Jewell Animal Hospital, P.C.

09/11/2024

Great memories!

06/29/2019

UPDATE: Due to the overwhelming response from our original post, we have more than we can use right now. We ask that you not send anymore.

To all our bra wearing friends! When you discard one you no longer want please remove the eye closures from the fasteners for us! We use them to mend our turtle shells! They can be sent to Wildthunder wars 2584 Henley Ave. Independence IA 50644 Thank you!!

06/24/2019

“Every Time”

Every time you say vets are money grubbing or ‘too expensive’ or just in it for the money,

Every time you decline all diagnostics, yet demand to know “what’s wrong with my pet”,

Every time at a social function or other completely inappropriate place you find out that someone is a vet you ask them for free advice about your animal,

Every time you feel justified posting a s&^**y practice or vet review when everything was done according to the standard of care but your pet died anyway,

Every time YOUR lack of preventative care resulted in your pet’s early death, yet you blame the veterinarian,

Every time she gets in early and stays late and works an 80-hour week because your pet that had been ill for days suddenly becomes an emergency at 5pm on a Friday, and you demand to be seen, claiming these heartless vets won’t treat your baby,

Every time someone complains about the cost of veterinary care, comparing human medicine and insurance subsidies to pet ownership,

Every time someone doesn’t pay their bill and thinks they are entitled not to because pet ownership is their “right”,

Every time someone walks in to a clinic and threatens to “sue your ass if you make one mistake with my baby”,

Every time a graduate vet looks at the hundreds of thousands of dollars in crippling debt and listens to clients driving Mercedes and BMWs complain about the cost of a spay using good anesthetic care and adequate pain management,

Every time – You are part of the problem.

The problem is su***de in veterinarians. Most of us went to veterinary school because we care. We have a calling to care, but there is a dark and expensive cost to compassion.

Think before you act or speak.

06/20/2019

Did you know that Disneyland is home to 20+ eartipped cats?! I genuinely love that a major corporation, that could very easily choose callousness to community cats, instead chooses compassion and TNR.

I’ve been dying to meet the cats of Disneyland forever, so I was absolutely giddy getting to meet beautiful Francisco! I will admit, I may have squealed.

The best part of the experience was that as a crowd started to form around her to ooh and aah, the staff was actively educating the public about her eartip—pointing out that this is a sign she is cared for, she is fed, she is spayed, she is loved.

That really impressed me. Having consulted with so many businesses that see the presence of community cats as a problem to be solved, it warmed my heart to see that they have been embraced. After all, community cats are part of the community, and they are worthy of respect, autonomy, and protection.

Thanks Cat Man Of West Oakland for inviting me to celebrate your birthday at Disneyland. Happy bday, dude!!! 🐱

05/28/2019

05/17/2019

The cat had more than 2 million followers on Instagram.

05/13/2019

Nature is truly beautiful!

04/04/2019

Please read your labels !!

04/01/2019

03/27/2019

ALTOONA, Iowa -- The Iowa Department of Agriculture has confirmed a highly contagious virus in a horse barn in Altoona. Equine Herpes Virus or EHV-1 can be fatal to horses and can easily spread from one horse to another through humans and even inanimate objects. It’s not a threat to humans or othe...

03/27/2019

The FDA asked consumers on Tuesday to discard three lots of Darwin’s Natural Pet Products dog food due to a Salmonella contamination