Lewis Mobile Veterinary Services LLC

12/31/2025

LMVS will be closed until Monday Jan 5th. If you have a large animal emergency please call Dr. Mann at 304-554-9589.

12/15/2025

Since our last puppy post went so well I had another client reach out in hopes to find this litter good homes. Their mom is a full blooded blue tick and dad is a full blooded German Shepherd. Born on Nov 8th, so will be ready for their new homes just after the first of the year. Please contact Katie at 304-667-9334 with any questions.

11/15/2025

Anyone looking for a Christmas puppy? These super cuties were an oops litter. Mom is plott and the dad is Pyrenees/maremma. Will they be hunting dogs?(possible, mom is a great c**n and bear dog). Will they be livestock guardian dogs? (maybe! dad has lived with cattle, sheep, goats, and chickens.) Can they be a house dog (sure! I think any dog can be a house dog and dad would much rather be a lap dog than a guard dog). I'm guessing they'll be around 65-75lbs, medium hair when fully grown.

They will have their first round of Da2ppV+L4 and 2 rounds of dewormer before going to their new homes. And to keep from any more oopsie litters happening I'll spay or neuter them for free when they're big enough.

11/09/2025

Supportive care is just as important as antibiotic therapy!

Everyone loves to talk about antibiotics. I mean, I love them too. They’re the Beyoncé of the vet world. They show up, center stage, spotlight on, music swelling, crowd cheering. Meanwhile, supportive care is the bass player. Quiet. Unbothered. Holds the whole band together. Doesn’t get credit until something goes very wrong.

Here’s the thing: pathogens are petty. They don’t just show up and say hello. They pick an organ, walk in like they own the place, kick over the furniture, eat all the snacks, and leave the calf’s body trying to file an insurance claim that does not exist.

Scours isn’t “just diarrhea.” Scours is the gut lining going, “I regret to inform you I have decided to dissolve. Good luck absorbing nutrients. Sincerely, chaos.” Pneumonia isn’t “just a cough.” It’s the lungs playing musical chairs with oxygen. Salmonella Dublin? That one shows up like: “What if I set the liver on fire, confuse the brain, lower circulation, and hide inside your immune cells so you cannot find me. Love, the villain of the story.”

So yes, antibiotics are fantastic. They fight the bug. We absolutely use them. However, supportive care is often the reason the calf survives long enough for the antibiotic to do anything at all.

Supportive care looks like electrolytes saying, “We are not dying today.” Probiotics saying, “Everybody please return to your assigned apartments in the gut lining.” Caffeine stepping in like a barn mom who has had enough: “Circulation, sweetheart, time to wake up.” Anti-inflammatories cooling the internal wildfire. Warm dry bedding making sure the calf doesn’t spend her last energy shivering. Pain control saying, “If you hurt, you won’t eat. If you won’t eat, you won’t recover. So here is your comfort.”

Supportive care also looks like me sitting in straw at 2 pm, 10 pm, and 5:30 am whispering, “Please drink this. Pretend it’s a frappuccino. I am begging you." It looks like motivational speeches directed at someone who is asleep with her tongue sticking out.

Then one day, she stands up. She shakes her head. She wanders over to the milk like she invented recovery. Which, honestly, she kind of did. Because we didn’t just fight the pathogen. We supported the calf.

Antibiotics fight the war. Supportive care keeps the soldier alive long enough to win it.

In this barn, supportive care is MVP. No trophy. No spotlight. Just quietly saving tiny lives on the regular.

10/22/2025

I'm currently gauging interest in a tick vaccine for cattle. This vaccine works similarly to flea/tick prevention in small animals by killing the tick when they bite the cattle stopping them from spreading common tick borne illness (mainly anaplasmosis, lyme, theileria). The vaccine would need to be given in the spring prior to tick "season", boostered four week later and then given every 6 months to be the most effective.

I need to put my order in soon for 2026 so if you're interested in ordering or learning more please reach out. **This is not a commerically available vaccine so you must have a valid VCPR with LMVS to purchase.**

10/06/2025

I pulled this post from another large animal veterinary clinic, but I wanted to give a little “behind the scenes” look at LMVS. We are back down to one veterinarian (Dr. Brown) and one part time vet tech (Sam). Sam and I are working our tails off but we can’t keep up. At the time of making this post I have over 250 calls/texts/emails I need to respond to that have piled up over the last few days. There are only so many hours in the day and I refuse to call people back after 10pm because I want to honor people’s boundaries. I work 14 hour days seeing appointments then come home and do office work from 10pm to 2am every night. I don’t just have to do the veterinary work, I’m also: scheduling appointments, answering questions, approving online prescription requests (which make me zero money and takes time but saves the owner a couple bucks), restocking the truck, ordering supplies for the clinic, entering invoices, typing medical records, responding to emails, researching cases, the list goes on and on. I don’t write this to complain, I just hope people can understand when I don’t get back to you immediately it’s not because I am ignoring you. I’m either out of service, working on another animal, or it’s another night I got home too late to call people back. Just know I am trying my absolute best but as my grandpa used to say "one man, one row" and I promise I will get back to you as soon as I can.

