Full-Service

Full-Service Vet Hospital

Viva Vet is a full-service hospital, providing the total range of care for your pet – preventative care, surgery, dentistry, diagnostics, and more.

We also fulfill your needs as pet-parent – clarity, frugality, options, recommendations, assurances, support, friendly, informative dialogue, and a welcoming space and pace of service. 

Below you’ll see summaries of our services, and also a list.

If you happen not to see the care you need, we very likely do provide the treatment your pet requires. Please contact us.

With our services, we provide the profession’s most effective and economical practices for you and your pet to enjoy your own stomping grounds, without worry and with the greatest quality of life.

Dr. Kristin Olafson and Abby

Diagnostics

To provide solutions, we need to know the problems.

If the problem is simple, our vet, Dr. Olafson, can often say, “I’ve seen this before.” She picks the right test to confirm. She provides the treatment that works.

If the problem is not so simple, your pet’s solution derives from advanced diagnostics. 

Running tests, Dr. Olafson provides treatments determined from the accurate and timely facts about your pet’s health.

X-rays for example help our veterinarians evaluate musculoskeletal, cardiovascular (cardiopulmonary), gastrointestinal, reproductive and urinary systems.

We also have an on-site laboratory, which gives quick results on tests such as blood work, parasite diagnosis, cytology, cultures and urine analysis.

Fast results from these lab tests help us achieve your pet’s diagnosis and treatment plan within the most immediate timeframe.

For more specialized blood work, we work with an off-site laboratory that provides results in 24 hours.

Preventative Care

Preventative care provides the best peace of mind. It helps avoid problems from ever starting.

In our preventative care, we also commit to your needs as pet parent. We understand your want of education and information about the care we provide.

Our approach is to work with you to stay on top of your pet’s health, ensuring they enjoy and long and happy life.

Preventative care visits often include services such as:   

– Annual comprehensive Exam

– Internal Parasite Testing

– Vaccination

– Spay and Neuter

– Heartworm and Flea Control

– Specialized Blood Tests for All Life Stages

 

Dentistry

Sometimes a pet seems unhappy and doesn’t eat. As pet parent, you wonder what’s wrong.

You come in for a visit, and we inform you we can get your pet back up to full cheer with dental work.

Dentistry provides an example of how different parts of the animal body effect each other. Conditions like gum or periodontal disease can lead to liver, heart and kidney problems.

When it comes to teeth, you can think of you and your pet as having common needs. In our hospital, we use dental equipment and processes similar to those in your own dentist’s office.

To keep your pet’s teeth healthy, we perform a thorough cleaning above and below the gum line.

When the best solution is to remove a tooth, Dr. Olafson possess the equipment and training for surgical extractions.

We are here to help you keep your pet healthy, happy and enjoying life. Providing the full range of dental work is an important part of that commitment. 

 

Surgery

Pet parents often feel some anxiety when their pet needs surgery.

We understand, and we emphasize three points of compassionate care. 

For one, not all pets are ready for surgery. Before we recommend a procedure, we perform a screening for proper organ function. With this test, we confirm your pet brings no conditions to the surgery that might jeopardize its safety.  

Once in surgery, the vet and technician each fulfill critical responsibilities. The vet performs the procedure with the needed processes and experience. The tech gives the required assistance and performs the important task of administering and monitoring anesthesia. 

Afterwards, during recovery, your pet needs post surgical care. Our team attends to your pet with abundant experience and compassion.

You can feel very assured by the treatment your pet receives from Dr. Olafson and staff at all three stages of surgical care.

List of Services

If you happen not to see the help you need on the list below, we very likely do provide the treatment your pet requires. Please contact us.

Vet Care for Dogs

Vet Care for Cats

Above is the original stress-free sketch of Viva Vet. You can learn more about our special people and per friendly design HERE

We bring decades of experience finding the right cures to the right problems. You can read more about our diagnostic processes HERE.

Viva Vet helps pet-parents maintain their pet’s best care. We provide solutions, preventions, options, education, answers, recommendations, surgery, dentistry, internal medicine, laboratory diagnostics, x-ray and more. The Atlantic Veterinary College has presented Dr. Olafson with its award for “outstanding clinical competence and extraordinary compassion.” She has been helping pet-parents keep their pets happy and healthy for twenty years. You can see Viva Vet’s full suite of services HERE.

Your human/animal bond is friendship for the sake of friendship, warranting words like “special” and “precious,” which we honour with celebration and appreciation – hugs, kisses, pats on the head, friendly voices and glances of adoration!

Pets get a feeling of familiarity from natural light. To allow pets that sense of their bearings, we ensured views of the outdoors throughout our hospital, front to back.  Pets, pet-parents and staff enjoy a unique calm because of our bright, simple, open-concept design provided by a world-renowned veterinary architect who specializes in small spaces like ours. You can see more about our space HERE

To give time for your questions, for your pet to gain familiarity, and for our vets and staff to keep a healthy and engaging spirit of excellence everyday, everywhere in our hospital, you can rely on us to go a friendly-neighbuorhood, locally owned pace. For your pet’s best care, we move at the right speed.

We see three opportunities to help pet-parents stay frugal without sacrificing best care. For one, we pass on any and all simple but effective preventions that deter problems from starting. Two, if your pet happens to suffer a problem, we bring decades of success determining the most focused, efficient diagnostic paths to cures. Third, so you and your pet enjoy life, worry-free, we don’t aim for band-aid solutions that might bring you back. We target the long-term fixes.

Despite your pet’s more powerful nose, it relies on you to sniff out vet care. You advocate and confirm. You perform the “sniff-test,” for which you need clarity. Viva Vet’s owner and head-veterinarian has been delighting pet parents with her communication skills for two decades. So that you enjoy command over your pet’s care, Viva Vet includes abundant clarity with all our services.