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Sactown Vet, 1900 S Street, Ste 150, Sacramento, CA (2025)

10/06/2025

How many of your Sactown Vet kiddos know exactly where to go when they walk in the door? Handsome Louie was no exception and although his mom believed he was there for actual vet care, Louie knew otherwise: he was there for the treats 💁‍♀️

Thank you Shelby for letting me share adorable Louie with the world 😘

09/08/2025

Sometimes a perfect specimen walks through your doors and they have an even more perfect name. Everyone, meet Tater Tot 🥹 He got to visit with Dr. Cole, and while I’m sure some vet business happened… I think mostly it was just playtime with the adorable puppy 🥰

I’m very, very partial to food names, but I recognize there are so many amazing names out there. What are some of your favorite pet names you’ve heard?

08/27/2025

The biggest babies sometimes need the most love. This kiddo got neutered with us a while back and definitely was needing some extra TLC during his recovery. Luckily, Diane was able to step in and provide emotional support while still working on her patient notes. 🥹♥️

08/21/2025

Oh, Unsinkable Molly. Sometimes even the best pups make the worst decisions (…actually, we find that is often the case. It’s a good thing we love them!).

Unsinkable Molly came to us when she wasn’t feeling well. After a little investigation, there was a big worry that something was in her stomach that shouldn’t be there. The next day, Molly was taken to surgery and that amorphous stuff was removed (turns out it was her duck toy 🦆)! Suddenly a very cheap toy turns into a four figure toy 😭

The good news is that it was in her stomach and removing things from the stomach always has a lower risk than if it gets into the intestine. Molly is recovering great from her surgery, thank goodness!

I’m sure she’s mourning her duck toy and if given the opportunity, would eat it again. 🤪

08/18/2025

Everyone meet Billy.

And that is all for today. Billy is enough ❤️🥰🥹

08/12/2025

You’ve probably already met Cylysce as she is often one of the first people to greet you when you arrive at the hospital. She is our client liaison who is slowly morphing into a veterinary assistant with hopes of one day becoming a veterinarian.

Cylysce said her veterinary super power is in-progress, but she is manifesting that she is going to be a good blood collector (🧛‍♀️) and have a steady hand with needle pokes (I think these are absolutely going to be her super power, too). I would add her super power is getting things done quickly and getting them done well. She has been such a valuable team member for us!

She wants to emphasize to everyone that Fear Free MEANS Fear Free! It’s why we don’t push your pets past their limits. We are REALLY trying to avoid fear for your pet to make their medical care and their veterinary visits as low stress as possible.

When Cylysce isn’t working, she’s spending time with her family or hanging out with her sweet kitty.

08/11/2025

Happy Visits are paused until construction is complete! The team realized that bringing a dog for “happy visits” when there is loud construction banging and weird tarps hanging from the walls is NOT productive and is likely counter productive 🤦‍♀️ So as soon as construction is complete (probably early September) we’ll be back to offering our Happy Visits! Thanks for understanding ❤️

08/07/2025

A while back we got a 1-star review that assumed our vet team was not collaborative and that we didn’t support each other. I can deal with a lot of negative reviews (usually because there is something to learn and grow from with each of them) but I did not like hearing someone assume that we don’t work together as a team and that our vets don’t support each other.

It’s no secret that veterinary professionals have a high su***de rate (if you didn’t know this, just google it—every vet probably knows at least one veterinarian or veterinary team member that has committed su***de). There are a lot of reasons that are cited for this, but certainly the day to day work stress can contribute if the team member is not equipped to handle that stress (and let’s be honest, most of us aren’t the best at handling stress!). Obviously, we cannot take stress away from someone else, BUT the least we can do as veterinary professionals is super-support our colleagues.

