We've added resQ Pet Tracking Microchips to our services offered at Holmes Veterinary Hospital.   

Millions of pets go missing every year.  Only 22% every come home.  Most are adopted by other families or worse, euthanized. 

Consider permanently identifying your pet with an easily implanted microchip in case he or she is lost or stolen. 

If you have sent us photos of your pet over the years, he may be immortalized on our digital photo frame!  Dr. Burns has taken all of the pictures from our wall of fame and scanned them into a digital frame that plays a continuous slide show at our reception desk.

 Dr. Burns welcomes good photos of your pet to be added to the collection.

Holmes Veterinary Hospital's

On-Line Pharmacy

Shop us for:

• Flea and Tick Products
• Heartworm Preventatives
• Arthritis Medications
• Foods

Delivered to your door!

Holmes Veterinary Hospital has gone GREEN!

Dr Burns is coordinator for Earthworks Laurens, a Christian green initiative. 

Earthworks Laurens is a Christian environmentalist group, with emphasis on recycling, reducing post-consumer waste, encouraging sustainable agriculture and other green land/resource use practices and making more earth-friendly choices in our everyday lives.

At Holmes Veterinary Hospital, we are committed to the environment.  We are a deposit site for aluminum cans that benefit the Shriner's Hospital.  We also recycle the cardboard boxes in which our drugs and supplies are shipped to us.  They are picked up to benefit Open Door in Clinton. 

We're also using Comfortis, a GREEN once-a-month flea pill.  The active ingredient in Comfortis, spinosad, is the only green insecticide that can be used in organic farming and has won an environmental award. 

Fast facts:  did you know that the Laurens Country Library has a drop box for recycling used cell phones?  That Radio Shack will take dead batteries and return them to a recycling center?

More information coming soon.

Sharp Increase in Heartworm Infections in Dogs!

For about the past year and a half, Dr. Burns has noticed a sharp increase in heartworm infections.  Of the outdoor dogs that she is testing for heartworms, close to 70% of these dogs are infected with Heartworms. 

We recommend that all dogs--indoor as well as outdoor--be tested for heartworms and be put on a simple monthly heartworm preventative medicine. 

If you have allowed your dog's heartworm medicine to lapse, call today and make an appointment to have him tested!

 Welcome Dr. Suro!

In December of 2007, Dr. Burns and the staff welcomed Dr. Bill Suro to the Holmes Veterinary Hospital team.  Dr. Suro is licensed in both Colorado and South Carolina and he will be working at Holmes Veteinary Hospital part-time.  

 Dr. Suro resides in Gray Court with his wife Nanci and an assortment of dogs and cats.  His clincial areas of interest include radiology, internal medicine and endocrinology.  Dr. Suro enjoys painting, creative writing and gardening. 

In Case of Snow or Ice

If there is snow or ice sufficent to close local schools or cause widespread power outages, there is a good chance we will not be open for business as usual.  Someone always makes in into the office to feed, water, medicate and exercise pets that are boarding or hospitalized. 

If your pet is here, don't worry, as he or she will be taken care of.  If we are not open, plan on picking him or her up the next working day.   

News Archive March 2007 Pet Food Recall Notice

As of March 31, 2007, there are more than 90 different pet foods that have been recalled due to a toxin or toxins in the food.  These foods have been linked to renal (kidney) failure and fatalities have occurred.

Most of these are wet foods in metal cans or in pouches. 

As of March 31, 2007, only one dry kibble food has been recalled voluntarily by the manufacturer and that is Hill's Prescription Diet MD.  MD is a dry cat food made for cats that are overweight or diabetic. 

It is not to be confused with any Hill's Science Diet dry food products.  At this time, no Science Diet dry dog or cat foods have been recalled, either by the FDA or voluntarily by their manufacturer. 

For more information as it is made available by the FDA, go to:

http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/petfood.html

For information about the Menu Foods Recall, go to:

http://www.menufoods.com

If you have questions about a specific pet food, look on the label for that individual food manufacturer's toll-free number or compare that specific flavor and lot of food to the lists published on the web by Menu Foods or the FDA.