Preventative Care
While Affordable Pet Care provides emergency and specialty care, it’s up to you as a pet owner to maintain your pets wellness and health. Here are some important tips on preventative care for your pets.
Annual Exams
Examinations are critical to finding and treating disease early. Pets age 5-7 times faster than we do. We recommend that all pets be examined by a veterinarian at least annually, but ideally every 6 months. This would be similar to you or I going to our doctor about every 3 years.
Grooming
We offer only medically necessary grooming services including basic clipping, shave-downs, toe nail trims, ear plucking and sanitary trimming. For shave-downs and for those pets who need it, we offer sedation for grooming services at an additional charge.
For the health of your pet and the pets of others brought to Affordable Pet Care, all pets brought for grooming are required to be current on vaccinations, and fecal testing for contagious parasites.
Puppy Care
- Maternal antibodies are wearing off and your puppy needs to begin vaccinations
- Distemper/Parvovirus combination vaccine (includes parainfluenza, hepatitis and coronavirus)
- Strongid-T dewormer (recommended for all puppies at each booster vaccine)
- First dose of heartworm prevention (several different products are available, please ask if you are unfamiliar with the different options)
- Fecal examination (please bring a small stool sample to each puppy visit)
- Initial vaccines are wearing off and need to be boostered
- Distemper/Parvovirus combination vaccine (includes parainfluenza, hepatitis and coronavirus)
- Strongid-T dewormer
- Heartworm prevention (repeat monthly for life according to the American Heartworm Association)
- Fecal examination (please bring a small stool sample to each puppy visit)
The puppy’s immune system is maturing to a point where it can respond to vaccines longer than one month
Distemper/Parvovirus combination vaccine (includes parainfluenza, hepatitis and leptospirosis)
Lyme vaccine for those at risk of exposure to ticks
Bordetella (kennel cough) oral vaccine (lasts 6 months)
Strongid-T dewormer
Heartworm prevention (repeat monthly for life according to the American Heartworm Association)
Fecal examination (please bring a small stool sample to each puppy visit)
This will be the final vaccination visit for the puppy series, provided that this is the 2nd vaccination that includes leptospirosis
Distemper/Parvovirus combination vaccine (includes parainfluenza, hepatitis and leptospirosis)
Lyme vaccine booster for those at risk of exposure to ticks
Bordetella (kennel cough) oral vaccine (if not done previously)
Rabies 1 year vaccine
Strongid-T dewormer
Heartworm prevention (repeat monthly for life according to the American Heartworm Association)
Fecal examination (please bring a small stool sample to each puppy visit)
Kitten Care
- Maternal antibodies are wearing off and your kitten needs to begin vaccinations
- Feline combination vaccine (includes rhinotracheitis, calicivirus, chlamydia, panleukopenia)
- Strongid-T dewormer
- Fecal examination (please bring a small stool sample to each kitten visit)
- Initial vaccines are wearing off and need to be boostered
- Feline combination vaccine (includes rhinotracheitis, calicivirus, chlamydia, panleukopenia)
- Feline leukemia vaccine
- Strongid-T dewormer
- Fecal examination (please bring a small stool sample to each kitten visit)
- The kitten’s immune system is maturing to a point where it can respond to vaccines longer than one month
- This will be the final vaccination visit for the kitten series, provided that this is the 2nd vaccination that includes the leukemia vaccine)
- Feline combination vaccine (includes rhinotracheitis, calicivirus, chlamydia, panleukopenia)
- Feline leukemia vaccine
- Strongid-T dewormer
- Fecal examination (please bring a small stool sample to each kitten visit)
Address
79 E Main St
Wakeman, Ohio 44889
Call Us
(440) 839-2559
Hours
Monday: 8 AM - 6 PM
Tuesday: 8 AM - 6 PM
Wednesday: 9 AM - 2 PM
Thursday: 8 AM - 6 PM
Friday: 8 AM - 6 PM