Wisconsin Valley Veterinary Service

11/05/2025

🎃 Thank you to everyone who voted for our annual staff pumpkin contest! 🎃

10/27/2025

🎃 Vote for your favorite pumpkin for our annual staff pumpkin contest! 🎃

10/18/2025

🌟 Staff Appreciation Week at WVVS! 🌟

While it’s officially National Veterinary Technician Week, we take this time to celebrate our entire team — because in a small clinic, every role makes a huge difference. 💚

From our amazing Veterinary Assistants and Technicians to our caring Receptionists — each of you helps keep our patients healthy, our clients supported, and our clinic running smoothly. 🐾

Thank you for all that you do — your compassion, teamwork, and dedication truly make our clinic a special place! 💕

10/16/2025

🎉🐾During Vet Tech Week, we also celebrate our Veterinary Assistants--Mel, Maddy, and Steph! 🎉🐾

Fun fact: Did you know WI is one of only three states that allows on-the-job training to become eligible to take the Veterinary Technician licensing exam

10/16/2025

Happy Vet Tech Week to our amazing Vet Tech April!

10/13/2025

Happy Vet Tech Week!

10/10/2025

Happiness is a warm furry friend by your side. Welcoming our newest patients to the clinic is truly a wonderful honor!!

10/09/2025

Say “hello” to some of our newest and cutest clients! Welcome to the clinic little guys and girls! ❤️🐾

10/09/2025

❄️Did you know?
These frosty nights concentrate the sugars in the grass and can cause problems for horses, especially our metabolically sensitive types! 🐎

❄🐴🌾 Is it safe to graze horses after a hard freeze? What do I need to consider before turning them back out on pasture? Also, what defines a hard freeze?

🌡 A hard freeze refers to a frost that is severe enough to end the growing season. The National Weather Service defines a hard freeze when temperatures fall below 28ºF for a few hours. Cool-season grasses commonly found in Midwest horse pastures go into dormancy for winter and conserve their energy stores (starches and sugars) following a hard freeze.

❄️ We recommend keeping horses off pastures for at least 7 days after a hard freeze. Frost-damaged pastures are higher in nonstructural carbohydrates (starches and sugars) because plants can not use up their energy stores as efficiently. It can take plants 7 days to return to more normal nonstructural carbohydrate levels. Higher levels of nonstructural carbohydrates can lead to an increase risk for laminitis, especially in horses diagnosed with or prone to obesity, laminitis, Cushings, and Equine Metabolic Syndrome.

The decision to graze again after a hard freeze depends on the condition of your pasture. After a hard freeze, no additional regrowth of the pasture will occur, even though the pasture might appear green in color. If your cool-season grass pasture is

✅ taller than 3 to 4 inches, then grazing can resume 7 days after a hard freeze and can continue until the pasture is grazed down to 3 to 4 inches.
❌ shorter than 3 to 4 inches, then no grazing should occur after a hard freeze. Grazing below 3 inches can harm the plant and lead to poor productivity next season.

🌾 Plants rely on stored nonstructural carbohydrates in the lower 3 inches for energy. Therefore, the 3- to 4-inch minimum height recommendation is necessary to help maximize winter survival and can help predict a vigorous and healthy pasture come spring. We do recognize horses rarely graze uniformly and pastures tend to have areas of both over and under grazing. You will need to base decisions on the average appearance of your pasture

09/28/2025

🦴🐾 World Rabies Day – September 28 🐾🦴

Did you know rabies is one of the deadliest diseases in the world—but also one of the most preventable?

Rabies spreads through the bite or saliva of an infected animal and, without quick treatment, it’s almost always fatal. The good news: keeping pets vaccinated is the #1 way to stop it.

Thanks to strong vaccination programs, canine rabies has been eliminated here in the U.S. 🐶✨ But in many parts of the world, it still takes the lives of about 70,000 people every year—many of them children.

On this World Rabies Day, we’re reminded of how important it is to:
✅ Keep your pets’ rabies vaccines up to date
✅ Avoid contact with wild animals (bats, foxes, raccoons, skunks, etc.)
✅ Seek medical help immediately if you’re ever bitten or scratched

Protecting pets protects people, too. 💙 Together, we can keep our community safe!

09/22/2025

🎉🐾 Happy Retirement, Sue! 🐾🎉

After 48 years of answering phones, juggling schedules, calming nervous owners, and keeping our mornings running smoothly, Sue has definitely earned some well-deserved rest and relaxation!

Her kindness, dedication, and steadfast presence have touched countless lives—both human and animal. 💙 Sue has been the friendly face and warm heart of our clinic for nearly five decades, and while we will miss her dearly, we’re so excited to see her begin this next chapter of life.

Please join us in congratulating Sue on an incredible career and wishing her the happiest retirement! 💐✨

08/18/2025

🎉 Happy retirement, Vicki! 🎉

After 18 years with the WVVS family, Vicki is leaving us to enjoy retirement. We will greatly miss her smiling face, commitment to helping clients and pets, and inventory management skills. We wish her the best of luck in retirement as she spends her newly free time on her hobby farm.

As Vicki retires, we have an opening for a full- or part-time receptionist. Email your resume to [email protected] if interested!