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, hospice 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.
Latest News
Summer is here with all your best friend's parasites present in abundance. If you haven't placed your pet dog on heartworm medicine yet, we need to examine your dog promptly. Please schedule an appointment for a current weighing and blood test to establish that your dog is negative for the heartworm blood parasite. The heartworm parasite is spread by mosquito bite. The risk of contracting heartworm is seasonal in northern Ohio running from the spring to late fall. Left untreated, heartworm leads to cardiovascular, pulmonary and kidney pathology resulting in death. The weight needs to be current and accurate for Dr. Hennis and Dr. Rowan to dispense the appropriate heartworm prescription medicine. Also, it is time to address flea and tick protection. Please see Frontline Plus special at the bottom of this page.
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.
Pet Health and Safety
A brief word about prescriptions and dispensing prescriptions: The Ohio Veterinary Medical Licensing Board (OVMLB) has reinterpreted existing law and decided that a veterinarian must be on the premises in order for a client to pick up a prescription. This means that all prescriptions that are to be picked up must be picked up during our staff veterinarians' appointment hours! Also, the OVMLB has reminded all veterinarians that prescription medicines are non-returnable! Once the prescription has left the office, it cannot be returned!
This Summer has the appearance of being one of the worse tick seasons in recent memory. Several dozen clients have already reported multiple tick encounters so far. Ticks are related to the spiders and have four pair of legs. A tick is pictured below and to the left. The Dog Flea, below and to the right, is an insect with three pair of legs. Ticks crawl and fleas run and jump (up to three feet per leap). Frontline Plus is an effective flea and tick preparation as is the heartworm preventative medicine called Revolution. FRONTLINE PLUS special extended from Merial through us to you: buy 6 doses, receive two additional FREE doses. Buy 3 doses, receive one additional free dose. Limited-time offer expires 12/31/2010.
