Valley Veterinary Services Inc.

10/28/2026

🎃👻 HALLOWEEN PET SAFETY: KEEP THE SPOOKS FUN, NOT SCARY! 🐾🍬

Halloween can be a lot of fun for the family, but it also brings several potential hazards for our pets. Between candy, costumes, decorations, open doors, unfamiliar visitors, and lots of noise, Halloween night can quickly turn into a veterinary emergency.

Valley Veterinary Services Inc. wants to remind pet owners to plan ahead and know what to watch for! ❤️🐾

🍫 CANDY, CHOCOLATE & XYLITOL

Keep ALL Halloween candy securely out of reach!

⚠️ Chocolate can be toxic to dogs and cats. Dark chocolate, baking chocolate, and cocoa products generally contain higher concentrations of methylxanthines and can pose an especially serious risk.

⚠️ Xylitol, a sugar substitute found in some sugar-free candies, gums, baked goods, and other products, can be extremely dangerous to dogs and may cause severe hypoglycemia and potentially liver injury.

⚠️ Large amounts of high-fat candy can also cause significant gastrointestinal upset and may contribute to pancreatitis.

⚠️ Wrappers, sticks, bags, and packaging can be swallowed along with the candy and potentially cause choking or an intestinal obstruction.

If your pet gets into Halloween candy, don’t wait for symptoms to develop. Call us with your pet’s approximate weight, what they ate, how much they may have eaten, and when it happened.

🕯️ CANDLES, JACK-O’-LANTERNS & DECORATIONS

Curious pets can knock over candles or illuminated pumpkins, causing burns or house fires.

Electrical cords, string lights, fake cobwebs, ribbons, glow products, and small decorations may also be chewed or swallowed.

Keep decorations secured and place open flames completely out of your pet’s reach.

🚪 TRICK-OR-TREATERS & OPEN DOORS

The front door may open dozens of times on Halloween night. Even pets that normally stay close to home can become frightened or excited and slip through an open door.

Consider keeping pets indoors in a secure room away from the front door during peak trick-or-treating hours.

Make sure your pet has:

🐾 A properly fitted collar
🐾 Current identification tags
🐾 An up-to-date microchip registration
🐾 Secure doors, gates, fencing, and enclosures

🔔 DOORBELLS, STRANGERS & LOUD NOISES

Costumes, masks, excited children, doorbells, shouting, and increased neighborhood activity can be overwhelming for some animals.

Watch for signs of fear or anxiety including:

• Panting or pacing
• Trembling
• Excessive vocalization
• Hiding
• Drooling
• Destructive behavior
• Trying to escape
• Refusing food
• Increased aggression or unusual behavior

Give anxious pets a quiet, secure, comfortable area away from Halloween activity.

If you already know your pet experiences significant fear or anxiety, contact us BEFORE Halloween to discuss appropriate management options and whether prescription medication may be beneficial.

🧙‍♀️ HALLOWEEN COSTUMES

Pet costumes are adorable—but only if your pet is comfortable wearing one!

Make sure costumes:

✔️ Do not restrict breathing or movement
✔️ Do not obstruct vision or hearing
✔️ Are not too tight around the neck or chest
✔️ Do not cause overheating
✔️ Do not contain small pieces that can be chewed off and swallowed

Never leave a costumed pet unattended. If your pet appears stressed or uncomfortable, skip the costume!

🐾 WATCH YOUR PET CLOSELY AFTER HALLOWEEN

Sometimes we don’t realize a pet got into something until symptoms begin.

🚨 CALL US PROMPTLY AT (559) 942-1102 IF YOU NOTICE:

• Repeated vomiting or diarrhea
• Tremors, twitching, seizures, weakness, or collapse
• Difficulty breathing
• Severe restlessness or agitation
• Extreme lethargy
• Abdominal pain or bloating
• Repeated attempts to vomit without producing anything
• Suspected chocolate or xylitol ingestion
• Swallowing candy wrappers, decorations, string, toys, or other foreign material
• Burns or electrical injuries
• Choking or difficulty swallowing
• Significant changes in behavior or responsiveness
• Any other symptoms that concern you

⚠️ If you know or suspect your pet has eaten something potentially toxic, please CALL—do not wait until your pet becomes sick. Early treatment can make a significant difference.

