WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.260 --> 00:00:02.360 Tiffany Premo, veterinarian at 2 00:00:02.360 --> 00:00:04.690 Freeland Animal Hospital in Indianapolis. 3 00:00:04.690 --> 00:00:06.670 My focus is cats and dogs, so your basic 4 00:00:06.670 --> 00:00:08.520 small animal practice in the middle of town 5 00:00:08.520 --> 00:00:09.720 line:15% where you take your pet. 6 00:00:11.290 --> 00:00:13.980 line:15% Anything from healthy vaccine appointments, 7 00:00:13.980 --> 00:00:15.510 line:15% puppies, kittens, that sort of thing, 8 00:00:15.510 --> 00:00:19.293 line:15% to surgery, some emergency. 9 00:00:21.620 --> 00:00:23.970 Kind of spectrum, dentistry, all that. 10 00:00:23.970 --> 00:00:27.333 line:15% So everything from eyes, teeth, heart, lungs, 11 00:00:28.220 --> 00:00:31.040 line:15% abdomen, also checking for things like arthritis 12 00:00:31.040 --> 00:00:32.146 line:15% especially our older pets. 13 00:00:32.146 --> 00:00:34.330 line:15% A lot of people forget that slowing down 14 00:00:34.330 --> 00:00:35.850 isn't necessarily just an age thing, 15 00:00:35.850 --> 00:00:37.550 sometimes they have arthritis 16 00:00:37.550 --> 00:00:38.620 and they're stiff and they're sore 17 00:00:38.620 --> 00:00:39.970 but they can't tell us. 18 00:00:39.970 --> 00:00:42.530 So start with a full physical, a lot of it's 19 00:00:42.530 --> 00:00:44.887 talking with the owners about how their pet's been, 20 00:00:44.887 --> 00:00:47.135 how they're feeling, what's been changing. 21 00:00:47.135 --> 00:00:49.743 We pick up a lot more even from that. 22 00:00:51.030 --> 00:00:54.870 Then vaccinations, heartworm testing, parasite testing. 23 00:00:54.870 --> 00:00:57.930 And then often we're trying to do healthy lab work as well 24 00:00:57.930 --> 00:00:59.570 especially in our seniors. 25 00:00:59.570 --> 00:01:02.040 line:15% We have kind of days we focus on surgery in our mornings, 26 00:01:02.040 --> 00:01:03.690 line:15% and we try to assign that kind of to one doctor 27 00:01:03.690 --> 00:01:05.493 line:15% so that they can just do that. 28 00:01:06.360 --> 00:01:07.880 line:15% So they're working with surgery and stations 29 00:01:07.880 --> 00:01:10.640 line:15% and then drop offs, we do a lot of drop off services too 30 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:12.410 so people, I mean people are at work 31 00:01:12.410 --> 00:01:15.120 often by the time we're there, so. 32 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:17.260 We open at seven, but most of our doctors come in 33 00:01:17.260 --> 00:01:20.268 about eight, we're usually there 'til about six. 34 00:01:20.268 --> 00:01:22.350 And then the other doctors are seeing appointments 35 00:01:22.350 --> 00:01:23.750 pretty much non-stop. 36 00:01:23.750 --> 00:01:25.764 We have scheduled lunches which we pretty much rotate 37 00:01:25.764 --> 00:01:28.873 but it's not abnormal to not get lunch so. 38 00:01:29.720 --> 00:01:32.900 Pretty much seeing appointments back to back. 39 00:01:32.900 --> 00:01:36.210 line:15% We focus on preventative care a lot actually. 40 00:01:36.210 --> 00:01:37.466 line:15% So our pets are living a whole lot longer 41 00:01:37.466 --> 00:01:39.670 line:15% than they used to, we're seeing, you know, 42 00:01:39.670 --> 00:01:42.440 line:15% 20 year old cats and 15 year old dogs 43 00:01:42.440 --> 00:01:44.410 line:15% and that's not something we saw before. 44 00:01:44.410 --> 00:01:48.020 So we're often focusing them on preventative medicine, 45 00:01:48.020 --> 00:01:50.130 so heartworm prevention, things like that. 46 00:01:50.130 --> 00:01:51.745 Watching for those slowing down things, 47 00:01:51.745 --> 00:01:55.933 changing in behavior, eating habits, things like that. 48 00:01:57.490 --> 00:02:00.490 The typical diseases depending on if it's a cat or a dog, 49 00:02:00.490 --> 00:02:03.900 what to watch for, and then a lot with dentistry. 50 00:02:03.900 --> 00:02:06.090 That's another one we're seeing and heart murmurs, 51 00:02:06.090 --> 00:02:07.480 and things when we, in following up 52 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:09.140 line:15% sooner rather than later. 53 00:02:09.140 --> 00:02:11.660 line:15% So at my particular practice we like to see all of our pets 54 00:02:11.660 --> 00:02:13.850 line:15% especially our seniors, every six months. 55 00:02:13.850 --> 00:02:16.240 line:15% So, and it's amazing the things we find 56 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:18.793 line:15% that we didn't find six months earlier, so.