Lewis Mobile Veterinary Services LLC

04/23/2026

LMVS will be closed Friday April 24th through Sunday April 26th

02/18/2026

The team at LMVS has been down and out with the flu for the past week. We are trying our best to work through all the messages. Please bear with us as we still aren't back to 100% health yet. Messages will be returned in the order they were received.

Thanks for your patience 💚

02/11/2026

A great checklist to make sure you're doing everything possible to keep your cattle happy and healthy this winter.

02/03/2026

Calving season is upon us!

01/22/2026

As this storm approaches today and tomorrow is the time to ensure you are prepared for the impending weather. Make sure you have enough feed, hay, bedding to last into next week. Take the time to set out an extra bale of hay, clean your stalls so livestock have somewhere warm and dry to bed down. Sudden changes in weather often pushes animals into giving birth so make sure you've got a plan to warm up the calf/lamb/kid etc. Have colostrum on hand so you're not trying to get to the feed store. Keep the horses drinking so they don't colic. Have external heat sources ready as newborns don't regulate their body temperature well.

We are going to do our best to get to the established client emergencies as they come but being as prepared as possible will make everything go smoother. Stay safe, stay warm!

01/16/2026

12/31/2025

LMVS will be closed until Monday Jan 5th. If you have a large animal emergency please call Dr. Mann at 304-554-9589.

12/15/2025

Since our last puppy post went so well I had another client reach out in hopes to find this litter good homes. Their mom is a full blooded blue tick and dad is a full blooded German Shepherd. Born on Nov 8th, so will be ready for their new homes just after the first of the year. Please contact Katie at 304-667-9334 with any questions.

11/15/2025

Anyone looking for a Christmas puppy? These super cuties were an oops litter. Mom is plott and the dad is Pyrenees/maremma. Will they be hunting dogs?(possible, mom is a great c**n and bear dog). Will they be livestock guardian dogs? (maybe! dad has lived with cattle, sheep, goats, and chickens.) Can they be a house dog (sure! I think any dog can be a house dog and dad would much rather be a lap dog than a guard dog). I'm guessing they'll be around 65-75lbs, medium hair when fully grown.

They will have their first round of Da2ppV+L4 and 2 rounds of dewormer before going to their new homes. And to keep from any more oopsie litters happening I'll spay or neuter them for free when they're big enough.

11/09/2025

Supportive care is just as important as antibiotic therapy!

Everyone loves to talk about antibiotics. I mean, I love them too. They’re the Beyoncé of the vet world. They show up, center stage, spotlight on, music swelling, crowd cheering. Meanwhile, supportive care is the bass player. Quiet. Unbothered. Holds the whole band together. Doesn’t get credit until something goes very wrong.

Here’s the thing: pathogens are petty. They don’t just show up and say hello. They pick an organ, walk in like they own the place, kick over the furniture, eat all the snacks, and leave the calf’s body trying to file an insurance claim that does not exist.

Scours isn’t “just diarrhea.” Scours is the gut lining going, “I regret to inform you I have decided to dissolve. Good luck absorbing nutrients. Sincerely, chaos.” Pneumonia isn’t “just a cough.” It’s the lungs playing musical chairs with oxygen. Salmonella Dublin? That one shows up like: “What if I set the liver on fire, confuse the brain, lower circulation, and hide inside your immune cells so you cannot find me. Love, the villain of the story.”

So yes, antibiotics are fantastic. They fight the bug. We absolutely use them. However, supportive care is often the reason the calf survives long enough for the antibiotic to do anything at all.

Supportive care looks like electrolytes saying, “We are not dying today.” Probiotics saying, “Everybody please return to your assigned apartments in the gut lining.” Caffeine stepping in like a barn mom who has had enough: “Circulation, sweetheart, time to wake up.” Anti-inflammatories cooling the internal wildfire. Warm dry bedding making sure the calf doesn’t spend her last energy shivering. Pain control saying, “If you hurt, you won’t eat. If you won’t eat, you won’t recover. So here is your comfort.”

Supportive care also looks like me sitting in straw at 2 pm, 10 pm, and 5:30 am whispering, “Please drink this. Pretend it’s a frappuccino. I am begging you." It looks like motivational speeches directed at someone who is asleep with her tongue sticking out.

Then one day, she stands up. She shakes her head. She wanders over to the milk like she invented recovery. Which, honestly, she kind of did. Because we didn’t just fight the pathogen. We supported the calf.

Antibiotics fight the war. Supportive care keeps the soldier alive long enough to win it.

In this barn, supportive care is MVP. No trophy. No spotlight. Just quietly saving tiny lives on the regular.