Etowah Veterinary Hospital

We perform thorough nose-to-tail wellness evaluations at every visit to detect potential health issues early. Our team tracks vital signs, monitors weight, and assesses behavior/diet to establish a personalized baseline for lifelong care. This proactive approach ensures your pet’s health is optimized throughout all life stages.

We offer tailored preventative care plans for young pets, including early vaccination schedules, deworming, and age-appropriate nutritional guidance. These packages support healthy growth, immunizations, and proactive detection of common kitten/puppy issues—ensuring a strong foundation for their lifelong health.

As experts in geriatric care, we recommend biannual exams for senior pets to monitor organ function, mobility, and age-related diseases. Our checkups include thorough diagnostics and specialized treatments to address arthritis, dental disease, or organ changes—optimizing quality of life in their golden years.

We provide customized vaccination plans including essential rabies, distemper, and parvo vaccines based on your pet’s lifestyle, age, and local Cobb County risks. These vaccines form the foundation of preventative care, protecting pets from severe, contagious diseases.

We offer annual heartworm screening and prescription preventatives to safeguard your pet. This proactive service includes home delivery options and discussions about regional Marietta/East Cobb risk factors to prevent this fatal, mosquito-borne disease.

Our pharmacy provides a wide range of flea, tick, and parasite preventative solutions, including topical treatments and oral medications. We tailor recommendations to your pet’s lifestyle and environment to ensure effective year-round protection.

We offer a quick, painless microchipping service to permanently identify your pet. With Cobb County and shelter partnerships, lost pets can be returned to you faster. Registration ensures your contact information remains current in the database if you ever move.

Our team provides personalized feeding plans for every life stage, addressing obesity, allergies, or special dietary needs. From kitten formulas to senior diets, we help you select the best food options to support your pet’s optimal health, activity level, and weight goals.

We prescribe and administer deworming treatments to protect pets from intestinal parasites like roundworms, hookworms, and tapeworms—both in puppies/kittens and adult pets. Routine deworming is a cornerstone of our preventative care protocols.

Our clinic offers in-house CBCs and chemistry panels for rapid detection of organ function, anemia, infections, or metabolic diseases. Quick results allow us to initiate treatment sooner, especially in emergencies or during wellness exams for senior pets.

We perform comprehensive urinalyses to screen for kidney disease, diabetes, infections, or urinary crystals. Routine testing forms part of our physical exams and diagnostic follow-ups, helping us monitor early-stage conditions long before symptoms affect your pet’s quality of life.

Our veterinarians use in-house digital X-rays for same-day diagnostics of fractures, dental disease, tumors, or foreign objects. Advanced radiography provides immediate insights and treatment options for injuries or chronic conditions like arthritis, without delays.

We utilize in-house ultrasound technology to examine internal organs for masses, pregnancy, heart function, or abdominal issues. This non-invasive imaging offers detailed insights for conditions like organ enlargement, cysts, or tumors with minimal stress for your pet.

Our surgical team specializes in low-risk spay/neuter procedures using gold-standard anesthesia and monitoring, including capnography and blood pressure monitoring. We provide guidance on timing (pre- vs. post-heat cycles), recovery care, and pain management to ensure optimal outcomes.

Our veterinarians perform surgical foreign body removals for ingested items or penetrating objects. We use X-rays/ultrasound to locate items, then safely extract them via advanced techniques to minimize complications or secondary damage.

Our team provides suturing and wound management for traumatic injuries, using surgical techniques and antibiotics to prevent infection. We offer follow-up care and monitoring to ensure proper healing for your pet’s full recovery and comfort.

In emergencies, we immediately focus on stabilizing life-threatening issues such as trauma, poisoning, or shock. Our protocol includes IV therapy, oxygen support, and specialized diagnostics to address critical conditions prior to further evaluation.

For patients with respiratory distress, pneumonia, or post-surgery complications requiring supplemental oxygen, we provide specialized oxygen support under close veterinary supervision to improve lung function and recovery.

We administer IV fluid therapy for hydration, shock, dehydration, or post-surgical care. Customized fluids help restore electrolyte balance and support healing, especially in emergency cases like trauma or gastrointestinal distress.

Our hospital provides pre-emptive and multi-modal pain management, from post-surgical drugs to chronic pain solutions for conditions like arthritis or dental disease. We monitor for effectiveness while minimizing side effects to ensure your pet’s safety and comfort.

Our team handles ingestion cases—whether pesticides, human medications, or plants (e.g., lilies, chocolate)—using emergency protocols including decontamination, symptom control, and antidote therapies. Immediate intervention increases recovery chances.