Fetch The Vet Mobile Veterinary Practice

24/12/2024

Once again Fetch the Vet is honored to have been certified an official “Santa’s E.L.V.E.S.” (Emergency Landing and Veterinary Expert System) location. We want you to let all your children and grandchildren know that we will step in and help should an emergency arise tonight!

In the event that Santa’s reindeer team needs to make an unscheduled Christmas Eve stop for sled repairs, refueling, or veterinary care, staff at our practice will be available to provide needed assistance and ensure a safe and on-time delivery of Santa’s cargo. 🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌

13/12/2024

Tech Appts for today - Cancelled and Rescheduled
Dr Appts - Southtowns you’ll be contacted to reschedule

24/09/2024

We want to thank all of our wonderful clients who voted for us in the ‘2024 Best of 716 Contest’ - we were so proud to move beyond the nomination round and were thrilled to be a finalist in both the Best Veterinary Practice and Palliative Care Services categories!

We know we’re doing something right when we achieved being in the Top 5 veterinary practices in WNY as voted for by all of you. We are the smallest privately owned practice of the finalists so this achievement means the world to us - THANK YOU 💓

10/09/2024

We’re not quite sure where the summer has gone… and with taking care of patients every day we have failed miserably in updating all those who are interested on the progression of our FTV headquarters!

We get asked by many of you how the building is coming along and we love that you are as excited as we are to see it come to fruition. We hope you enjoy seeing just how far it’s come over the summer!

23/07/2024

Some patients love the camera more than others and really want an up close and personal profile pic 😻…

23/07/2024

Following on from our previous posts the following changes have been made by the CDC and there has been a full reversal on their planned requirements for travel across the Canadian border.

“For dogs that have been only in dog rabies-free or low-risk countries in the 6 months before U.S. entry, this is the only form that is needed. A receipt will be emailed to you upon submission of the form. You can print the receipt or show it on your phone.

Note that in addition to this form, the dog must appear healthy upon arrival, must be at least 6 months old, and must have a microchip identified with a universal scanner.

There are no longer requirements for USDA endorsed certificates for dogs meeting these criteria.”

The link below takes you to the online form that can be filled out the day of travel and printed to be shown to a border control officer.

23/07/2024

https://news.vin.com/default.aspx?pid=210&Id=12196546&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0FE0mrDKlkA9C2okz4S7Jq_YyH9iUG_z7IoFOci7UnKm5sGjSFUyYUB0g_aem_oDI0Frn9oMuSZTPxX73_rA&f5=1

Owners from low-risk rabies countries will be able to fill out simple form

23/07/2024

!!!!! IMPORTANT TRAVEL INFORMATION !!!!!

While we have been preparing our practice for implementing the new requirements for travel across to Canada with your dog, the CDC has just released a new statement today (07/22/24) advising that travel to Canada and back will now NOT be included with the travel requirements that go into effect on August 1st.

This will come as a huge relief to many families who travel regularly across the border for personal, health, sporting or breeding purposes. Please take a minute to read the most up to date press release so that you can still take appropriate measures as needed.

CDC has clarified and simplified the process for bringing dogs into the United States from rabies-fr

26/06/2024

We haven’t done a ‘Where are we Wednesday?’ in such a long time but with morning patients seen and running ahead of schedule it’s time to treat our hard working technician Leigh Ann to lunch. So folks - where is she grabbing a bite to eat?

30/05/2024

Time is almost up for nominations to be submitted for the Best of 716 2024 Awards - it takes just 2 minutes to vote for us and we’d love to see your support! We are under the medical services category 🐾 The nomination round ends June 4th

https://buffalonews.com/exclusive/readerschoice/ballot-2024/

24/05/2024

Appreciate what we do? Then nominate us for the '2024 Best Veterinary Practice of 716 Award' before June 4th!

https://buffalonews.com/exclusive/readerschoice/ballot-2024/

21/05/2024

We had our team together this morning to celebrate the official start of the build. Its was a family affair with two of the Dr’s Tudini children taking part! Nominate us in the link in our earlier post below for the ‘Best Veterinary Practice of 716’ 2024!

21/05/2024

Listen up Fetch the Vet furry family members!!! You share with us frequently when we visit just how much a service like ours helps you and your pets, so now is the time where you have the opportunity to show the wider WNY community just how much our mobile veterinary practice means to you!

