Lombard Animal Hospital offers personalized, modern and integrative veterinary medicine. Our vision is to integrate Modern and Holistic medical modalities to provide the highest quality healthcare for your pets. We want to enhance the quality of life for pets and their people through education, nutrition, and wellness.
As we are an AAHA Accredited hospital, we do recommend annual exams for all pets - including small mammals and birds. These regular examinations help us provide the highest quality health care for your pets as well as allow us to keep a thorough history on them in case something does come up in the future.
Wellness Labwork - setting a baseline for your pet's blood chemistry, complete blood count, red and white blood cell count, is ideal. This allows us to catch organ deterioration and other issues earlier than if we wait for symptoms to occur, thus letting us pursue treatment and assuring a comfortable quality of life for your pet.
Vaccinations - It's best to discuss with your veterinarian which vaccines are or aren't recommended for your pet and their particular lifestyle.
For Dogs, we offer: - DAP (Distemper, Adenovirus, Parvovirus): protects from the Distemper, Adenovirus Type 2, as well as Parvovirus. Distemper is a contagious and incurable virus that attacks the respiratory, gastrointestinal, and neurological systems. Parvovirus is also highly contagious and attacks the gastrointestinal tract impeding digestion, hydration and leaves lasting effects. Adenovirus Type 2 is easily passed between dogs. It affects the respiratory system causing high fevers and coughing. The Type 2 vaccine also protects your pet from the Type 1 Adenovirus which affects the liver.
- Bordetella: combats airborne virus commonly called "kennel cough" which is easily passed from dog to dog and can weaken your dog's immune system. This vaccine is required by most boarding facilities and can be recommended as often as every six months.
- HCP (Herpes, Calici, Panleukopenia): The Feline Herpes and Calici viruses are both highly contagious upper respiratory viruses. Panleukopenia is a highly infectious feline distemper virus, creating problems in the gastrointestinal tract, as well as attacking the bone marrow. Commonly given as FVRCP.
- FeLV: (Feline Leukemia Vaccine): recommended for outdoor cats or indoor cats that have contact with outdoor cats. It protects against a retrovirus similar to human HIV, disabling a cat from fighting off other infections. FeLV infection is the most common cause of cancer in cats. Infection with FeLV generally lowers the quality of life of a pet, as well as shortening its life expectancy. Before vaccination an ELISA (enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay) is performed.
- Rabies: required by Multnomah County for all cats and dogs, protects against the fatal Rabies virus.
Fecal/Heartworm Testing: Especially recommended when traveling to another part of the country where ticks and mosquitos may be more prevalent than here in the Northwest; these tests are usually recommended annually to check for parasites and heartworm.
- If you have a senior pet (7+ years), or a pet with chronic health issues, it's recommended to boost annual exams to bi-annual wellness checks and make sure you're regularly checking lab work to keep up with your pet's accelerated aging.
Special Consideration:
Ferrets: We do offer care to Ferrets, including vaccinations.
Birds: If you have trouble clipping your bird's wings or nails, we can help with that (as long as they're current on an annual exam)!
At Lombard Animal Hospital, in Portland, Oregon we strive to increase the quality of life for pets and their people through education,
nutrition and wellness!
nutrition and wellness!
Give us a call -- We'd love to see you and your pets!
503.285.2337
