Web: www.SuburbanAnimalClinic.comE-mail: Info@SuburbanAnimalClinic.comOffice Hours: Mon.–Fri., 7am-6pm and Sat., 7am–1pmPhone: (614) 276–5479

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What Laser Therapy Helps! Laser Therapy is an effective treatment for many cases of acute and chronic pain, inflammation and wound healing. It can be used alone or in conjunction with other treatments. Laser therapy has the ben-efit of being a drug free, safe means of providing lasting pain relief. We have had our Companion Therapy Laser for 5 years now and have had great success in treating a number of conditions including:

Back pain and arthritisPost surgical pain (speeds healing)Acute and chronic ear diseaseWounds, hot spots and lick granulomasAnal sacculitis, cystitis, and oral lesions

Class IV Laser Therapy uses a beam of laser light to deeply penetrate tis-sue without damaging it. It is delivered through a noninvasive handpiece to treat the affected area. Your pet may feel a gentle and soothing warmth. Ask us for more information. Your pet will be glad you did!

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Spring/Summer 2014

Michael Seimer, D.V.M. Missy Shardy, D.V.M. Beth Stafford, D.V.M.

Your Pet’s Health• Protect Your Pet

• Feline Chronic Kidney Disease

• Vaccinate for Lyme Disease

News For You• What’s News at Suburban

• Staff Feature

• Boarding, Grooming and Doggy daycare

• Simple Guide to Hill’s Prescription Diets

Pet Owner Tips• Tips to Remember Pet Medications

• What Laser Therapy Helps

• Visit the Suburban Online Store

Protect Your Pet- against ticks, mosquitoes, and fleas

What can you do? Make sure your dog or cat is on a monthly heartworm prevention all year long. This deadly disease, carried by mosquitoes, can be prevented. Most heartworm prevention products also help control common intestinal parasites that are debilitating to pets and harmful to people. Most people know about the dangers of diseases carried by ticks, especially Lyme disease. Lyme disease is carried by the Blacklegged deer tick. This tick is present in over 52 Ohio counties including Franklin, Fairfield, Delaware, and Licking County. Lyme disease has severe health effects on humans and dogs. We also diagnose dogs with two other tick borne diseases, Anaplasmosis and Ehrlichiosis. Fleas, of course, never seem to go away. 2013 was the worst summer and fall for flea infestation in years. Warm weather starts the whole cycle over again, as fleas become a problem for pets and the households they live in. Thankfully, there are many safe and effective products to protect dogs and cats when used correctly. When you fill out the risk factor questionnaire during your pets’ visit, we can help recommend the products that are best for your pet.

If you have concerns about tick exposure to your dog (woods, parks, ponds, grassy areas, or anywhere deer may pass through), please consider vaccinating against Lyme disease. This vaccine can be started in a series of 2, 3-4 weeks apart, and then boostered yearly

for the best protection.

What’s News at Suburban Animal Clinic

•We have rebates and deals on heartworm prevention, flea and tick control products when pur-chased at Suburban. Ask a staff member how you can save. •June is Adopt-a-shelter cat month. Each spring during kitten season, thousands of newborn kittens join the millions of adult cats in shelters across the country. Capital Area Humane Society has cud-dly kittens and loveable adult cats in need of homes. Find a new feline friend and give it unconditional love. Visit www.cahs-pets.org. •Suburban Animal Clinic once again won the Angie’s List Super Service Award for 2013. This prestigious honor is awarded to approximately 5% of all businesses rated on the nation’s leading pro-vider of consumer reviews of local service organiza-tions. Thank you all! •Check us out on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Watch for contests and win prizes includ-ing our“Summertime Selfie Contest” with your pet.

Feline Chronic Kidney Disease

Kidney disease is most common in older cats, but often begins in middle age. We can frequently diagnose kidney disease with blood and urine tests before any signs occur and make treatment recommendations based on those reports. Signs may include mild changes in behavior, excessive thirst and more clumps of urine in the litter box, decreased appetite, weight loss, decreased muscle mass, and nausea. Twice yearly examinations of cats over 7 years of age and periodic laboratory testing will help to ensure early detection and timely treatment of feline kidney disease. Prescription Diets (Hill’s k/d), medications and fluid therapy can help slow the progression of this disease and provide a good quality of life for your feline friend.

Visit the Suburban Animal Clinic Online Store

Do you like to shop on the internet, buy in bulk or look to save on high priced veterinary prod-ucts? Visit the Suburban Animal Clinic Online Store at your convenience for shopping 24/7. It now of-fers quicker service and more products - many of which we don’t carry in our hospital. You receive home delivery for all the products, including Hill’s Science Diet and Prescription Diets. Prescription products require our doctors authorization before shipping. Go to www.suburbananimalclinic.com and click on the Online Store box.

Ideas for Boarding, Grooming and Doggy Day Care

Looking for a safe place to board your pet while on summer vacation? Need to keep your pet clipped down and well groomed on hot summer days? Want to have your pet happy and busy at doggy day care? For our client recommended list visit www.suburbananimalclinic.com and click on services at the top banner.

Staff Feature - Jewel Evans RVT Jewel has been a vet tech at Suburban a little over a year. She earned an associate degree in Veterinary Technology from Morehead State University in 2010. She enjoys learning about pet behavior issues and performing dental cleaning and oral care on pets. Jewel loves the outdoors including camping and hiking with her husband A.J. and dog “Marty.” She also has 3 cats at home and will do pet sitting for clients in her free time, because she “loves to help pets and people in need.”

Tips to Remember Pet MedicationsVisit www.RemindMyPet.com to register

for a free e-mail, text message or phone call, and now a mobile app for Apple devices.

Choose the same day every month for once a month preventatives (the 1st works well).

Use stickers or send yourself an e-mail reminder from your free PetPortal every month.

Designate one person in the family to be responsible for the pet’s treatment.

Mark the calender that the treatment was done.

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Hill’s Prescription Diet Simple Guidea/d Provides nutritional support following serious illness, injury or surgery for dogs and catsb/d Helps nutritionally manage dogs with signs of brain aging and related behavioral changes dogsc/d Helps manage dogs with recurrent struvite crystals and uroliths dogsc/d Multi. Helps manage struvites and calcium oxalate urolithiasis and crystalluria, and feline idiopathic cystitis. catsd/d Helps manage pets with food allergies and dermatological problems dogs/catsg/d Helps manage pets with heart disease and kidney disease, with reduced sodium dogs/catsh/d Supports dogs suffering with heart disease and heartworm disease, and decreases fluid retention. dogsi/d Offers a highly digestible formula for pets with gastrointestinal disorders dogs/catsj/d Disrupts the degradation of cartilage to improve mobility dogs/catsk/d Helps slow disease progression and improve quality of life for pets with kidney disease dogs/cats