Paws at Home Vet - Quincy, IL

08/31/2024

Wishing all of our friends a relaxing and wonderful Labor Day Weekend 🐾💜🐾

08/28/2024

Please keep yourselves and your pets safe this week as we reach excessive temperatures! ☀️ It's also important to know the signs of heat stroke. These include:
-heavy panting and rapid breathing
-excessive drooling
-dry mucous membranes
-bright red gums and tongue
-skin that’s hot to the touch
-higher heart rate
Make sure that your pet has access to lots of shade, water, and keep them off of the pavement as much as possible! Inside is best. As always, NEVER leave your pet in a hot car. Even for a short period of time.

08/27/2024

Happy National Dog Day & Good Night from Roxanne 🐶💜😴

08/26/2024

Mondays can get interesting (not for your cat!). Next Monday is Labor Day and our office will be closed. Please check your supplies and request refills soon. 💜🐾

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08/26/2024

Roxanne is here to help announce a reminder to get your refill requests in early this week as the Paws’ Office will close at 3 on Friday for the long Labor Day Weekend!

08/24/2024

How many photos do you need to take for 1 kitten profile picture?!? 😻😹

08/23/2024

Quincy K-9 connection has a beautiful quote at the bottom of their donation letters 💜🐾
“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” Hilary Stanton Zunin. 

08/21/2024

Problem solver 😉🐶💜🐾

08/20/2024

🤣 Happy Tuesday 🐶

08/20/2024

Very true! 👅

08/17/2024

Animals can have a transformative effect on our lives. 💜🐾
Fiona Apple shares a heartfelt message about the importance of her dog and her decision in 2012 to postpone her concert tour as she approached the end of her life. We may not all prioritize our lives the same way, but I think sharing your heart is always important. 💜🐾

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date. I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this. Enjoy the story...

It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one dogfighters used to boost the confidence of the contenders.

At nearly 14, I've never witnessed her instigating a fight, biting, or even growling, so it's clear why they selected her for that dreadful role. She embodies a pacifist nature.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying. Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.

Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable & comforted & safe & important.

Many of us these days, we dread the death of a loved one. It is the ugly truth of Life that keeps us feeling terrified & alone. I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time. I know that I will feel the most overwhelming knowledge of her, and of her life and of my love for her, in the last moments.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.

I'll be seeing you.

Love,
Fiona

Credits to the original owner.

08/17/2024

This fun and feisty feline commandeered the scale like it was a pedestal. Sorry to say his sweet family will be moving away soon, so today was a Farewell 💜🐾💜

08/15/2024

Animals are such a blessing!

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08/13/2024

What do you or your pet need to let go? Roxanne’s obsession is squirrels 🐿️🥜🐶

08/12/2024

Uhhhh 😳 - make sure you get veterinary healthcare advice from a reputable source.

08/12/2024

Have you gotten some good rest like Roxanne this weekend OR have you been busy?
This week is another challenge as we have staff on vacation, but we are really looking forward to September when we will announce a new office manager!!! 🐶💜😻

08/10/2024

Sticking with a Golden theme on this last weekend of the Olympics! 🥇🐶💛

08/09/2024

Happy Golden Friday 💛💛💛
These 2 adorable littermates have very different personalities which highlights that we are all unique and precious! Have a wonderful weekend. 🐾💛

08/06/2024

Would you naturally assume that your cat would desire a schedule and routine? They do! Perhaps even more so than dogs, so a stable environment is very important for a healthy life for your furry family too!!!

Predictability may not be the first thing that comes to mind when considering training, but it is actually an important factor for cats. Cats thrive on routine and schedules, which help them feel secure and safe in their environment. A consistent schedule can reduce a cat's anxiety because she won’t worry about what comes next and will have something reliable to depend on.

So, what does predictability have to do with training? By incorporating training sessions into your cat’s schedule at a set time each day, you are providing her with security and giving her a chance to build confidence and spend quality time with you.

To create a training routine, choose a time of day that fits easily into your schedule and is sustainable. There’s no need to create stress for yourself, so make it as convenient as possible. Remember, you only need 5 minutes a day for training sessions!

08/05/2024

08/03/2024

This week has had its share of ups and downs. These 2 sweet boys were a real highlight! 💜🐾💜 Housecalls offer us the opportunity to see animals in a more relaxed home setting.

08/03/2024

Have a good weekend! 🌻

07/31/2024

Our goals & our pets’ goals may be different!?! 😹 Have a good Wednesday!!!

Best Comic funny🤣🤣🤣

07/30/2024

What do you do when your support staff is on vacation and the power is out? Guess we’ll find out today 🙃

07/29/2024

Just a reminder as we head into another hot week! 🌞

Hot car kills the dog

07/27/2024

This rescue group, Quincy K-9 Connection - Animals in Need of Rescue, Quincy, IL is relentless in their efforts to give homeless animals in our county a second chance for a good life!!!
Please consider supporting their all volunteer efforts 💜🐾

Now seriously, just look at these FACES!!! So much love to give and fun times to be had. 💗💙🐾

Please join us in thanking the volunteers and rescue partners who worked together to help these precious souls! 😘

1 Kai, Male, Cocker mix
2-4 Puppies, Cavalier-JRT mixes
5 Mabel, Female, Dane-Lab mix
6-9 tabby kittens (NO TRANSPORT)
10-11 tabby kittens (NO TRANSPORT)
12 Buck, Male, Staffy mix
13 Reba, Female, Mixed breed
14 Cleo, Female, DSH brown tabby
15 Riot, Male, Mixed breed
16-17 kittens
18 DG cat, Male, DSH black
19-20 Clover, Female, Border Collie and puppy

REMINDER: Quincy K-9 Connection is a networking and transporting organization. When shelters (or individuals) ask us for help with their animals, we network to find placement with our rescue partners and then we assist with transport. All animals pictured here have left the Quincy area. They will be evaluated and prepared for adoption by their respective rescue organizations. For that important process to take place, we do not disclose rescue destinations. We will not respond to questions about the animals pictured here on Facebook.

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07/26/2024

Goodbyes are always harder than hellos. When we grieve the loss of a pet, it is an expression of the love we have felt for their entire life as a beloved part of our family.

Remembering all those beloved animals that have enhanced all of our lives and families. 💜🐾💜

07/25/2024

When you have pets, there are several things to consider if they are traveling with you, staying home, or boarding at a facility. All of these situations take some extra planning and strategies for success. Please contact your veterinarian to see if they are correctly vaccinated and for tips on anxiety or motion sickness. 🐶✈️🛳️🚋🚙🐱

I'm ready for travel 😹