At Palmetto Animal Hospital, we are dedicated to providing comprehensive and compassionate care for your beloved pets. Our highly trained team is equipped to offer a wide range of services to ensure the health and well-being of your furry family members. From routine wellness exams to advanced diagnostics and surgical procedures, we tailor our services to meet the unique needs of each pet. Under the leadership of Dr. Lewis since October 2020, we continue to uphold our tradition of excellence in veterinary care. Explore our services below to learn how we can support your pet’s health and happiness throughout every stage of their life.
We love teeth, and we love keeping your pet's mouth healthy! We offer routine dental care, cleanings for geriatric patients, tooth extractions, and advanced oral procedures such as full mouth extractions for feline stomatitis, and oral fistula repair. We do require an exam prior to scheduling for a dental procedure and will give you an estimate at that time.
One of the most common problems we see every day is itching/allergies. We offer several diagnostic services in-house to help you diagnose and manage your pet's allergies, such as skin cytology, ear cytology, and skin scrapes. We also can facilitate allergy testing in coordination with an offsite laboratory. Depending on what your pet is allergic to, we can have allergy drops (immunotherapy) created to help manage their allergies long-term.
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We offer digital radiology, which produces extreme detail and clarity, for better visualization of internal structures. This also allows us to quickly email images to specialists for consultations, second opinions, and referrals.
Over your pet's lifetime, it is likely they will have at least one major medical issue. Common medical issues include:
We have an advanced in-house laboratory that allows us to do many of the diagnostics needed to diagnose these conditions the same day as your appointment. If there are any additional tests needed that cannot be performed in house, we will send samples to an outside laboratory (biopsies, cytologies, ear or urine cultures).
We offer state-of-the-art fecal testing using an in-house Vetscan Imagyst machine. We are excited to offer this as an extremely accurate way of checking for intestinal parasites. Please read more about it at https://www.vetscanimagyst.com/
We are able to perform complete testing for heartworm and three types of tickborne diseases (Ehrlichia, Anaplasmosis, and Lyme disease). This is a fast and easy test that takes only 8 minutes! It is part of our yearly exam and routine wellness visits.
Dr. Lewis is USDA Class 1 certified and can do companion animal health certificates for both domestic and foreign travel. If you are planning on traveling abroad with your pet, please call to schedule an appointment at least 3-6 months prior to your departure date. You can visit https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/pet-travel to see what is required for the country you are traveling to.
We offer many routine soft tissue procedures including spay, neuter, mass removal, amputation, hernia repair, wound repair, and more.
We also offer laser declaw procedures for cats using our top-of-the-line CO2 laser. To read more about what makes laser declaw different, please read this article https://www.embracepetinsurance.com/waterbowl/article/laser-declawing
If your pet is in need of a surgical procedure, please call our office to schedule an appointment for consultation.
We partner with a mobile veterinary surgical specialist, Dr. Sean Morrison, who can offer advanced procedures at our office, such as TPLO, ear canal ablation (TECA-BO), perineal hernia repair with colopexy, patella stabilization, perineal urethrostomy (PU) and much more. Visit https://palmettoveterinaryspecialist.com/ for more information.
If you are interested in an advanced surgical procedure please call our office to schedule an appointment for consultation.
