Foods To Avoid Feeding Your Pet On Thanksgiving
November 1st is National Cook for Your Pets Day, but at Capital Home Veterinary Care, we like to celebrate by treating our pets when we treat all of our favorite humans, on Thanksgiving Day, of course!
Celebrate National Cat Day With These 5 Halloween Safety Tips for Cats
National Cat Day, a day for celebrating everything feline, falls on October 29th – just before Halloween. So, we figure the best way to celebrate the kitties in your life is to make sure they stay safe through Halloween weekend and the holiday itself.
It’s National Pet Insurance Month – Is Your Pet Covered?
September is National Pet Insurance Month. The month-long observation exists in order to provide an opportunity for pet owners to learn more about pet insurance because many pet owners aren’t even aware that there are insurance options for their pets.
The Easiest Way to Update Your Pet’s Vaccines During National Immunization Awareness Month
August is National Immunization Awareness Month, and our veterinarians with Capital Home Veterinary Care are here to help raise awareness about the importance of vaccinating pets and making sure their vaccines are kept up to date.
Are You Doing Enough for Your Senior Pet?
We love our pets and, naturally, want to help them have the best lives possible. In order to do this, it’s necessary to recognize that, as our pets age, their needs change along with them. Consider the following tips to improve your senior pet’s health and quality of life.
Why Mobile Vet Care Is Right for Your Pet (and You!)
When you think about veterinary care for your pet, you probably picture yourself going through the stressful experience of taking your pet to a physical veterinary clinic or hospital. However, there is a better way to access veterinary care for pets: mobile veterinary care where your veterinarian and a mobile clinic come to you, instead.
Pet Anxiety Awareness Month: Dogs Get Anxious, Too!
May is Dog Anxiety Awareness Month, and our veterinarians at Capital Home Veterinary Care like to use the opportunity to educate pet parents about anxiety and depression in dog
What Is Hospice Care for Pets?
Pets age much more quickly than we do. As a result, making decisions and managing the end of their pet’s life is an inevitable reality that most pet owners eventually have to face.
Is Your Dog Getting Enough Exercise?
The amount of exercise a dog needs is different for every dog. The amount of exercise needed varies from breed to breed and will change throughout a dog’s life from puppyhood through adulthood and into the dog’s senior years. For this reason, it can sometimes be difficult to know just how much exercise your dog needs each day.
At Home Pet Euthanasia: FAQs You Should Know
Nothing can take the stress and sadness away from having a terminally ill, injured, or aging pet who has reached the end of his or her life. Knowing what to expect during your pet’s final days and having the power to mitigate your pet’s suffering, however, can help.
Caring for Your Pets Paws in Winter
Imagine what your feet would feel like if you had to walk outside barefoot during the winter. This is the case for our pets’ paws, and although their paw pads are pretty tough, they can become raw, chapped, cracked, and painful during the winter
How to Introduce a New Pet Into Your Home
The first few days with your new pet are essential to ensuring they fit in and will feel happy and safe in their new home.
Common Causes of Pet Joint Pain
When a pet has joint pain, it can be highly stressful for the people who care for them. Watching your pet struggle to get comfortable and lose interest in his or her favorite playtime activities is tough.
Blood Work: Why Young, Healthy Pets Can Benefit
When your sick pet has a veterinary appointment, you probably already expect that they will have a blood test or other lab work done. Laboratory testing helps our veterinarians diagnose the underlying cause of the pet’s illness and provide safe and effective treatment.
Simple Tips for Traveling Well With Your Pet
If you do plan to travel with your pet, we recommend considering the following tips to ensure you and your pet have a fun and safe time away.
Is Tap Water Safe for My Pet?
Generally speaking, if your tap water is safe enough for you to drink, then it should be okay for your pets, too. If you don’t drink your tap water, however, then your pets shouldn’t drink it either.
Emergency/Disaster Preparedness with Pets
The 2021 hurricane season has begun, and now is the time to start thinking about your emergency preparedness plan. When you’re stocking up on your emergency supplies and considering a potential evacuation plan, our veterinarians with Capital Home Veterinary Care want to remind you to remember that your pets need a plan, too!
What to Do About Your Pet’s Seasonal Allergies
Just like some people get the sniffles from springtime and summer pollen or mold spores in the autumn, dogs and cats can suffer from seasonal allergies, too. If you notice your pet experiencing symptoms of allergies during a particular time of the year, then your dog or cat might have seasonal allergies.
How to Care for a Blind or Deaf Pet
Blind and deaf pets usually need special care because of their loss of hearing or sight. A little extra attention, a set routine, and safety precautions will ensure their safety, happiness, and health.
Do You Really Need to Brush Your Pet’s Teeth?
