Slaton Animal Hospital

09/05/2025

We challenge other clinics and businesses to show us your clinic/work kitties!! Here's Freddie Meowcury showing his vocal prowess. 🗣😸

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09/04/2025

She's iconic. Girl, where did you get your shoes? 👟🐕

09/01/2025

As we recognize and celebrate the American worker on , we want to send a special shoutout to all the emergency and large animal veterinarians, veterinary technicians, veterinary assistants, and all others working today to keep our animals safe and healthy. (We're sure the animals and their owners appreciate it, too!)

09/01/2025

Great creativity!

08/29/2025

This is our level of tired. That being said, we will be closed Monday for Labor Day! The crew deserves a 3 day weekend for keeping this place going this past month. 🙏🙌🏻💕

08/28/2025

Bubba is so happy and screaming praises for our new phone system! Its up and running and should be a much better experience for everyone! 📞☎️📱

08/28/2025

🌈Today is Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day 🌈

Whether your pet is feathered, furry, scaled, or slimy and uncommon, their passing is a deeply felt emotion that may linger longer than you’d expect. It’s a real pain of loss, and remembering their companionship and comfort is one way of coping and hopefully moving on from the bereavement.

This is why Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day is an important day for many pet owners who have lost a loved one.

Today is set aside for pet parents, relatives, and friends get a chance to commemorate their animal kin by sharing stories or poems along with videos and pictures of their loved pets.

While the process is profoundly personal, you can pay tribute to your pet in several ways to help you with grief management. Here are a few ideas..

1) Hold a Ceremony:
It’s a way to pause and get in touch with your emotions, which you may have not properly considered. The ceremony doesn’t have to be elaborate; it may include you and your loved ones who had a relationship with the pet. You can share stories, pictures, or other memorabilia that help you grieve together and appreciate your departed pet’s impact on your lives.

2) Sharing Your Pet’s Memories:
It can be very heartbreaking to talk about a pet you’ve lost as it refocuses the pain felt on the day. Feel free to use this post or other outlets to reminisce on the great times and positive memories you have of your animal friend and share them with others.

3) Creating Art as a Tribute to a Departed Pet:
You can find comfort in expressing your creativity through art or other outlets that keep the memory of your departed pet alive. I would love to see your art and share with others if you wish. Creating something that pays tribute to your animal friend provides a cathartic outlet for your grieving emotions while offering lasting memories of that special relationship.
This can also be any creative talent, whether it’s a painting, drawing, video, song, story, poem, or a write-up that features your collection of thoughts. You can use any skills you have or learn new ones in stitching, woodworking, pottery, doll making, or metalwork to describe your pet’s memory.

4) Adopt or Rehome Another Pet:
The loss of a pet can be painful, and you may not be considering opening your heart or your home to another animal again. However, Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day will signify that your departed friend would want you to offer the same love and comfort to another.
While it may seem like you’re replacing your pet, it certainly helps you to emotionally move on from their demise by offering another friend a forever home. Given time, it’s also part of the healing process to share your life with another animal and honor your old pet’s memory if this is the right choice for you.

5) Other Pet Memorial Ideas:
No matter the length of your pet’s life, its impact on you and their memories after their passing can be immortalized. You can commemorate that special animal with other memorial ideas that ensure they’re close until you make the crossing together.

🐾 You can lay a memorial stone for your departed pet, especially if they loved the outdoors or are laid in a pet cemetery.
🐾 A custom marker in your lawn or yard serves as a reminder of where your animal friend loved to roam and signifies a place you can return to converse with them.
🐾 Another great idea is to turn their ashes into a memorial item you can carry with you daily.

I am open to whomever would like to share their memories of their pet here and I am thankful to have been a part of so many amazing owners’ journeys this past year. I’m always here if you need me. ❤️🌈🐾

08/27/2025

My side quest yesterday led me to speak at the Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine to 1st-3rd year veterinary students on philanthropy in veterinary medicine. We also fielded questions about life after vet school! Do good, get good. And just keep swimming y'all. 🤩

TVMF had the pleasure of hosting a luncheon with the veterinary students at Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine!
Our panel of doctors answered questions ranging from incorporating philanthropy into daily practice to what life is really like after graduation. Supporting veterinary students and their education is one of our favorite ways to invest in the future of the profession and we’re grateful to spend this time with such an inspiring group.

Thank you to Dr. Geoff Bratton of Holt Veterinary Clinic, Dr. Samantha Thomas of Slaton Animal Hospital and Dr. Weston Cleveland of Live Oak Animal Hospital for sharing your insights and wisdom!

08/26/2025

It's National Dog Day! Show 'em off 👇❗️

08/25/2025

Why is your pet so itchy right now? We are mostly seeing one of two things right now:
🐾 FLEAS, FLEAS AND MORE FLEAS. Did we mention FLEAS? 🥴
🌿 Environmental allergies/seasonal allergies
Ask us how we can help!! You can also shop our online pharmacy from the comfort of your own home 24/7/365!
https://slatonanimal.covetruspharmacy.com/

08/23/2025

08/22/2025

We get asked all the time about kitten ages! This helps, along with the general rule (in a healthy kitten) of weighing 1 pound for 1 month of life. So a 1 month (4 weeks) old kitten should weigh 1lb and so on, until 6 months!

Did you know you can estimate a kitten’s age just by looking at their teeth?

Baby teeth appear by 2–3 weeks, start falling out around 14–16 weeks, and are fully replaced by adult teeth by about 6 months.

We use this in Shelter Medicine to help determine if kittens are old enough for certain vaccines and now you can use this chart to impress your friends with your kitten-age guessing skills!

American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) SAVMA Feline Veterinary Medical Association Humane Society for Greater Lafayette Almost Home Humane Society Purdue University