Halo Pet Hospice

11/03/2024

🐾 Keeping your older pets moving is very important for their health. Exercise helps maintain muscle mass, prevent obesity, lowers blood pressure, supports joint health, provides mental stimulation.

👟 Keep it short and frequent
🎾 Modify your pet’s favorite games
🏊‍♀️ Keep it low impact
⛰️Provide proper surfaces

10/24/2024

Look at this beautiful tribute ♥️
Contact Lazer Focused and they can help you make something special to memorialize your family member.

10/19/2024

How do we make the decision for euthanasia… 💔

Check out halopetdoc’s video.

10/15/2024

🐈 The Feline Grimace Scale 🐈

This is one of the many tools used to assess pain in cats. It is important to note that this may not apply to all cats, especially if the pain is something more chronic. But it can be helpful in assessing pain and to be aware of these subtleties.

10/13/2024

🐈‍⬛ Animals hide pain, especially animals like cats. So how can you tell if your older kitty is in pain?

🐾 Behavior Changes: not as playful, not grooming themselves, overgrooming a particular area, hiding more, hesitating before jumping or climbing stairs, not jumping on vertical surfaces anymore (furniture/ counters/ etc), change in attitude- short tempered/ aggressive, sleeping more, limping, tail flicking

🐾 Eating or drinking less

🐾 Vocalizing: meowing more, crying/ yowling, hissing/ growling

🐾 Urinating or defecating outside of the litter box (especially if they are going next to the box)

🐾 Posture/ Facial expressions: hunched posture, not stretching, grimace expression, squinting eyes

🐈 The first hurdle is to be able to recognize pain. Once you can do this you can contact us (or your regular vet) to discuss treatment options that are right for your kitty. 💛

10/07/2024

How do dogs react to acupuncture? Well this is how. Winston currently has about 13 needles placed at various points… but you can’t even see them through all of his floof. He enjoys his sessions every couple of weeks to help keep him moving. Really, he just loves attention. 🤣 I love this big handsome boy so much!!!

10/06/2024

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth at Barktoberfest! What a beautiful day.

10/05/2024

🐶 We’re here! Come chat with us and get some Halo swag! 🐾

9am-2pm
Freedom Park Lowell

10/05/2024

Come stop by our booth at Barktoberfest tomorrow!

10/04/2024

Dropped off donations for the Hurricane Relief over at Hanover Veterinary Hospital Cedar Lake … they’ll be collecting until 6pm today, as the truck leave tomorrow!

10/03/2024

The recent disaster from Hurricane Helene is devastating. While the communities are trying to recover, we know vets in NC that are providing care to the pets with limited supplies. Some of the vet clinics were completely demolished. Some are trying to function without electricity or water. Their goal is to take care of the animals in need- the sick and injured. They’re also passing out pet food to people who have lost just about everything.

The amazing April Deddens/Gessner and her husband, Bennett (both vets) from Holly Springs, NC brought their fully functional mobile clinic to the affected areas in NC to provide medical care for pets (Dega Mobile Veterinary Care).

One way YOU can help is to donate money to help them in their nonprofit and provide care and supplies for those in need. ♥️

DEGA Mobile Veterinary Care is a 501c3 nonprofit providing free basic veterinary care to the needy

10/03/2024

If you would like to donate to the efforts to help the animals affected by Hurricane Helene, please consider dropping off some supplies to Hanover Vet Hospital by this Friday.

09/28/2024

🎃 Can you believe it’s already that time?! 🎃

We will see you again at the Lowell Barktoberfest. This year it will be October 5th from 9am- 2pm.
We will have some good Halo swag to hand out too!

Stop by and see us!!! 🐾

09/27/2024

Check us out on Tik Tok

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09/22/2024

How do you keep your pet fit and mobile? 👟 🏊‍♀️ 🎾

09/20/2024

🖤 To our colleagues in the veterinary field, those that rescue animals, and those families that take in animals in need… you make a difference. 💛

09/18/2024

Routine veterinary care is so important in our senior pets. Detecting diseases early can help us treat them. We often hear from clients “we just did bloodwork last year,” but think about how last year was really like 5 dog-years ago!

🌟 How old is your dog in dog years???? 🐾

09/11/2024

This job can be tough. Actually a lot of jobs can be pretty tough. So please excuse us as we will be closed until Monday 9/16 as Dr. Emily takes a little family vacation.

If you’re looking for a reason to take a vacation, you should know taking a vacation can have many benefits, including:

✅ Improved mental health

✅ Improved physical health

✅ Reduced risk of burnout

✅ Increased creativity and productivity

✅ Opportunity to prioritize personal life

We will still have support staff returning phone calls during this time, so if you would like to schedule an appointment for next week, please feel free to give us a call.

If you have an urgent need please contact our friends at Animal Urgent Care in Crown Point, EVCC in Highland, Dr. Dines, or Lakeshore Mobile.

Life is short. Take the vacation. Spend time with family. ♥️