Weekend happiness is directly proportional to the speed and length with which one “sploots!”
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Our teams are back from CE with ~ 18-20 hours of education, swag galore (including screaming donkeys) and a love/hate relationship with Big Betty (photo in comments)!
🚨🚨Just a heads up, though, we WILL be closing at noon tomorrow for an important staff meeting, team photo, and in-clinic education!!🚨🚨
Thanks for your support and understanding!
We were referred a patient for an endoscope procedure to try to identify the reason for it's chronic vomiting. The referring clinic did an excellent work-up and no matter the treatment, the poor dog just kept vomiting and was starting to lose weight.
Dr. Neisius and her team knew right away something was amiss when she entered the stomach with the scope. There was a lot of abnormal inflammation, edema and some small, punctate lesions that looked scabbed. Upon closer inspection, she saw a tiny immature worm wiggling and knew the diagnosis immediately.
Stomach worms, or physaloptera sp., can be hard to diagnose as the eggs aren't easily found on our stool tests- and they require a different deworming protocol than most other GI parasites. Dogs can get stomach worms after eating crickets, beetles and other infected insects, and it can take as few as 1-3 worms to cause significant vomiting and gastritis.
Our team removed one of the four worms we saw- to assess it under the microscope, took a few biopsies to make sure nothing else was an issue, and woke the patient up with good news for it's mom and regular veterinarian.
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#ernietheendoscope
IHAC’s Community Outreach hit us in all the feels again this year!! 🎄
We were able to help provide gifts for 45 individuals in our community that needed a little extra help this season… ages 10 months to 49 years old! ❤️ Within 20 minutes of posting the names, they were all “adopted” and in just four days, the gifts were purchased, wrapped, and delivered!
We can’t thank our partnership enough with United Methodist Open Door and Calvary United Methodist Church for doing all the hard work to bring Christmas to everyone!
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Nice set of wheels on that one.... 😉💙
#somebunnyisloved
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Such a busy day at Indian Hills Animal Clinics.
Wouldn’t life be grand if we could appreciate the small things? Our daycare kiddo’s demonstrate to us how to enjoy the tiny things (or in this case….. Tiny Bubbles). Our little guys didn’t really care for the bubble shenanigans, so Taryn, one our fantastic ACA’s sat with them and played with some “ Tiny Toys”!
Sometimes you have make silly noises for pure entertainment value. 😂
#ShepherdPuppy
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Best part of veterinary visits.... post-exam toys!!
Brooke: “Ruby, I bet you’re not brave enough to go down the slide.”
Ruby: “Aight. Bet.”
The Clubhouse Christmas party is in full swing! Complete with snow and Seth the snowman! ⛄️ ❄️ 🌲
