Aloha Veterinary Services

01/19/2025

🐶🐶🐶 🐾 🐾 🐈 I suspect it’s hard to love anyone in the Veterinary healthcare field. We get up early and don't have time to drink coffee over the newspaper. We come home late and are too tired to cook or it's too late to even start a meal for our family. We work extra hours because we know there are sick animals who need us and we are all that they have. We miss events, holidays, birthdays, and our children's school programs or sporting events. We think about our patients even when we leave the building, wondering if we helped them in any special way. We don't want to talk when we come home. We’ve talked all day. We don't want to move when we come home but there’s still LOTS of work to do. We’ve moved all day and we’ll keep moving until our own animals are cared for. It may seem that we have left all our caring, our heart, and our love at work, then have come home to you empty. We probably have. But we don't tell you that many times at work we’re mired by anxiety and we’re scared; very scared that we’re missing something. Scared we will let our patient down, or worse. Our patients are our families, too. We don't tell you how some of our patients are dying and this makes us sad. We don't share with you how our hearts melt when our patients give us that loving kiss or tail wag that makes our day even though we still know they feel terrible and can't tell us why, we just have to use our experience and do our best to treat to the best of our ability. I suspect it is hard to love a Veterinary healthcare worker, but know this: your Veterinary healthcare worker needs your love, your understanding, and to know that you get it. We need to be the one taken care of every once in a while. We need someone else to take charge of the details because doing it ourselves constantly is exhausting. I would like to thank those of you out there who love us! I also would like to thank those hardworking Veterinary healthcare professionals out there that have sacrificed and will do it again without hesitation. 🐶 🐕 🐾 🐈 🐈‍⬛

🌴 Aloha 🌴

01/14/2025

We have not met this pup but she needs a home and here’s a write up from her caretaker at this point!

Frankir is about 7 months old, spayed female. She is being rehomed due to some unfortunate circumstances. She has all her shots as well. We think her breed is grate dane and a blue tick hound. She does love to bay when she really misses me or is really being sassy. Frankie loves to destroy toys, and she has plenty of them, so from the start, she has left our stuff alone, she knows better. She loves to play tug and also likes to fetch (only inside because there's too much stimulation outside). She loves baths, omigoodness! It's the drying off part that's the most challenging. She loves to cuddle and plants her large self right between my legs every night at the same time, that's how I know we're close to bedtime. She is crate trained and likes to sleep in her crate and will go in herself most times. She listens well for a 7 month old dog and knows; off, sit, wait for dinner, no more water, that's enough, lol! Sorry, just some key phrases. But she is very food driven, so she works well with trainer treats. We're working on the phrase gentle because she snatches food out of my hand sometimes. She eats from a slowly bowl because she eats what she can when she can. Right now it's at 4 cups a day, 2 in the am, and 2 at dinner. And she loves marrow bones so much, fresh from the butcher too! What else can i say, I love her very much, at this time in my life I just cant handle her. She needs training on manners and walking on leash, she needs a family or person who is prepared for what kind of challenge and joy she is. I'm asking a rehoming fee of $200 for shots, spayed, food, time and toys. She also comes with her crate, pillow and toys.

01/02/2025

Our second year open we altered 377 dogs and 901 cats 😮 !!! 76 more dogs & 306 more cats than the first year!!

12/24/2024

A gentle reminder…. When you have family visit and they bring their dogs and they don’t know your dogs, most often they will not play well together even though we would like to think so!!! Do yourself and your doggies a favor and just don’t….

12/16/2024

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12/16/2024

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We'd like to clarify that the information shared in our recent post about foods for dogs was sourced from a veterinary site. We have never claimed to be vets. The key takeaway is: if you're unsure whether a human food is safe for your dog, please consult a vet.

Our intention was never to cause harm or upset anyone. We sincerely apologize for any confusion. Thank you for understanding. 🐾❤️

Watch what your dog munches on, every time! 🐾

12/10/2024

What does it really mean to "let them go on a good day?"

It means it will be your hardest day. It won't matter if you've never done it before, or if you're gifted a dozen good days, each good day is always the hardest one.

It means they won't know what the fuss is about, why they're getting so many treats and extra belly scratches and hugs.

It means you will second guess your decision right up to the very last moment, the very last breath. You'll second guess yourself afterwards.

They'll knicker at you when you arrive, just like any other day.

The weather, perfect. They are content. They look sound today. They are breathing well, eating well, they get up easily enough from a nap in the sun....the list goes on. Whatever issue they struggle with, today they aren't.

Today you euthanize them.

This is what going on a good day means: sending them out while they are happy, while they are healthy, while they are eating well, walking well, etc. You make the choice to do it before an emergency takes the choice away from you, before your horse has to experience any more trauma or pain.

Their last memory will be filled with love.

It'll rip your heart out every time.

We can see the patterns and the increasing trends. We can predict it a little. We can obsess over the past and worry about the future.

Fortunately, horses, all animals, live in the moment. They don't worry about those things. They aren't worried about winter. They aren't worried about July, or allergies, or progressive diseases like cushings or dsld. They don't think about the close calls they've had before, and they certainly aren't thinking about the close calls that are destined to come, as their body continues to age and break down. They just are. They are happy and healthy, or fearful and in pain, on that day, in that moment.

It is the most difficult, most loving gift we are blessed to be able to give.

And that first ice storm will come, that first deep snow, that first heat wave....and you will find a little relief, no longer doubting the choice you made.

They were happy, and safe, and loved. That is all that matters.

It is never easy. ~Kelly Meister, author

12/06/2024

Always in moderation, of course!

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12/06/2024

12/05/2024

The dogs I know have more soul, more heart, more love, more connection, more patience, and more softness than any human I’ve ever met. They don’t ask for anything, no explanations, no justifications. They just stay, steady and sure, as if they’ve always known what you need before you do.

People complicate love. They wrap it in conditions, dress it in expectations. Dive it towards pain and disappointment. A dog doesn’t do that. Their love is raw, honest, and without strings. Without complications. They see you..not the version you show the world, but the one you keep buried. And they love that version most of all.

I’ve met plenty of people, but none have ever matched the soft, gentle loyalty of a dog. They don’t try to fix you; they just sit beside you, whole and true. Through thick and thin. And that’s more than most humans will ever understand.

R.M. Drake ⭐

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12/05/2024

Small spay/neuter clinic today for one of the rescues. 26 cats/kittens in 3 1/2 hours 💪 💪 ❤️

12/05/2024

We will be closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 🎄🎄

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving 🍁

Please keep them safe. They give you 100% every single day, the least you can do for them is keep them safe.

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Patrick Swayze once said, "They told me my house smelled like dogs, and I asked them, do you know what a dog smells like?" It smells like gratitude, loyalty, nobility, affection, pure unconditional love. And in spite of all they've been through, they smell no resentment. So blessed that my house smells like dogs. "