Dragon Lake Veterinary Hospital
2372 Larch Avenue, Quesnel, BC V2J 5T9
Phone: 250-747-1429 Fax: 250-747-1430 Email: dlvet@shaw.ca
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Fear-Free Facility
Routine Surgeries
Emergency Surgeries
Wellness Exams & Preventative Care
In House Diagnostic Lab
Dental Care
Mobile/Virtual Vet Services
Feeding suggestions
Compassionate End of Life (Palliative) Care
Dental Care:
Dental health is a significant part of a pet’s overall health and one of the most commonly diagnosed health problems in pets is oral disease. Bad breath, rubbing the face and chewing more on one side than the other are all indications that your pet may have some advanced dental problems.
We provide dental care services to help your pets live a long and healthy life. At DLVet, we offer dental scaling and polishing, dental x-rays and extractions. We recommend that all dental procedures be done under anesthesia to ensure a pain-free and stressless procedure for your dog. Anesthesia allows for better cleaning and helps to reduces any risk of your pet being injured by dental equipment because they are not moving around.
We recommend brushing your dog’s teeth daily and feeding them an approved dental diet and/or dental treats. Brushing even 2-3 times a week will have a positive impact on your dog’s oral health.
A healthy mouth ensures a healthy dog! Most dental diseases occur below the gumline where we cannot see it.
Visit our links page for a list of additional reading about pet dental health, as well as our dentistry page.
Mobile/Virtual (Telemedicine) Services:
In some situations, we may be able to come to you to provide vet care. While this is mostly reserved for large animal farm visits, we have extended these services to small animals in need and are able to provide at home euthanasia in some situations.
Virtual or telemedicine is an option that may allow us to make a diagnosis over the phone or through a video call. We can discuss diagnosis and treatment options and guide you through care instructions.
Please contact us if you have a situation that requires a home or virtual visit and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Surgical Services:
We perform routine surgeries such as Spays and Neuters. Our Vet, Technicians and Assistants work as a brilliant team and patients are monitored during the entire surgical procedure as well as during their recovery. We also offer more advanced surgeries including Lumpectomies, Exploratories, Hernia Repairs, Cesareans and more. We have a blood analyzer in clinic so you have the option of having blood work and ECG's done on your Pet prior to surgery to check their general health and the health of their kidneys, liver and heart, to name a few. Our veterinarian and our support staff attend continuing education and we do in clinic training to ensure we are current and up to date in our procedures. All of these factors minimize the risks that may be involved with anesthesia and surgery.
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End of Life Care:
It is always a struggle to know what to do when your pet's quality of life starts to decline. What is most important is that their declining years are as comfortable and happy as possible. We work with each client and patient individually to come up with a plan that works for them. There are many things that we can do to minimize pain including tailored nutrition and a medication regime. Medication can affect the body's internal systems so blood work becomes an important tool to track that, and regular checkups are important at this stage to monitor any changes.
Our links page has a link to a quality of life assessment tool to help you with the decision when it is time. Remember that our pets always live on in our hearts.
If you have questions, contact us to learn more.
Wellness Exams and Preventative Care:
Our highest priority is disease prevention. Each time your pet comes into our practice, we will do a basic assessment of overall health, including teeth, eyes, ears, skin, nutrition, mobility (joint health) etc.
Depending on the results of the assessment, our veterinarians may recommend diagnostic testing to explore certain things more thoroughly. We will then work with you to develop a plan to keep your Pet in good health. Regular vaccines, a parasite prevention protocol, and regular bloodwork are important parts of a disease prevention and good health preservation plan.
For our new patients, we provide take-home packs. These contain information about a variety of topics including weight management, mobility, allergies, and puppy/kitten care.
In House Diagnostics Lab:
While completing a thorough physical exam and receiving an accurate, complete history from our clients can often be enough for a veterinarian to make a determination about your pet's condition, identifying the beginnings of a disease process can sometimes be more challenging. We have some valuable tools that can help our veterinarians to diagnose what is ailing your pet, allowing them to develop a treatment plan aimed at providing the quality of life that they deserve.
Our in-house diagnostic lab houses state of the art technology, including an ultrasound machine, digital x-ray, Equine x-ray, and blood and urine analyzers. X-rays are particularly useful for dentistry, examining bones and dense tissues, whereas ultrasounds are often used for soft tissue imaging and monitoring pregnancies.
With high levels of sensitivity and precision, along with efficient flagging, our blood analysis process delivers high quality results quickly that you can trust as we review, detect and identify any abnormalities.
There can still be occasions when it is necessary for us to ship things to an outside lab for more complex testing. Results in such a case are usually available within a week
Phone: 250-747-1429 Fax: 250-747-1430 Email: dlvet@shaw.ca
Fear Free Facility:
The Fear Free™ approach was developed by a team of experts in veterinary behaviour, medicine, and training. Dragon Lake Vet Hospital is certified to provide Fear Free care for your animals at their hospital visits.
Our staff have been trained to recognize even the most subtle signs of fear, anxiety and stress and to safely de-escalate with compassion and kindness.
We have a large, open waiting room so that pets can feel like they have their own space, and our separate dog and cat exam rooms feature calming pheromone diffusers specially formulated for dogs and cats.
We provide a wide range of services for our Canine and Feline patients and are committed to first class care of our companions. Our veterinarians work with you to come up with a plan to keep your pet in good health. Here are just a few of the services we provide for our small animal friends:
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Small Animal
Dragon Lake Veterinary Hospital
2372 Larch Avenue, Quesnel, BC V2J 5T9