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Question: What type of infection does Lyme disease cause (viral, bacterial, protozoal)? Answer: Bacterial! The bacteria is called Borrelia burgdorferi

One pet that is not as common as a dog or a cat in households is a rabbit. Here are five things to consider if you’re about to get or just adopted a pet rabbit.

Why do an ultrasound? An ultrasound is typically recommended for abnormal urine or blood testing, or when your veterinarian can feel an abnormal structure in the abdomen.

Your pet has just had surgery. Now what? Here are a few tips on how to care for your pet during recovery and get them back to normal in no time!

Essential Oils have been in the news and in social media recently and there have been many questions that here at Lomsnes Veterinary Hospital have heard from our clients.

With dental disease affecting 80% of dogs and 70% of cats by the age of 3, keeping your pet’s teeth strong and healthy is very important to their overall wellbeing.

Administering eye medications, whether it is a drop or a gel, to your cat or dog can be quite the task especially when required to give it four times a day or more!

As pets age, their joints become a bit more fragile, a bit stiffer, and simple things like walks can be tough. Top ease joint pain, glucosamine can be an excellent supplement.

Do you pick up after your dog has a bowel movement on a walk? Do you clean your cat’s litter box? I am sure your answer is yes!

Ear mites are tiny microscopic parasites that live and feed inside the ear canal of cats, dogs, rabbits, and other animals. To the naked eye, the mite itself may be undetectable.

Whether it is a routine health check-up and vaccinations or it is because our family pet is not feeling well, animals do appear to act somewhat differently at the vet’s office.

Lomsnes Veterinary Hospital is offering a new program called Optimum Care that allows you to pay monthly for your pet’s preventative health care over the year.