Downs & Smith Center Veterinary Clinic

04/23/2024

If you are concerned our phones aren't working, we can assure you they are. They are just that busy. Please bear with us for the next several weeks. Every cow in the country goes to grass around May 1st. So from now until the first couple weeks of May we are swamped in person and on the phones trying to help you and your neighbors. The phones have been transferred to Sam's cell so that you can now leave a message instead of getting a busy signal. We promise we will call you back if you LEAVE A MESSAGE. Messages will be returned in the order they are left and will be called by the end of business day. We are doing our best, and want to express our gratitude for your business, your patients, and our employees. Thank you all for getting through these next four weeks with us.

Additionally, the stomach bug has hit some of our employees' family. So please be prepared that we may have varied business hours at the Smith Center clinic as we will have to lock the doors occasionally to continue sending staff to country appts that have already been schedule. We will be available this afternoon as normal from 1-5.

04/07/2024

Cattle feet trimming day at the Downs vet clinic on Friday. If you need a herd bull or cow done this is the day to do it. Howard Fehlman will be at the clinic with his tilt table. Please call and let us know if you want added to the list. This is the only day this service will be offered this Spring.

03/19/2024

We are excited to be able to offer grooming again at the Downs Clinic! 🐕🐈✂️

🗓Grooming appointments can be schedule Monday - Friday. Drop off times for appts are 8-8:30 🕗 and you can pick your pet back up between 3:30-5. 🕞

💉Pets will need to have current rabies and DA2PPV vaccinations to be groom and treated with flea/tick medications. If you need us to get you these things before your pets appointment just let us know.

We think you are going to love having Ally work with your pet! 🐕🐈

01/25/2024

Do you know me? Very friendly yellow male kitty showed up at the Downs vet clinic.

01/15/2024

Students are you snowed in today? It would be a great day to fill out a summer internship application! Check us out. Both the Downs and Smith Center locations are offering internships this summer....

Previous interns are currently successfully in vet school, pre accepted to vet school, entering into veterinary nursing school, and employed as veterinary assistants. We can help get you to your goals. Come spend the summer with us and check us out!

Internships are paid at $12 per hour and approximately 20 hours per week through the summer. We can't wait to get your application!

Downs and Smith Center Veterinary Clinics are mixed animal practices. The intern will get hands-on experience in animal care, customer service, clinic/equipment sterilization, surgical observation, and daily workings of a veterinary clinic. Contact Name: Samantha Russell Phone: (785) 543-9257 Email:...

01/08/2024

Closed due to
Weather conditions. ☃️⛄️☃️⛄️☃️
Stay safe .

11/16/2023

10/27/2023

Tuesday is your last day to take advantage of 10% back on these two brands...Contact us for more details on how to qualify. Call to place your orders, or stop in Monday or Tuesday to pick up products at either location.

08/16/2023

🤩FREE 🤩

Shipping any of that good county fair project meat to buyers?….we have several 2ft x 2ft x 1.5ft coolers that would work great for transporting. Contact us if you want to come get one or more!

(785) 454 3474

05/25/2023

Our apologies for anyone that has been struggling to reach us on our phones, especially after hours. Our phone service provider is having trouble with transferring our lines to cell phones. We are working on a solution, in the mean time, if you are struggling to reach us on our clinic lines you can try calling Samantha at 785-543-9257. If it is after hours she can have the on call vet reach out.

05/15/2023

June 11th, 2023....if you have a herd you may be familiar with this date that has been swirling through the rumor mill. It's true, livestock antibiotics will require a rX on this date. Now, the good news, many of the antibiotics you have been using have ALWAYS required a rX. There are very few that are changing, examples of common ones are penicillin, LA 200s/300s, and sulfa boluses. Getting these products will be the same as it has been in the past when you purchase Nuflor or Draxxin. If we have maintained a relationship with you, such as, fertility testing your bulls, pregging your cows, or consulting on your vaccination programs, you qualify as having a valid veterinary client relationship, which is what it takes to sell you rX products. So you can walk in and purchase it right off the shelf from our Downs or Smith Center locations, as you need it, JUST AS YOU ALWAYS HAVE. We will keep a record of it and make sure that you have the right product for your critter, just as we always have. If you haven't had us do these things in the past, that's ok. Just reach out now BEFORE you need the product, all you need to do is establish a relationship with us. Sometimes change isn't as scary as it sounds.

Beginning June 11, 2023, over-the-counter livestock antibiotics will require a veterinary prescription. Producers are encouraged to establish a veterinarian-client-patient relationship now.

01/25/2023

We just had another client schedule all of their spring fertility checking and calf/cow processing. It's a a great idea to go a head and get those dates on the schedule to ensure we have time saved for your needs.

01/06/2023

Hey local area youth, check out these opportunities! We are offering three summer internships that will be split between our two clinics. You will get hands on opportunities with pets, clients, clinic and equipment sterilization and care, cloud based pet records systems, and more. Not interested in vet med?....check out the other awesome opportunities in our Downs and Smith Center communities. New-Gen is truly providing unique PAID job exploration for youth in our area. Apply soon, as some jobs fill before the deadline.

Nex-Generation Round Up for Youth’s mission is to educate northwest and north central Kansas students about local career opportunities by providing and supporting programs in career development, entrepreneurship, and internship. Through these efforts, we hope to foster a positive sense of communit...

12/22/2022

Due to road conditions both clinics are delaying our opening. Currently we are planning on a 10 am opening to allow time for roads to improve- this may change.

10/10/2022

Our Smith Center Phone Line is Having a problem...NexTech is working on it but we don't know how long it will be down. Please call us at our Downs Location if you need to reach us 785-454-3474.