Services

We're pleased to offer the following services in our Longwood Veterinary Clinic: 

Physical examinations:

Annual Wellness Exam with Vaccinations: For healthy animals to confirm their health and find any health problems early. Discuss vaccination protocol, stool testing for intestinal parasites, blood testing for heartworms and major organ function, infections, anemia, and dehydration. Each visit is tailored to your pet's special needs. We will recommend appropriate heartworm and flea/tick prevention, and other nutritional, skin care, vitamins and dental care products as needed.

Puppy and Kitten Exams: Including stool testing, parasite control and vaccinations. Discounted packages available including complimentary exams for new puppies and kittens.

Senior Pet Exams: To look for any geriatric disease. Testing includes blood work for major organ functions, anemia, dehydration, diabetes, thyroid testing, urinalysis, ECG for heart conditions, digital radiographs, and blood pressure testing. We also provide nutritional counseling and pain management.

Pre-surgical Exams: To assess patient health before surgery, dental procedures or any other procedure requiring anesthesia.

Diagonostic Procedures:

Digital Radiology: Advanced digital radiology machines expedite diagnosis. Your pet’s images can be emailed to radiology specialists if needed for a more precise diagnosis. Results are available in minutes so pet’s condition can be diagnosed and treated quickly.

In-House Laboratory: Full lab including running blood chemistries, CBC, urinalysis, pre-surgical blood work, heartworm testing, stool analysis, feline Leukemia/FIV, parvo testing and critical care profiles to diagnose and treat sick patients promptly. We also use two national laboratories and some universities for specialized testing.

Electrocardiogram: For heart evaluation. Ultrasound and endoscopy available through board certified internal medicine specialist in house. Other specialty services include chemotherapy, none-routine surgeries and internal medicine consultations.


Surgery:

Anesthesia:
We give each animal a thorough examination before any anesthesia is administered. We will review any abnormal pre-surgical blood work results with owner before anesthesia and surgery. Pre-surgical bloodwork determine liver and kidney function as these are the organs that metabolize anesthetics.

An intravenous catheter is placed to administer anesthetics and fluids during surgery to improve safety of anesthetic procedure.We are equipped with safest anesthetic gas isoflorane.

All patients are monitored with state of the art anesthetic equipment to check blood pressure every 2 minutes, blood oxygen levels, carbon dioxide levels, respiration rate, ECG and body temperature. Your pets body temperature is maintained with a heated surgery table, hot dog pet warming blanket, and heat lamps to eliminate contact burns from heating pads.

Laser surgery: Performed with advanced Nova Pulse Surgical Laser has many benefits including less pain, less swelling at surgery site, less bleeding and quicker recovery from surgery. Laser is incorporated in many procedures such as spay, neuter, feline declaw, eye surgeries, and tumor removals, some only requiring local anesthesia.

Feline and Canine Spays & Neuters: Fixing your pet is an important part of maintaining quality health and increasing the life span of your friend. Chosing not to neuter your male dog or cat could result in testicular cancer, prostate enlargement or prostate cancer, aggression, urine marking, and dominate displays such as humping. Not spaying your female dog or cat could result in breast or uterine cancer, pyometra (infection of the uterus in which it fills with pus and is life threatening), aggression, urine marking, and dominate displays such as humping.

Laser De-Clawing for Cats: Less pain and swelling, and minimal bleeding after surgery means a quicker and more comfortable recovery from surgery.

Orthopedic surgeries: Fore bone fractures, hip surgeries, knee surgery for anterior cruciate ligament ruptures, or luxating patella repairs.

Soft tissue surgeries: Including bladder stone removal, intestinal surgeries such as foreign body removal, and tumor removal.

