Boston Road Animal Clinic

02/06/2025

Things are very quiet at the clinic this afternoon and we’re going to start letting our team head out early as we finish projects. Please call or email asap if you need anything before we wrap up. Stay warm!
[email protected]
508.865.5500

02/06/2025

February 6th weather update: we plan to have the clinic open tomorrow with slightly reduced staffing. We have appointment availability in the morning, before the snow is scheduled to start, so please email or leave a message tonight or first thing in the morning if you need an appointment. We’ll update you here if there are any changes.
Stay safe and warm :)

02/04/2025

Cruella makes for a beautiful Mrs. February!
Staff pet of the month!

01/22/2025

Our phones are not working properly. Please email [email protected] to reach us. Sorry for the inconvenience and for anyone who hasn’t been able to get through.

01/03/2025

Introducing Staff Pet of the Month!

Gryff, is owned by Dr. Andrew Gestrich.
We may be biased, but he’s one of the best boys in town 🤭

Have a happy and healthy New Year!

12/31/2024

Little miss Chai just checked in for her very important first kitten visit!

12/22/2024

Happy Holidays. Hope you’re staying warm today!
Please see updated holiday hours for the next two weeks:

-December 24th, Christmas Eve: 8:30A-2P
-December 25th, Christmas: Closed
-January 1st, New Year’s Day: Closed

Days at the clinic can get very busy this time of
year. For urgent needs, please call or email as early in the day as possible and we’ll do our best to get you fit in. When we are closed, PetMedic in Westborough and Tufts in Grafton offer great urgent care and emergency services respectively.

12/18/2024

Cheese!!!

12/03/2024

All smiles from our bestie, Tank! We love it when our patients are as happy to see us as we are to see them! 🐾

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving to all!
We are so grateful to help your pets each and every day! 🐾

Today, we are THANKFUL for Boston Road Animal Clinic in Sutton, MA!!!

Sophia, Gracie, Henri, and Maria all had their first vet visit with vaccines at Boston Road Animal Clinic today!!!

They all got a clean bill of health and the first of their DHPP series.

Dr. Fowler and the crew were amazing, the pups got LOTS of snuggles, and they are excited for Thanksgiving tomorrow!!!

10/17/2024

Hello everyone! Clinic update -

Starting tomorrow October 18th, we are going live with a new and improved veterinary software program.

This new software will help improve work flow efficiency and offers a nice pet owner portal where you can view records and pay for visits and prescriptions directly through the app.

During the next few weeks of learning and transition, we ask for your patience for all requests. Please expect delays - we will get back to you as soon as possible.

We work diligently and compassionately to provide the best quality care for our patients and their families and we thank you for your continued support.

02/16/2024

Currently having internet issues and phone issues.
If you need to reach us, please leave a voicemail or an email and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Please be patient as we work through this.
Thank you!

02/15/2024

I promised a client last week that I’d post this nice article from ASPCA poison control about ice melts in pets. The summary is that one or two licks of the paws very rarely causes problems, but eating straight from the salt bag or the slushy snow at the edge of a treated driveway or road is more concerning, whether the product is labeled as ‘pet safe’ or not.

This falls under the broad umbrella of toxicities. For many of the most common toxicities (think chocolate, grapes/raisins), we’re happy to provide guidance by phone or email. In many cases, though, we’ll suggest calling ASPCA poison control as the first step. They are staffed by teams of well-trained specialists with access to tons of unpublished data that comes either straight from the product manufacturer (ie they know exactly how much xylazine is in each cube of gum) or from the thousands of cases they advise on annually. They may save you a trip to see us or the ER, and if your pet does need to be seen by a veterinarian after speaking with them, they provide us with diagnostic and treatment guidelines. It’s often money well spent spent.

I do differ from them on one issue: they’ll still sometimes recommend inducing vomiting with hydrogen peroxide. While we did this for years, I’ve moved away from peroxide due to studies showing that if causes stomach ulceration.

Hope that’s of help to someone. Stay safe and warm.

-Andrew

As temperatures drop and snow begins to fall in many parts of the country, you may be taking precautions to prevent slips and falls in the snow and ice. While products like ice melts can be helpful, they can be dangerous if ingested by your pets. Learn all you need to know to keep your pets safe thi...

01/25/2024

A gift and a wish:

The gift - We’re doing some shuffling of things at the office and no longer have a need for this desk. It’s free to a good home. It’s 59.5 x 29.5 inches. It’s originally from Amazon or similar and is a compressed wood core (aka not solid wood; less expensive build). It’s in good but not perfect condition. Please comment below if interested. In the spirit of fairness: if there are multiple interested people we’ll take all of the names that comment within 48 hours, put the names in a a hat, and select a name.

The request - our linen collection is getting a bit thin and ragged. If you have bath towels, beach towels, hand towels, or blankets that you no longer need, we’d love to have them. We don’t have a need for sheets. Feel free to drop them by anytime. And thank you.

Stay warm!

-the team at BRAC

01/08/2024

Touchy internet today - off and on. Currently on. We’re working through the voicemails of the most recent outage now.