🏥🚨 24/7 EMERGENCY VETERINARY CARE

Valley Veterinary Services Inc. offers 24/7 emergency veterinary services BY APPOINTMENT.

📞 CALL (559) 942-1101

If you are calling after normal business hours, select the EMERGENCY OPTION to be connected with a representative.

Please call before arriving so our veterinary team can assess the situation and coordinate emergency care.

🎃🐶🐱 A little preparation can help keep Halloween fun for everyone—including our four-legged family members!

Have a SAFE & HAPPY HALLOWEEN from all of us at:

❤️ Valley Veterinary Services Inc. ❤️
📞 (559) 942-1101
🌐 ValleyVeterinaryServicesInc.com

From House Pets to High Performance Horses — Delivering Advanced Equine Reproduction and Total Veterinary Care!

10/21/2026

10/19/2026

Happy Vet Tech Week! Behind most smooth surgeries there's a tech who had everything ready before anyone asked, and the credit doesn't always land on them. Vets, tell us in the comments about the tech who has your back 👇

10/19/2026

🐾❤️ HAPPY NATIONAL VETERINARY TECHNICIAN WEEK! ❤️🐾

🐴🐶🐱🐷🐮🐐🐰

This week, Valley Veterinary Services Inc. would like to take a moment to recognize and celebrate the INCREDIBLE Veterinary Technicians who are truly the heart and backbone of our veterinary team! ❤️🩺

Veterinary Technicians are so much more than just an extra set of hands. They are skilled medical professionals, compassionate caregivers, critical thinkers, problem solvers, patient advocates, client educators, and often the calming presence during some of the most difficult moments in veterinary medicine.

❤️ They are the ones who:

🐾 Comfort and advocate for patients who cannot speak for themselves.

💉 Utilize their medical knowledge, technical skills, and experience to provide exceptional patient care.

🐴 Work tirelessly through long days, late nights, emergencies, and unpredictable situations.

🐶 Educate, support, and advocate for clients while helping them navigate difficult decisions regarding their animals.

🐱 Offer compassion, patience, and reassurance to frightened, sick, or injured animals.

🐷 Go above and beyond, often sacrificing breaks, sleep, and personal time to ensure their patients receive the care they deserve.

🐮 Adapt to the unique challenges of mixed-animal medicine, caring for everything from tiny kittens and puppies to horses, livestock, and exotic animals!

Veterinary medicine is not always easy. It takes dedication, resilience, compassion, intelligence, and a tremendous amount of HEART. Our Veterinary Technicians give all of that and MORE every single day!

❤️ TO OUR AMAZING VVS VETERINARY TECHNICIANS: THANK YOU! ❤️

Thank you for your hard work, your compassion, your knowledge, your commitment to our patients, and your unwavering dedication to our clients and community. Your efforts do not go unnoticed, and we are incredibly grateful to have you as part of our VVS family!

🎉🐾 NOW WE NEED OUR COMMUNITY’S HELP! 🐾🎉

We would LOVE for our wonderful clients, friends, and community to help us celebrate these incredible individuals during Veterinary Technician Week!

💌 Leave a kind comment or shout-out below!

🐾 Share a memorable experience you’ve had with one of our technicians!

❤️ Stop by and offer a simple THANK YOU!

🎁 A thoughtful card, small gesture, or words of encouragement can mean the world to someone who gives so much of themselves to caring for others!

Let’s fill this week with appreciation, kindness, and recognition for the hardworking individuals who help make Valley Veterinary Services what it is today!

❤️🐾 HAPPY VET TECH WEEK! WE APPRECIATE YOU MORE THAN WORDS CAN EXPRESS! 🐾❤️

Valley Veterinary Services Inc.

From House Pets to High Performance Horses — Delivering Advanced Equine Reproduction and Total Veterinary Care!

10/17/2026

🎃🐾 VALLEY VETERINARY SERVICES INC. PRESENTS… 🐾🎃

👻🦇 THE HOWLOWEEN PET COSTUME CONTEST! 🦇👻

Calling all spooky, silly, adorable, and downright BOO-tiful pets!! 🐶🐱🐴🐷🐮🐐🐔🦎

It’s time to show off your pet’s Halloween spirit for a chance to win a SPOOKTACULAR PRIZE! 🏆🎃

ALL SPECIES ARE WELCOME! Whether your pet barks, meows, neighs, oinks, moos, clucks, or slithers — we want to see them dressed in their Halloween BEST! 👻

🎃 HOW TO ENTER:

1. 📸 Comment on THIS ORIGINAL POST with a photo of your pet rocking their favorite Halloween costume!
2. 🐾 Include your pet’s NAME with their photo!
3. 🕛 Entries will be accepted until October 30th at MIDNIGHT!