Imagine what it would be like if you never-ever brushed your teeth. Yuck, right? Unfortunately, that icky-sticky, unhealthy state is a reality for most pets because most pet owners simply aren’t aware that they should be caring for their cats’ and dogs’ teeth.
Tips for Safe Car Travel with Your Dog
If you’re planning an upcoming trip with your dog as your co-pilot, then take a look at these tips for traveling well and traveling safely with your dog for company.
Understanding the Benefits of Home Vet Care
With at-home veterinary services from a mobile vet clinic, you can get your pets the care they need without any of the stress or inconvenience of visiting a veterinary hospital.
How to Be There for Your Senior Pet
Today, veterinarians provide exceptional care, which can extend the lives of our pets beyond past expectations. However, pets still don’t live as long as us. One inevitable part of adopting a cat or dog into your family is watching them age. As a pet owner, you can adjust your pet care routines, home, activities, and lifestyle to accommodate your pet’s changing needs and make their golden years the best ever.
Know When Your Pet Is in Pain
September is Pet Pain Awareness Month, and we recognize the occasion by teaching pet parents the signs of pet pain and improving pet pain management.
Explore the Great Outdoors with Your Best Four-Footed Friend (and These Safety Tips)
Before you head out into the unknown with your four-footed friends, consider these tips to make sure you both have a fun time exploring.
Top 5 Reasons Why Cats and Dogs Get Ear Infections
Understanding the common causes of ear infections in dogs and cats will help you recognize infections and prevent them from happening in the future.
Traveling with Your Pets? This Is the One Thing You Must Pack
If you’re planning to travel with your pet to another country or state, you need to pack a pet health certificate, which is a set of documents provided by a USDA-certified veterinarian that prove your pet’s good health.
What to Do About Your Overweight Indoor Cat
Social media feeds might be full of pictures and videos of “chonky” cats, but unfortunately, the health risks that these overweight and obese animals are facing aren’t so cute. To safeguard your pet’s health, it is important to manage weight or take steps that will help your overweight indoor cat shed pounds.
Litter Box Troubles? Understanding Feline Urinary Disease
When a cat has trouble using the litter box, it’s not only frustrating for humans, but also for the cat. Whether urinating outside the litter box or struggling to go at all, incontinence in cats is almost always a sign of a health concern and should be addressed right away.
What to Know about Novel Coronavirus and Your Pets
As the nation’s schools and businesses are closing and people practice social distancing, many pet owners are left wondering whether the novel coronavirus will have any effect on their pets (other than leading to unprecedented levels of daytime treating, belly scratches, and purring).
Celebrate Your Pet’s Dental Health with Us in February!
During February, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) sponsors National Pet Dental Health Month to turn your attention and ours toward the importance of oral health care for pets. Each February, we like to put extra effort into educating all of our pets’ parents on caring for their pets’ teeth.
Does Your Dog Need a Leptospirosis Vaccination?
Leptospirosis is a serious, potentially deadly infection found worldwide that’s caused by multiple strains of spirochete bacteria. A zoonotic disease, leptospirosis can be transmitted between animals and humans.
How to Recognize and Manage Cognitive Dysfunction in Geriatric Pets
As veterinary medicine improves, pets are living longer. It’s wonderful to have our furry friends in our lives longer, but older pets mean a greater responsibility to improve our pets’ golden years. Pet parents are more commonly having to address the changing health concerns of their aging pets.
Are Grain-Free Diets Causing Heart Disease in Dogs?
Grain-free pet diets are offered by just about every brand of pet food available, and while these brands claim to be a better nutritional choice for our carnivorous dogs, new research might indicate otherwise. Recent and ongoing research from the FDA has shown a potential link between grain-free diets and canine heart disease, specifically a condition called dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM).
What Is Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in Cats?
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in cats (also called chronic renal disease and kidney failure) is a progressive condition, with which a cat’s kidneys gradually stop working properly. CKD is a fatal condition. Untreated, it will progress quickly. With proper management, cats with CKD can live long lives.
Does Your Dog Have to Live with Canine Osteoarthritis Symptoms?
We love our pups and do our best to provide them with everything they need to live long, happy, healthy lives. No matter how much love and care pet owners provide, however, as pets age, they become more and more susceptible to developing age-related medical conditions. One particularly common age-related illness is canine osteoarthritis, also referred to as degenerative joint disease (DJD).
Everything You Need to Know About Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is transmitted through the bite of an infected tick. Four species of ticks have been shown to transmit Lyme disease, but the most common culprit is the deer tick (black-legged tick). Deer ticks and those carrying Lyme disease are common in the Eastern United States and can be found in nearly all warm, damp areas, including northern climates in the summer months.
