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Calming Treats For Your Pet

Calming Treats For Your Pet

Does your dog have anxiety on car rides? Difficulty staying calm through thunderstorms or fireworks? Does he get stressed at the groomer or while boarding?  Is separation anxiety a problem when you leave the house?  Does your cat urinate in the house when you have...

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Vaccine reactions and nail problems

Vaccine reactions and nail problems

I saw a dog last week for a condition called Onychodystrophy, a painful condition where the nails start to grow abnormally and eventually start falling off.  Sounds painful right?  It is.  Generally it is first noticed when a dog starts licking a specific toe nail or...

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Anxiety in dogs – thinking outside the box

Anxiety in dogs – thinking outside the box

So many dogs we see suffer from some form of anxiety.  Some dogs I truly believe have a chemical imbalance, and just like some humans, are best with a little pharmaceutical assistance (ie: Prozac, Xanax etc).  Usually these dogs have generalized anxiety and are...

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Monthly Prevention

Monthly Prevention

Here at the Veterinary Hospital of Melbourne we strive to delivery only the very best in veterinary medicine. This extends even to the simplest medications that we can offer and some that can be the most important for the regular health of your pet. That’s right...

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Therapeutic K-Laser Applications

Therapeutic K-Laser Applications

K-Laser is a class IV therapy laser with multiple small animal applications and benefits to your pet. The laser allows healing to begin at the cellular level by increasing ATP and protein synthesis which results in increased growth factor response.  It also...

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Natural remedies for thunderstorm and firework phobia

Natural remedies for thunderstorm and firework phobia

I have to share my personal journey with herbal remedies and thunderstorm/fireworks/noise anxiety with my dear boy, Bo.  Bo is a happy-go-lucky Lab with a heart of gold, but he has been developing significant noise phobia (mainly thunderstorms but also fireworks) over...

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Heartworm Treatment – Update on Penny

Heartworm Treatment – Update on Penny

Remember pretty Penny? She’s Kristin’s rescue baby who ended up positive for heartworm. We decided to try herbal treatment for her since we knew we caught it early and she had already started heartworm prevention tablets (which kill the “baby” worms). She had been on...

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Heartworm Disease – Prevention is so Important!

Heartworm Disease – Prevention is so Important!

Remember Penny, our sweet little girl Kristin was fostering? Six weeks ago, when she was pulled from certain death and rescued by Kristin, she tested negative for heartworms. Although Kristin was able to find her a good home, she just couldn’t let her go. So we ran...

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