Spooky Season Safety: How to Keep Your Pets Safe This Halloween

As Halloween approaches, people eagerly prepare for a night of costumes, treats, and festive decorations. While it's a delightful time for families, it's also a period that can pose numerous risks to our pets. At Companion Veterinary Clinic, your pet's safety is our top priority. In this article, we'll explore essential Halloween safety tips, highlight [...]

11 Diseases in Pets That Can Be Prevented Through Wellness Care

Veterinary wellness care helps maintain your pet's health and prevent serious diseases. Routine checkups, vaccinations, and preventive measures can significantly reduce cats’ and dogs’ illness and health condition risks. Our Companion Veterinary Clinic team spotlights 11 issues that can be prevented through diligent pet wellness care.  1. Rabies in cats and dogs Rabies is a [...]

Critical Clues: Pet Health Signs You Should Never Ignore

Pets can’t verbalize when something is wrong, but they often show signs that can indicate underlying health issues. Our Companion Veterinary Clinic team wants your pet to get the care they need as soon as possible, so we explain pet health signs you should never ignore. Critical clue 1: Your pet’s appetite or water intake [...]

4 Hot Tips to Keep Your Pet Cool

As the temperatures rise, so does your pet’s heat-related emergency risk. While pets do sweat, their sweat glands don’t function the same way that people’s do. Pets have only a few sweat glands, mostly located in their paws, and they must rely on inefficient means, such as panting, to regulate their body temperature. Because panting [...]

Understanding the Difference Between Veterinary Emergency and Urgent Care

If your pet needs medical attention outside regular veterinary clinic hours, understanding the difference between emergency care and urgent care can help you make an informed decision about where to take your four-legged friend. Our Companion Veterinary Clinic team explains the difference between these two types of specialized care. Emergency Veterinary Care Emergency veterinary care [...]

Could Your Pet Have Allergies?

Like humans, pets can develop allergies to various environmental substances. Unlike humans, pets don’t commonly deal with a runny nose or watery eyes. Instead, allergic pets suffer from chronic inflammation of the skin or in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. To help pet owners understand how allergies manifest in pets, the Companion Veterinary Clinic team explores [...]

Heartworm Disease in Pets

Heartworm disease is one of the most dangerous illnesses a pet can face. Transmitted by mosquitoes, these parasites can cause significant, life-threatening damage to your pet’s heart and lungs, and prevention is essential to keeping your pet safe. Our Companion Veterinary Clinic team explains how heartworm affects pets, infection signs, diagnosis, treatment, and—most importantly—how to [...]

5 Household Pet Dangers

In a perfect world, your cherished pet would intuitively understand what is good for them and what might pose risks. Unfortunately, they don’t, and you are responsible for protecting your furry pal from harm. Homes are filled with hidden dangers that may seem innocuous but can be harmful, sometimes fatal, to pets. To learn how [...]

Lasting Health for Your Pet Through Dental Care

Oral health is this month’s topic, because February is National Pet Dental Health Month. Our veterinarians at Companion Veterinary Clinic are shining the spotlight on this critical area of your pet’s health because, unfortunately, most dogs and cats over 3 years of age have dental disease. And, dental disease in your pet is much more [...]

Too Frigid for Fluffy? Top Tips to Keep Your Pet Safe This Winter

While California temperatures rarely drop into the freezing range, we are all familiar with climate acclimatization, or the process by which we become physically adjusted to the temperature of our environment. This means that while a West Coast January morning may feel balmy to a native Coloradan, it can feel downright freezing to those who [...]

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