Welcome to Sagamore Hills Animal Hospital
The Sagamore Hills Animal Hospital offers a wide range of veterinary services for your pet cat or dog. Our clinic's services span your pet’s life, beginning with neonatal care and moving through adolescent care, surgical neutering, active adulthood, and senescence to end of life care, when we provide geriatric therapy, palliative care and euthanasia services. We know that your pet is truly a member of your family, and we treat each pet as such. Because we value our patients, we are selective in choosing our employees, and this is reflected in the quality of service we provide. We are proactive and pro-pet in our thoughts and actions, and we provide treatment and counseling for each individual pet within the framework of humane care. Please contact us to schedule an appointment for your pet and, if desired, a tour of our facility.
I wish to remind the clients several times yearly that some very common human medicines, foods, and sugarless gums are highly poisonous and even deadly to dogs and cats. Chocolate and caffeine should never be given to pets as their livers don't metabolize these common substances like the human liver. Both can cause cardiac death if consumed in sufficient amounts. Sugarless gums and some sugarless candies contain Xylitol as the sweetener. This compound when ingested by pets leads to a rapid hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) condition and can ultimately cause liver failure. Signs of Xylitol poisoning are unsteadiness, dilated pupils, depression, and possibly seizure activity. Further signs of less severe poisoning include lethargy, vomiting, diarrhea, and loss of appetite. Grapes and raisins are poisonous to the kidneys, acetaminophen (Tylenol) is highly deadly in cats even in small amounts, and human NSAIDs such as ibuprofen and naproxen can exact a huge toll on the liver and kidneys of pets. For more on "pet poisonings" and other pet health questions you may visit The Pet Health Network.
Above left is a flea. Only female fleas suck blood from their host in order to produce and lay eggs for the next generation. Their bodies are compressed side-to-side to make it easier to travel through the fur of the host and being insects they have three pair of limbs. They can jump up to three feet in distance. They can be effectively controlled with either Revolution or Trifexis heartworm preventative medicine or with Frontline Plus Flea and Tick controller.
In the above middle is a tick which is related to the spiders and mites. The tick has four pair of limbs and prominent mouth parts to attach and suck blood from its host. Once again, we recommend Frontline Plus for this parasite. The ticks have been out early this year and are quite active. Health authorities fear that this may be a bad year for cases of Lyme Disease (LD) in people as well as in dogs.
Above right is a mosquito that can transmit Heartworm Disease (HWD) to dogs. We have Heartgard Plus, Trifexis, and Revolution medicines for your dog. These are once-a-month medications that need to be given at least April through the beginning of December in northeast Ohio. They also control internal parasites and may at the owner's discretion or at the veterinarian's suggestion be administered year round.
We currently offer Revolution as a special. Buy six doses, you will receive two free doses. Buy nine and receive three free doses. Frontline Plus is buy three doses and get one dose free or buy six and receive two free doses. Both product offers are for a limited time.
Latest News: The FDA has launched a new Pet Health and Safety site as part of an ongoing effort to provide timely, user-friendly, public health information. It covers such topics as recalls of pet food, appropriate use of flea and tick products, etc.
A brief word about prescriptions and dispensing prescriptions: The Ohio Veterinary Medical Licensing Board (OVMLB) has reinterpreted existing law and decided that a veterinarian must be on the premises in order for a client to pick up a prescription. This means that all prescriptions that are to be picked up must be picked up during our staff veterinarians' appointment hours! Also, the OVMLB has reminded all veterinarians that prescription medicines are non-returnable! Once the prescription has left the office, it cannot be returned!
