Hill’s Prescription Diets, exclusive to veterinarians, currently has a promotion for J/D. This food incorporates supplements that minimize joint inflammation and discomfort. Rather than feeding a supplement in addition to your pet’s food  Hill’s J/D has the required supplement built in…and it is backed by food trial research! Other veterinary only prescription diet foods provide similar benefits. However this month Hills is promoting J/D and has put forward an excellent offer.

Firstly your veterinarian must recommend J/D as an optimal diet for your pet.

First time users of J/D receive a FREE BAG of J/D

You, and your veterinarian, must fill in the “Before” section of  the mobility score card

After feeding J/D as the primary diet for 21 days the “After” section of the score card is filled in

Bring the completed score card to your veterinarian and apply the Coupon top your next bag of J/D. The Coupons have a $25 value:)

Great savings for you…great value for your pet.

Both Dr Potter and Dr Rurak feed their dogs a mobility enhancing diet on a daily basis. Be proactive with middle aged pets… incorporate a veterinary recommended mobility enhancing diet into your pets’ nutritional plan!!

With her time commitments as a Mom she is unable return full time..the compromise: Mandy is going to give working Saturdays a whirl. We all hope it works out well and that Freddie copes with staying behind with her Dad once a week…a great opportunity for Father Daughter bonding.

So starting mid September if you want to see Mandy drop by on a Saturday.

Please keep the photos and videos coming in. Thanks:)

OK….we are into the end of week one of Milton and Vicki. We did an examination and a routine blood screen on Milton and find this elderly gentleman is hyperthyroid! He is now on the list for treatment with radioactive I131. Vicki is coping well with this news as he is sooo loveable:)

1. Kari, our AHT, is now a dog owner. “Siegfried” has entered her life. Kari is thrilled and her kitties are tolerant. To learn about “Sieg” follow his link to WBVC’s Blog. At the moment Kari is in Japan visiting family. She is travelling with her partner, Paul, and veterinarian Megan Atwood. Many of you will recall Megan, and her dog “Coffee”, as she worked at WBVC for a couple of years. Although members of the WBVC team disseminate to various locales they remain good friends and frequently gravitate back to the fold!
2. Dr. Sarah Rurak,  is also travelling…Sarah, and Ben, have gone off to explore Costa Rica. They were drawn by the opportunities for great birding and nature photography, not to forget sandy beaches and sunshine….something we have had too little of here in Vancouver. She is very excited to be able to spend a few days at a sloth sanctuary…no high speed photography required for that! She has already sent us some great photos. These can be viewed on our Facebook page, our Blog and our Pinterest page.
3. With Sarah and Kari away on adventures, those at the clinic are a bit like ducks in the water…paddling frantically under water and gliding along on the surface! It really hasn’t been all that hectic as Dr. Jess Robertson returned to help out while Sarah is away.
4. By now you have noticed the words Facebook, Blog and Pinterest!  Dr Janne Potter, our single digit keyboarder, is attempting to introduce WBVC to world of social media. This should be an interesting journey to follow:) WBVC hopes you will get involved and make our efforts worthwhile. WBVC can be “Liked”, on Facebook…we encourage you to post comments and upload photos of your furry family members. Pinterest is worth checking out. Once familiar with how it works you will pick up lots of ideas from the images, many of which link back to the source page. WBVC has a Pinterest page and we encourage you to sign up, and “Follow”, our Boards. The WBVC Blog is a work in progress…just feeling our away along…. but eventually we plan to make it a spot for people as well as pets. Leave “Comments” to give us an idea of what you think. WBVC has a Twitter feed that you can Follow @WBVet. If you want to get short clips about what is going on, Twitter is the media source for you! WBVC has a You Tube Channel. There isn’t much there yet ….so if you have a great a clip, email it to us and we will share it on our channel!
5. WBVC encourages you to post reviews on line. Apparently having reviews (preferably favourable ones) on line helps with “search engine optimization” for finding WBVC on line, and, feedback helps us serve you better! Sites such as Yelp and Vet Ratingz are suggested sites but we expect there are many others out there as well.
6. WBVC now provides a Pet Portal and we are very excited about this! What is a Pet Portal and why should you be interested? A Pet Portal gives you 24/7  access to your pet’s medical information. In addition it provides volumes of educational material pertaining to animals and their medical issues. It will allow you to request appointments and medication refills at your convenience, not just when WBVC is open for business. Scheduled reminders can now be sent by email as well as surface mail. Appointment reminders can be delivered by email or text message. To learn more about, and to sign up for, this great feature navigate to the Pet Portal Page or our website. Go to  http:// www.wbvc.bc.ca, click on the Entry Point tab and follow the Your Pet Portal link…or go directly to the Pet Portal page. This service is FREE to clients of WBVC.

To learn what is happening and be part of the TEAM….connect and interact with us online!

“LIKE” us…….on Facebook

“FOLLOW” us……on our Blog, Pinterest and Twitter

“REVIEW” us………….on Yelp and Vet Ratingz

The social media sessions prompted us to give it a whirl. Soon we will be visible on FaceBook, Twitter, Google+ , Pinterest and You Tube. Once visible we will have to figure out how to drive these accounts! Any and all guidance and advice would be appreciated as we begin to navigate these new waters.

Hopefully clients will contribute and send us photos and videos of their furry family members.

We also came away with goodies from the exhibit hall. A new 1.5 mm endoscope will help with small pet intubation for surgery and allow us to look into tiny spaces. New management software will allow us to send out email reminders and text reminders for those who choose to do so. In addition clients will now be able to access the core of their pets’ medical history and reminders on line. Not only will this be interesting for some clients it will potentially directly benefit our patients. If you are out of town with your pet, or have need of out of hours emergency care while home, through your access the emergency veterinarian will be able to review your pets’ history and taylor treatment accordingly. We will need to have your email addresses and cell phone numbers on file to access these management features. Please contact us to ensure we have these numbers.

An extra benefit of the new software is access to a huge on line veterinary educational resource that will be available to clients.  Appropriate education information will automatically be attached to your pets’ on line files.

We are very excited about this and hope you will be too!

WBVC made it through the holidays with having to manage only one case of chocolate toxicity. Thanks to chocolates with generous fillings this incidence was an upset not a disaster:)  Let it be a reminder that chocolate is toxic and can cause serious illness. Please remember to keep it away from hounds of discerning taste.

WBVC thanks all of our clients for entrusting us with the care of your pets in 2011.

We wish all of our pets, their family and friends a Wonderful, Happy and Healthy New Year

We had been waiting months to meet her and early in August we did….Freddie Isaacs was born and Mandy became a Mom! The down side of this wondrous event is that WBVC is without Mandy while she assists Freddie in making her way in the world.

December 2011

Dr Robertson will be leaving WBVC in December. She has been a much valued member of our team. She is planning on a good rest, doing the things one just can’t make time for when working full time and in the spring taking on occasional veterinary locums. We will see her back at WBVC when a locum is required. This means Cita, Jess’s Mexican canine adoptee, will no longer be in the office every day. Cita will be greatly missed as she is the best behaved dog ever and she keeps all the others in line.