Puppies, kittens, bunnies, foals…calves. They’re adorable!! Do you love them? Do you have an inner drive to help animals? This might be the job for you. No bad day isn’t made better by holding a puppy. Maybe you’re into birds or iguanas or snakes. Great, because...

There’s the saying that old age is not a disease, it is just a number. If you are a client here, you have probably heard us talk this way and even if your pet has lived a long life, we will continue to take steps to keep your pet happy if she has the will to live. So...

This has been coming up for me a lot lately with some of my best clients – the ones who would do anything for their dogs. Their dogs are becoming aggressive with each other to the point of injury, sometimes serious. Once this starts happening, it typically escalates....

As holistic practitioners, we are often challenged by those who believe that pharmaceutical heartworm prevention isn’t necessary, is dangerous, or is a scam. Heartworm disease is very real and is one of the most easily preventable fatal conditions that we have the...

We’re always happy to help fix your pet’s problems, but sometimes a phone call can save you an office visit, hundreds of dollars in bills, and a pet with potentially more problems than before. Say no to using your own drugs. Often people assume “what’s safe for kids...

At the Veterinary Hospital of Melbourne, we are proud to offer services to our non-traditional pets including small mammals (rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, hedgehogs, gerbils, chinchillas, rats, mice, and sugar gliders) and reptiles. Dr. Marlowe and Dr. Forward spent...

That’s right, cats are carnivores. They are not supposed to be eating corn. So why do many of our commercially made cat food products including treats have corn in them? It’s the same reason why high fructose corn syrup is in many processed human foods: corn is cheap....

We have all heard the old adage, “Food is Love”, and many of us show love to our pets through feeding them. We think we are purchasing the best food on the market. We go to the pet store, buy an expensive bag of food with terms like ‘all-natural’, ‘first ingredient is...

Barnaby is a 9yr old DSH MN kitty that has been coming to our hospital for the past year. He is strictly indoors and shares his home with two other cats. When we examined him a year ago, Barnaby was overweight at 17.2lbs. The owner changed his diet to high quality,...

I regularly kayak on Mountain Island Lake and would bring my dog Tyler with me.  She would ride in the back of the kayak and occasionally get out to swim during our trips.  She always wore a life jacket because I worried about her tiring in the water.  I never...