The Vetting Zoo

03/25/2025

Big shout out to Sarah Neiswender Diane K. Teske , and Melita McCully for supplying our staff with lots of yummies yesterday and today!!!! You helped make an otherwise sad day seem just a bit brighter!

03/22/2025

FB surgery on a weekend! Blessed to be a part of such a wonderfully caring family.....after some being up all night, and the rest volunteering at the vax clinic for 6 hours, we all still came together to save a life! Special shout out to Dr Leone at PETS, who got the patient diagnosed and started on a treatment plan until we could get him to surgery!!

This is us....

03/21/2025

Emmie was an adorable little girl we met for the first time today and needless to say, we ALL fell in love! One of TVZ lobby pups was needed to show how tiny she was! Welcome Emmie! We cannot wait to watch you grow. 💕

03/21/2025

💖🐾💖!!!

03/21/2025

Hey all! This is amazing.....The Vetting Zoo has over 7900 followers!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!

Please share our page and help us reach 8000 followers by April ! It's our ten year anniversary!!!

Please share our page for.our low cost vaccine clinics! We love helping the community and would love to reach more people!!!!

Have a safe and great weekend!

Dr D and the Zoo Crew

03/21/2025

Happy Friday everyone!!!

Some more news: Dr Jehna will be moving on and leaving TVZ at the end of May. I'll be flying solo for a little bit ...... Maybe.

This will be a summer of change ....very appropriate for our 10-Year Anniversary.

Stay tuned for an exciting announcement, maybe 2, within the next few weeks!

Dr. D

03/17/2025

Happy St Patrick's Day☘️☘️

Hello Zoo Followers! We have a lot of developments and news that will be evolving over the next few months. Keep checking back for more info!!!

The first thing I need to announce is that as of JULY 1, 2025, we will no longer be working with Chewy Pharmacy.

We have had multiple issues and it is incredibly difficult to work with them, from a vet office's point. They are a great company to clients but a very difficult one to Vet offices. We have OUR OWN online pharmacy called VetSource. They have everything that Chewy has, but their products are GUARANTEED.

VetSource offers auto-ship as well, and is very comparably priced!!

Also, any THIRD PARTY PHARMACY PRESCRIPTION will carry a $5 charge. We will fill out a physical prescription and hand it to you. We will not be faxing any scripts.

MULTIPLE PHARMACIES, from Wal Mart to CVS to Rite Aid, have had issues with receiving our Rx's that we have faxed to them. This makes a lot more work for all of us here. We fax once, but then end up faxing 4-5 times, in some cases. This way, we will take time to write a Rx, and then hand it to you.

Unfortunately, in these economic times, any extra time put into third party prescriptions has to be compensated. The 2-3 HOURS A WEEK the doctors spend filling out prescriptions are hours that can be spent with clients and pet care.

If you have ANY issues with VetSource, please let us know. We have the ability to electronically approve or deny prescriptions!!! This will allow technicians to get our verbal approval and cut back on a lot of time spent by everyone here. While you are here, we can even set up your profile while in the exam room, if you would like!

By visiting our website: www.thevettingzoo.com, you can click on the VetSource icon and begin setting up your account. Please call or email with any issues!

Thank you for understanding. As always, we try and keep costs down, but the time spent on processing prescriptions from Chewy and other third party pharmacies, is getting to be overwhelming.

Dr. D and the Zoo Crew

02/24/2025

This online store will close at midnight on Monday, March 10th . No late orders or changes to orders can be accepted. Please allow three weeks from the close of the store for production and fulfillment. Production of all orders, no matter when placed, does not begin until after the close of the s

02/23/2025

The next time you visit the Zoo, look up in the tree out front--we have an owl friend!!! He seems to like it here.

02/18/2025

Our low cost vaccine clinic for This Saturday is on! No snow means we can have a clinic! Yeah!

02/17/2025

Good morning TVZ followers!

Due to the high winds, we have lost power a few times this morning already. We do have a generator but the power hasn’t been off long enough each time to kick on. If you are trying to call in please leave a voicemail with your name and number so we can give you a call back on a different phone. If we are able to answer your call please be advised that we may lose you if we lose power during that time. You may also send an email to [email protected] to contact us.

Thank you all for your patience and have a great week!

02/15/2025

Hey All! Please check back here at NOON (OR AFTER), on Friday, February 21st for updates on our Low Cost Vaccine Clinic currently scheduled for Saturday, February 22nd. Any cancellation will be posted HERE BY NOON ON FRIDAY.

If we get snow on Thursday, like predicted, the clinic will be cancelled, as the field will be snow covered. We apologize for any and all inconvenience this may cause.

Please see our clinic post for information regarding the low cost clinic held in Steelton each month, if your animal is in need of vaccines.

02/09/2025

Ok Zoo Crew, show us your fur kid Super Bowl Fans!!! To start it off, here is Apollo, Sarge and Hawkes. They are three kids that come to see us! PS: This is a no judgement zone. :). Eagles fans OR KC fans welcome!!!

02/08/2025

Latest Update. If you call, no answer, but website still active. Perhaps when that expires, it will shut down, too.

Moral of this story-- regularly check your microchip registry!!! And please don't ever hesitate to have us check to be sure it still reads when you come in for a visit!!! :

Update: jury is out as to whether or not this is true. I could definitely track a chip on their website, but apparently people cannot get thru to them on the phone. Just click on the QR codes with caution.

There is a post going around that is stating if you have a Save This Life microchip, it is no longer registered. The company is STILL in business. I was able to look up a number on their website. We have not heard of this company before, either. So, we are not sure if this is possibly a scam. Proceed with caution in sharing the post! (We were not able to find any info that they have gone out of business).

Thanks all!
Dr D

02/04/2025

Hey Zoo Followers!!! just a quick update: I am officially back at work, but on a VERY limited schedule. As I am getting back into the swing of things, my body is telling me how much I can and can't do. Right now, I am doing appointments, because I'm not sure my back will allow me to sit for long periods of time for surgery.

As my schedule is made, literally day by day, our reception staff may be calling if you have any appointment scheduled in the future to try and move you up.

**I still have quite a few restrictions. No bending, lifting, twisting or squatting (no BLTS). And so for now, I am seeing cats and small dogs, under 20-25 pounds **
I am not sure when this will change.

If you call and make an appointment, and have a cat or small dog, please let them know if you'd like to be on the Cancellation List. These are the clients we will call first, to fill my appointments.

Thank you all so much for your care and understanding. I thought I would be back in full swing by now, but my body thought otherwise. The surgery went well. (Lumbar fusion L1-S1), but the recovery did not and I had a few set backs. It has been 9 weeks, and the full healing process will most likely go on for a year.

Dr Jehna has been doing an exceptional job at holding TVZ together, along with our amazing practice manager and equally amazing staff! I look forward to being back and seeing everyone again soon!

Thank you!!!!

Dr D

(Picture is Meesha, my main canine nurse during this time!)

02/04/2025

Interesting read on avian influenza.....the virus doesn't bind well to human cells, BUT may mutate at any time to do so.

Faculty are working on a vaccine for the H5N1 virus, studying its transmission, and helping the state test samples from birds and mammals.