Borealis Veterinary Clinic

20/11/2024

Hi everyone! I hope your week is off to a great start! 😊

📣Important Schedule Announcement 📣

Next week, we will be OPEN Monday through Wednesday from 8am to 6pm!

We will be CLOSED Thursday (Nov 28) and Friday (Nov 29)!! 🦃🍗

Please prepare ahead of time if you need refills or appointments, etc. as we will not be checking messages while closed.

Thanks everyone! Have an awesome week!! 😊

16/11/2024

I’m behind as usual but congratulations to sweet Clover the cow 🐄 for winning the 4th Annual BVC Costume Contest!!!

Here’s what Clover’s owner said about her:
“She’s a hospice foster fail who just randomly came into my life but has turned into my co-pilot and goes everywhere with me. I got her the cow costume for Halloween but because it’s soft and she loves blankets it’s turned into almost like a thundershirt and she now wears it to work 😂 She also requires a single chicken nugget every night before bed 😂 if she doesn’t get it she will make sure to remind you”

Congratulations Clover! ❤️ You deserve this and so much more! Maybe your goodie bag will be a giant thing of chicken nuggies!

09/11/2024

It’s time!!!

Let’s choose our favorite costume for BVC’s 4th annual Costume Contest! 👻

The pet with the most affection will win a free nail trim and a goodie bag!

I’ll take a look Monday so you have a little time to round up some likes!👍

07/11/2024

Howdy everyone!

Just wanted to let you all know (and I'm sorry I didn't sooner) we will be "closed" on Thursday mornings until 9:30am until further notice.

We will be here but we are all working to complete our low-stress handling courses! Once we all have completed these, we will be a certified low-stress handling clinic and will be bringing many of the techniques we're learning into our daily routines! This is very exciting! 😁

We will not be answering the phones or scheduling appointments during this time, but we do understand if you need to swing by to pick up prescriptions or drop something off. Please try not to stop in for questions or to make appointments as this takes away from our learning time.

Thank you so much for your cooperation!

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06/11/2024

Hi everyone! We are minus one Miranda again today. :(

Good news is we aren't nearly as short-staffed so hopefully we'll be able to catch up on all of those voicemails and emails.

Thanks again for your understanding!

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06/11/2024

Hi everyone!

Lindsey to the rescue!! Lindsey was able to come in and help us out this afternoon, but, guys, we're still super far behind.

I promise we will be working on getting in touch with anyone who left a message as soon as we can.

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05/11/2024

Hi everyone!

We are short-staffed today! Miranda is not feeling well and MeKenna is leaving early.

There will be just two of us here and we have a busy surgery schedule today!

Please be patient if you call or email. As always, I promise we'll do our best to get back with you ASAP!

Have a great day! :)

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01/11/2024

Where are those Halloween costumes? Don’t forget the winner of our costume contest gets a free nail trim and goody bag!

Post those pics below!! 👻

31/10/2024

Happy Halloween from the BVC crew! 🎃
Or should I say your Inside Out crew?!!

Featuring yours truly as Joy 🤩, Scrappy as Fear 😧, Miranda as Disgust 😒, Shana as Anger 😡, Albree as sadness ☹️, and MeKenna as boredom 🥱.

Get those costumes ready and post them in the comments on our page!!

30/10/2024

Hi everyone!

It’s rather quiet in BVC land, I assume because everyone is working on their costumes, but maybe also this weather. Haha

We’ve closed for the day (to perfect our costumes obviously)! We’ll be back 8am tomorrow! 🙂

28/10/2024

Don’t forget to get those costumes ready for our 4th Annual BVC Halloween Costume Contest!

In the meantime, admire these two silly goobers posing in front of our spooooky Halloween tree!

Feel free to come in Thursday in your costumes! We have a fun theme this year!

24/10/2024

Just a reminder we are closing around 4pm today! We'll be open tomorrow from 8-6!

It's almost the weekend! *cue happy dance*

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22/10/2024

Howdy everyone! I hope your week is off to a great start! Little slippery this morning!

Just a head's up that we will be closing early this Thursday, October 24 for a staff meeting prior to heading out to the Best of the Valley Dinner. We will be closing around 4pm, so make sure you've called or picked up any medications prior to then! 😀

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21/10/2024

Alright guys!!! Get ready for the 4th Annual Borealis Veterinary Clinic costume contest!!! 👻

I can’t wait to see what you all come up with this year!

On Halloween, I’ll make a post on our page and you’ll add your pet(s) picture to the post! I’ll then make a separate post with all the entries. The pic with the most adoration wins!❤️

This year’s winner will receive a free nail trim and a small goody basket (designed specifically for the winning pet)! 🎃

So get out those craft supplies and get busy! 😄

Please enjoy Magnus and Woola unwillingly posing in front of our Halloween tree. 😆

19/10/2024

Last featured employee for tech week is my lead tech Albree! You all have probably seen Albree, hard to miss that purple hair!

