Beech Lake Animal Hospital, Inc.

11/03/2024

10/31/2024

Have a FA-BOO-LOUS Halloween 🎃

10/31/2024

The winner of our 8th Annual Halloween Costume Contest is....

🥁 💥 🥁 💥 🥁

🥇 IZZY THE CHICKEN 🐔

CONGRATULATIONS! Our contest was sponsored by Merck and will be providing you 6 months of BarkBox (or should I say a MeowBox 😻) We hope you love it, because we loved you 👏👏👏

🌟 ✨ 🌟 ✨ 🌟

The contestant who takes 2nd place and will receive 3 months of BarkBox from Merck is...

🥈 ROONIE THE PRISONER 🚓

GOOD JOB!

Our People's Choice winner will receive a single month of BarkBox. Congratulations,

🏅 HONEY THE BEE 🐝

WAY TO GO!

THANK YOU TO ALL THAT PARTICIPATED! All contestants will also receive a complimentary prize. Please contact the clinic for further information.

And thank you to our wonderful representative from Merck Pharmaceuticals 😁

Until next year... Have a Happy Halloween!

10/31/2024

👻 HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃

10/30/2024

Soaring in as our 15th contestant,

Its Fiona the Fierce 🏰

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10/30/2024

Our 14th Halloween's Costume Contestant is

Gizmo the Prisoner 🚓

Place your vote below!

10/30/2024

Halloween's Costume Contestant #13 (and our very first feline),

Here's Izzie the Chicken 🐔

Place your vote below!

10/30/2024

Rooting in at #12 for Halloween Costume Contest,

It's Dolly the Pig 🐷

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10/30/2024

Crawling in at #11 for our costume contest

It's Rosie the Spider 🕷

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10/30/2024

Todays the last day for our 8th annual Halloween costume contest!!!

1. Bring down your pet in a costume and we will take their picture. The picture will be posted to our page.
2. On Oct 30th, a third party will select this year's winner! Make sure to react to your favorites to get the Judge's attention. *
3. You MUST be a client to enter.

*This year the Judge will select 1st and 2nd place winners. The 3rd place is chosen by which contestant has the most votes (or reactions) excluding the 1st and 2nd place winners.

10/28/2024

Flying in our competition taking the 10th spot

It's Link the bat 🦇

Vote for him by reacting below and getting our judge's attention!

10/25/2024

Here's to our 9th contestant to our costume contest!

It's Asher as a lion 🦁

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10/25/2024

Here comes our 8th contestant...

Ellie as Elsa ❄️

Place your vote below by reacting to this post!

10/25/2024

Our 7th contestant just rode in!

Say howdy to Yadi the Cowboy 🐎

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10/25/2024

We have our 6th contestant for our costume contest!

Its Roxie as Snow White 🍎

Cast your vote below and react to this post!

10/25/2024

Around Halloween, everyone's afraid of scary creatures: vampires, ghosts and witches. But veterinary teams know that scarier than any of those spooks is the possibility that a beloved pet will get into something it shouldn't during the holiday like ingesting a toxin and getting sick. What can you do to prevent this fearful fright from happening? Share this handout far and wide with pet owners to avoid poisonings - and help folks get help quick when it does happen.

10/24/2024

Our 5th costume contest contestant his here!!

It's our 2022 champ, Roonie! This year he has escaped the PAW-itentiary and is a prisoner 🚓

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10/24/2024

Our 4th costume contest contestant has arrived...

It's Jameson the chicken 🐔

Place your vote below by liking this post and get the judges' attention!

10/23/2024

Our 3rd contestant is here!

Its Von the hotdog 🌭

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10/23/2024

FOUND

The pupper was found on Fred Odle Dr. Please contact us with any information on where this baby belongs to!

10/23/2024

It has come to my attention that Beech Lake Animal Hospital has been brought up by a local Facebook group in relation to the Rabies License Fee. I have chosen to remain silent on this issue until I gathered FACTUAL, USEFUL, AND DETAILED information to share with you all. I still do not have all of the information, but I will not stand by and allow speculators and secondhand gossip to misconstrue anything I have said or done thus far.

