Mobile Veterinary Services, LLC

10/30/2024

A letter from MVS regarding Proposition 129.

10/23/2024

Farriers and Veterinarians working together to help even the smallest of patients!
Buttercup is a 5 month old dwarf mini with significant hoof and leg deformities.

10/18/2024

It is Veterinary Assistant and Technician appreciation week! MVS has always been fortunate to have amazing professionals supporting our doctors in the field.
A great big thank you to ALL Veterinary support professionals, but especially to ours! Cayla, Taryn, Jamie and Jeanine keep our doctors safe, organized, and on time. Without you we couldn't offer the high level of care and client communication that is the cornerstone of MVS! We appreciate you all!

10/13/2024

Just a reminder. Ballots are in the mail. Vote NO on Prop 129. Bad for pets, bad for owners, bad for Veterinary medicine!!

Colorado Proposition #129 will ask Colorado voters this November whether the state should establish the position of veterinary professional associate (VPA).

10/10/2024

Let’s listen to our medical professionals when voting this November. In his op-ed, Dr. Will French, former President of the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association, warns that Proposition 129 would compromise veterinary care in Colorado and put animals in danger. He explains why an overwhelming majority of veterinarians adamantly oppose this measure.

Read the article here: https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/this-november-our-pets-depend-on-us-to-reject-proposition-129/

09/29/2024

Vote No on Proposition 129!

Veterinary Professionals and Organizations overwhelmingly oppose Proposition 129. A Veterinary Professional Associate (VPA) would practice without proper training or licensure, risking complications and raising costs for pet owners. Colorado vets are speaking out. Vote NO on 129!

09/28/2024

Your ballot will be arriving in your mailbox very soon. Please take the time to educate yourself and your friends about Proposition 129. While the introduction of a mid level veterinary practitioner may sound like a good thing, there are far too many questions and unknowns. This is an attempt to mislead voters!
Currently there are no parameters, no education plan and no written or approved curriculum for this potential job title/ position. In the end Proposition 129 is asking voters to approve or deny something that has not been defined.
As proposed, Prop 129 would allow individuals with inadequate training (the prop proposes mostly on-line instruction and a short internship) to perform procedures and surgery on your pet. Though they would be "under supervision of a veterinarian," they haven't had enough education to understand the details of what they are doing.
Recently the state of Colorado passed a bill requiring licensure for veterinary technicians, working under direct, indirect or immediate supervision of a licensed veterinarian. Proposition 129 will change the Colorado Practice Act in its entirety, harming individuals that have worked to complete veterinary technician requirements and harming the consumer by allowing unsafe practices by inadequately trained individuals.
Big corporations and universities are the supporters of this proposition. Why, you ask? Corporations will utilize this new role to increase their profits. They will continue to charge clients the same amount of money for a procedure, but they will be able to pay a VPA much less than they would pay a licensed veterinarian. This will not only undermine the Colorado Veterinary Practice Act, it will also harm consumers and their beloved pets by allowing inadequately trained individuals to perform procedures they are not properly trained to perform, potentially creating life threatening situations. Universities will further exploit students by burying them in debt for a position that does not exist!

Notably concerning, The Denver Dumb Friends League has donated $1 million and the ASPCA has donated $250,000 in support of Proposition 129.
Not a single professional veterinary organization supports proposition 129.
You can find the AVMA stance below. Please read and make an informed decision.
Please share, knowledge is power!

https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Proposition_129,_Veterinary_Professional_Associate_Initiative_(2024)

Colorado Proposition #129 will ask Colorado voters this November whether the state should establish the position of veterinary professional associate (VPA).

09/24/2024

Fall days are the best days in the vet truck!

08/12/2024

We are hiring!! Mobile Veterinary Services, in Wheat Ridge, CO is looking for TWO full time Veterinary Assistants.

This is a full time position with a 4 day work week/40 hours per week. We believe in a work/life balance and we want our staff to enjoy that balance. No weekends required.

Candidates MUST possess strong horesemanship skills! Your job is to keep your doctor and the horse safe. You must be able to lift 50 pounds, jog a horse and stand for long periods of time, in all weather conditions!

You will be responsible for client communication, stocking,cleaning and organizing your truck, driving to appointments and assisting with office projects during down time.

MUST possess clean driving record.

We are an office full of equestrians and a love and appreciation of horses and their owners.

Benefits include:
4 day work week
PTO
Health insurance
Retirement benefits
Veterinary discount
Education assistance
$17-22 per hour experience dependent

Send Resume and 3 references to jobs@MVSequine com

Start date will be between August 26 and September 4.

08/04/2024

With weather, sky high temps and drought conditions. The Colorado front range is a tinder box. Evidenced by the multiple wildfires...
Are you ready for an evacuation/ emergency? Next week, the AAEP is hosting a horse owner webinar. Should be a great listen!

05/25/2024

Is it an emergency??

05/06/2024

More savings for horse owners from our friends at Boehringer Ingelheim!

05/06/2024

While Drs. Baer and Hartman may have been out of the office for a long weekend, they were still out horsing around at the Colorado Horse Park!

05/05/2024

Three babies in 4 days! Just call Dr. Baird the stork!!
This handsome little man was saucy and spunky and STRONG. Just 12 hours old. He and mama are doing very well. Placenta looks good! Placenta photos in comments!!

