Telos Companion Animal Services, LLC

01/25/2025

Whether it is your dog grabbing food when your back is turned, or your cat walking across the table with dirty paws, this behavior needs to be nipped in the bud.

01/21/2025

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01/21/2025

During our consultation, one of the things that I ask families with geriatric dogs and cats (if they don’t bring it up first) is if they are employing the use of video cameras to monitor their pet. Some tend to be reluctant to disclose that because they feel that I might be put off by the use of cameras and may feel like it’s just ‘one more thing’, but nothing could be further from the truth: I heartily advocate their use, I can attest that they are a big help in gauging a pet’s comfort and physical and emotional well-being when they’re alone. Families are generally pretty excited when I affirm with an enthusiastic ‘...yes, of course—I’m on board with my being granted access to logging in and monitoring your pet while they’re in my care’. I happily download the necessary apps, which give me access to these cams when the pets are in my care, no matter where I am.

These tech tools help me to do my very best for the pets in my care. In fact, I offer to bring one while doing overnight stays on some occasions, and utilize it with the pet guardian’s consent. Of course, I have one available for families to borrow from the Telos Lending Library when they are enrolled in a AHPC concierge plan. I’m shipping this one off to a family I’m working with remotely.

01/20/2025

Pet guardians all around SE Michigan ask me for who call to lead their housecall veterinary interdisciplinary team.

Resources ⬇️

Locate mobile/housecall and hybrid veterinary practices in southeast and central Michigan for general vet care, physical rehabilitation, palliative, hospice, end-of-life and euthanasia care.

01/17/2025

Final Zoom of the day, waiting for a family-of-record that I’m working remotely with to connect. Very grateful for this technology, since it allows pet guardians in some areas the access to connect with the support what they need, when they’d otherwise go without.

01/17/2025

Me, at times trying to obtain necessary forms & documentation from families. The struggle can be real, here.

I know it can seem unnecessary and over the top, but what I request helps me to:

✅stay concordant with best practices, my insurer & my policies

✅give the best possible experience to families & pets—the kind of care I’m known for!

✅assess/re-assess to ensure that pets are healthy & emotionally able to handle being under my care

✅assure that pet’s treatment & comfort care plans are kept intact, this is crucial as a Certified Animal Hospice Practitioner

✅keep the companion animal’s best interests & well-being at the forefront

✅avoid mistakes in caring for pets

Oversights happen, time slips by—its understandable! And so consider this your gentle though comedic reminder to help me help you have the best experience possible in working with me ❤️🐾

01/16/2025

OK NOW HE’S ON MY LAP

01/15/2025

Did you know? When selecting bedding for your pet, there’s a formula that assures optimal comfort for those resting bones & joints.

A soft bed, with 1 inch of padding for every 10 pounds of weight is the recommendation.

01/14/2025

Are you like a lot of families in the area who have welcomed a new dog friend into the family who had previously tested as heartworm positive, but now, successfully treated?

Do contact your preferred facility in advance to check their policy on boarding dogs that have completed heartworm treatment. Understandably, their established timeframes for accepting previously treated dogs can range from a minimum of 6 months, to up to 2 years or more post-treatment that has been deemed successful.

One family recently found themselves in a bind because they were not aware of the policy of their boarding facility of choice. Thankfully, their travel plans could go forward since, an alternate option they hadn’t considered—overnight stays—their pet could remain in their own home and be cared for.

01/13/2025

One family-of-record who’s enrolled in a concierge animal hospice palliative care plan outside my service area expressed their concerns about how to physically assist their pet due to IVDD, & progressive osteoarthritis. Another local to me talked about their challenges in medicating their dog.

I just mailed off a Help Em Up Harness to try out before they buy from the Telos Lending Library & dropped off various flavors of Greenies Pill Pockets to give them a go.

What are your greatest needs in tending to your pet? Let’s connect & find out. Local, or if you’re out of the service area, virtual. 🩵

https://www.lorrieshaw.com/hospice-for-families/virtual-concierge-animal-hospice-supp

01/10/2025

Just wrapped up a virtual consultation with a family who’s out of my service area.

Yes! I support families all over the US. 🥰

Sorting through info as you’re only weeks in with a new diagnosis is murky. I help make it less so.

Being able to be part of a veterinary interdisciplinary team for a family who is facing some important decisions is rewarding on so many levels, whether they pursue palliative care only, treatment & palliative care or the shift needs to be made for hospice & end-of-life.

Do you live outside of the greater Ann Arbor area?

You need not miss out on valuable support. 🩵

Pet guardians are best prepared to navigate through difficult decision-making when they have experienced guidance by way of Animal Hospice & Palliative Care support. A framework grounded in empathy paves the way. And provided in a responsive, clear & flexible way -- that’s how it’s most effectiv...

01/09/2025

One of the more common things I hear is, ‘I never knew that this kind of professional support & care was possible’.

This is just an excerpt of it, but more about one family’s experience—& more of them—are available on lorrieshaw.com

01/09/2025

Imagine feeling pure panic - heart pounding, can't catch your breath kind - that is what separation anxiety is for dogs.
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01/06/2025

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