All Creatures Veterinary Hosp

03/17/2025

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from ACVH ☘️ 🍀
Cooper was showing off his love for the holiday today!

03/15/2025

Pull out your green clothes and shamrocks, St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner! While typically filled with fun and exciting festivities, St Patrick’s Day can unfortunately pose some unlucky hazards to our furry friends.

03/14/2025

Happy TGIF! 🎉 ☀️ 🦮🐕‍🦺🐈🐈‍⬛

Today is such a beautiful day and looking like a beautiful weekend as well! Here’s some benefits on getting your cat or dog outside and walking together 🚶‍♀️🚶🦮🐕‍🦺🐈🐈‍⬛

🦮 Walking your pets outside offers lots of benefits from improving physical and mental health, better socialization, and a stronger bond between you and your pet.

🐕‍🦺 Regular walks help regulate a healthy weight, prevent obesity, and keep muscles toned and joints limber.

🐈 Exploring new sights, smells, and sounds through walks provides mental stimulation, combats boredom, and reduces destructive behaviors.

🐈‍⬛ Walking your pets allows dogs to interact with other dogs, people, and various environments, offering better social skills and better confidence.

03/09/2025

Happy international women’s day! 🫶

03/07/2025

Informational Friday ! Here’s one we see a few times a year 🌱

Ma*****na toxicity in dogs and cats. 🌱

🌱 Ma*****na is toxic to dogs and cats, exposure to THC can cause various symptoms, lethargy, dilated pupils, increased sensitivity to sound, light, touch, vomiting, drooling , hypersalivation, urinary dribbling or incontinence, slow heart rate (bradycardia), disorientation, hyperactivity, tremors, seizures, possibly coma and difficulty walking. If you suspect your pet has ingested or been exposed to ma*****na, contact your veterinarian or the Animal Poison Control Center.

🌱 Cats and dogs can become intoxicated by cannabis in multiple ways, most commonly by eating edibles (baked goods, candies, chocolate bars, or by ingesting cannabis directly. Most exposures are accidental when pets discover access to the drug or when they are present in the same room with a person smoking cannabis. Dogs have more cannabinoid receptors in their brains, which means the effects of cannabis are more toxic when compared to humans. A small amount of cannabis is all it takes to cause toxicity in cats and dogs. The drug has to be metabolized and excreted for the effects to wear off.

🌱 A small amount may affect one pet more than another, so there is no official safe level of exposure.

🌱 If the toxicity is discovered shortly after ingestion, your veterinarian may induce vomiting to prevent further absorption of the toxin. Activated charcoal may be administered every six to eight hours to neutralize the toxin.

🌱 In some cases some pets may need IV fluids to help prevent dehydration, support blood pressure, and maintain organ function.

All in all we know things happen and with ma*****na legalized in MAINE we are seeing more and more of ma*****na toxicity. To prevent prolonged unnecessary diagnostics please come forward with us if this happens. We just want to help and treat your pet. 🫶 We will be able to help your pet faster, and make them more comfortable quicker if we know this happened sooner than later.

WE ARE HERE FOR YOU AND YOUR PETS 🫶🐱🐶

03/06/2025

Look who came to visit us at work today !! 🦉 This was a fun surprise this morning ! 🫶

We also learned today that this is a Barred Owl 🦉

🦉 A Barred Owl is a large, stocky, hornless owl native to North America.
🦉 Barred owls are brown and white with thick vertical stripes on their chests and lengthwise streaks on their bellies.
🦉 They have rounded heads, medium-length rounded tails, and dark brown eyes.

We hope you all thought this was as cool as we did !

03/02/2025

Happy cold Sunday 🥶

Here’s this weeks joke of the week 🤩

If anyone has any pictures of their pets dressed up as Harry Potter post in the comments so we can all see!

02/23/2025

Happy national biscuit day !

We are celebrating it as national treat day!

We hope all furry animals get to enjoy a treat today 🫶

02/23/2025

Here’s this Sunday’s joke of the week! 🫶🐱

02/21/2025

Informational Friday!
Chocolate and pets🐶🐱‼️🚨🍫

Chocolate is just as bad for cats as it is for dogs… but why is it bad for them?

🍫 Chocolate contains small amounts of caffine, and large amounts of theobromine.

WHAT IS THEOBROMINE?
~Theobromine is a bitter-tasting, slightly water-soluble alkaloid found in cacao plants and chocolate.
~This compound, known as methylxanthines, make chocolate a delicious treat for people, but dangerous for dogs and cats.

🍫 Symptoms can be…
~Vomiting, Diarrhea, Increased thirst, Restlessness,
Hyperactivity, Tremors, Rapid breathing, and sezuires.

🍫 Treatment….
If you think your pet has eaten chocolate, you should take them to your veterinarian immediately. They may induce vomiting.

🍫 Darker chocolates, like baking chocolate and cocoa powder, have higher levels of theobromine than milk chocolate.

🍫 Even if the chocolate doesn't contain toxic levels of theobromine, the fat and sugar in chocolate can cause vomiting, diarrhea, or pancreatitis.

What did we learn from this post?

🫶 Chocolate is good for people but bad for pets!

02/16/2025

Here’s today’s JOKE OF THE WEEK ! ❄️

Sticking with a snow joke today due to the amount of snow we are about to get through out the day ❄️ ⛄️ 🥶 🐶 🐱

Everyone stay safe today!

02/15/2025

Fun fact Saturday ! 🦷 🐶 🐱

Did you know that CATS 🐱 typically have 30 adult teeth in their mouth.
They have….
🦷 12 Incisors
🦷 4 Canines
🦷 10 Pre molars
🦷 And 4 Molars

Where as DOGS 🐶 typically have 42 adult teeth in their mouth.
They have…
🦷 12 Incisors
🦷 4 Canines
🦷 16 Pre molars
🦷 And 10 Molars

We hope you all learned something new today about your furry friends 🫶

02/14/2025

Here’s some flowers 🌺 🌼 🌹 💐 that are safe to have around your pets this Valentine’s Day!

As you prepare beautiful bouquets for your loved ones, don’t forget to choose pet-safe flowers so every member of the home—furry friends included—can safely enjoy the gift of love! 🌸🐾

02/14/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day 💖❤️🫶

We hope both humans and animals have a fantastic day!

How is your pet celebrating Valentine’s Day?

Post in the comments ⬇️ 🫶

The animals in the photo are 3 of one of our staff members pets who have crossed the rainbow bridge 🌈 🐶 🐱 🐴

02/10/2025

Happy superbowl Sunday ! 🏈 🐶 🐱

Here’s this weeks joke of the week, and to stick with the theme of the day here it is…. 🤩

02/08/2025

Important notice for Monday 🚨 ‼️

📋 We will be having a brief staff meeting on Monday 2/10/25.

✏️ We will be closed from 8-8:30 AM.

👩‍⚕️ 🧑‍⚕️ We will open back for normal hours starting at 8:30 AM

We are sorry for the inconvenience 🫶

02/07/2025

Happy Friday AND Dental health month! 🦷 🪥 🐶 🐱

Tucker the Rat Terrier had his teeth cleaned earlier this week and just look how handsome he is 🫶

🦷 February is Dental health month. We will be offering 10% discount on all dental procedures for February. If we have not seen your pet in a while we should do an exam to check the teeth and see if they need a dental done at this time. We recommend bloodwork before any surgery. Call today to schedule 🪥🦷

02/06/2025

Due to the inclement weather, we have decided to close at 4 PM. We are sorry for the inconvenience. We will open for normal hours tomorrow on Friday!
Have a safe snow day ❄️