Spring is ramping up and so are the mosquitoes here in Youngsville. Mosquitoes are very important when it comes to your dogs or cats health as they are the bug that transmit heartworm disease. This blog post will be dedicated to heartworm disease in your dog, and a future blog will be dedicated to feline [...]

A frequently asked question here at Heartwood Animal Hospital is: Does my cat or dog need monthly flea and tick preventative during the winter months? The answer to this question is: Yes. To help this answer make sense, I am going to give you a couple quick and simple facts about how fleas and ticks [...]

Meet Peanut, a very cute 9 month old male Beagle mix. Peanut was seen here last Friday after a neighbor saw Peanut hit by a car in the street. Peanut instantly came up limping on his back right leg, along with having some skin road burns and mild difficulty breathing. With any traumatic injury such [...]

This is Dr. James Murray, writing on behalf of Heartwood Animal Hospital, for our first blog entry! I will begin blogging weekly covering interesting cases seen by Heartwood Animal Hospital, which will include preventative medicine, and other pet health educational topics. February is Pet Dental Health Awareness month and we will dedicate this first blog [...]

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