🗳️ HOW TO VOTE:
❤️ Scroll through the photo entries in the comments and LIKE the photo of your ONE favorite contestant!

❤️ ONE vote/like per person, please!

👻 ANYONE CAN VOTE! Encourage your friends, family, neighbors, and fellow animal lovers to LIKE our Valley Veterinary Services page, find the original contest post, and cast their vote!

🐾 The contestant with the MOST LIKES on their photo wins! So spread the word and rally your biggest fans!

🏆🎁 THE GRAND PRIZE! 🎁🏆

Our lucky HOWLOWEEN winner will receive a VALLEY VETERINARY SERVICES GIFT BASKET, including a $100 VVS GIFT CERTIFICATE!! 💰🐾

🎃 WINNER ANNOUNCED ON HALLOWEEN — OCTOBER 31ST — RIGHT HERE ON FACEBOOK! 🎃

Get those costumes ready, strike your spookiest pose, and let the Halloween festivities BEGIN!! 🦇🐾

👻🎃 HAPPY HOWLOWEEN — MAY THE BEST SPIRIT WIN!! 🎃👻

❤️ Valley Veterinary Services Inc.
📞 (559) 942-1101

10/16/2026

🚨 NEW ADVANCED TREATMENT NOW AVAILABLE AT VALLEY VETERINARY SERVICES INC! 🚨

We’re excited to announce the addition of Shockwave Therapy to our treatment options! Even better, Shockwave Therapy and Class IV Laser Therapy can be used together as part of a multimodal rehabilitation and pain-management plan for patients ranging from household pets to performance horses, livestock, and 4-H/FFA show animals. 🐴🐶🐱🐷🐮🐐🐑

⚡ SHOCKWAVE + CLASS IV LASER: STRONGER TOGETHER

These therapies work differently, allowing us to target healing through complementary mechanisms. Shockwave Therapy delivers acoustic energy to targeted tissues to stimulate a biological healing response and is particularly useful for certain chronic musculoskeletal injuries. Class IV Laser Therapy uses therapeutic light energy (photobiomodulation) to support cellular activity, circulation, tissue repair, and pain/inflammation management.

Depending on the diagnosis, using them together may help reduce pain and inflammation, improve mobility, stimulate circulation, support tendon and ligament healing, promote muscle and soft-tissue recovery, encourage bone healing, and improve recovery from certain chronic or difficult-to-heal injuries.

🐴 HORSES & PERFORMANCE HORSES: Tendon and ligament injuries • Suspensory injuries • Back and muscle soreness • Arthritis • Navicular-region pain • Chronic lameness • Selected bone injuries • Post-surgical rehabilitation • Performance-related musculoskeletal injuries

🐶🐱 DOGS & CATS: Osteoarthritis • Chronic pain • Tendon/ligament and soft-tissue injuries • Muscle injuries • Orthopedic rehabilitation • Selected wounds • Post-surgical recovery

🐮🐐🐑 LIVESTOCK: Lameness • Joint-associated pain • Tendon and ligament injuries • Muscle/soft-tissue injuries • Chronic wounds • Mobility concerns • Selected post-surgical cases

🐷🏆 4-H/FFA & SHOW ANIMALS: We know how important soundness, comfort, mobility, and conditioning are in the show ring. For show pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, and other livestock, these modalities may be incorporated into a veterinary treatment or rehabilitation plan for appropriate cases involving musculoskeletal soreness, soft-tissue injury, lameness, inflammation, wounds, or recovery from an injury or procedure.

For show animals, treatment is case-specific and should be planned with applicable exhibition rules, medication/treatment disclosure requirements, withdrawal periods, and animal-welfare standards in mind. We can help determine an appropriate treatment plan for the individual animal.

❤️ Two advanced modalities. One individualized treatment plan.

