B Street Veterinary Hospital

02/14/2025

Happy Hearts Day from ours to yours! 💓

02/14/2025

Wishing you a purrrrfect Valentine's Day! 🐾

02/13/2025

📆 BLACK HISTORY MONTH 📆

Dr. John Brown was the first black veterinarian to earn his DVM degree at Kansas State. Dr. Brown was head of the Division of Agricultural Instruction at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, during 1912 and 1913. He served in the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant.

02/12/2025

📆 BLACK HISTORY MONTH 📆

Kirksey Curd, D.V.M. 1912, was born in Kentucky and was Cornell's first African American veterinary graduate. After receiving his D.V.M. in 1912, he entered medical school at the University of Pennsylvania and spent the remainder of his professional career as a practicing physician at the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital in Philadelphia.

02/11/2025

📆 BLACK HISTORY MONTH 📆

During World War II, Dr. Jane Hinton worked as a medical technician for the U.S. War Department. After the war ended, she enrolled in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Together with Alfreda Johnson Webb, they became the first African-American women to earn the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1949.

02/10/2025

📆 BLACK HISTORY MONTH 📆

Booker T. Washington formed a branch of the ‘Bands of Mercy’, a humane youth organization that was started by the American Humane Education Society and the Massachusetts SPCA. These Bands of Mercy pledged “kindness and justice to all living creatures,” and held club meetings, put on plays, sang songs, went on photography excursions to humanely ‘capture’ wildlife, and stopped animal cruelty when they saw it happening.

02/07/2025

📆 BLACK HISTORY MONTH 📆

Dr. Alfreda Johnson Webb earned a BS from Tuskegee Institute in 1943 and her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1949 from the Tuskegee Institute (now University) School of Veterinary Medicine. Webb was the first of two African American women to graduate from a school of veterinary medicine in the United States in 1949.

02/06/2025

📆 BLACK HISTORY MONTH 📆

Dr. Frederick Douglass Patterson received his Ph.D. at Cornell in 1932 and three years later became the third president of Tuskegee Institute (now University). Dr. Patterson also founded Tuskegee’s Veterinary College, making it possible for Black students to receive a veterinary education in the segregated South. His progressions paved the way for these students to pursue veterinary medicine. Dr. Patterson established the “United Negro College Fund” in 1944 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in

01/22/2025

🪥 February is Pet Dental Month, but we are honoring dental month discounts early!

🦷 20% discount on dental cleanings

🦷 20% discount on dental cleanings with extractions

🦷 20% discount on dental plan items during other surgical procedures

Give us a call to schedule a discounted dental procedure, even in January! 🪥

01/11/2025

Are you curious about BIRD FLU??? Here's the sitch.

What is H5N1?
H5N1, commonly known as avian influenza A or bird flu, is a highly pathogenic strain of influenza virus that primarily affects birds, but cases have recently been reported in wildlife, cattle, cats, and humans.
What do we know about the latest outbreak?
Recently H5N1 influenza cases have been reported in cats that have consumed contaminated commercial raw food diets, unpasteurized milk, or had contact with wild birds and cattle.
Precautions:
Consider discontinuing your pet’s raw diet. Even if their raw food is human grade, frozen, or freeze dried, this does not prevent the potential spread of pathogenic bacteria, parasites, or H5N1 that may be present in the food. Consider cooking your pet’s raw food and/or consulting your veterinarian about diet change.
Limit your pet’s access to wild birds that may be carrying the virus and avoid giving them raw milk.
What are the symptoms to watch out for in our pets?
Clinical signs in pets may include the following:
• Loss of appetite
• Lethargy
• Fever
• Neurologic signs (ataxia, circling, tremors, seizures, sudden blindness)
• Copious oculonasal discharge
• Difficulty breathing
We recommend seeking veterinary care if your pet shows any of these signs. If they are having any life-threatening symptoms (neurologic signs, seizures, difficulty breathing, or collapse) seek veterinary care immediately.
Can this cause illness in humans?
Yes, H5N1 can cause illness in humans. Current human infections have been linked to contact with infected cattle and wild birds. There is no current evidence of human to human transmission.
What is being done?
The CDC, FDA and USDA are closely monitoring cases as they develop. One voluntary product recall has been issued for contaminated raw food diets for cats & dogs. We are continuing to monitor this emerging virus.
Follow our animal health centers' social media accounts for regular updates.
https://hubs.la/Q031WZ2g0

What is H5N1?
H5N1, commonly known as avian influenza A or bird flu, is a highly pathogenic strain of influenza virus that primarily affects birds, but cases have recently been reported in wildlife, cattle, cats, and humans.

What do we know about the latest outbreak?
Recently H5N1 influenza cases have been reported in cats that have consumed contaminated commercial raw food diets, unpasteurized milk, or had contact with wild birds and cattle.

Precautions:
Consider discontinuing your pet’s raw diet. Even if their raw food is human grade, frozen, or freeze dried, this does not prevent the potential spread of pathogenic bacteria, parasites, or H5N1 that may be present in the food. Consider cooking your pet’s raw food and/or consulting your veterinarian about diet change.
Limit your pet’s access to wild birds that may be carrying the virus and avoid giving them raw milk.

What are the symptoms to watch out for in our pets?
Clinical signs in pets may include the following:
• Loss of appetite
• Lethargy
• Fever
• Neurologic signs (ataxia, circling, tremors, seizures, sudden blindness)
• Copious oculonasal discharge
• Difficulty breathing
We recommend seeking veterinary care if your pet shows any of these signs. If they are having any life-threatening symptoms (neurologic signs, seizures, difficulty breathing, or collapse) seek veterinary care immediately.

Can this cause illness in humans?
Yes, H5N1 can cause illness in humans. Current human infections have been linked to contact with infected cattle and wild birds. There is no current evidence of human to human transmission.

What is being done?
The CDC, FDA and USDA are closely monitoring cases as they develop. One voluntary product recall has been issued for contaminated raw food diets for cats & dogs. We are continuing to monitor this emerging virus.

Follow our animal health centers' social media accounts for regular updates.
https://hubs.la/Q031WZ2g0

01/08/2025

We are closing early today at 2pm. If your pet needs care while we are closed, please visit VCA in Hotel Circle (619-299-2400). 🧡

01/04/2025

Our job is definitely not all puppies and kitties -- but this litter of Rottweiler pups sure was a sweet treat today! ❤️

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!

We are closed today. See you tomorrow!
Please visit VCA in Hotel Circle if your pet needs care today (619-299-2400).

12/31/2024

Happy New Year's Eve! Crystal Blue is ready to ring in 2025! Wishing you all health, love, and luck in the new year! 💓

12/31/2024

We are closing early today, at 2pm.

We are closed all day tomorrow, and we will return on Thursday, 1/2/25. If your pet needs care while we are closed, please visit VCA in Hotel Circle (619-299-2400).

12/25/2024

Meowy Christmas! We hope everyone has a pawsitively furbulous pawliday and that you get everything they asked Santa Paws for! We are closed today and will be back tomorrow morning at 8am. 🎄🎁🎅🏼🐾

Please visit VCA in Hotel Circle if your pet needs anything while we are closed (619-299-2400).