All Pets Veterinary Center

10/09/2025

When you bring us an orphan, we don’t feed them immediately.

We get their body temperature to a species and age appropriate temperature.

We assess them for injuries and follow a road map of protocols for that specific patient.

We hydrate them to prepare their digestive systems for nutritional breakdown and absorption.

We slowly introduce formula to decrease adverse reactions like diarrhea (deadly) and bloat (deadly).

When we say please don’t give water or food, it’s because it is more often than not harmful rather than helpful.

Please help us help them by refraining from giving water or food when you find an injured, sick, or orphaned animal.

The top left is a healthy orphan indicated by the pink nose and hands. The top right is a very sick baby with sunken in eyes and more of a grey-blue color due to severe lack of oxygen. The bottom left is alert but has missing fur on the nose due to malnourishment. The baby on the top right died shortly after arriving despite our best efforts which included oxygen therapy.

09/07/2025

It's time to look at things differently. It's not all about us.

09/07/2025

09/05/2025

09/03/2025

If you’re wondering why your lab reports are so far behind…

08/27/2025

This is really just unacceptable. They will hide behind some pitiful justification but it’s just plain inhumane

A department spokesman said he could “neither confirm nor deny” any plans regarding the 22 fawns at Broadbent.

08/25/2025

Update: Adopted 9/2/25❤️

This is Roy😢
For months now, he’s sat quietly in his kennel, watching and waiting….

Every day, he patiently waits while the kennel techs clean around him. He doesn’t bark. He doesn’t whine. He doesn’t jump. He just waits. 💔

Waits for a volunteer or kennel tech to give him 15 precious minutes of freedom outside. Waits for a kind face. Waits for someone to finally choose him.

Roy is a 2-year-old Hound/Labrador Retriever mix with the sweetest soul. 🥰 He loves rolling in the grass, giving big sloppy kisses, and making friends — he’s great with other dogs. 🐶 He’s also a little gentleman. He tries to keep his kennel clean, 🧼 and he rides calmly in the car like he’s been doing it his whole life.

Roy has waited long enough. He’s not just waiting for a walk —He’s waiting for home. 🏡 He’s waiting for you.
Daviess County It Takes A Village No-Kill Rescue
It Takes A Village Canine Rescue, INC
2620 Hwy 81
Owensboro, KY 42301
Phone Number: 270-685-8275
Email: info@itvrescue.org
https://itvrescue.org/adopt/

08/25/2025

No one is shocked when they see rabbits, squirrels, mice, chipmunks, frogs, deer, and birds in the suburbs. Yet, when their natural predators— even the smallest of them— exist in the same environment, it nearly always leads to someone requesting that they be moved somewhere they perceive as more appropriate.

Native predators like red foxes, grey foxes, bobcats, and coyotes are not displaced guests in the suburbs, but a normal part the landscape in our region, even in heavily populated areas— just like other familiar urban animals like robins and cottontails.

There is no habitat for any animal more suitable than the one is has already chosen. More remote territories are already filled to capacity with competitors, and sudden relocation is an instant death sentence for any predator.

If you’re fortunate enough to have foxes (or other natural exterminators!) controlling rodents in your neighborhood, there is no reason to kill, remove, or relocate them somewhere “better.” These animals are already right at home in their natural habitat.

08/22/2025

❤️🐾Dear Mom and Dad:
Let me stay home. It's not nice for me to walk and run next to you. But because I am a loyal dog, I often go beyond my limits. So I walk and run beside you, standing still if I have to. And feel my paws burn.
I'm looking at you for a moment, but you do not understand. Because in a little over 5 minutes we're at the cool puddle, right? But those little 5 minutes can be fatal to me. Because I sweat through my paws, and in this heat I just can not get rid of the sweat. My whole body is boiling, but I keep going .....
And then I end up on the tarmac. In the heat and in the sun. With my tongue out of my mouth and my eyes flashing in the sun. My paws are burning, my tongue is dry and my head is pounding in the heat that my body cannot get rid of ...
Instead, let me stay at home where I can enjoy the sun, with a large bowl of water, somewhere in the shade. And best of all like in a cool area with grass.
Love
Your Fur Baby❤️🐾

07/28/2025

This is very interesting.

Loose lead isnt natural. It’s a skill that has to be learnt. Biomechanically, dogs are built to move faster than us. Dogs choose to shift to a natural trot and on average walk at 2.5 - 4 mph (Hildebrand, 1966) where us naked monkeys on the otherhand average 2-3 mph walking (Kirtley, 2006). Do you know what 2.5 feels like? You should!

Because the mismatch alone creates tension — physically with the lead and emotionally in the relationship. Infact Dogs Trust found 30% of owners considered it a reason to rehome.

Now add in breed differences with research by Fischer & Lilje (2011) suggesting that Different breeds have different locomotive profiles based on original function. Malinois and Vizslas who are bred to move, track, cover ground; hearding breed like kelpies and collies who are bred to arc out infront; scent hounds like Beagles and Bloodhounds - designed to follow their noses with purpose, drive and speed; and of course breeds like Huskies who are literally bred and built to pull - it’s in the actual job description.

Its not a suprise that Rooney & Cowan (2011) found Lead tension and restricted gait was specifically a negative welfare marker for working breeds.

So when we expect all dogs to plod beside us through a park at human pace, ignoring smells, distractions, and natural instinct…we’re arent asking for a behaviour: We’re asking for the dog to restrain their pace, suppress their instincts, and constantly self-regulate.

In my opinion loose lead is one of the three essential skills I believe every dog pro needs to understand in depth - gait, drive, motivation, mechanics, assessment, different technique and exercise, consequence gradients and all.

Because when you understand what you’re really asking for,
you stop calling it stubbornness
and start training it like the advanced skill it actually is. And this leads to way better pet dogs with way happier relationships. ###

05/22/2025

Please Stop 🛑