Wellness Profiles

Wellness Programs

Annual Wellness Workups can help to keep your pet healthy. Your pets health managment and wellness can be divided into two broad categories.

1. Routine Healthcare

Your pets routine health care involves many of the things you are doing now.

Vaccination - annual boosters
Worming - recommended every 3 months
Flea control - we recommend Revolution as the ideal spot-on treatment
Heartworm - covered by Revolution but there are many other ways to protect your pet
Dental checks - frequent checks will help protect your pets teeth and keep their breath nice and sweet smelling. See Dental Information for more details.

2. Wellness Profiles

Our pets age much faster than we do and some of the age related changes can occur very early and very quickly. By carrying out some diagnostic testing and routine physical exams, some of these problems can be detected early and treatment started. Early treatment will improve the success of treatment, prevent your pets from being sick for long and reduce the costs associated with any severe disease.

Recommended Tests

Many of these tests can be undertaken at the time of your pets annual vaccination. South St Vet, Perth includes a physical exam at vaccination time, some early problems will be picked up at this examination. To detect other 'hidden' problems a blood test needs to be taken.

Recommended Blood Screening Tests

Dogs 1-6 Years Old

Cats 1-6 Years Old

Dogs 7 years and older

Blood chemistry and haematology
Urinalysis

Cats 7 years and older

Blood chemistry and haematology
Thyroid function
Urinalysis