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Summer care tips for your pet | Weather
 Provide plenty of fresh drinking water at all times.
Keep your pet's kennel well-ventilated and positioned near a well-shaded area where your pet can avoid midday sun and heat.
Avoid excessive exercise during hot weather. Over-exertion can cause heat stress or stroke. Safe outdoor temperatures vary by breed and size. Ask your veterinarian for a recommendation specific to your pet.
WARNING: If you suspect heat stress or stroke (e.g., collapse, extremely heavy panting, excessive drooling), wet your pet thoroughly with cool (not cold) water by immersion or spray your pet with a garden hose and call your veterinarian immediately.
Skin and Body
Keep your pet well-groomed. Long hair and hair mats can decrease your pet's ability to keep cool and can contribute to skin infections and disease. Regularly brush your pet and trim hair as needed.
Vaccinate your pet for infectious disease (e.g., canine parvovirus or feline leukemia) Pets usually have more contact with other animals during warmer months and disease can spread more easily.
Parasite Prevention
Use monthly flea, tick and heartworm preventatives. Remember, it's easier and cheaper to prevent parasites then to treat them when a pet is infected or infested. Take your pet for fecal exams for internal parasites at least yearly.
To reduce the access to parasites and discourage parasite breeding, keep your yard clean of feces, dump any standing water- even in watering cans and flower pot saucers- clean up left litter, and trim bushes and trees.
Toxic Substances
The poisons that kills common pets like rodents. snails and slugs are lethal to pets to if consumed. So limited your pets access to places where theses poisons are stored in and around your home.
Lawn Herbicides can also poisons pets, so keep your pet out of yard while spraying herbicides and of the grass for three days afterwards. Washing pets paws thoroughly with soap and cool water before coming back inside will help remove herbicidal residue.
Motor Vehicle
The Temperature inside a car easily climb to 120 degrees when a vehicle is parked in the summer sun. Never leave your pet unattended in a vehicle.
Summer time is time for play and fun but safety should always be your number one priority. Keep your pet on a leash or in a fenced in yard (invisible fences are ok too). Being struck by a motor vehicle is a traumatic experience for both you and your pet. Most often it can be fatal.
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| Mondays |
8 a.m. - 8 p.m. |
| Tuesday |
8 a.m. - 8 p.m. |
| Wednesday |
8 a.m. - 8 p.m. |
| Thursday |
8 a.m. - 8 p.m. |
| Friday |
8 a.m. - 4 p.m. |
| Satuarday |
8 a.m. -12 p.m. |
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Sunday |
Closed |
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Surgery Patients are admitted between 7:30 and 8:00 a.m.
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For after hours emergency care please contact Pittsburgh Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Center at (412) 366-3400.
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