Animal Hospital at Brier Creek

12/19/2024

This dog is absolutely beautiful!! Someone adopt him please!!

Sometimes for no other reason that “it just isn’t going to work” a dog is returned to us- no one’s fault- just something is not “clicking”. And so it was with Blaze- through absolutely no fault of his own- he is back! This beyond handsome 6 yr old Golden Retriever is hoping for a new family for Christmas! Blaze does well with most dogs, well behaved children, and takes his job as Mole Catcher very seriously! Blaze has been a very good boy this year.
Let’s make his Christmas Wish Come True!

12/19/2024

Our New rescue pets we just obtained from the Durham APS.
Mousetrap is a 2 year old male 16 # mixed breed. He is super sweet but very nervous.
Cindy LouWho is a 3 month old female kitten who is very malnourished, dehydrated, skinny, and has a severe upper respiratory infection. She is currently very ill.

Welcome our new fur babies!

12/18/2024

Oh no! Doc, not the gloves!!
Kidding! Santa Siren is a bit shy at the vet but at least was spared the re**al exam
Today!

12/14/2024

Food recall: Blue Ridge Beef Puppy Mix due to Samonella

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/blue-ridge-beef-issues-voluntary-recall-blue-ridge-beef-puppy-mix-due-salmonella-contamination contamination

Dangerous to both people and pets!!

Blue Ridge Beef is recalling 9,600 lbs of their 2 lb log Puppy Mix Lot #08/06/N25 & 08/16/N25 UPC 854298001696 due to a contamination of Salmonella. (Lot numbers are stamped in the clips on the end of the chubs/bags)

12/13/2024

We are all so proud of you!! Veterinary Nurse Jenna has graduated from NCSU! Just 4 more years of school to become a Veterinarian!!

11/29/2024

Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Reminder we are closed for the holiday until Monday!

11/28/2024

We are closed for Thanksgiving until Monday December 2nd!!

10/26/2024

Winners of the 2024 Dog Photography Awards

The most pawsome photo competition in the world!

10/25/2024

Cats improve our mental and physical health!

Cats have lived with humans for thousands of years.

10/24/2024

Foster and adopt! Rockstar Pink can, you can too !!

He's living the good life now.

10/24/2024

UPDATE!!! I came home on the 26th in the pm. I had surgery on my broken nose last week. I have rechecks the end of this week. I am still having to mostly rest and get tired easily and am sore and taking pain meds& antibiotics.

WRECK UPDATE- a black BMW SUV ran out of gas on 540 in a middle lane. The owner of the car left the scene of the accident!!

Thank you 🙏 to all the EMTs, doctors, nurses, nurse aides, PT, OT professionals, at Wake Med Raleigh and the Good Samaritan that helped at the car accident scene for saving my life! I am so grateful! It has been a little over a week and I’m going home!

Please if you have a car accident and your car can be driven, please move it off the road to the shoulder immediately! Stopping in the middle of 540 can literally kill someone!

Dr Goetz

10/10/2024

What radio station in Raleigh -Durham do you listen to?

10/09/2024

How many of you think this is true?

10/05/2024

See this information on FOOD SAFETY research at NCSU! Also note the information about antibiotic resistant E. coli found in most meats! Do not feed raw diets!!

Good health begins with good nutrition, and College of Veterinary Medicine researchers work closely with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration to protect the nation’s food supply from veterinary medication residues, pesticides, environmental toxins and the types of foodborne pathogens that sicken over 48 million Americans every year.

Dr. Ronald Baynes, a director of the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank, says the 42-year-old organization co-led by NC State maintains the most comprehensive veterinary pharmacokinetic database nationwide that veterinarians can consult in real time to mitigate drug and chemical residues from animal-derived food.

Much of the databank’s information comes from live animal and pharmacokinetic modeling research to better understand how changes in animal health status and physiology can influence how long it takes an animal’s body to process medications or recover from chemical exposure. This work is conducted by NC State scientists, including clinical veterinarian Dr. Danielle Mzyk, ruminant medicine associate professor Dr. Derek Foster and assistant professor Dr. Jennifer Halleran, along with a team of technical support staff and graduate students.

