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Mon:	8:00 am - 7:00 pm
Tue:	8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Wed:	8:00 am - 7:00 pm
Thu - Fri:	8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Sat:	9:00 am - 8:00 pm
Sun:	9:00 am - 6:00 pm

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(630) 599-7686

28 Roosevelt Rd, Winfield, IL 60190

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Phone: (331) 226-2187

Fax: (630) 983-8667

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http://www.napervillevet.com

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Phone: (630) 355-6164

Address: 531 W 87th St, Naperville, IL 60565

Website: http://www.napervillevet.com

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Care Animal Clinic

Preventive Care

Dental Care
Pet teeth cleaning may prevent future pet medical problems. Often bad breath in dogs or bad breath in cats is a sign of veterinary dental problems
Vaccination
Rabies shots are required by law. If your cat even breaks a person’s skin, you can have much bigger legal problems if your cat does not have pet vaccinations.
Comprehensive Examination
Hi, I am Dr. Fauley at Care Animal Clinic and I’m going to talk about dog exams and wellness exams that we recommend doing once a year. If you have time please view my video on prolotherapy.

Illness Treatment

Parasites Treatment and Control
The typical vaccinations administered are distemper, optional bordetella, lyme vaccine and rabies. The most common vaccine people get for their pets is the distemper/rabies combination because it is required by law. Some dogs are at risk for fecal camping or ticks (which can transmit lyme disease). Bordetella is an optional vaccine that dogs get if they go to kennels or puppy schools. So, those are some of the vaccinations. They start out at 2 months old and finish at 4 months old. From that point on, it would be just once a year. At the once-a-year visit, rabies, distemper and other optional vaccines are given. A heartworm test and a fecal test are also given. These are the things done on a yearly basis.
Pain Management
Proliferation therapy is a number of injections, and it is a combination of some dextrose, some lidocane, some saline and you go in and infiltrate around the joint capsule and what happens is that you cause an acute to mild degree of inflammation around that capsule. Inflammation draws cells into the area and causes a thickening of it and when the inflammation subsides about 3 weeks later the attachments are a little bit thicker. Then 6 six weeks after the first injection, the joint is stimulated again. We use a little bit of sedation and a very thin needle so the pet does not feel anything. After 3 to 4 of these treatments you have a thicker amount of tissue holding the joint together, making it stronger. After the 4th or the 5th treatment the animals will start feeling confident about using the leg or the hips without pain or instability. This is proliferation therapy, a newer way to address chronic pain management in our pets.
Vomiting Treatment
Diarrhea Treatment
Heartworm pills do not bother the dogs. Harley never had heartworms and has been on heartworm pills every year and he hadn’t any problem from taking them. There are a couple of medications that are used to treat heartworms and other intestinal parasites that dogs may contract by just being outdoors, even during winter when they eat things off the ground, especially frozen items. They do not get heartworms during winter; but, they may get intestinal worms. One of the heartworm medications we use here is Iverhart, which is a generic equivalent of Heartgard, a name-brand. Tri-heart is another generic medication. They all do the same thing – to protect the dog from heartworms and most intestinal parasites. These are some of the things that these medications treat. This diagram shows the different parasites. These are heartworms that plug up the heart. The medications also protect the dogs from round worms that colonize the intestinal tract causing diarrhea, debilitation and general unhealthiness. Hookworms also line and invade the intestinal lining causing bloody diarrhea. Wet worms pretty much do the same thing. So, we typically use Heartgard Plus which contains Ivermectin that protects the dog from heartworms and Pyrantel to protect against the other intestinal parasites. So, use either Iverhart Plus or Heartgard Plus to protect your dog from both heartworms and intestinal parasites.
Skin Condition and Allergy Treatment

Infection Treatment

Ear Infection Treatment
Ears are a big problem with dogs. They might have ear mites or ear infections. We use a videoscope that looks down in the ear canal, transmitting the image to a TV monitor so that both we and the owners see the inside of the ear. Things we look for are polyps, bacteria and sometimes yeast and a lot of times, small insects called mites that could cause a lot of scratching. If your dog scratches itself a lot, chances are it has ear mites.

