Enchanted Mountains Urgent Veterinary Care

10/21/2025

We were doing some organizing and we found a surprise filed under “C”

10/17/2025

Happy National Vet Tech week to our amazing LVTS!

10/14/2025

Excited to have a new neighbor in Westgate Plaza!! Go check out Untold Stories Bookstore, LLC if you’re coming into the clinic! Go spend time while you’re waiting on your pet and grab a book 🙂 opening soon!

10/06/2025

IT'S A NEEDLE! This is one lucky puppy because it made it all the way through the intestinal tract without causing a problem until the very very end. The moral of this story is to be sure to swallow sewing needles with the blunt end first!

It's been a while since we had an episode of FBI:OPD (Foreign Body Investigators: Olean Puppy Division), but we had a doozy yesterday! Investigate along with us and tell me your diagnosis in the comments :)

(Sorry we didn't get a picture of this little menace's face but take my word that she was a vision of innocence and cuteness!)

10/02/2025

Times are tough and vaccinations for your pets are often not top of your financial to-do list. But you can get fined for not having your pet registered and up-to-date on rabies! Dr. Gies is volunteering her time to help out. See the graphic for registration and locations.

09/21/2025

We had a wonderful time celebrating with our friends and supporting Operation Warm Hearts Inc. last night! As the administrative lead at Enchanted Mountains Urgent Veterinary Care, it is my honor to handle the charitable donations and we are proud to have supported OWH as a Gold Sponsor for the past 3 years.

If you’re not local, OWH is a charity that provides NEW coats, hats, gloves and many other clothing items to kids, free of charge. Hundreds of kids who might otherwise go without warm winter clothes benefit each year.

We were all so distracted with the fun that we forgot to get a picture during the festivities but we were able to drag Ann Marie and Fred out on this beautiful Sunday for a belated photo-op.

09/21/2025

Are you missing an approximately 1 year old, un-microchipped, male, neutered cat that looks like a pure bred Bengal? If so, please contact us by texting us at 716.257.4830. You CAN contact us here, but we're unlikely to see your message in a timely fashion. Let us know what kind of collar this friend is wearing or, even better, send us a photo so we can confirm ownership.

Please share this post on any pages that might help the owner find their cat.

(We're not sharing the photo yet so we can make sure he ends up with his actual owners.)

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09/15/2025

If you’ve been at the clinic in the evening since June, you may have had the privilege of meeting Ziti, as she was known to us, but her real name was Molly. She was a 16 year old Papillon weighing in at 2.9 pounds no matter what we fed her. Never seen such a fighter!

She passed away tragically last night and we will deeply miss her. In her honor, EMUVC is supporting Operation Warm Hearts Inc. because we would never have been enriched by her without the efforts of Ann Marie Sitter-Tompkins. We encourage everyone else to also support this wonderful organization.

Special thanks to Cindy Nupp for all her special care and help

09/01/2025

This sweet kitty came in from SPCA - Serving Allegany County, NY so close to death that we thought he was dead already - heart rate of 20, unreadable glucose and body temperature! We didn’t get a before picture because every second counted to save his life. Within minutes, he had a catheter in his bone and was receiving a blood transfusion and glucose. As you can see from this video taken the next day, he didn’t even get to take Labor Day weekend off from his shift at the biscuit factory, despite nearly dying! That is dedication!

09/01/2025

Look at this sweet little baby!! He has "puppy strangles" (juvenile cellulitis). We don't really know why this happens but it seems to have something to do with an over-active response of the immune system. He's got a classic case with pustules on his face and big lymph nodes under his neck but it can present in a few different ways. He should be feeling much better in a day or two now that we have started treatment on him!

09/01/2025

FYI - we are seeing a significant uptick in kennel cough cases this week. Even if your pet is vaccinated, it is possible to get respiratory infections from group situations.

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08/25/2025

We worked hard today! We did major surgery on a 15-year-old dog (he did great!) and a blood transfusion on another patient in addition to the typical gamut of porcupine quills, toxin and foreign body ingestions, and other problems ranging from mild (p**p stuck in fur, flea allergies) to life-threatening (internal bleeding, hit by car). Within 90 minutes of opening, we had seen 10 patients and done a surgery. For comparison, Cornell's veterinary emergency service (with multiple docs, specialties and lots more staff) sees about 50 patients on a 24-hour basis. We saw 33 in 9 hours, which is fairly typical busy day for us. Their emergency caseload is almost identical to ours (their department head shared a typical 24-hour period with Dr. Gies, which is how we know this). We even had a couple of staff members off today!

We do our best, each and every day, to care for as many patients as we can in the best way we can. If it seems like your wait time is long or nothing much is happening that you can see, please understand that we are working hard, all the time, to make a difference for you and your pet.

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