Whether we’re helping a family pet stay comfortable, getting a performance horse back to work, rehabilitating an injury, or helping a 4-H/FFA project animal remain comfortable and sound, our goal is the same: support healing and help each animal perform at its best.

📞 Call Valley Veterinary Services Inc. at (559) 942-1101 to schedule an evaluation and ask whether Shockwave Therapy, Class IV Laser Therapy, or a combination of both may benefit your animal.

VALLEY VETERINARY SERVICES INC.
From House Pets to High Performance Horses — Delivering Advanced Equine Reproduction and Total Veterinary Care!

10/13/2026

🐴💡 HORSE BREEDERS — IT’S TIME TO PUT THOSE MARES UNDER LIGHTS! 💡🐴

If you’re hoping for EARLY 2027 breeding dates, your mare should be under lights ON OR BEFORE NOVEMBER 1ST!

Mares are seasonally polyestrous, meaning their reproductive cycles are strongly influenced by the length of daylight. During the shorter days of fall and winter, many mares enter a period of reproductive inactivity or transition.

By artificially extending the hours of “daylight,” we can help stimulate the mare’s reproductive system and encourage her to begin cycling earlier in the breeding season.

☀️ OUR RECOMMENDED LIGHTING SCHEDULE:
4:00 PM – 11:00 PM EVERY SINGLE DAY

Consistency is extremely important! The goal is to create a reliably extended photoperiod every day—not just turn the lights on occasionally.

💡 YOUR ENTIRE ENCLOSURE NEEDS TO BE WELL LIT!

If your mare is housed in a:
• Barn stall
• Stall with a run
• Pen
• Covered enclosure

…the ENTIRE area she has access to should be adequately illuminated.

A good practical rule: After dark, you should be able to comfortably read a newspaper in ANY part of her enclosure.

Dark corners matter! Your mare should NOT be able to “get away from” the lighted area between 4 PM and 11 PM. If she can stand in a dark run, corner, shelter, or other portion of her enclosure for extended periods, you may not achieve the consistent photoperiod you are trying to create.

For best results, evaluate the enclosure after it is completely dark. Walk through the stall, run, and pen and make sure the lighting is adequate throughout the entire space.

🐴 ANOTHER OPTION: EQUILUME MASKS

An Equilume Mask can provide an alternative to traditional barn lighting by delivering targeted blue light to the mare. This can be especially useful for mares living outside, mares without access to adequately lighted stalls, or management situations where maintaining whole-enclosure lighting is difficult.

🌟 WHY PUT YOUR MARE UNDER LIGHTS?

An appropriately managed lighting program can help:

✓ Encourage mares to begin cycling earlier
✓ Shorten the winter reproductive transition period
✓ Promote more regular estrous cycles earlier in the year
✓ Improve the likelihood of having a mare ready to breed early in the season
✓ Allow better planning for ovulation, breeding and artificial insemination
✓ Assist with scheduling embryo transfer, OPU and ICSI programs
✓ Increase your opportunity for an early 2027 pregnancy and an early 2028 foal

⚠️ DON’T WAIT UNTIL YOU WANT TO BREED TO START LIGHTS!

The reproductive system needs time to respond to the increased photoperiod. Starting on or before November 1st gives your mare time to transition toward normal reproductive activity before those early breeding dates arrive.

🍼 WANT A JANUARY FOAL? PLAN AHEAD!

If your goal is a January foal, we recommend scheduling a Breeding Soundness Examination in early to mid-January.

Depending on the mare and her reproductive history, we may also recommend a uterine culture +/- additional reproductive diagnostics.

This gives us an opportunity to determine whether:

✓ Your mare is actively cycling
✓ Her ovaries and reproductive tract are progressing appropriately
✓ Her uterus appears healthy and ready to receive a pregnancy
✓ Additional treatment or reproductive management is needed before valuable breeding time is lost

The goal isn’t simply to get your mare pregnant—it’s to establish the healthiest pregnancy possible and ultimately produce a healthy mare and foal. ❤️🐴

📅 NOVEMBER 1ST IS COMING!

If early breeding is part of your 2027 program, NOW is the time to get those lights and timers set up or get your Equilume Mask ready!

Valley Veterinary Services Inc.
📞 (559) 942-1101
🌐 ValleyVeterinaryServicesInc.com

From House Pets to High Performance Horses — Delivering Advanced Equine Reproduction and Total Veterinary Care!