The sight of your furry best friend shaking is a terrifying sight for many pet owners. But there are many reasons for a shake, including plenty of harmless ones! But you can’t know just by [...]

Finding a stray dog or cat along the road, in your yard, or elsewhere can really throw you for a loop. What should you do now? Do you skip work? Do you put them in your house? Just what do you [...]

This month has turned into a language/communication themed month here at Acoma Animal Clinic. We started out by talking about the sounds pets make and what they may mean and moved on to talking [...]

Last time on the blog we talked about the different sounds our dogs and cats make in what we think are attempts to talk with us. A big component of that is the way they speak with their bodies, [...]

Whines, purrs, meows, barks – our furry family members sure do make a lot of noise! But what do they mean? Is your cat making a breakfast order or trying to tell you they’re feeling under the [...]

For many people the concept of “indoor/outdoor cats” is a strange one. In more rural communities cats are almost exclusively ‘outdoor’ as they run free across a farm. But outdoor cats come with [...]

Despite our best wishes, our pets can’t speak to us. So what happens when something seems… off? You take them in to the vet and if there’s no obvious cause one of the first things your vet is [...]

Have you ever let your pet out for their morning constitutional only to turn around and have them running back inside smelling terrible? And why are they wet? You smell them and sure enough, [...]

This last year has been a wild one for many, many reasons. For most of us that’s meant staying indoors. With that, has come the unfortunate tendency to live even more sedentary lives than we did [...]

Last time on the Acoma Animal Clinic blog we discussed some of the more common dog illness symptoms for pet owners to keep an eye on. If you’re more a feline family than this one is for you! When [...]