Dental services:

We are equipped with a state of the art dental unit to perform routine and complex dental cleanings. While under anesthesia your pet will recive a deep cleaning to remove all existing tartar. The teeth will be assessed and extractions performed if needed. Some pets may be eligible for tooth bonding versus extraction. After cleaning the teeth will be polished smooth, treated with fluoride to strengthen the tooth surface, and an oravet barrier sealant to protect the teeth for up to two week after the dental cleaning. An at home oravet care kit is recommended to increase efficacy of barrier sealant.

We offer digital dental x-rays to assess the health of the tooth root and teh bone that supports that teeth. Treatment recommended could include surgical extraction, periodontal treatment, fracture repair or root canals.

We use appropriate pain protocol depending upon the procedure you pet receives. We also use synthetic bone materials to fill the defects created by dental extractions to achieve a strong jaw bone after surgery.

Complementary dental exams are available before scheduling a dental cleaning for your pet.

Skin problems and allergy testing:

We have 20 years experience in diagnosing and managing various skin and ear conditions. We offer allergy testing for different allergens and allergy treatments.

We offer advice on skin care products and offer prescription flea control including a once a month tablet, a topical prevention, and environmental parasite control.

Pharmacy:

We stock the most up to date and effective pet prescription medications. These include heartworm, flea, and tick preventions. Starting your pet on these important medications as soon as possible is crucial to maintaining quality health.

We offer an online pharmacy for convenience where you can order medication, heartworm, and flea prevention and receive it at your door at no extra charge.

Prescription pet foods:

We carry Hill's Science Diet and Royal Canin Veterinary prescription diets.

We carry a variety of other products including pet shampoos, vitamins, and dental hygiene products.

Boarding and Grooming:

Our facility was designed by a leading veterinary architect keeping in mind sanitation, comfort, safety and proper ventilation in mind. We encourage you visit our facility at any time. We offer air conditioned canine runs and feline condos.

We have large out door area for exercise for our boarding guests. Pets are exercised three times daily. We feed them Hill's Science Diet Adult Maintenance dry formula during their stay.

We require your pet to be up to date on vaccinations and be free from external and internal parasites.

We offer bathing and grooming services while boarding. Grooming and bathing are offered  Monday thru Friday. Call today for an appointment.

Emergency services:

One of the staff veterinarians is on call 24 hours for advise. We accept emergencies during office hours. After hour call are some times referred to the Veterinary Emergency Clinic at 407-644-9994 depending upon nature of your emergency and time

Appointments:

Our appointment book is computerized which allows us to efficiently make appointments for you and your pet. Our receptionists and team will attempt to accommodate all requests to the best of our ability. We are open for scheduled appointments from:

    * Monday to Friday: 8am - 5:30pm
              (Office Hours 7:30am - 6pm)
    * Saturday: 8am - 1:30pm
              (Office Hours 8am - 2pm)

Emergencies are accepted anytime our clinic is open. If you feel you have an emergency with your pet, please call us or come to the hospital immediately. If possible it is best to call before coming in so that a staff member can prepare you and the clinic for the emergency.

Types of Pets Seen

Because two veterinarians practice at Luv-N-Care Animal Hospital, P.A., we can care for many types of pets:

    Dogs
    Cats
    Rabbits
    Pocket Pets
    * Birds

*Limited services only. Call us for more information.

Open Hospital

Luv-N-Care Animal Hospital, P.A. operates an open hospital. This means that our team welcomes owners to be with their animals during any medical procedure, whether a simple vaccination or a complex surgery.

Payments

Luv-N-Care Animal Hospital, P.A. accepts payment via cash, check, MasterCard, Visa, Discover, American Express, and Care Credit. So that we can continue to provide you high quality service, utilizing the best medical technologies, we require that payment be made at the time services are rendered.

We provide estimates for all surgeries and hospitalizations. If you have not received an estimate, you are welcome to request one at any time for your expected charges.

Discounts

Luv-N-Care Animal Hospital, P.A. offers discounted services to senior citizens and local area rescue groups. Pre-approval is required to qualify for the rescue group discounts, please call us for more information.