Critter Care Animal Hospital

Everyone at Critter Care is Fear Free Certified.

This means we will always work with your critter’s emotional well-being in mind.

We will carefully assess their fear, anxiety and stress levels and do our best to make their vet visit a pleasant experience.

As long as I’ve been practicing medicine, I have always been the doctor that sat on the floor if it made my patients more comfortable, bought peanut butter and delicious bacon treats to have in my exam room and tried to take it slow with nervous patients.

Now, the Fear Free group has taken this leaps and bounds further by putting together training for veterinarians, staff and trainers with techniques to help us alleviate fear, anxiety, and stress in our patients.

When patients come to the veterinarian, we see a huge variety of responses – some dogs consider it the social event of the year and are thrilled to see everyone while others are so terrified, they might shiver, cry, go to the bathroom on the floor, and even try to bite.

I consider it a huge part of my job to keep those happy pets happy and make the scared ones comfortable.

Why? Because it’s good medicine.

When we (and our pets) get stressed, our bodies undergo changes as part of a “fight or flight” response and, if those changes go on long enough, they can lead to health issues.