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At Goodison Veterinary Center your pet is a special member of the GVC family too

Dr. Molly Angel provides advanced veterinary dental care at Michigan Animal Dental Specialists. Check out our informational page on her services:
http://www.goodisonvet.com/advanceddentistry.html

10/31/2026

🎃👻 HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM THE GVC & MADS TEAMS🐾🕸️

Wishing all our wonderful clients, your families and those furry companions a spooktacular Halloween! 🧡🖤

Whether your pets are dressed up as little monsters, cozy pumpkins, or spooky superheroes, we hope your day is filled with treats, tricks, and lots of tail wags! 🐶🐱

🎃 A few Halloween safety reminders for your pets:
🍫 Keep chocolate and candy safely out of paw's reach!
🍬 Be extra careful with sugar-free treats containing xylitol.
🎭 Make sure costumes are comfortable and don't restrict breathing, movement, or vision.
🕯️ Keep candles, decorations, and glow sticks away from curious paws and mouths.
🚪 Watch those doors! Trick-or-treaters coming and going can make it easy for pets to slip outside.
🐾 Give nervous pets a quiet, safe place to relax away from all the Halloween excitement.

From our clinic family to yours, have a HOWL-O-WEEN filled with more treats than tricks!🐺🧡

Stay spooky, stay safe, and give your pets some extra love from us! 🐾👻 🎃🐾

Pictured are patients & staff pets dressed up🥸

10/27/2026

🐈‍⬛🖤OCTOBER IS BLACK CAT APPRECIATION MONTH!🖤🐈‍⬛

Today, October 27th is National Black Cat Day! We are taking time to celebrate those beautiful little house panthers!

Sadly, black cats have spent centuries being associated with bad luck, witchcraft, and silly superstitions! Yet, anyone who has ever loved a black cat knows that’s nothing but inaccurate..Black cats bring all the love, laugher and a little extra magic to our lives.

Let's leave the superstitions behind and celebrate these beautiful cats who deserve loving homes all year long!

Does a little house panther rule your heart? Show them off below 🖤

10/23/2026

Important: Recall on Compounded Medications

Wedgewood Pharmacy (who is affiliated with our online pharmacy partner, Vetsource), issued a voluntary recall for certain compounded medications shipped between February 18, 2026, and October 6, 2026 (including oral suspensions, gels, ointments, pastes, and injectables). Impacted medications may have potency inconsistencies.

**WEDGEWOOD HAS ALREADY CONTACTED MOST CLIENTS REGARDING MEDICATION CHANGES.**

What can you do?
- Check your meds: Look at any compounded product labels from Wedgewood Pharmacy.
- Verify your lot number: Check if your product is affected using their recall tool: https://www.wedgewood.com/recall-lookup/
- Contact us before stopping: If your pet's medication is recalled, do not abruptly stop administering critical treatments. Call our clinic first so we can help transition your pet to a safe alternative.
- Monitor your pet: Watch for any changes in behavior or symptoms.

Your pet's safety is our top priority. Please call our team at 248-650-5900 if you have any questions or need help checking your prescriptions!

10/23/2026

Wrapping up Veterinary Technician Week! 💙

This week, we celebrated the incredible veterinary technicians who do so much to care for our patients and their families.

LVTs put their knowledge and skills to work every day. They triage critically ill patients, calculate medication doses, pull blood, perform in-house diagnostics, take radiographs. Our veterinary technicians closely monitor every pet receiving sedation or anesthesia and ensure their comfort during procedures. Vet Techs perform many procedures themselves such as placing central lines and nasogastric tubes, administering medications, performing wound management and even running CPR.

Their work goes far beyond medical procedures, though.

Vet Techs comfort frightened animals, celebrate recovery milestones, reassure worried families, and offer compassion during heartbreaking goodbyes. They recognize subtle changes that can mean the difference between life and death, advocate for their patients, and stand beside families during some of their most difficult moments.

To our INCREDIBLE GVC & MADS technicians: Thank you for your knowledge, resilience, for your boundless empathy and unwavering commitment to our patients. Your work may not always be visible to our clients, but its impact is immeasurable. You are more than a helping hand. You are brilliant professionals, an essential part of the care team, and a lifeline for the patients who depend on you.

We appreciate you. We are grateful for you.

Meet our LVTs😊

10/16/2026

IT’S FELINE FRIDAY! 🐈

We wanted to feature our friend Cleo, who is an Orange FEMALE kitty. She wanted us to make sure we tell you why she is so special🥰

Only about 20% of orange cats are female, while about 80% are male!
To produce a female orange kitten, the mother must pass down an orange X chromosome (meaning the mother is either orange, tortoiseshell, or calico) and the father must also be orange (since he must pass down his single orange X chromosome).

Male cats have only one X chromosome (and one Y chromosome) so they just need one copy of the orange gene to grow up orange. If Mom is solid orange (meaning both of her X chromosomes carry the orange gene). All her male kittens will be orange because no matter which she passes down, it’s orange.

