Did your dog used to gobble up their food the minute you set down the bowl but has suddenly lost interest? Or maybe, they have been finicky since they were a puppy and tend to get bored with [...]

The sight of our furry best friends feeling under the weather can be terrifying and often leave us feeling helpless. We love our pets like children, and similarly, when they are under the [...]

Chances are you’ve seen plenty of cats wandering around your neighborhood. When it comes down to it, cats are survivors if nothing else, but not all who wander are lost as the saying goes. Many [...]

The sight of your furry best friend shaking is a terrifying sight for many pet owners. But there are many reasons for a shake, including plenty of harmless ones! But you can’t know just by [...]

Finding a stray dog or cat along the road, in your yard, or elsewhere can really throw you for a loop. What should you do now? Do you skip work? Do you put them in your house? Just what do you [...]

This month has turned into a language/communication themed month here at Acoma Animal Clinic. We started out by talking about the sounds pets make and what they may mean and moved on to talking [...]

Last time on the blog we talked about the different sounds our dogs and cats make in what we think are attempts to talk with us. A big component of that is the way they speak with their bodies, [...]

Whines, purrs, meows, barks – our furry family members sure do make a lot of noise! But what do they mean? Is your cat making a breakfast order or trying to tell you they’re feeling under the [...]

For many people the concept of “indoor/outdoor cats” is a strange one. In more rural communities cats are almost exclusively ‘outdoor’ as they run free across a farm. But outdoor cats come with [...]

Despite our best wishes, our pets can’t speak to us. So what happens when something seems… off? You take them in to the vet and if there’s no obvious cause one of the first things your vet is [...]