Fredonia Animal Hospital

09/02/2025

We have received over 150 applications for our listed job opening and will no longer take resumes or applications after Tuesday 9/2. Through the end of Tuesday we will only take applications and resumes in person at our hospital and email at [email protected].

We have begun reviewing each application/resume and will start calling our list of finalists at the end of the week. We are very grateful to all who have thought of us as a place to work. Our team certainly has a lot to do!

08/28/2025

Friday and Saturday - last 2 days for these cute reusable shopping bags and they are VERY limited. $5 cash donation each with all proceeds going to Lakeshore Humane Society, Inc and Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue, Inc.. We have already given each $200 from the sales and more to come! New designs next week.

08/25/2025

STRAY ALERT: 8/25/25 A healthy, large, white dog with spots (male) found on the thruway in the north end of Pomfret has been impounded here by the Pomfret DCO. If this is your dog, stop in to identify or call at 716-679-1561. Release can only be made after showing proof of license and rabies vaccination and paying any fines at Town Hall, 9 Day Street in Fredonia. Until then he’s getting food water, hand walks and TLC. Chautauqua Missing Pet Alert

08/19/2025

As rare as they come, we have a job opening at the Fredonia Animal Hospital. We are looking for a customer service representative/receptionist. High school degree or higher education. Experience in a clinic setting is preferred with experience using Cornerstone software, but can train. This is a full time position working with a dedicated team directly with clients with some patient handling. Must be able to work in a fast paced environment, take direction well, have computer and phone skills, be able to document medical terminology or learn, write legibly, check in and out patients, work as a team member, attend weekly staff meetings and be an active participant in continuing education. Compassion and the ability to listen is required. We offer paid vacations, paid holidays, 401K, uniforms and health insurance.

Applications are available at our hospital (10049 Rt. 60.) Or you can email a resume with a brief cover letter to:

[email protected]

08/15/2025

ICK ICK TICK! At your dog’s yearly exam, one of the tests we highly recommend is called a “blood parasite screen”. This blood test which takes about 10 minutes to run in our lab here looks for heartworm disease (from mosquitoes), and three tick borne diseases: Lyme, anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis. We will also do this test when a dog presents with symptoms of these diseases.

Finding a positive early is key to successful treatment. Prevention, YEAR ROUND (because ticks do not take the winter off at all), is the first round of defense. Our most common positive result is for Lyme disease, and our numbers are not low. All of our results, positive and negative, are collected through a national data base to track tick diseases.

But now there is a new tick on the rise: the LONG HORNED TICK. So far it’s being tracked through the northeast, just east of here. But just like the deer tick, our location to bodies of water is a breeding ground for many ticks and is likely to also become home to this new one which infects dogs and people with ehrlichiosis.

The invasive longhorned tick species is posing new health risks as scientists warn that it could potentially lead to an Ehrlichiosis infection, a bacterial i...

08/07/2025

Update: the Van Gogh is almost sold out! New this week to our shelter fundraiser reusable/washable shopping bags, large bags inspired by famous oil paintings. Sure to go fast! (Look who’s modeling one of them!) $5 cash only with 100% going to Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue, Inc. and Lakeshore Humane Society, Inc

08/05/2025

These single orphaned reusable and washable grocery bags are the very last of their designs. $5 cash donation. All proceeds go to our local shelters Lakeshore Humane Society, Inc and Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue, Inc. New designs coming soon, but not until these pups get adopted!

07/22/2025

It’s the last week for this set of reusable and washable shopping bags. 100% of proceeds go to our local shelters $5 cash donation each. ONLY A FEW REMAIN OF THESE CUTE DOG PATTERNS.

07/17/2025

STRAY ALERT: 7/17/25 A healthy, small, black dog has been impounded here by the Pomfet DCO found in the Glasgow Road area. If you believe this may be your dog:
1. Call us at 716-679-1561
2. Go to Pomfret town hall, 9 Day St in Fredonia. Provide proof of rabies vaccination and dog license.
3. If you have none, we can vaccinate then you can license the dog.
4. Pay any fines at Town Hall and then bring release papers to us.
5. We cannot release without official release papers. We cannot accept any payment except for vaccination if needed.

In the meantime, we provide food, water, shelter and TLC.
Chautauqua Missing Pet Alert

07/14/2025

We have dog bags! Reusable shopping bags available $5 cash donation each. All proceeds benefitting our local shelters Lakeshore Humane Society, Inc and Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue, Inc.

07/10/2025

Friday and Saturday- last day for these reusable shopping bags, cat edition. All proceeds go to our two local shelters Lakeshore Humane Society, Inc Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue, Inc.