Senior Pet Care

Protecting the love you share.

Hospice and Palliative Care

At Senior Pet Vet, we offer animal hospice and palliative care services for pets with life limiting or incurable diseases. Dr. McCaffrey is a certified Hospice and Palliative Care veterinarian. She has pursued rigorous advanced training in this field and welcomes the opportunity to help you and your pet companion though this life stage.

Animal hospice includes the following services:

Care focused on providing pain control and physical comfort to the pet, as well as educational support and emotional comfort for caregivers.
A “Hospice Team” of veterinary professionals and support service providers that offer assistance in providing quality of life for the patient that includes palliation of pain and preparation for death.
A veterinarian serving as a teacher, enabling family members to care for their pets medical and emotional needs at home.

In Home Diagnostics

Senior Pet Vet offers a variety of diagnostic services performed for your pet in the comfort of your home.

Full Service Laboratory
- Fine-needle biopsy of tumor
- Senior blood screen
- Disease monitoring bloodwork: Kidney disease, Diabetes, Endocrine disease, etc
- Complete blood count
- Ear and Skin culture
- Tick Disease Testing

In Home Diagnostics

Senior Pet Vet offers a variety of diagnostic services performed for your pet in the comfort of your home.

Full Service Laboratory
- Fine-needle biopsy of tumor
- Senior blood screen
- Disease monitoring bloodwork: Kidney disease, Diabetes, Endocrine disease, etc
- Complete blood count
- Ear and Skin culture
- Tick Disease Testing

Veterinary Acupuncture

Acupuncture has been practiced in both animals and humans for thousands of years in China. It involves the insertion of thin needles into specific points on the body in order to stimulate a therapeutic effect. Modern research shows that acupoints are located in the areas where there are a high density of free nerve endings, mast cells, small arterioles and lymphatic vessels.

A great number of studies indicate that stimulation of acupoints induces the release of beta-endorphins, serotonin and other neurotransmitters. Stimulation of these acupoints can induce the following effects:

Pain relief
Promotion of tissue healing
Regulation of gastrointestinal motility
Anti-inflammatory effects
Imunoregulation