Desert Cross Veterinary Hospital

05/30/2026

Good morning clients and friends.

Please take a few moments to read the image below. We have already had multiple calls and several people show up with baby bunnies. Please leave baby bunnies alone wherever you find them.

Baby bunnies are very difficult to keep alive and they have very specific nutritional requirements. We are not licensed to treat wild animals and therefore we legally cant do anything with them nor do we have the time.

I know that baby bunnies look so cute and it is hard to not want to pick them up and take care of them but you are sentencing them to death if you do. Let mother nature and their bunny mommas care for them. Thank you!

05/25/2026

05/18/2026

If your dog could tell us one thing about your life, what would it be?

05/13/2026

Rabies clinic this Saturday.

05/10/2026

Happy Mother's Day to every mom of four legged or even two legged kids

05/03/2026

I try not to get on social media on Sundays but sometimes one just has to put out a request for help.
The San Carlos Apache Reservation starts about 40 miles from the clinic and goes for another 40 miles as the highway runs. There is no industry, no economic base for the reservation and the people and the animals struggle and suffer because of it.
We have been doing our best to serve the veterinary needs for the animals of the San Carlos Apache Reservation for well over a decade and there are a lot of animals that need help. Generally RAVS, Rural Animal Veterinary Services, has about $5000 each month as a grant that they put towards paying for veterinary care for the reservation animals. It does not go far and is usually gone within the first week or two and we then cover the cost of the rest of the animals needing care with no help from anyone.
Because of the lack of grant funding this month there will be dozens of animals that do not receive veterinary care. That is just unacceptable to me and I am asking for anyone who feels led to donate some money to our nonprofit, Rural Animal Care Collective, RACC, so that we can help until RAVS gets their funding back.
We just took in four Parvo puppies, two of which are very close to dying. We are doing our best to save them regardless of any funding but I know that there will be many more animals that come in this month that need help and we want to be able to help them. If you could donate the animals would be very grateful and so would I as well as Julie from GART the rescue on the reservation.
Thank you. Also, all four of these puppies will need homes if they survive so if you are looking for something to love that will love you back completely, let me know.

05/02/2026

Let's talk emergency surgery for a few moments.

I had just finished with a c section when the emergency phone rang and a message was left. Someone calling from about 3 hours away has a dog with a pyometra, a uterine infection, and they were needing emergency surgery and wanted a price. Our price is approximately $600-$700 on this particular sized dog. We do these surgeries all the time with great outcomes.

Yesterday we had a dog come in for vomiting for 3 days and x-rays were unusual and we started a barium series on the dog and it was quickly obvious that it had a foreign body. The doctor took enough time to go feed her chickens their lunch time snack and then didn't take lunch so that the dog could get on the table and the rug that it had eaten taken out. All this was done in less than 30 minutes and the dog is doing great and will have a bill of less than $2000 when it goes home.

If your dog needs a c section and it comes in, it is on the table generally in less than 30 minutes. The total bill depends on what you choose to have done with the uterus and the size of the dog but is generally between $400 to $1600 again depending on the size of the dog and if we are keeping the uterus or taking it out.

If your dog has a ruptured splenic tumor, you come in and it is on the table within a few hours at most generally less once we get blood work done and everything set up. Cost is again dependent upon the size of the dog but is generally less than $1200.

We are not corporately owned, we are a small private clinic that values the life of the animals that we took an oath to try and help and save. We do not believe in making animals wait for a needed surgery and our doctors are very skilled in getting in and getting out and doing a great job at it.

If your animal needs help, we want to help you if we can. We are not available 24/7 because there are just three of us and we all have to have time to decompress and be with our families but between the hours of 6am and 6pm we are here and we will absolutely do what we can as soon as possible for your animals that need emergency surgery.

04/30/2026

Our rabies clinic in conjunction with Greenlee Co. Heath Department is coming up this weekend. **Please note that the Morenci location has changed to the Morenci corrals instead of the Bashas parking lot"!

04/29/2026

This calf had rabies. The purpose of sharing this video with you is for educational purposes.

Rabies is very prevalent right now and will continue to increase with our drought conditions. If you have a bovine and it is neurological and it has a strange bellow please don’t mess with it. Take a video and send it to your vet and arrange for them to see it.

Most but not all will be drooling or have excessive slobber, do NOT put your hands in their mouths. Call your vet.

Most will have weakness and be neurological and once clinical signs appear they will not live very long.

Please do NOT shoot them in the head but call your vet. Rabies is incurable and no one wants to have to go through post exposure shots so video and call your vet.

Vaccination can be done once a year to protect all your livestock from rabies.

*This video is shared with permission of the owner*

04/27/2026

Welcome to Arizona and rattlesnake world.

The snakes are out and they are do not care to be bothered by your animals.

One of the most important things that needs to be known if your dog or cat or horse gets bit by a rattlesnake is what kind of rattlesnake is it. Most of our diamondback bites are going to pull through with some supportive treatment. Prognosis is a lot different with a mojave bite and treatment more aggressive and needed.

If your animal gets bite by a snake and it is at all possible, take a CLEAR picture of its tail. That is the quickest and easiest way for us to know what kind of snake it is and how quick you need to get your animal into the hospital.