Our Services
Welcome to the Delmar Animal Hospital. Our goal is to treat each pet and their owner as we would want to be treated. We are here to provide personalized and preventative medical, surgical and dental care for your dog and cat. Our aim is to be there to guide and advise you through all aspects of your pet’s life: growth, behavior, nutrition, exercise, health maintenance, acute or chronic disease, aging and death.
In addition to offering lifelong preventive health care, we have a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic services to care for your sick pet. If your pet’s problem requires knowledge or diagnostics beyond our expertise, we routinely arrange for consultation or referral to appropriate specialists.
Physical Exam
The backbone of well-care is the physical exam. Annual physical exams are important because dogs and cats do not tend to communicate problems to us. Also, every year of a pet's life is equal to 5-7 years for their owners. A thorough nose-to-tail examination allows the veterinarian to find problems that even the most caring owner may be unaware of.
Read MorePreventative Care / Vaccinations
Preventative care encompasses all aspects of your pet’s well-being. Nutrition and exercise are paramount in the well-being of all creatures! Proper vaccination for your pet’s risk factors can prevent deadly diseases. We are proud of our history of 3-year vaccines (see Our History on Dr. Vaughn's career)! Prevention of internal parasites (heartworms, intestinal worms) and external parasites (fleas, ticks) are important to your pet’s health and comfort, and your family's health as well.
Read MoreDiagnostic Services
Our in-house laboratory enables us to do a wide range of diagnostic testing for monitoring and diagnosing your pet’s health with results often available within hours.
Additional diagnostic aids available include digital radiology (x-rays), Oncura telemedicine ultrasonography with board certified internal medicine review, EKG, tonometry, cytology and Doppler blood pressure monitoring.
Read MoreMedical Care - Hospitalization
Hospitalized patients are housed in individual cages or runs with comfortable bedding. Cats are housed in a separate ward from dogs to decrease their stress levels. Each patient is examined daily by a veterinarian and monitored during the day by our trained kennel staff.
Nursing care available includes:
- IV fluid therapy with fluid pumps available to monitor flow rates
- oxygen cage, with or without nebulized (inhaled) medication, for small dogs and cats
- warming beds
- ECG monitoring
- injectable and oral medications
- feeding tubes
- transfusions
Medical care boarding and medically necessary grooming and bathing are available to our patients.
Surgical Services
We perform a wide range of surgeries including, but not limited to:
- spay (ovariohysterectomy)
- neuter (castration)
- lump removal
- intestinal surgery
- bladder surgery
- eyelid surgery
- ear surgery
- anal gland surgery
- fracture repair surgery
- wound repair surgery
- cancer treatment
We utilize the safest, modern anesthetic agents with multiparameter monitoring by the surgical team and state of the art monitoring equipment. Appropriate pain medication and warming beds are used to keep our surgical patients as stable and comfortable as possible. Electrocautery or cryosurgical units are utilized when appropriate.
All surgery patients are admitted and discharged by appointment with a veterinary technician, so that we can answer any questions or concerns you may have about the procedure.
What happens when you bring your pet in for surgery?
Dental Care
Good oral hygiene is important for your pet's health and well being. While bad breath and trouble chewing can be a sign of dental problems, many pets show no signs that they're suffering from potentially severe dental disease.
Daily tooth brushing is ideal for keeping your pet's teeth in good shape, however many pets will not tolerate it. Most pets will eventually develop tartar and gingivitis, requiring a dental cleaning. A comprehensive dental cleaning is done as an anesthetic procedure, for which you to drop your pet off in the morning and get them back home later in the day.
Our comprehensive dental cleaning includes:
- hand scaling the teeth to remove tartar
- ultrasonic cleaning of teeth and gums
- high speed polishing with fluoride
Our Dentalaire high speed drill allows safe removal of any diseased teeth with minimal trauma to your pet.
We suggest you visit Veterinary Oral Health Council (VOHC) for diets and treats that promote stronger teeth and better breath.
Read MorePharmacy
Our pharmacy includes a complete inventory of medications, nutriceuticals, shampoos, and paracitides including heartworm, flea and tick products. We carry Royal Canin, Purina and Hills Science Diet prescription diets.
Hospice and Palliative Care
Pets are living longer, happier lives and we striving to find unique and personal ways to keep them enjoying a good quality of life even with chronic and progressive diseases.
Read MoreEnd of Life Services
Euthanasia is never an easy decision. Our veterinarians will help you decide when the time has come and then guide you through process.
Read MoreWildlife Rehabilitation
Dr. Carrie O’Loughlin shares her veterinary expertise with local wildlife rehabilitators to the benefit of our diverse wildlife population. Birds of prey and other wildlife are vulnerable to injury, often by cars because they fly over or sit on or near roadside. Some injuries require nursing care, others major orthopedic surgery to return the patient to full health needed to be returned to the wild. Sadly, not all patients can be fully healed. But most of these patients have been returned to the wild with Dr. O’Loughlin’s skill and the tender, loving, constant attention of caring wildlife rehabilitators.
Dr. O’Loughlin has volunteered many days and over $10,000 worth of veterinary care for wildlife patients.
What do you do if you find injured wildlife?...
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