Aloha Veterinary Services

03/10/2025

03/03/2025

**** This post isn’t meant for debate and what you do with your own pets is your business, this is for informational purposes only ******

Let’s talk about ma*****na and CBD for a moment….. ma*****na is toxic to dogs and cats in a variety of forms. Both THC and CBD forms can cause symptoms. There may also be related toxicities if the ma*****na is consumed in edible form such as brownies that also contain chocolate and caffeine. Side effects can include sedation, weakness, urinary incontinence or dribbling, high or low heart rate, hyper-excitability, easy to startle, light sensitivity and changes in body temperature. Large amount of toxin ingestion can lead to seizures or death.

Treatment is supportive while the “high” wears off and can include decontamination with fluids, anti-seizure meds and monitoring. Recovery can take 24-48 hours. Most times symptoms will resolve on their own but having them checked out is ideal no matter what!!

We know accidents can happen…. Ma*****na in the home should be treated as any other medication and put away, out of reach of pets and children!!! Please, do not blow smoke in your pet’s face to get them “high” because you think it’s funny!!!!

02/28/2025

I know I have discussed titers with many of you! While sending out a single titer can be expensive, there are some cost effective methods in groups, in house!! If I get enough interest, we will offer these lower cost titer tests in house in the future!!! After all, they are family and deserve better ❤️❤️❤️

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NOT SURE IF YOUR PET NEEDS SHOTS? ALWAYS TITER YOUR PET FIRST BEFORE OVER-VACCINATING!

“Vaccinosis, the name for the chronic disease, is caused by continued use of vaccines. These symptoms mimic the original disease in parts.

Vaccines have achieved many important benefits for companion animals, however, after spending many years monitoring the results of vaccinosis, those in the animal healthcare field now have a duty to re-examine and improve the current vaccine protocols for the health and safety of their patients. This is especially true for animals with compromised immune systems, since vaccines represent one more stressor that could prove to be the tipping point between health and disease.

Side effects from dog vaccinations can occur anywhere from instantly up to several weeks or months later. Vaccines can even cause susceptibility to chronic diseases that appear much later in a dog’s life." - Dr. Jean Dodds, world-renowned veterinarian immunologist

TITER TEST:

A titer test (pronounced tight-errr) is a laboratory or in-house veterinary test measuring the existence and level of antibodies (necessary to fight off disease) in your pet’s blood. Basically, it’s a test that will tell you whether or not you actually need to vaccinate your pet.

It’s also super useful when making a decision about vaccinating a pet with an unknown vaccination history, or for determining if pets have received immunity from vaccination.

Rodney Habib - Pet Nutrition Blogger

02/26/2025

We are open! We opened on Saturday with regular hours! Today is our 4th day and things are getting better daily! Still lots of work to do but we are completely functional! Thank you for the out pouring of love welcoming us to our new building!!

02/22/2025

Still some re-organizing to do but our permit got signed off on yesterday that we are ready for occupancy!!! ONWARD!!! 🌴🌴🌴

02/15/2025

We have been hard at it every waking moment we aren’t at the Polson clinic working! It’s coming together! We would like to clarify to everyone the reason behind this move was financial. Although we love the Polson location, the lease was not realistic for us to continue and be able to keep our prices reasonable. We have been looking since last summer. Contrary to some comments about “must be nice to buy a building (snarky)” is that in reality we will be paying less than half monthly for a building that will eventually be ours!!!!! With that being said, we cannot afford to put down fancy floors at this time so please bear with us!! We are working our tails off to get this done!! It’s going to be FABULOUS!!!! We appreciate your continued support!!! We are fortunate to have “others skills” besides the veterinary business to do this on our own with the help of our dear friends, Adam & Laurie Cowhig!! We could not get it done without them and their sacrifice to be working 7 days a week to make it happen!!!🌴🌴🌴

01/31/2025

Making good progress!!

01/25/2025

🔥❄️🔥❄️ MOVE DATES 2.19-2.21 ❄️🔥❄️🔥 we will be closed the 19th-22nd for the move, we will open in the new location on the 22nd with already scheduled appointments and surgeries!!

🎉🎉🎊🎊HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!! We are purchasing this building in Ronan and moving the practice in February! We have our work cut out with the remodel but we’ve already started! Probably the third week in February… maybe one Wednesday of disruption in hours. Our hours and phone number will all be the same. Once we dig in a little deeper working on the building, I’ll announce our move date!!! Thank you for your continued support!!!! Please share with everyone you know to help us spread the word ❤️🎊🎊🎉🎉

106 Main St.
Ronan, MT 59864

💦 🌴 Aloha 🌴💦

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….