Author: Dr. Nick Calo I perform a lot of surgical and dental procedures for Whole Pet. I enjoy surgery a lot. I find it to be a very rewarding experience, where I can sit and focus intently on a task at hand and succeed in that task in real-time. Depending on the...

The holiday season approaches! As we look forward to all the festivities, many of us in the veterinary field anticipate an influx of cases that don’t always hold much of that holiday spirit. It’s a known trend for euthanasia, emergency, and critical medicine cases to...

Hurricane season is upon us and while you may have time to prepare for a known storm, it’s good to have some evacuation necessities always prepped in a “scram bag” for sudden evacuation situations. Bring enough food and water (and bowls) for at least 3-7 days...

We have all seen reports come out over the past year about grain-free diets causing dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in dogs. And due to those reports, the veterinary community started telling owners to only feed their pets the big brand diets such as Science Diet,...

VMM is equivalent to the human form of chiropractic medicine. It includes a motion palpation assessment and gentle manipulation of the skeletal system and its associated soft tissue, tendons, ligaments, and neural input to improve performance of the musculoskeletal...

Not only has our world changed over the past year and a half, our pets' worlds have changed too. Everyone has had such a tough past year. The human-animal bond is so strong that our pets can detect when we are stressed, or when we are going through a tough time....

In 2019, the FDA reported that Grain Free foods might be linked to heart disease in dogs. This came about after a veterinary cardiologist thought he noticed a link between some of his canine patients with a heart disease called Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) eating...

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It's Day One since a story came out questioning the safety of the Seresto collar. There is an unfathomable amount of information that still needs to be collected and verified before anyone can determine what is correct and what is not quite accurate. At this time, we...

I made a joke the other day about how I perform more splenectomies than spays here. Granted, that’s not exactly true but I do take out 2-3 spleens a month. Many of these dogs are not originally my patients. They come here for either a holistic consult on tumors of the...