Heal Veterinary Clinic

01/30/2025

Hey everyone!

It's that time of year again! The City of Boston is hosting our annual dog Licensing and low-cost rabies clinics! Feel free to email us with any questions: [email protected]!

01/30/2025

BMO! 💙👾

01/23/2025

Goober Bingus was falling asleep as everyone carried him around and fawned.

01/17/2025

Momo 💜 baby food.

01/17/2025

I wanted to share the fabulous news! Just a little earlier today Representative Hawkins filed proposed legislation TO PROHIBIT ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDES IN THE STATE. YEESSSS!

This is a big deal and also strong testament to how small, grassroots movements can change the conversation at the top.

Back in 2022, not very long before the death of MK, Arlington was the very first municipality to put its money where its mouth is BY BANNING SGARs on all public properties and submitting a Home Rule petition to the state saying we wanted it banned EVERYWHERE in our borders, including private property (since the state wasn't letting us do that without its permission). This kicked off a movement!!!

In 2023, City Councilor Emily Norton approached me right after MK died wanting to do the same in Newton. Since then it has snowballed and another 8 municipalities have undertaken similar measures and petitioned the state. Many more are working toward it.

There is no doubt our legal petition with Harvard (that I and Newhouse Wildlife Rescue, Cape Ann Wildlife, Save Lexington Wildlife, and Friends of Horn Pond are all parties to) also changed the discourse as our legal petition expanded to include consideration on both First & Second Generation Anticoagulants in prohibition discourse!

As with our legal petition, the Hawkins bill seeks to put a moratorium on BOTH GENERATIONS of these horrible poisons!

Since Arlington's Home Rule petition expires this year and has to be redone--I intend to expand it to include First Generation Anticoagulants as well as expand our public lands prohibition to include that and other poisons!

People have sometimes asked what the point is of the Home Rule petitions? For starters, they pressure the state to ask for more and to do more. When MK died, the conversation at the State House was we were still 5-10 years away from proposing a prohibition. Well, we pushed that date up by many years. Congrats to all those who fought and won public lands prohibitions and HR petitions in their respective communities and to those submitting this spring to leverage the Hawkins bill and legal petition!

If you're an Arlington resident and want to sign off on SAW's warrant petitions let me know!!!

01/14/2025

This weekend we received a call from a woman named Ash. She was very concerned about an opossum she had found in her yard that was very lethargic, cold and showing signs of frostbite.

When she brought the opossum here, we agreed the little one needed help. She is very small and underweight for her age. She was also definitely dealing with frost bite. Opossums typically deal with it on their ears, tails and paws - where they lack fur. Ash let me know she had named the opossum, Fishstick.

Fishstick is going to see the wonderful Dr. Leef today at Heal Veterinary Clinic for a full work up. We just want to make sure nothing else is going on with her and we happen know Dr. Leef has a soft spot for opossums ❤️

01/09/2025

Misu the Malamute 💕

01/03/2025

A kitten for the new year.

12/21/2024

12/19/2024

Rosa has been found !!!! She was hanging out at a local elementary school today. She’s dirty and hungry but not injured.
Thank you to all who helped spread the word!

12/17/2024

Penny Lou enjoying her fish when she was here for her dental. 🐟

12/12/2024

For those who missed last nights post - our client was struck by a car at the crosswalk outside our business while trying to get to his ride share. The carrier busted open and his two cats bolted. We found one but the other is still missing. She is a little bit bigger than in this photo.
Please check your sheds and under your porches if you are in our immediate area.

12/12/2024

She’s a little bit bigger than this now. Hopefully we will have success when the weather clears up. Our staff jumped into action and were out searching for a few hours - and traps were set with the help of Charles River Alleycats

*Update 12/19: Rosa was found safe!*

*MISSING CAT*

*Update: We have a few potential sightings but we haven’t been able to trap or catch yet. Please continue to call sightings in immediately so we can dispatch somebody to the area or figure out the best place to put another trap. If you are in the area of Heal Veterinary Clinic, please check your cameras, garages, and under sheds and cars! Please do not chase as the cat is most likely very frightened.*

These cats were leaving the vet tonight on Belmont Street when them and their owner were hit by a car. Their crate was destroyed and they both got loose. The cat with the black nose on the right has been caught but the circled cat in the picture is still missing. If you spot this cat, please take a photo and call 857-417-3474 immediately.

12/08/2024

I just received the liver panel results for two of the owls that died in our area late last month. This includes a Barred Owl that died in someone's backyard in East Arlington next to Spy Pond and the Great Horned Owl that died in another person's yard in Cushing square area of Belmont. Both owls were exposed to extremely high levels of anticoagulant rodenticides that are considered in the lethal range. The gross necropsy performed by our partnering vet prior to sending their livers to the pathology lab that also showed internal hemorrhaging in both owls, particularly the Great Horned Owl. This means that three out of the four owls that died late last month in our area died of anticoagulant poisoning. I will be submitting these results to MDAR next week.

12/07/2024