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Kentucky Veterinary Surgery Providing Specialty Surgery service to you in the comfort of your veterinarian's office.

01/10/2025

How the week started...... Shoveling out of the driveway!

Then we were able to tackle this mass removal on a sweet pup (whom we had done an ACL surgery on last year!). Masses on the muzzle can be challenging as closure can be tight. We were able to use a technique called an advancement flap to move skin around to reconstruct the muzzle after getting the mass off with good margins. It's a fairly cosmetic closure for her! She may just grin a little more on that side now 😁

(Pic of her ACL surgery last year that was a bit more complicated than a normal TPLO due to a deformity to her shin bone). She's now walking great on this leg!

Hoping for a speedy recovery for her. 💜🐶

11/28/2024

🍁 Happy Thanksgiving from Kentucky Veterinary Surgery! 🦃

Today, we pause to reflect on all we’re grateful for—and at the top of our list are *you*, our incredible clients, and your beloved pets. Your trust in us to care for your furry family members means the world. 💛

We’re thankful for the wagging tails, purring patients, and the joy of helping pets live their best lives.

From our family to yours, we wish you a day filled with family, laughter, and maybe a little pie (for the humans, of course 😉).

We’re so grateful for the opportunity to serve you!

11/19/2024

🐾🎉 Year 4, Here We Go!! 🎉🐾

Kentucky Veterinary Surgery is thrilled to celebrate the start of our 4th year in business! Over the past three years, we've been honored to provide expert surgical care to pets right in the comfort of your trusted family veterinary clinic.

We couldn't have done it without the amazing veterinarians we partner with and the pet parents who trust us with their beloved companions! 🐶🐱

Here's to another year of compassionate care, surgical excellence, and helping pets live their best lives! Thank you for being a part of our journey.

🗓️ Need specialty surgery?? Ask your veterinarian about us!

11/08/2024

"VSP became a whole lot cuter yesterday when Miss Willow was there with her fashionable donut! Glad we could help this sweet girl out!"

10/18/2024

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟

We did a thing!! KVS has hired TWO new assistants! We have thrown them in the deep in over the past two weeks and they are doing GREAT!

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We’re thrilled to introduce our new team member, Riley! 🎉 She will be joining us as a vet assistant and brings 5 years in the vet med field. Riley is a graduate of WKU and hopes to attend veterinary school in the future.

Riley is passionate about learning new surgery skills, and we can’t wait for her to share her expertise with our team.

Join us in giving Riley a warm welcome! 💼✨

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We’re also excited to welcome Kelsey to our team as a Veterinary Assistant! 🎉 With a passion for animal care and 3 years in the veterinary field, she is ready to provide the best support for our furry friends. She is excited to see the higher end procedures KVS sees and to have Dr. Bruce mentor her and work with Riley. She also wants to pursue veterinary school in the future. And she's a twin!

Kelsey loves walking her dog and going to the gym, and we can’t wait for her to get to know all of you and your pets!

Join us in giving Kelsey a warm welcome to the family! 🐶🐱

08/02/2024

Our friends at Animal hospital of Nicholasville are going through some big changes, and they are KNOCKING IT OUTTA THE PARK! We have been going there for over 2 years and have always loved working with the amazing team of staff and doctors. But Wednesday we walked into a brand new OR and surgery prep area. And let me tell you, every detail is perfect! We bring a lot of specialized equipment with us to do these advanced procedures, and sometimes space gets tight (see the last picture for where surgery used to be). But this new space is wide open! I can't believe the transformation. We can't wait to be using this space for years to come!

06/24/2024

Do you have a Frenchie or other bulldog? Then I can bet they snore! Also applies to pugs, Boston terriers, maltese, etc. Why is that??

Dogs with a "smush face" are called brachycephalic. This literally means short head. And while they look cute, they have some structural issues. As you can see in Royalty here, her nasal openings (called "nares") are almost non-existent. This means she has to breathe very hard to get air in through her nose. So we can do some surgery to open up the nasal openings. The second picture shows the difference between the two when the first side has been completed.

Another structural issue with our brachycephalic breeds is that they have an elongated soft palate. This means the soft tissues in the back of the throat occlude the airway when they try to breathe. The third picture shows the breathing tube surrounded by all this extra tissue. So a surgeon can shorten the soft palate to increase the space around the airway opening, making it less likely that it becomes obstructed (see the fourth picture).

There are other structural issues that we cannot surgically address, so we can never make these pups symptom-free, but early surgical intervention can definitely improve their quality of life!

05/25/2024

Been a busy month for us! Super honored to be trusted to work on a K9 officer. This local hero had a couple different things going on in his knee.

In the second photo, the blue arrow shows some mineralization in his quadriceps muscle. This indicates that the officer likely injured this muscle years ago and the body responded by placing mineral within the muscle.

The red outline in the second picture shows that there is extra fluid within the knee joint. Compare that to the third picture (of his good leg) where the joint is a normal black color.

The yellow arrow in the second picture shows that the tibia (or shin bone) is shifted forward. The only way to get this shift is if the ACL isn't doing it's job.

The last two pictures are after the TPLO procedure that we performed to stabilize the knee. Once that bone heals and after some rehab with , this K9 Officer will be back patrolling Lexington's streets!

05/06/2024

What happens when four Veterinary Specialists in Louisville get together for a little fun?? What an end to the Derby festivities! Had an absolute blast hanging with friends at the front of the track for the 150th - complete with a photo finish! Not sure if we can ever top this one!

03/28/2024

How sweet are our friends at Gailor Animal Hospital?? They surprised me with a birthday cake today when we showed up for surgery on one of their patients. Thanks so much guys!

01/05/2024

SOOO excited for my friends! Stopped by (Veterinary Specialist Partners- VSP ) today on opening day to welcome them "back" to town. Not only are they offering Internal Medicine and Oncology, but a new Urgent Care to Louisville. And we will be happy to help break in the new OR with surgical cases when needed! 😂

12/25/2023

I'm so glad I live in a world where there is Christmas!

12/23/2023

On Thursday we finished up our week at two fun clinics. The first was a TPLO at in Georgetown. They are fairly new friends to KVS but we always enjoy our time there with Dr. Bridge and Dr. Biddle. And Sydney rocks the anesthesia!

Then we followed up with another TPLO on a big sweet boxer at Green Tree Animal Hospital. We have been going there since last summer. Dr. Yocum has a super friendly practice and Maija is always on her A game and helps us immensely.

It was a perfect day with the perfect mix of old and new friends. And with that, KVS puts a wrap on 2023 as we are taking a much needed break for the rest of the year to spend some quality time with family. We will be back in 2024 well rested!

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Every dog had it's day today as we got to spend time with the ALWAYS fun @banksvetlex crew. A couple of their sweet patients got TPLOs today. Look at their perfectly positioned pre-op X-rays, which allows me to make precise measurements, which leads to accurate intra-op technique. #kyvetsurgery #vetmed #kentuckiana #dogsoflexington