Creekside Veterinary Hospital & Referral Center

06/21/2025

🌞🔥 Summer is here and so is the heat! While on a heat advisory, you should NOT have your pet outside for extended periods of time. This is especially true for geriatric, brachycephalic (short-nosed, flat-faced), or any pet with cardiac or respiratory disease!

Heat stroke is a serious emergency—know the signs and act fast to keep your furry friends safe.

If you notice any of these symptoms, contact your veterinarian immediately!

💦 Keep pets cool, provide plenty of water, and avoid outdoor activity during peak heat.

06/20/2025

🎆🐾 The 4th of July is fun for us, but it can be stressful (and even dangerous!) for our furry friends. Here’s a Pet Safety Starter Pack to help keep your pets safe, cool, and comfortable during the holiday festivities! 🇺🇸❤️

06/19/2025

We will be briefly closed today from noon-1:30 for our monthly staff meeting. We appreciate your understanding.

06/19/2025

✨ Meet Pearl! This adorable French Bulldog/Boston Terrier mix stole our hearts at her visit. 💖 She was such a champ during her puppy exam, vaccines, and nail trim! If you’ve ever been to see us, you know how much we love our secret weapon—spray cheese! 🧀😋 Check out Pearl enjoying every bit of it during her nail trim!

06/15/2025

06/05/2025

Meet Lily, our brave little warrior! 💪🐾 Despite undergoing chemotherapy, she greets every team member with wiggles, happy zoomies, and a big appetite for treats. Her joy is contagious! Here she is, striking a pose with her amazing doctor, Dr. Taylor. We’re so proud to be a part of her journey!

06/04/2025

Bayle is the most adorable little chihuahua! He presented to us in July of 2024 for having low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) and not being able to regulate it. We performed a CT scan and ruled out a liver shunt. Since he still wasn't improving, we sent out a f***l sample and found he had intestinal parasites (roundworms and coccidiodes)! If puppies have an excess of intestinal parasites, this can cause them to have low blood sugar. We treated for the parasites, and he is doing so much better! He recently just celebrated his first birthday!🤩🥳 We love to get updates from owners, and we are so happy he is living his best life!

06/03/2025

🌈🐾 Sweet Daisy showed up to her appointment yesterday dressed in pure purride — and completely stole our hearts. 😻

Wearing her rainbow bandana with the quiet confidence only a cat can pull off, Daisy reminded us of something beautiful: Pride is about love, identity, and being exactly who you are — with no apologies and lots of heart. 💖

As we celebrate Pride Month, we're so grateful for moments like this — small, joyful reminders that kindness, acceptance, and love truly make the world a better place. Whether two-legged or four-pawed, everyone deserves to be seen, safe, and celebrated. 🐾🌈

Thank you, Daisy, for bringing your sparkle and reminding us what Pride is all about. 💕

06/02/2025

While Oliver was in for his wellness appointment, we performed yearly blood work and urinalysis to make sure all his organs were functioning properly. While getting a urine sample with our ultrasound machine, we found he had bladder stones! They were small enough to where we did not need to perform surgery, so we elected to perform a procedure called a urohydropropulsion. This is a procedure where we fill the bladder with saline then manually express the bladder to catch the stones. We were able to expel 6 very small stones which we sent off to an outside lab to have them evaluated. After his procedure, he got the luxury treatment which included free snuggles and a cozy bed to recover in.

05/31/2025

🎉🐾 Big cheers for sweet little Maggie, our Dog of the Day at the Quad City Criterium on Memorial Day! This adorable Labrador Retriever puppy stole hearts (and the show!) and trotted home with a tail-wagging basket full of toys to enjoy. 🧺🐶

🚴‍♀️ And a huge round of applause to Gabriela Guerra, the champion of the Creekside Veterinary Hospital Women’s Pro Race! What an incredible performance!

Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate community, competition, and cuteness with us. ❤️🇺🇸

05/30/2025

Meet Denali, a very food motivated working police dog, who is undergoing chemotherapy for Lymphoma. She has been the best patient and LOVES treats! We love getting to work with her and look forward to continuing to provide care for her.

05/29/2025

This is Boris, a 9 month old Bernese Mountain Dog! He presented to us for limping on his right front leg consistently for about a month, and he was painful when rotating at the elbow joint. We performed a CT scan to see if there were any abnormalities in his elbows. The results revealed he had a fragmented medial coronoid process (FCP) in his right elbow. This is a developmental defect of the bony protrusions at the end of the ulna within the elbow joint. This can be very painful for pets and most often needs to be corrected with surgery. We performed surgery on his right elbow by removing the abnormal cartilage and bone to allow the joint to function normally and not cause any more discomfort. He was such a good patient for his procedures!

Fun Fact: This is a common problem seen in large breed puppies such as Bernese Mountain Dogs, Labrador Retrievers, and Golden Retrievers.