Preventative Care

Bi-annual wellness exams that build a baseline for your pet.

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Every pet deserves the best quality individualized veterinary care available. At Green Valley Animal Hospital, we want to keep your pet family healthy. Bi-annual wellness examinations help us to understand your pet’s health trends. This helps us to compile a thorough history, including up-to-date blood test results, thus giving us a baseline to measure any changes in your pet’s health.

Junior and senior wellness panels

A Junior Wellness Panel is advised for regular health monitoring of all pets less than 6 years of age. It allows our doctors to detect problems before they become a greater threat, and establishes the baselines that matter later. For dogs and cats it covers kidney and liver values, blood protein levels, red blood cell, white blood cell and platelet levels. Cats that visit outdoors are advised to have a Feline leukemia (FeLV) and Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) test every 6 to 12 months.

Senior Wellness Panels should be performed annually on all pets over 7 years of age. Testing for dogs and cats includes kidney and liver values, pancreas, electrolytes, protein levels, thyroid, blood pressure and urine. Senior comprehensive exams include those blood tests plus thoracic and abdominal radiographs to check for possible organ enlargement or tumors.

Obesity is a true disease process which can lead to complications that jeopardize your pet’s health. Conditions such as diabetes mellitus, osteoarthritis, cardiac disease, and respiratory disease all develop more readily in obese pets. During each veterinary exam, your pet’s body condition score is evaluated.