Cleo was enjoying all the love & scratches while Dr Schira talked to her owner😊

10/14/2026

Hey GVC friends, this photo was found in our lobby Wednesday 09/30/2026.

We have been trying to track the owner down, with no luck, we are coming to Facebook in hopes of finding them.

Does anyone recognize this photo?

10/14/2026

The second Wednesday in October is Pet Obesity Awareness Day causing many pet owners to pause and reconsider before handing over that extra treat or dinner table scraps.
That's exactly what GVC and the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention (APOP) hopes this day will achieve: 𝘼 𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙙𝙙 𝙬𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙩𝙨' 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙪𝙨.

An APOP clinical survey revealed that nearly 56% of dogs and 60% of cats are clinically overweight or obese.
Perhaps more alarming is that only 39% of dog owners and 45% of cat owners consider their pets overweight or obese; therefore, millions of pet owners don’t know that action needs to be taken to shed their pets' extra pounds.

𝙒𝙚'𝙫𝙚 𝙥𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙤𝙣 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙜𝙚𝙩. 𝘼𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚!

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘵'𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦?
Three checks, in order:
Run your hands along the rib cage with flat palms and light pressure. At a healthy score you should feel the ribs easily beneath a thin layer of fat.
Then look down from above and check for a waist behind the ribs. Then look from the side and check that the abdomen tucks upward rather than running straight or sagging.
*Scoring is done by feel, not by sight. Coat length, breed conformation, and body shape can all hide body fat, which is why the rib check comes first.*

𝘋𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 9-𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 f𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘴?
Both use a 1 to 9 scale, but the ideal band and the criteria differ. Cats are ideal at 5 only, so a cat at 4 is below ideal even though a dog at 4 is healthy.
Cats also carry fat differently, including in the abdominal fat pad, which changes what you are feeling for.
Use the species-specific chart rather than applying dog criteria to a cat.

𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺?
No. A score in the upper range records excess adiposity (𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑒) based on body condition alone. That is descriptive obesity. Clinical obesity means excess adiposity accompanied by clinically meaningful abnormalities that are plausibly attributable to that adiposity and that require medical intervention. A chart can establish the first. Only a veterinary assessment can establish the second.

There is NO judgment here, we all love spoiling our fur babies! 🥰 But we also want them to live the longest, healthiest lives possible by your side.

What questions do you have about obesity, preventing obesity, or weight loss for your pets? Comment below so we can answer them🥸

10/07/2026

🐾A walk is more than exercise 🐾

It’s national walk your dog week, we want to address a topic we often have to talk to owners about:

**𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫**

When we talk about walks we often only talk about time
"He had his hour."
“10 minutes is not enough”
"We only managed 20 minutes today."
"She needs at least two hours of exercise or she’s mad."
But more isn't automatically better.

Five minutes spent sniffing, exploring a new environment, moving over different terrain, practicing a skill or simply being allowed to stop and investigate can sometimes offer more to a dog than fifty minutes of repeatedly covering the same ground.
Because walking isn't only about physical exercise.

It's movement, sensory information, mental stimulation, exploration, choice, confidence and time spent together.

And what makes a valuable walk will be different for every dog.

A young, fit working dog may have very different needs from an older dog with osteoarthritis or one recovering from surgery.

A dog who finds busy environments overwhelming may gain far more from a quiet sniff around a familiar route than a long walk somewhere stimulating.

So perhaps instead of always asking:
"How long did we walk?"
we could sometimes ask:
"What did my dog get from that walk?"
Because the goal isn't simply to clock up minutes or miles. It's to give the individual dog in front of us what they need.

What matters most to your dog when they are out walking?🐶

10/02/2026

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲 is celebrated on the first Friday of October to promote acts of kindness and spread joy through the simple power of a smile… 🙂

So, here we are, passing on these priceless smiles!🐾

Now, it’s your turn☺️

09/30/2026

Today we say congratulations & goodbye to our office manager Diane and her sweet boy Arlo! 🐾💚

After almost 10 years, saying goodbye definitely doesn’t feel easy. 🥹

For nearly a decade, she has been such a big part of Goodison - not just as our Office Manager, but as a friend, a familiar face, and someone our team, patients and clients have come to know and love.

We’ve shared so many busy days, laughs, stressful moments, funny stories, and countless memories over the years. She has poured so much time, heart, and dedication into this place, and there’s no doubt that she leaves a pretty big hole around here. 💚

Thank you for 10 wonderful years of being part of our Goodison family. We’re incredibly grateful for everything you’ve done and all the memories you’ve helped create.

Congratulations on your retirement Diane, we’re going to miss you more than you know, but we’re also so excited to see what this next chapter brings for you and your family! 🥰

Once GVC family, always GVC family. 🐾💚

Address

4379 Orion Road
Rochester, MI
48306

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 1pm

Telephone

+12486505900

Website

http://www.goodisonvet.com/

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