Chronic Condition Treatment

Arthritis Treatment
Please Tell Us Your Pet’s Needs And Request A Quote. Please call us and ask the Veterinarian questions about torn ACL in dogs, arthritis treatment for dogs, dog pain relief treatment, dog ACL surgery, and pet pain management...
Hip Dysplasia Treatment
Veterinary Prolotherapy is a new non-surgical treatment. Prolotherapy that works best on dogs to treat canine hip dysplasia, dog arthritis, and chronic pet pain.
Thyroid Disease Treatment
We check the coat, looking for fleas, skin infections typically called hot spots or thinning of the hair coat that might indicate a metabolic issue such as a thyroid problem. We check the heart using a stethoscope to make sure the heart has a normal sound and a normal beat and that the dog does not have arrhythmia or heart murmurs. We check the limbs, especially with bigger dogs which are susceptible to hip dysplasia. It seems each breed has its own concern that we try to address.
Heart Disease Treatment
Your pet is monitored in a couple of different ways. An assistant is always present watching and adjusting the anesthesia machine. We also have this monitor that checks a number of different parameters. These are EKG leads. These are hooked up to the limbs so we can get a constant monitoring of the heart rate, beats and rhythm and know the condition of the heart while we perform the surgery. In case anything untoward happens, we are alerted immediately and are able to stay on top of the problem. This other wire is a temperature probe lead that we can attach to the body and thus are able to tell how warm the animal is. There is also an oxygen saturation monitor lead that attaches to this machine. It tells us how much oxygen is flowing through the animal’s veins and artery walls while under sedation. We want to be sure the patient is breathing enough and that this machine is delivering enough oxygen while we perform the surgery. So, the pet is monitored. We have it on anesthesia. We use only the most advanced anesthesia and safest anesthesia. Once it is turned off, the animal simply wakes up right away. We feel we are able to control the depth of the anesthesia.
Periodontal Disease Treatment
Unlike spay neuter, when we do dental cleaning, we do not anesthetize here at Care Animal Clinic. We do sedate, though. What we do is not painful, so they do not have to be anesthetized like they do for surgeries. We give them a little bit of sedation so that they don’t mind the scaling and the polishing. This procedure is the same for people when they have their teeth cleaned. People’s teeth are scaled with an ultrasonic scaler that vibrates and sprays water out and this actually removes the tartar. Tartar is a hard substance called calculus that forms on the teeth and when thick enough will start rubbing against the gums and when it rubs against the gums enough, the gums become inflamed and this is called gingivitis where the gums get inflamed so much that they start receding and when the gums start receding, periodontal disease sets in. As I was saying, we sedate them, and then we scale and polish the teeth. This doesn’t hurt. We polish the teeth using a cup that spins around and filled with prophy paste that has bubblegum flavor and is gritty. After polishing, we put a layer of fluoride.
Cancer Treatment
Pet Spay Neuter is part of responsible pet ownership. Neutering may have many benefits including lower pet health care costs and reduced pet cancer risks.

Veterinary Surgery
We have ample supply of surgical instruments for surgeries other than routine spays and neuters such as abdominal surgery, pin broken legs, remove growths and tumors, repair injuries from fights or other trauma like tails getting caught in the door. These are the most common surgical procedures we do. The pet comes in, we perform the surgery and the pet goes home the same day. We always call the next day to follow up on the condition of the patient. Should any questions or concerns arise, we provide work and home telephone numbers you can call. After two (2) weeks, the pet is brought in and we remove the sutures. Generally, spays and neuters are performed on pets at six (6) months of age; but it can be done at any age. The sooner, the better. It is always the safest. In the meantime, if something else needs immediate attention, we will do what is necessary to take care of your pet.
Spaying and Neutering
We are in the surgery room. I am going to talk about spaying and neutering our cats and dogs. We routinely perform spaying and neutering of companion animals and it is one of the important things that you can do as responsible animal owners. These two procedures are the most common surgical procedures done here and probably in veterinary medicine in general. We do them for the community clients in the area and for some of the humane society and animal welfare leagues as a responsible way of controlling the unwanted animal population in the neighborhood and regional areas. Spaying is for female dogs and cats. Technically, it is called ovarial hysterectomy where the ovaries as well as the uterus are removed. In male dogs and cats, it is called neutering in which the testicles are removed.

Laboratory Services
Hi, I am Dr. Fauley and this is Care Animal Clinic and I’d like to go over a few things about heartworm testing which is normally done in springtime when mosquitoes start coming out and that’s how dogs get heartworm disease. This is my dog Harley. He is a 6-year old golden retriever. He gets tested every year for heartworm disease by a blood test. They are rarely disturbed by the procedure. A tourniquet is applied on one leg and using an insulin-size needle, a few drops of blood is drawn for testing. We check for the antibodies against the worms that reside inside the dog’s heart. It is a big deal when they get it; it is easy to prevent it with once-a-month chewable treats during the mosquito season. We have a test kit right here in the clinic and it takes about 15 minutes to get the test results. By the time the patient checks out, we would already have the results. If the result is negative the dog may be put on heartworm pills during the mosquito season. (Your pet must be tested before any prescribed medication can be given. Please register online )
X-Ray
We do dental x-ray. We do digital radiography which is an advance form of obtaining x-rays. We have an in-house lab where we can do blood work. We can do white blood cell counts, urinalysis, fecal tests, among other things. We have a well-stocked pet medications that include things that may be difficult to obtain. And if they are really difficult to get, we will find compounding firms that will get it taken care of. We have a full line of veterinary specialty diets too, more for conditions like renal disease, inflammatory bowel disease, heart disease, and the like. We stock ample amounts of prescription food for various types of health conditions. We like to check for fleas and look at coat conditions and all the typical things we do once a year like ears, eyes, nose, heart and abdomen. That’s what we enjoy doing here and we feel that people and pets like it. We are happy to be here and I chose not to do anything else.
Dental Radiology
Things that we do when the pet has bad teeth are extractions. We do extractions, but not root canals. There are specialists out there who do root canals and then put caps and crowns on the teeth. If the pet has a bad tooth, we will do an extraction; but, before we do this, we will evaluate the health of the tooth by using the dental x-ray unit. When the pet is sedated, we can focus this part of the machine on the questionable tooth and take an x-ray to help us determine whether or not to take out the tooth. It is a very helpful tool for examining the roots and parts of the teeth that we cannot see below the gum line.
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