“When we publish and present our work, we’re sharing with the world that animal and human health are interconnected,” says Baynes, interim head of the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology.

When we publish and present our work, we’re sharing with the world that animal and human health are interconnected.”
– DR. RONALD BAYNES, interim head of the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology
Faculty within the department extensively study antimicrobial resistance, which can lead to the proliferation of disease-causing agents in our food, animals and environments. Dr. Sid Thakur, executive director of the university-wide Global One Health Academy, veterinary microbiology professor Dr. Megan Jacob and Global Health Program director Dr. Paula Cray are key partners with the Food and Drug Administration, leading grants within the organization’s National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System and GenomeTrakr project, which helps identify drug-resistant pathogen strains across the globe.

In a recent project, the group tested for E. coli in meat sold at grocery stores statewide, found evidence of multidrug-resistant E. coli in a significant share of the meat tested and isolated an emerging E. coli strain in some samples. This research showed the need for additional studies on the origins of drug resistance and further monitoring of a new pathogen.

Earlier this year, a team including Thakur and Dr. Ben Callahan, an associate professor of microbiomes and complex microbial communities, developed a new computational technology to serotype, or classify, E. coli and Salmonella enterica by sequencing a single-marker gene. Their work is a key steppingstone in improving and expediting the detection of foodborne pathogens and avoiding illness outbreaks. SAFETY
Good health begins with good nutrition, and College of Veterinary Medicine researchers work closely with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration to protect the nation’s food supply from veterinary medication residues, pesticides, environmental toxins and the types of foodborne pathogens that sicken over 48 million Americans every year.

Dr. Ronald Baynes, a director of the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank, says the 42-year-old organization co-led by NC State maintains the most comprehensive veterinary pharmacokinetic database nationwide that veterinarians can consult in real time to mitigate drug and chemical residues from animal-derived food.

Much of the databank’s information comes from live animal and pharmacokinetic modeling research to better understand how changes in animal health status and physiology can influence how long it takes an animal’s body to process medications or recover from chemical exposure. This work is conducted by NC State scientists, including clinical veterinarian Dr. Danielle Mzyk, ruminant medicine associate professor Dr. Derek Foster and assistant professor Dr. Jennifer Halleran, along with a team of technical support staff and graduate students.

“When we publish and present our work, we’re sharing with the world that animal and human health are interconnected,” says Baynes, interim head of the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology.

When we publish and present our work, we’re sharing with the world that animal and human health are interconnected.”
– DR. RONALD BAYNES, interim head of the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology
Faculty within the department extensively study antimicrobial resistance, which can lead to the proliferation of disease-causing agents in our food, animals and environments. Dr. Sid Thakur, executive director of the university-wide Global One Health Academy, veterinary microbiology professor Dr. Megan Jacob and Global Health Program director Dr. Paula Cray are key partners with the Food and Drug Administration, leading grants within the organization’s National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System and GenomeTrakr project, which helps identify drug-resistant pathogen strains across the globe.

In a recent project, the group tested for E. coli in meat sold at grocery stores statewide, found evidence of multidrug-resistant E. coli in a significant share of the meat tested and isolated an emerging E. coli strain in some samples. This research showed the need for additional studies on the origins of drug resistance and further monitoring of a new pathogen.

Earlier this year, a team including Thakur and Dr. Ben Callahan, an associate professor of microbiomes and complex microbial communities, developed a new computational technology to serotype, or classify, E. coli and Salmonella enterica by sequencing a single-marker gene. Their work is a key steppingstone in improving and expediting the detection of foodborne pathogens and avoiding illness outbreaks.

10/02/2024

My daughter goes to App State. The university is helping the entire community of Boone!! They are offering free food and water and WiFi. How amazing!

09/29/2024

Please help these dogs!