Numerous pets are poisoned every year, with serious, potentially life-threatening consequences. Toxins can be found throughout your home, and our Heritage Veterinary Clinic team provides valuable information about common pet toxins and explains how you can safeguard your four-legged friend. Pet poisons Numerous items and products found around your home are poisonous to pets, including: [...]
Dental disease doesn’t affect only your pet’s mouth. Left untreated, periodontal bacteria can cause significant organ damage, but appropriate dental care can affect your pet’s overall wellbeing and increase their longevity. Our Heritage Veterinary Clinic team is concerned about your pet’s dental health, so we are providing information about this topic and explaining how you [...]
The new year may renew your enthusiasm and recharge your dedication to achieving personal goals, and you can use this impetus for making this year your pet’s healthiest yet. While considering New Year’s resolutions that focus on your own health and happiness, create a few that include your furry pal. To help spur your resolution [...]
If your pet is in their senior years, you may wonder how to determine if they enjoy life. Assessing your pet’s quality of life (QOL) is important as they get older, and our Heritage Veterinary Clinic team wants to help guide you through this trying time by answering frequently asked questions about pet QOL assessment. [...]
Cancer is the leading cause of death in pets beyond middle age. Thanks to advances in veterinary medicine, successful treatment for pets with cancer is more common, but early diagnosis is important to improve your pet’s prognosis. Our Heritage Veterinary Clinic team wants to help by providing information about pet cancer to help you identify [...]
Ear infections in cats and dogs are a common problem that can be frustrating to treat. These infections cause significant pain, and can lead to hearing loss if not addressed appropriately. Our Heritage Veterinary Clinic team wants to help by providing information about what causes ear infections in pets, and how these conditions are managed. [...]
Keeping their vaccines up to date is one of the easiest ways to help your pet live a long, healthy life, and vaccines are a crucial part of your pet’s comprehensive health care plan. Our Heritage Veterinary Clinic team wants to provide information about what diseases are combated when you vaccinate your pet. Diseases combated [...]
Aging is inevitable, and our pets are no exception. Your older pet may be growing wiser but, unfortunately, they’re also likely to be suffering from wear-and-tear joint inflammation called osteoarthritis (OA). Younger pets can also be affected by OA that is related to injury or joint malformations. OA is painful, but most pets hide their [...]
Whether your new puppy is a pedigreed pooch or a loveable mutt, proper socialization is important to help ensure they become a well-behaved and well-adjusted adult dog. Our team at Heritage Veterinary Clinic wants to help by providing tips that will help you socialize your puppy appropriately. #1: Start socializing your puppy as soon as [...]
Many parasites survive on nutrients from pets, and can cause significant health issues for your four-legged friend. Our team at Heritage Veterinary Clinic wants to help by providing information about parasitic pet diseases, and steps you can take to safeguard your pet. Vector-borne pet parasitic diseases Fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes are the major vectors that [...]