How? It's Easy! You can head to the link and nominate us for the 'Best of 716' Veterinary Practice 2024 Award. We just celebrated our 5th Anniversary in December and have progressed from being on the road for just 28 hrs a week, to now serving you for over 120 hrs each week with 5 incredible Veterinarians, 5 skilled and experienced full time Veterinary Technicians and a designated Customer Service Representative on our team.

We work so hard day in and day out to provide you with exceptional veterinary care and our staff mean the world to us. As we just begin breaking ground on our very own building we couldn't be more thrilled and proud of how far we've come in such a short period of time. Our staff work so incredibly hard each day and being the only full service mobile practice in Western NY we would love for all their hard work to be recognized!

If you feel that we are worthy of the title of 'Best Veterinary Practice of 716' then please take a moment to nominate us, we are under the medical treatment services category and then scroll to veterinary practices - 'Fetch the Vet'. If we make it into the Top 5 of the nomination round, then we'll go on to the voting round. Let's see a modern day, innovative and privately owned practice make the cut!

The nomination round runs through June 4th 🚑 🐾🐈🐕‍🦺🐾🚑

26/04/2024

We are beyond thrilled to announce that we are putting down roots of our own. After many months of behind the scenes work, town planning board meetings, and a few delays along the way we are finally breaking ground on the new Fetch the Vet M.V.P headquarters - anticipated completion date of December 2024!

We cannot quite believe how far we have come in just over 5 years. Dr Jenni and Veterinary Technician Leigh Ann began seeing patients as a single Dr/Tech team providing just 28hrs of coverage during the week. Fast forward to today and we are unbelievably proud to have 2 Full Service Mobile Units and a third smaller Veterinary Technician Vehicle on the road. We have 5 incredible Veterinarians, 5 skilled and experienced full time Veterinary Technicians and a designated Customer Service Representative on our team, all of whom we have the utmost confidence in.

Between the 3 vehicles we are now able to provide over 120 hrs on the road each week servicing your pets from the start of their lives with your family, to their final in home care needs.

We feel beyond privileged to be in a position that with the support of our team as a whole, we can do what we do. Our staff work so incredibly hard each day and we couldn’t do this without them. As we begin the next chapter of Fetch the Vet we vow to continue to practice the highest quality medicine we can, and provide the in home care you so greatly appreciate.

We hope to continue to grow our team in time, given our plans for future services to be offered and as such we always love to meet with any veterinarians or veterinary technicians who may be interested in joining our mobile veterinary team.

Follow us to keep up to date with the progress of the build!

20/04/2024

“I’ve found a lump” is something we hear daily, and more often than not it carries with it worry about what it might be, does it need removing or often the biggest fear - is it cancer and if so what can be done?

Our approach is usually very simple - we perform what is called a fine needle aspirate. This is a very simple procedure that takes just a few seconds to harness some cells from the mass using a needle and syringe no different from what we use to administer a vaccine. It is often confused with a biopsy which would be where we remove an actual piece of the lump in question to assess it further.

The smears that are made contain often hundreds to thousands of cells that after being prepped and stained are examined under the microscope. Given that we perform FNA’s so routinely, our veterinarians assess the vast majority of the samples in house which means we can provide information on the cell type immediately. On some occasions however, it is preferred to get a second opinion from a board certified pathologist and in that case we will recommend sending the sample out to our reference laboratory before deciding the best course of action.

So what do we see under the microscope?

In the microscope images attached these are wonderful examples of the type of cells we see very often and for one of the most common ‘lumps’ that cause worry. These cells are adipocytes - or in simple terms ‘fat cells’. These aspirates were taken just yesterday from a patient with a soft mass that the owner had found on her dog. Each type of cell in the body has a different appearance depending upon where it is arising from and as clinicians we are trained to recognize and know these. This ‘lump’ is nothing more than a Lipoma (fatty tumor) where there has been an accumulation of fatty tissue develop. These tumors are benign and not of concern and usually only need excising if they become particularly large and cumbersome (as in the photo above them) or are causing the patient distress based on their location.

For this patient, a simple procedure brought relief to his owner, identified what the growth was and determined that no further action is needed.

16/04/2024

Today was all about the cats! Inquisitive cats.. confident and bold cats… cats enjoying cat nip during their exam, or finding a smell they couldn’t pass up. Whether it was on our mobile unit or in the comfort of their home they just wanted to explore and engage with us. We love to let them walk around the mobile unit at times when we are chatting with their humans so they can investigate, climb or jump onto a counter to look out a window. A comfortable cat is a happier cat and we try to let them feel at ease during their time with us