you are unsure, we try to update and confirm the hours on our Google business page regularly. We know that sometimes clients try to call on Saturday mornings to see if we are open, but honestly we sometimes do not have enough staff with free hands to answer the phones or texts on Saturday mornings, so checking the Google page might be helpful to some.

11/25/2023

Just a reminder that we are closed today. There are more holidays coming up and sometimes we are just closed on Saturdays. We hate it if someone makes a special trip out to the clinic to find out we are closed.

In case you don’t already know, we also usually update our business hours / days on Google. Just search for Cottonwood Animal Clinic in a Google search bar, and you can see the next 7 days under “hours” (with a clock icon). If you click the down arrow, you can see more information.

11/23/2023

Happy THANKSgiving, and we have so much to give THANKS for. 💛

Cottonwood Animal Clinic will be open on Friday from 12pm-5:30pm, and then closed again on Saturday, November 25th.