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Pikesville Animal Hospital

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Located in Reisterstown, MD. 🐾 Pikesville Animal Hospital was founded in 2008 with the mission to provide advanced veterinary care to pets and personal service to every client. We have assembled a dedicated and experienced team and equipped our hospital to deliver the care that we would want for our own pets. View our hospital or staff sections for more detail.

12/01/2023

To help our clients as much as possible regarding the recent reports of Canine Infectious Respiratory Disease (CIRD), we will keep updated on our page.

Please understand, that there is no formal infectious disease surveillance program for canine diseases and pathogens. This means that a lot of the data that is needed to answer the questions every pet owner has is not available.

Media reports and anecdotal information are filling this void. It is impossible to know how much of the information from these sources is correct. We are currently cautious but not excessively worried about this problem in our patient population at this time.

While there is a concern that there may be a more problematic respiratory disease that is yet to be identified it is important to note that, in our opinion, there is not an overall increase in the prevalence of respiratory cases in this area at this time–in other words, there is not an “outbreak” spreading around.

A recent article that is a good review of current thoughts:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/12/01/1216209026/dog-respiratory-illness-mystery-cause-symptoms-research

11/24/2023

Canine Respiratory Disease Update

With all of the news outlets recently talking about an unknown Canine Infectious Respiratory Disease that is popping up in multiple US states, we wanted to be sure to reach out to all of our clients with the information we have available at this time.
As of now, what we know is that there are four states that are investigating reports of a severe respiratory disease in dogs. (Colorado, Oregon, New Hampshire and Florida). These cases are resulting in severe, acute pneumonia that is not responsive to antibiotics. There is a chronic cough that can last up to 6 weeks despite treatment.
These cases have not yet been linked to any known canine respiratory disease and the causative agent has not been identified.

We do not know:
Whether or not these cases are linked
How contagious the disease is
How often it results in clinical illness
If or when we will see it here in Maryland.

Recommendations:
Do not panic, despite the news reports we do not have any reason to think that the world is any more dangerous than it was before
Highest risk for ANY infectious respiratory disease should be avoided or at least use caution when visiting.
If your pet is showing any signs of respiratory illness, do not expose them to other dogs and reach out to us for evaluation and further treatment recommendations.
If you visit these environments regularly, we do recommend being sure that vaccination status is current for any disease that we are able to vaccinate for.

Again, the closest this has come to us thus far is in the North East, but with holidays and travel, it always has the chance to find it’s way here.
We hope that this helps, and as always, we will be updating you as we obtain any new information.

Thank you,
Your Team at PIkesville Animal Hospital.

11/21/2023

The hospital will be closing at 3 pm on Wednesday, November 22nd and closed on Thursday, November 23rd for the Thanksgiving holiday. If your pet needs a refill of a medication or a prescription diet, please be sure to pickup before we close on Wednesday. Our Vaccine Clinic will resume on Wednesday, 11/29th at 5 pm. We wish you a happy Thanksgiving.

10/10/2023

Our internet and phone services have been restored.

10/10/2023

Our internet is currently out leaving us without phone service or email. We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause, we will update you when we have service again.

05/30/2023

As we move into this summer, we will be temporarily discontinuing Saturday appointments. Our last Saturday available will be this Saturday, June 3rd from 8-1pm. We anticipate a normal resumption of Saturday hours as we move into the fall. As we have been since our opening in June 2008, we are committed to being available to our clients.

Our On Call Triage Service will continue to be available after hours to help if there is a possible problem needing attention and guide you on whether urgent or emergency care is needed. Our hours will remain the same during the week, open from 7:30 am-7 pm Monday through Friday.

We have several wonderful Urgent and Emergency Care facilities in our area to help provide care for our patients when we are unavailable. The following medical facilities are the ones we work most closely with:

Emergency Hospitals, Open 24/7
PetER, Towson
Mason Dixon Emergency Pet Hospital, Shrewsbury
Animal Emergency Hospital, BelAir
Dogs & Cats, Bowie

Emergency Animal Hospital of Ellicott City
Monday-Thursday 6pm-1am
Friday 6pm-Monday at 8am

Urgent CareFacilities:
Thrive Pet Healthcare of Catonsville
Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri and Sunday 10am-8pm
Saturday 8am-8pm

Urgent Vet Care, Cockeysville
Monday-Sunday 11am-9pm

02/17/2023

We will be closed Saturday the 18th.
We will reopen at 7:30 am Monday February 20th.
If you have an emergency please contact:
PetER @ 410-252-8387
Mason Dixon Animal Hospital @ 717-432-6030
Animal Emergency Hospital @ 410-420-7297
Emergency Animal Hospital of Ellicott City @ 410-750-1177
Dogs & Cats @ 301-809-8800
Thrive Pet Healthcare of Catonsville @ 410-788-7040
Urgent Vet Care @ 443-318-6500
Have a great weekend!

Address

1496 Reisterstown Road, Ste 111
Pikesville, MD
21208

Telephone

(410) 580-9119

Website

www.pikesvillevet.com

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