-: Tiffany Premo, veterinarian at
Freeland Animal Hospital in Indianapolis.
My focus is cats and dogs, so your basic
small animal practice in the middle of town
where you take your pet.
Anything from healthy vaccine appointments,
puppies, kittens, that sort of thing,
to surgery, some emergency.
Kind of spectrum, dentistry, all that.
So everything from eyes, teeth, heart, lungs,
abdomen, also checking for things like arthritis
especially our older pets.
A lot of people forget that slowing down
isn't necessarily just an age thing,
sometimes they have arthritis
and they're stiff and they're sore
but they can't tell us.
So start with a full physical, a lot of it's
talking with the owners about how their pet's been,
how they're feeling, what's been changing.
We pick up a lot more even from that.
Then vaccinations, heartworm testing, parasite testing.
And then often we're trying to do healthy lab work as well
especially in our seniors.
We have kind of days we focus on surgery in our mornings,
and we try to assign that kind of to one doctor
so that they can just do that.
So they're working with surgery and stations
and then drop offs, we do a lot of drop off services too
so people, I mean people are at work
often by the time we're there, so.
We open at seven, but most of our doctors come in
about eight, we're usually there 'til about six.
And then the other doctors are seeing appointments
pretty much non-stop.
We have scheduled lunches which we pretty much rotate
but it's not abnormal to not get lunch so.
Pretty much seeing appointments back to back.
We focus on preventative care a lot actually.
So our pets are living a whole lot longer
than they used to, we're seeing, you know,
20 year old cats and 15 year old dogs
and that's not something we saw before.
So we're often focusing them on preventative medicine,
so heartworm prevention, things like that.
Watching for those slowing down things,
changing in behavior, eating habits, things like that.
The typical diseases depending on if it's a cat or a dog,
what to watch for, and then a lot with dentistry.
That's another one we're seeing and heart murmurs,
and things when we, in following up
sooner rather than later.
So at my particular practice we like to see all of our pets
especially our seniors, every six months.
So, and it's amazing the things we find
that we didn't find six months earlier, so.