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...

Here at the Veterinary Hospital of Mountain Island 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Interested in holistic medicine for your pets? Now is a great time to try. 2014 is going to be a great year, and we want to make it even better! In January and February, we are offering 25% holistic treatment packages. That’s 25% off of a package of 4 acupuncture...

So our cute little patient, Nathan, the “guide-dog-in-training” has Demodex mites. Quick review: Demodex mites, unlike the other well-known mites of canines (Sarcoptic mites), are not contagious, and typically do not cause itch, unless they are accompanied by a...

Meet Bella the Wonderdog! You wouldn’t know it by her shiny, healthy coat in this picture, but 6 months ago her entire coat was actually sloughing off of her body. She was diagnosed with an auto-immune condition called Pemphigus foliaceus, which caused her immune...

This is a patient we examined this month for a new heart murmur. It highlights the most common cause of heart murmurs in pets as they age. By performing an echocardiogram (ultrasound of the heart), we can see the inside of the heart to diagnose the cause of the murmur...