Welcome to Sagamore Hills Animal Hospital

The Sagamore Hills Animal Hospital offers a wide range of veterinary services for your pet cat or dog.  Our clinic's services span your pet’s life, beginning with neonatal care and moving through adolescent care, surgical neutering, active adulthood, and senescence to end of life care, when we provide geriatric therapy, palliative care and euthanasia services.  We know that your pet is truly a member of your family, and we treat each pet as such.   Because we value our patients, we are selective in choosing our employees, and this is reflected in the quality of service we provide.  We are proactive and pro-pet in our thoughts and actions, and we provide treatment and counseling for each individual pet within the framework of humane care.   Please contact us to schedule an appointment for your pet and, if desired, a tour of our facility.

On average, pets enter middle age around four to five years of age and become "senior citizens" between seven and nine years of age.  Dogs and cats that are elderly are going to be more prone to musculoskeletal disorders, arthritis, heart disease, thyroid disease, and cancer.  Kidney disease leading ultimately to terminal kidney failure is the most common cause of death in elderly pets.  Yearly examination for young adults and early middle-agers is probably adequate to ensure good health but the elderly patients should be examined twice yearly at a minimum and more often if there is organic or metabolic disease present. Likewise, in elderly dogs, the annual fecal flotation and fecal centrifugation tests (stool tests for intestinal parasites) and a heartworm test should be supplemented by a complete urinalysis.  Your pet dog's first-of-the-morning urine should be collected in a clean container and presented ASAP to the animal hospital to have the highest diagnostic quality and to yield the most useful information.  Early kidney disease will often be detected before there are noticeable changes in the blood chemistries; likewise, liver disease, Diabetes mellitus, and Canine Cushing's Syndrome may be detected based on the changes in the urine. The importance of the urine check should not be overlooked or underestimated.  We will provide you with a sterile specimen cup to facilitate presenting the urine to our animal hospital.

Another issue that we repetitively encounter is the great success of microchipping of our patients.  We routinely return lost and stray pets without collars and tags to their rightful owners based on the scanning and finding of a microchip.  The news media routinely reports such cases as the pet that was recently reunited with its east coast owners after having been missing for several years.  The pet was rescued and scanned in a shelter on the west coast leading to its reuniting with its owners over 3,000 miles away. Microchipping is a safe and effective means of permanent identification.  We are proud to offer this service utilizing HomeAgain microchips and the HomeAgain registry. 

Latest News:  The FDA has launched a new Pet Health and Safety site as part of an ongoing effort to provide timely, user-friendly, public health information.  It covers such topics as recalls of pet food, appropriate use of flea and tick products, etc.