05/02/2024

Two babies in 2 days!! This little gal is sassy and spunky at 18 hours old! Mama is an ole pro and knows exactly what she needs to do to take care of her baby! Look at those long legs!

05/02/2024

Sometimes the best laid plans are just that.... plans. In an ambulatory practice it doesn't matter how many hours our staff spends making vaccine schedules and carefully choreographing our days, when the emergency line rings EVERYTHING changes. Babies are born, horses run through fences, barometric changes cause colic.... horses do dumb horse things. And when you need us we will do our best to drop it all and get to you as quickly as traffic allows.

***THANK YOU to our understanding clients. We know it isn't always easy to manage a reschedule, but we sure appreciate your grace!***

05/01/2024

This splashy, flashy little man was born yesterday afternoon. He and mama are doing very well. He is itchy and bouncy and nursing, doing things baby horses do!
Dr. Baird had a good look at the placenta and reports it to be "beautiful and perfect". Pics of placenta in comments.

04/23/2024

Big savings on Prascend, from our friends at B.I.

Just keep your purchase receipt and scan the QR code to access your rebate!

04/23/2024

Big savings from our friends at B.I.

Just save your purchase receipt and follow the QR code to access your rebate!

04/03/2024

We have had lots of calls regarding emails from MyAnimalRX. These are legitimate emails. MYanimalRX is our new pharmacy platform. There were many reasons we made the change and you can read about those in a previous facebook post. MyAnimalRX has been a competative and fair platform dedicated to helping us better serve our clients.

03/28/2024

LOL. Lol. Lol.

03/18/2024

For the past 11 years MVS has operated our on-line pharmacy through VetsFirstChoice. It has been a convenient and easy process for both our staff and our clients.

Over the last 6 months we have started making a change to move our on-line process to a new platform, called MyAnimalRX. You may have noticed that all emails from VetsFirstChoice have been shut off.

Late last year our previous provider (VFC) had made the decision to not honor our negotiated pricing with our drug manufacturers and had encouraged us to increase our pricing to cover all costs. We have worked very hard to stay competitive in the on-line market, and quite often our pricing is lower than any other on-line outlet. Increasing pricing is not a direction we choose to go. Last week we were notified that the phone app our doctors use to create and approve prescriptions was being removed due to obsolete technology and because ambulatory (read equine) is a "small and insignificant" portion of their business base, the application would not be replaced. While we certainly understand that business is business and profits matter, the use of "insignificant" to describe our business and clients simply turned us off and pushed us to move our business to the new platform effective immediately.

This move to MyAnimalRx should be a relatively simple process and you will be seeing emails from your prescribing doctor and the welcome letter from MyAnimalRX. Because our new partner fully honors our negotiated pricing, you could very likely see lower costs for your medication such as Equioxx and Prascend! Also, because meds are shipped directly from our MWI warehouse, meds should be delivered far more quickly, in many cases next day.

When you order your medications from MVS through the on line pharmacy platform, you are supporting small business instead of corporate big business and the process is far easier and streamlined for our doctors and staff. Frequently when prescription requests come in from outside pharmacies they are faxed and end up in spam and junk folders. After our docs approve those scripts, we then email or fax them back to the pharmacy where they sit with hundreds (thousands) of other prescriptions and are often lost or confused, causing delays because the communication can be difficult. We want to make the process to receive medication for your equids as easy and cost effective as possible.

We hope you will find benefit in using MyAnimalRX. If you have difficulties setting up your new account please call the office and Emily can assist you in the process.

03/14/2024

MVS will be closed today. If you have an emergency, call the office, leave a message and or docs will call you back. We will be seeing emergencies.

03/13/2024

A major storm system is pushing it's way to us and our client base will likely have vastly different experiences from one end of the practice to another.

We *could* get 3 feet. We *might* get nothing. We ask that you and your horses prepare for the worst. It could be a long and arduous process for us to get to you!

Start your soupy mash now. Have plenty of hay ready and easy to access. Make sure your water tanks are full. Get your blankets on BEFORE the rain starts. Do NOT blanket wet horses.

If you have a routine appointment on Thursday or Friday be prepared to have that rescheduled!!

We love Denver & Front Range Weather. Kody knows his stuff and he's funny!

Get prepared and then kick back and enjoy the winter wonderland, spring is just around the corner!!

Good mernin and happy Wednesday!

Major winter storm is still on track. We're starting to see snurfall spread across the mountains and I-80 corridor in southern Wyoming.

There's also a few rain showers scattered across the front range & eastern plains in advance of this shortwave trough.

Timing and details I provided yesterday remain unchanged at least for right now.

Once I've had a chance to evaluate what the forecast model trends were overnight and then compare them to the data that comes in this mernin, I will begin my analysis today and will pass along any updates if they're needed.

I'll transition from forecasting to nowcasting later this afternoon and evening as I prepare to push out updates throughout the duration of the storm.

Any last minute preparations need to be done today. I'll keep you posted!

Random thought - we put man on the moon but we can't figure out a less dangerous and terrifying way to package a can of biscuits? 😜😆

I'll see myself out k great thanks bye.

03/12/2024

Hello Folks,
Lots of calls about vaccine clinics!! We will be making calls starting this week. Remember, you will have only one week to confirm your appointment. This process will be a bit different than years past!
Be patient, we have a plan! Rest assured we have you and your equine companions covered!!