Hayden Road Animal Hospital

🎶💃As techs we like to keep Dr. Ryan on his toes. Got to make sure he's ready for anything. 💃🎶

Happy Friday from Hayden Road Animal Hospital! 🎉 Our team and their adorable four-legged friends are celebrating the end of the week with style & flair. 😎😎😎

Ultrasound guided bladder stone removal

Our ultrasound savvy Dr. England removed a urinary stone yesterday on a male dog who was blocked and unable to urinate. Advancements in technology allowed Duke to avoid a major surgery and go home feeling comfortable immediately! Duke is now home, resting comfortably, and peeing like a champ again! We are glad he is feeling better once again.

Ferret Painting

A painting so real it will literally jump off the page!

Smile, Baracus!

Dude's Tail

Can you tell the exact moment the doctor started examining Dude?

We had a few requests to post a video of Buffy talking and singing. However, apparently the only time she doesn't talk is in front of a camera. So, our quest will continue... In the mean time, here is a short video we did catch of her whistling while playing in a box. Enjoy!

It's nice when you have things your way. Unfortunately, while Dr. Ryan prefers his fish tanks clean, organized, and with the gravel evenly spread out, Betty prefers her tank clear of any gravel, plants, or pesky turtle/T-Rex statues. This video was taken less than 2 minutes after Dr. Ryan had filled in the 10 inch crater of gravel she made in the tank.

You may have heard your veterinarian talking about heartworms, but you may not have know that much about them or why we keep our pets on year round heartworm prevention. Heartworms are a small parasite that lives in the blood and hearts of dogs, cats, and even ferrets. It is then transmitted from one pet to another by mosquito bites. Pets with heartworms can present with variety of signs, including: coughing, weakness, difficulty breathing, etc. If a pet turns up positive, treatment is immediately initiated, and includes courses of steroids, antibiotics, up to three injections of an arsenic-based compound called Melarsomine, and strict cage rest to prevent any complications from occurring when the worms begin to die. By giving the monthly prevention medication regularly (Heartgard, Sentinel, Trifexis, etc.), we are able to keep your pet healthy and happy, and kill the juvenile worms before they reach adulthood, when they become resistant to the preventatives. Here is a video of one of the juvenile heartworms that the monthly preventatives work to kill. If you look closely (we promise it is there) in the center of the video, you can see a worm thrashing back and forth in the red blood cells of the slide. This was a video that we took from the blood of a young dog that visited the clinic yesterday. Fortunately, she currently has very few clinical signs, and, once the treatment is complete, she is expected to make a full recovery.

Weekly Walter - Week 41 Walter loves a good game of tug of war. Unfortunately, his 90lb cousin no longer serves as an even match. Here is a video of Walter dragging his cousin across the floor during a recent game of tug.

Weekly Walter - Week 28 Continued Here is the video we promised of Walter playing!

Did you know that Hayden Road Animal Hospital now sees exotic pets? Ever wonder what a bird looks like when it plays? Here is one of the Svoboda family birds, Bubba Lou, a 20-year-old Blue and Gold Macaw, playing yesterday evening. Owning a bird can be a lot of hard work, but, in the right setting, the relationship you form with them is lifelong and rewarding!