We are drowning in Henderson county and the southern states in stray and unwanted dogs and cats. I wanted to become a vet from a young age after caring for many strays and dumped dogs and cats in Wildersville, my hometown. I followed through with my commitment and am now committed to animal welfare in our community. My hospital is my primary source of income, as well as the income for my other 11 team members and their families. However, we still support our local rescues, shelters, government agencies, and even private individuals with greatly reduced fees, donations, fostering, etc. to the tune of thousands of dollars a year. As does every vet in our wonderful little town. We are tired. We are tired of the seemingly endless supply of unwanted animals. We want something better for our community and we have a current legislation that is willing to seek out answers and help the animals of our community. While we can poke holes in every solution provided because no plan is going to suit every individual’s preferences, I think we owe it to our community and the generational unwanted animal problem to at least hear our leaders out and not openly attack them or the clinics that so far have footed the entire problem on our own dimes.

As for the Rabies License Fee, I was involved in a meeting in February with Mayor Griggs, Mayor McCready, and fire and police chiefs. I believe there was someone there from the Sheriff’s department as well, but can’t remember for sure. Anyway, we discussed the overwhelming stray animal problem and lack of resources to contain, treat, and rehome them all. We discussed the challenges and possible solutions. We agreed that we need a program that not only helps offset the current overpopulation problem, but that also sets the foundation for long lasting change in our community. I am in favor of an actual animal control program with a facility to house, treat, and educate pet owners in our community. However, this takes money and time. The vets in this town have all been asked at one point or another to provide services for the past city animal control program. What everyone fails to understand is that this donated work takes time away from us seeing our regular patients and generating income to pay our teams and feed our families. So sometime over the summer I spoke with Alderman Fred Ellis and discussed the possibility of ME financing a new building for MY HOSPITAL, but adding on an attached animal control facility (attached to my hospital but completely separate with its own entrances and kennels) so that we would be in close proximity to each other and it would make my services much more accessible to animal control. However, it is not my sole responsibility to provide this community with a physical animal control facility (nor could I afford such a thing). So Alderman Ellis proposed that possibly the county/city could lease it from me if I built it. That was the extent of our conversation. I, in no way, proposed that the county build/fund my new hospital.

As for allegations that my hospital has been aiding the current animal control (just like Dr Davis has for years, including euthanizing) are true. I have recently performed euthanasias of dogs that have been in their care for MONTHS- some aggressive, some having gone absolutely crazy from being cooped up in a 4x6 kennel 24-7 with no end in sight. The truth of the matter is that no one is adopting these animals, some of them are dangerous. Every year my own hospital will inevitably end up with a number of strays that we try to adopt out and every year I have to threaten to euthanize them to get anyone to take them after spending $1000+ per animal of MY OWN MONEY to have them spayed/neutered, vaccinated, treated for injuries, and housed for weeks or months. There are not unending resources to give these animals a life worth living! If you have been in animal care for any length of time at all, you understand that there are worse things than a good death. Like slowly bleeding out on the side of the road, getting torn apart by coyotes, dying of starvation and cold/excessive heat. And if you think these euthanasias don’t affect us mentally and emotionally, you are quite mistaken. It makes us all so SO angry and bitter at the position we've been put in by our community to have to do the dirty work. But as it has been said over and over on Facebook, SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING. So I am calling on every person that wants a no-kill animal control to step up and foster. Pay for it out of your own pocket. And see how long you last. We are all (rescues, shelter, vet clinics, and government workers) doing the very best we can. There is no ulterior motive, to my knowledge, other than we are all tired of the suffering.

I’ll share with you all SOME (not even all) of the cases we assisted with from only May to July of this year. I am appealing to every one of you to not fall prey to the sensationalized rhetoric of a Facebook group. I will gladly and willingly answer any questions you may have. So far, I haven’t been asked any and have just had my name and business dragged through the mud because I dared to try to help our community. Shame on anyone that is trying to make this something it is most definitely not.

As an aside, if anyone would like to leave their name and number below, I will call you to come get the next stray before the city euthanizes it. It sure would save me and my team the heartache. 😢

10/23/2024

OUR HALLOWEEN PET COSTUME CONTEST ENDS IN 1 WEEK!

1. Bring down your pet in a costume and we will take their picture. The picture will be posted to our page.
2. On Oct 30th, a third party will select this year's winner! Make sure to react to your favorites to get the Judge's attention.
3. You MUST be a client to enter.

10/21/2024

Happy Veterinarian Technician Week to the best to support staff in the area! You are the beating heart and the hardworking hands of this hospital. You give your all to every pet that walks through the door and you treat them like they were your own. It is an honor to be able to work with you every day.
(Special thanks to Corporate Images, Inc for the great jackets, that will keep us warm this winter. )

10/21/2024

We have our 2nd contestant for our Halloween Costume Contest.

It's Honey the bumblebee🐝

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10/21/2024

We have our 1st contestant for our Halloween Costume Contest!

Its Loki the devil😈!!

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