Sactown Vet is a multi-doctor practice that grew with my intention of being a supportive environment for the entire team. Whether it is a complicated medical case, a tricky surgery, an angry client, or just something that didn’t go as expected, the entire team here supports each other. Even on maternity leave, I came in to help Dr. Nunes with surgery (later scrubbing in to be more hands-on). And this was just one instance (that was photographed with the intention of posting about this!). But how many times a day are the docs helping each other through cases? DOZENS. We support each other because we REALLY care about each other and we really care about the patients, too.

So know that when you are at Sactown Vet seeing just one veterinarian, you are really getting the medical opinion of several. If something gets wonky, we talk to each other. We support each other. And we ALL care about your pet. -Dr. Thornton

08/04/2025

Everyone say hello to Wendy! She is one of our registered veterinary technicians (RVTs), which means she is often busy managing anesthesia, extracting teeth, and suturing up the mouth. Of course, you’ve probably also seen her drawing blood, placing bandages, or simply loving on your pets in your exam room.

Wendy’s secret power is her cat vibes. She is a crazy cat lady to the extreme and can handle even the most stressed (ie fractious) cat. That’s why we always grab Wendy when we need some serious cat energy to help the process of collecting samples or doing treatments.

If she could tell you one thing about her job it would be that RVTs are just like nurses! RVTs go through a specific education in order to be eligible to take their licensing exam. And as most will tell you, the school is *almost* easy compared to the exam! The licensing exam itself is hard and not all RVT candidates are able to pass. That is why when you meet a credentialed RVT, you know they went *through it* to get those dang letters after their name!

When Wendy isn’t working, you can find her hiking, birding or looking at plants (planting?). Maybe even doing all of them at the same time. Upon reviewing Wendy’s hobbies, I think she is more cat-like than I thought before. Next time you are in the hospital, make sure you say hi to Wendy and chat about your latest plant purchase.

07/30/2025

WE DID IT!! We are officially an AAHA certified hospital! I know this may not mean much to most of you, but it’s a really big deal for us. And it should be really big deal for you, too!

I alluded to the certification process in a previous post, but I’ll re-discuss it in more depth now. AAHA stands for American Animal Hospital Association. This group creates a standard of veterinary care across the country. They provide tons of great resources for all veterinary hospitals for those that want to ensure they’re practicing the best medicine possible.

For hospitals that want extra homework (ahem, us), we choose to get AAHA certified. This is an enormous project to take on, because it means going through EVERY aspect of your hospital and ensuring it is meeting AAHA requirements. After confirming our protocols and medicine practices were up to AAHA standards, we voluntarily had our hospital’s medical records, operating procedures, machinery, facilities, AND MORE inspected by AAHA. Not only did we submit a TON of paperwork, we invited a AAHA representative into our hospital so they could do an in-person inspection.

AND WE PASSED! This should matter to you because you know that we are practicing the highest quality medicine possible and that we’re not just saying it, we’ve had an outside authority confirm it. It also tells you that we will CONTINUE to be the best that we can be (because if we aren’t, we’ll lose our certification). So THANK YOU for trusting us before our certification, and for continuing to do so now ♥️

07/28/2025

What the HECK are you looking at?! SURPRISE It’s a dog v***a :) This sweet little bulldog had a recessed v***a, meaning it was waaaay tucked into her skin folds (you can barely see it!). Why do we care? Well, if it’s not causing any problems, we don’t. But often it does cause problems.

When these dogs urinate, some of the urine stays trapped in those folds so it creates a wet, yucky environment that results skin infections. These skin infections are painful and they can also result in frequent UTIs. This poor girl was dealing with UTIs non-stop so that is why her owner ultimately made the decision to perform this surgery.

A vulvoplasty is a surgery we perform in dogs that results in a more anatomically normal v***a. It’s not all tucked in the folds creating a yucky environment that results in lifelong infections.

Luckily, not every dog with a recessed v***a has problems, so not every dog needs this surgery. But if your pet does have frequent UTIs or v***ar infections and you can’t really see her v***a, maybe it’s time to schedule and appointment with us to see if she would be a good candidate for a vulvoplasty.

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