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FYI POST
Please be advised that there are very few Large Animal Veterinarians and even fewer that work on livestock other than horses. These Vet's put in 14-16 hour days on a regular basis and work urgent and emergency calls Saturdays and Sundays too. Your support and understanding is needed more than we can express. Family is set aside, Church is missed, quiet time is interrupted, farm chores are stacked up and unfinished, vacations are not even planned, and days off are non-existent.
You have a direct line to these Vet's at all hours of the day and night. So let's talk about what you can do:
1.) Calls and texts that are not emergencies should be made within the same hours as any other business. If your bank isn't open, your small animal vet isn't open or your own Dr office isn't open then maybe wait on that phone call or text until the next day.
2.) Know that scheduling is tight and Large Animal Vet's typically book out 3 or more weeks in advance for routine and non-emergency appointments. Don't wait until the last minute for needed vaccinations or Coggins.
3.) Large Animal Vet's because there are so few have a very large travel area. Appointments are scheduled depending on location. Know that you just might need to change your schedule to work within the location appointments.
4.) A lameness appointment needs a larger time window than routine yearly care/vaccinations. So, when you say "Oh yeah Doc, my mare's been limping for a couple weeks now can you take a look?" Yes, she is going to look at her but know the rest of her day will be behind schedule. We ask that when making an appointment you let us know all the details of what you are needing done.
5.) Hauling in helps tremendously. Dr Brown can see more patients in less time than driving from one farm to the next especially with the size of area she covers. It is much easier to get you in late evening for haul in appointments.
6.) Getting angry because your appointment can't be scheduled as quickly as you want doesn't help. Believe me we do the best we can to get you as quickly as possible.
7.) Know that "Jane Doe's" chicken or goat is just as important to them as your animal. Getting an attitude because you had to wait while Dr. Brown took care of their animal isn't helpful.
8.) If your Vet allows you to carry a balance on your account you should kiss the ground because very, very few do. All we ask is that you pay your bill in a timely manner.
9.) Have your animals caught and ready for the appointment. You may not realize how much time is spent waiting on you to catch, halter and bring up your horses or round up your goats/cows.
10.) If you have cattle, invest in proper working equipment. Cattle can hurt you!! An injury to your Vet can be career ending.
Take care of the few Large Animal Vet's so they can take care of your animals to the best of their ability!!!

08/26/2025

8/26 phone update

We are still unable to get text messages. We are working diligently to have this fixed as soon as possible and we will update everyone as soon as texts are coming through again.

The good news is our call line is back up! The phone number is still 304-997-2971.

You will be prompted to select from 5 options.
○Schedule an appointment
○Large animal emergency
○At home euthanasia
○Small animal emergency
○general inquiry

We are also frequently checking the email [email protected] and you can also message us here on FB and someone will get back to you as soon as possible but for now calling 304-997-2971 is the most direct option.

As always thank you for your patience as the business grows and tries to become more streamlined!

08/22/2025

We are in the process of switching phone services. We are currently not getting calls or texts. I apologize for the inconvenience

07/18/2025

Apparently Dr. Brown didn't know on Friday's we wear black. Shelby Hailey Ava Hacker Mindy Hall

06/17/2025

Big things are happening with Lewis Mobile Veterinary Services! Please join me in welcoming our newest veterinarian to the team! Dr. Hailey will be spending time in the truck with me getting to know everyone before she jumps in her own truck to see appointments.

Dr. Hailey is a 2025 graduate of Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine. She is a Mississippi native and received her B.S. in Biology from Mississippi University for Women, as well as a B.S. in Biochemistry from Mississippi State University prior to her veterinary degree. Dr. Hailey was raised on a beef cattle farm and this has translated into her goal of becoming a large animal veterinarian. She is married to Dow Hailey, and they have 3 dogs and 4 cats, all of which are named after NCIS characters. When not practicing veterinary medicine, Dr. Hailey enjoys reading, kayaking, wildlife photography, and traveling.

Dr. Hailey is thrilled to be a part of the community and to begin serving the area as a veterinarian.

05/27/2025

Please read this flier. It is regarding the situation at the Good Evening Ranch in Canvas, WV. Posted at request of the ranch owner and management.

05/15/2025

Update: no longer needed. Have a client looking for a nurse mare if anyone has one please let me know!