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Cat & Dog Services

We offer a wide range of services including medical, diagnostic, surgical, and preventive health care needs for your Dogs and Cats, so they can live a longer, happier life. One of the best things you can do for your pet to keep him or her healthy is to bring them for regular exams. Protect your pets against problems before they start; below is a list of our pet services.

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4DX Testing: A Quick and Powerful Screening Tool for the Health of Your Dog

The 4DX test is a quick blood test that screens for four diseases which affect our dogs: Heartworm, Lyme, Anaplasma and Ehrlichia. Heartworm disease is transmitted by mosquitoes and is becoming more prevalent as the climate warms and more dogs (unknowingly infected) are brought into the province from other areas where mosquito borne diseases are widespread. In a few discrete areas within southern Ontario, such as Peterborough County, the prevalence of infection in dogs not on a heartworm preventive can be as high as 5% to 10%.* Local wildlife such as foxes, coyotes and wolves may be infected and be able to spread the disease to our dogs through the mosquito.

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