Services

Services Offered

Boarding Services

Rocky Ridge Animal Clinic offers a premier boarding facility that is all indoors and temperature controlled. Our feline guests have their own wing. We have both spacious cages and indoor runs in our kennel. We do not walk our guests on leashes. Instead, they are taken out to a fenced-in play area three times daily to exercise. We also offer V.I.P. boarding, which entitles your pet to a human companion that interacts with your pet while in the play yard. We invite you to come by and tour our boarding facilities. You are guaranteed to be impressed.

Regular Boarding: $17/night
VIP Boarding: $18/night

Bathing and Grooming

Rocky Ridge Animal Clinic offers bathing and grooming services for both cats and dogs. Bathing is offered Monday – Saturday. Grooming services are offered by appointment.

In-House Diagnostic Lab
With our state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, we are able to offer diagnostic blood testing results quickly for emergency situations as well as routine blood work, urinalysis, and screening for intestinal parasites, heartworm and Lyme disease.

Medicine and Surgery
Our office is equipped with radiology equipment so that we can take X-rays when needed. Our fully equipped surgical suite allows us to perform complicated soft tissue and orthopedic surgeries as well as more routine spays and neuters for dogs, cats and rabbits. All of our surgical patients are monitored using electronic equipment to monitor vital signs.

Micro-chipping
Everyday pets are lost without a collar or tag. Micro-chipping will allow you to track your pet if he or she becomes lost. Most animal shelters have the equipment to scan then id your pet.

Dental Care
Your dog's and cat's teeth are extremely important in the health of your pet. Unfortunately, a lot of people and vets don't take the time to peek inside your pet's mouth before it's too late. Plaque, tartar and bacteria will give your pet bad breath and can cause kidney, liver, and heart problems, not to mention loss of teeth. Please come by today for your FREE dental exam. Thorough and complete dentals are done under anesthesia on an outpatient basis.

Vaccines
Dogs – Puppies have poor immune systems when they are young. Puppies should be vaccinated starting at six weeks of age and every three weeks after until they are given their adult booster vaccinations. Adult booster vaccinations occur between 12 and 15 weeks of age. The vaccines that are normally given to your puppy are as follows:

Distemper: A widespread and often fatal disease, which can cause vomiting, diarrhea, pneumonia and severe brain damage.

Hepatitis: A liver disease caused by a virus.

Parvovirus: An often fatal virus infection that causes diarrhea and vomiting.

Bordetella: A bacteria that causes bronchitis and bronchopneumonia.

Rabies: A fatal viral infection of the central nervous systems that can affect all mammals, including humans.

Adenovirus: A virus that causes infectious hepatitis and respiratory infection.

Parainfluenza: A virus that causes respiratory infections that can be severe in puppies and debilitated dogs.

Lyme disease: A disease carried by ticks which infects both man and dogs in some regions of the United States. This disease can damage many of the dog’s body systems, but most often causes high fever and debilitating joint disease.

Leptospirosis: A bacterial disease that CAN be spread from pets to people which can cause kidney failure.

Your puppy should also have an intestinal parasite screen. This checks your pet's stool for any parasites or “worms” that may be present. Many of the intestinal parasites that pets can be exposed to are also harmful to humans.

Cats – Kittens have a weak immune system and need to be vaccinated starting when they are six weeks of age and every three weeks thereafter until they receive their adult vaccinations. Adult vaccinations between 12 and 15 weeks of age. The vaccinations that are normally given to your kitten are as follows:

Viral Rhinotracheitis: A respiratory infection that is often fatal in kittens.

Calcivirus: A respiratory infection of cats that is not usually fatal but often leaves the cat more susceptible to serious infections.

Panleukopenia: A widespread and highly contagious disease that results in loss of appetite, vomiting and diarrhea. Some adult cats may recover, but it is often fatal in both kittens and adults.

Pneumonitis-Chlamydia: Another common respiratory infection. It is rarely fatal, but may recur when the cat is ill or stressed.

Leukemia: A virus that is a major cause of serious disease and death in cats. It decreases the ability of the immune system to respond to infection.

Rabies: A fatal viral infection of the central nervous systems that can affect all mammals, including humans.

Feline AIDS testing and vaccination is recommended for all outdoor kittens or cats. F.I.V. is spread primarily through bite wounds, as the virus is shed in high levels through saliva. The disease is not transmissible from cats to humans.

Feline leukemia testing is recommended for cats and kittens before vaccinating.

Your kitten should also have an intestinal parasite screen. This checks your pet's stool for any parasites or “worms” that may be present. Many of the intestinal parasites that pets can be exposed to are also harmful to humans.

Heartworm Disease and Flea Prevention

Heartworm Disease
Heartworms are basically worms that live in your pet’s heart and can kill it if not treated. Heartworms can also cause untreatable changes to occur in the heart once a pet is infected. Your pet should be given a preventative for heartworm disease. There are many options for medicating your pet.

Your options are:
Cats – Cats are given a tablet by mouth once monthly that prevents heartworms and intestinal parasites. There is no treatment available for heartworms in cats, thus prevention is most important.

Dogs – Dogs are given a tablet by mouth once monthly that prevents heartworms and intestinal parasites. Some intestinal parasites can be contagious to other pets as well as humans.

Flea Prevention
There is an old saying: “You get what you pay for.” Unfortunately, this is true in this case. There are many over the counter flea products sold by many companies, and, generally speaking, the products do not work as well as the products you can purchase from a veterinarian clinic. The flea prevention that is available at a vet will usually cost more; however they are guaranteed to work.

The products offered at Rocky Ridge Animal Clinic are:

Capstar – an oral tablet that can be given daily to control fleas. This type of prevention lasts for only 24 hours.

Vectra – a monthly topical flea prevention which repels and kills fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, lice, sand flies and mites.

Advantage Multi – a monthly topical application which prevents heartworms, roundworms, hookworms in dogs and cats as well as whipworms in dogs and ear mites in cats.