Meadow Vista Veterinary Clinic

10/10/2025

Happy Adopt a Shelter Dog Month! We offer FREE 1st time visits for any pets adopted from Placer County Animal Services within 30 days after adoption.🐾

10/08/2025

We understand that many people are struggling with the cost of veterinary bills. To help keep our pet patients on schedule and protected from diseases and parasites, we are offering one month of free heartworm, flea, and tick prevention when you book overdue pets for their annual check-up and vaccinations. Please call our hospital to schedule an appointment at 530-878-2009 or visit https://www.meadowvistavet.com/site/book-online -type

10/02/2025

We would love to see your favorite pictures of your farm animals in the comments!

Just a reminder: we offer both in-clinic and home visits for large animals. If you have any needs regarding large animals, please feel free to call our office at 530-878-2009.

10/01/2025

This is a significant loss for the entire animal community. Our hearts go out to her family and all the lives she touched. Thank you for everything you did to make a difference in this world.💚

09/30/2025

Gunner just wanted to remind his friends to take their heartworm prevention with the new month starting tomorrow!

-How significant is my pet's risk for heartworm infection?

Many factors must be considered, even if heartworms do not seem to be a problem in your local area. Your community may have a greater incidence of heartworm disease than you realize—or you may unknowingly travel with your pet to an area where heartworms are more common. Heartworm disease is also spreading to new regions of the country each year. Stray and neglected dogs and certain wildlife such as coyotes, wolves, and foxes can be carriers of heartworms. Mosquitoes blown great distances by the wind and the relocation of infected pets to previously uninfected areas also contribute to the spread of heartworm disease (this happened following Hurricane Katrina when 250,000 pets, many of them infected with heartworms, were “adopted” and shipped throughout the country).

The fact is that heartworm disease has been diagnosed in all 50 states, and risk factors are impossible to predict. Multiple variables, from climate variations to the presence of wildlife carriers, cause rates of infections to vary dramatically from year to year—even within communities. And because infected mosquitoes can come inside, both outdoor and indoor pets are at risk.

For that reason, the American Heartworm Society recommends that you “think 12:” (1) get your pet tested every 12 months for heartworm and (2) give your pet heartworm preventive 12 months a year.

Please visit https://www.heartwormsociety.org/pet-owner-resources/heartworm-basics for further information!

09/25/2025

Step behind the scenes today at Meadow Vista Vet, where we will take you through start to finish on performing a COHAT for one of our patients today. When your pet comes into our clinic to assess their mouth, we take many steps to make sure your pet leaves with the best smile in town!

Our steps include:
An oral exam while your pet is awake so we can stage the periodontal disease and give you, the client, a general assessment of what to expect inside the mouth today: extractions, oral masses, broken or damaged teeth, cavities etc. The doctor will also perform a general exam to make sure your pet appears healthy on the outside to proceed forward.
An IV catheter and pre anesthetic bloodwork is done prior to any drugs being given so we can assess the health of the organs doing the work today in filtering out the anesthesia and drugs we give.

Once the inside of your pet’s health has been cleared, they get a premedication that consists of a narcotic, for pain control, and a drug to help prep the heart for anesthesia.

At induction, we give a medication that relaxes the skeletal muscular system so we can place an endotracheal tube down the airway. This tube allows the exchange of gas, 02 and carbon dioxide so your pet stays asleep while we perform the necessary procedures.

Immediately after induction, we hook your pet up to multiple monitors: EKG (heart beat), pulse ox (oxygen saturation in the blood), capnograph (measure the C02 at each breath out), temperature probe and blood pressure cuff. This extensive monitoring is carried out with the help of our own, eyes, ears and nose throughout the whole procedure.

Once your pet is under a good plane of anesthesia, we can proceed to obtaining whole mouth radiographs, probing all the tooth surfaces and doing a thorough oral exam looking for oral masses, lesions and damaged teeth.

After step 6, we create a treatment plan that entails extractions, ultrasonic scaling (removal of plaque, tartar and calculus from all tooth crown surfaces, polishing of the crowns (smooth the surface from micro groves caused by scaling), antibiotic gel applications, sealants and laser treatments.

Once we have executed the treatment plan, we can wake your pet up and allow them to recover in a nice and quiet space with plush towels and blankets and heated devices to keep their body temperature stable.

We keep your pet here for the remainder of the day to make sure their pain/discomfort is under control and they are waking up in a timely manner.
At the end of the day, I will sit down with you to go over the details of the treatments we did today, discuss aftercare and answer any questions you may have at this time.

If we did any extractions today in your pet’s mouth, I would like to see them back in two weeks to make sure the mouth is healing and create an oral care routine that you can execute at home based on your lifestyle and your pet’s temperament.
Oral care at home can include one or all of the following: brushing teeth (gold standard), dental diets, water additives, and oral daily chews.

We take great pride in providing the best care for your pet and their mouth and focus on building a team between the doctor, staff and you, so we can make sure your pet is receiving the best care possible and making sure their oral health is a top priority.
Give us a call today to schedule an oral exam (awake) so we can help make sure your pet has the best smile around!

09/23/2025

We have another guess the foreign body employee pet edition,
Nuuuk originally presented for on off vomiting for 3 days and upon taking x-rays we discovered something!

Post your guesses in the comments and we will post the object at the end of the day!

09/17/2025

Dear Meadow Vista Veterinary Clinic Family,

We know these are challenging times, and we want to help make caring for your pets a little easier. That’s why we’re extending our 10% off Spay & Neuter Surgeries promotion — and adding 10% off Dental Procedures— now through October 31st.

These procedures are an important part of keeping your pets happy and healthy:

Dental cleanings prevent painful dental disease and improve overall health.

Spay & Neuter surgeries support long-term wellness and help reduce unwanted litters.

Schedule your pet’s appointment today to take advantage of these special savings!

Call us at (530) 878-2009.

Warm regards,
The Meadow Vista Veterinary Clinic Team

Quality medicine with hometown service

09/16/2025

Guess the foreign body!
This handsome boy had a foreign body stuck after eating something he shouldn't have. No hesitation - Dr. Haley jumped into action and removed everything before it could cause more damage! He came in for a follow-up and is feeling much better!

See comments for the answer to what the foreign body was!

09/09/2025

With our deepest sympathy, a good Samaritan brought in a male black domestic long-haired cat with a tipped ear and yellow/green eyes. He unfortunately did not make it.If you believe he may be yours, please contact our office at 530-878-2009 ❤️‍🩹

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