I met Albree back in 2015 when I was a vet student and she was a veterinary assistant! I had the great fortune of watching her grow from assistant to tech in training, to an LVT. She is incredibly smart, diligent, and devoted. She cares for every patient as if it were her own and is an excellent dental technician. 🦷🪥I believe dentistry is actually Albree’s passion, and she’s missed out being part of dentals since a little schedule switcheroo.

When she’s not teching her heart out, Albree is an avid seamstress, great singer, and excellent artist. She does agility with her dog Woola and maybe someday will get Magnus out there too. Albree also keeps Scrappy looking fabulous!

Albree adores miniature schnauzers and is accompanied by Woola and Magnus when she’s at BVC!

Thank you Albree for being an amazing technician, keeping me in line, helping this business thrive, and being my sounding board!

Happy Vet Tech Week 2024!!!

18/10/2024

So I did my best but I couldn’t find any pictures right away that I could share of the two individuals I wanted to spotlight tonight (but there a bagillion photos of some baby 🤷🏻‍♀️)! It’s also fairly late and past my pretend bedtime.

Tonight we’re celebrating the retired vet tech and the licensing exam-eligible tech!

Melissa has been such a huge help to me since I opened BVC. While she’s technically retired, she never fails to come out of hiding when I’ve needed her. A jack of all trades, Melissa shines when working with patients and is renowned for her nail trims. 💅 She doesn’t love anesthesia (something about gray hairs) but has jumped in to help when I’ve been in a pickle. She never fails to handle anything I’m working with either! She’s enthusiastic and fun, in better shape than all of us, and absolutely amazing at crochet! 🧶 like seriously. 😳

Thank you Melissa for bailing me and the clinic out over and over, for always showing up with a smile and supporting me. You are so very very appreciated!! 😊😊

Please send a very big thank you to Melissa!! She’s literally helped keep the doors open! 🚪

Next up is Shana! Shana is eligible to take the VTNE (licensing exam), and we are all encouraging her to do so! Shana is also a jack of all trades and does incredibly well with our stressed patients. 😌She just exudes calm (whereas I exude some sort of over-caffeinated chaos🌪️) and has a way of just calming pets. I swear she might be a bird whisperer. 🐦 A lot of what Shana does is actually BTS—when she came on board two years ago, she completely overhauled my inventory management and pricing and spends a lot of her time price-shopping to keep our prices reasonable! I would be absolutely lost without her! 😩

Thank you Shana for being the calm to my chaos, for bringing order to my mess. Thank you for jumping in whenever and wherever we need help! 😊😊

Now, go sign up and take your exam! You can do it!!!

17/10/2024

Continuing our tech week celebration!!

Today we have Beckie!! Beckie is an LVT with over 20 years of experience—she is an invaluable member of the BVC team. Beckie’s experience includes private practice, a zoo (who’s jealous? 🙋🏻‍♀️), and research. She’s incredibly skilled (you should see her place a catheter in the smallest critter…or get blood on the teeniest friend), and I’m fairly certain she could intubate an animal while doing a headstand. Beckie can be seen at BVC on Wednesdays (though I bug her to work more) running/monitoring anesthesia and making me laugh. She’s pretty darn funny, which is definitely a plus! And boy have we had some challenging cases together! 😮‍💨

Beckie comes with two sidekicks, Randy and Stevie, both ridiculously silly boxers that we all love. ❤️

Thank you Beckie for being amazing and for being you!!

And thanks for bringing Randy and Stevie with you! 😊

16/10/2024

It’s vet tech week everyone!

Vet techs are an integral part of any veterinary practice. Vets would be lost without them! I consider myself pretty useful around the clinics but there are some things I seriously don’t do or have forgotten how to do. That’s where my techs come in to save the day!!

Today’s tech is Anja! Anja was born and raised in Germany, where she was a nurse anesthetist for humans (ew) for 10 yrs! She then came over to the US, studied to be a veterinary assistant, later passed her licensing exam and became an LVT. Anja is my Tuesday tech and she’s simply amazing. Most of the time we’re doing surgeries together, and she is an awesome anesthesia tech! I am so very grateful for her and all of her experience.

Bonus, like me, she likes to whistle, so we’re considering starting a duet. Name in the works. 😉

Let’s all take a moment to thank and celebrate Anja for doing such an outstanding job with our surgery patients!! Featured here holding our rabbit spay, Penny, and administering laser therapy after a procedure!

Thank you Anja!!! 😊😊