Services

Preventative Exams

Veterinarians recommend regular preventative wellness exams for the same reason your physician and dentist recommend them – if you can detect a problem in its early stages, it's more likely to be treated and resolved with less expense, less difficulty and better success.

Vaccinations, year-round parasite prevention and appropriate blood work are important components of preventative care and can prevent diseases.

Sick Pet Exams

At NorthPaws Animal Hospital, we are problem solvers. When your pet is ill or injured, you deserve a veterinarian who listens, accurately diagnoses the issue, and provides clear options and guidance to support informed decision-making. We see every pet’s care as a team effort—built on open communication and trust between you and our veterinary team—to achieve the best possible outcome for your pet.

Avian Medicine and Surgery

Dr. Becker always says, "It takes a special kind of crazy to be a bird owner" so it only makes sense that she is the proud mom to 2 macaws named Olive and Millie. Dr. Becker is not a boarded avian veterinarian, but she has a lifetime of experience and continuing education in avian medicine and surgery. She, Dr. Burkhart and Dr. Shockey provide preventative exams, sick exams, surgical services, behavioral consultations, wing trims, nail trims and beak trims for pet bird species from finches to macaws to ducks and chickens. 

In-house Diagnostic Testing

NorthPaws Animal Hospital has a fully equipped in-house laboratory including comprehensive chemistry panels, hematology, urinalyses, and heartworm and tick disease screening. We also work closely with an outside laboratory that provides more extensive testing including intestinal parasite testing, specific disease testing, culture and sensitivity testing and pathology consultations all with quick turn-around times for reporting.

Soft Tissue Surgery

We are skilled in soft tissue surgeries including routine spays and neuters, as well as a long list of advanced soft tissue procedures that many general practitioners refer to specialty hospitals. Some of the more advance soft tissue procedures that we perform at NorthPaws include exploratory laparotomies (abdominal surgery), cystotomies (bladder surgery), splenectomies (spleen removal), perineal urethrostomies (surgery to permanently relieve urethral obstruction in male cats), ingluviotomies (crop surgery for birds), etc. During any anesthetic procedure, your pet's heart rate, pulse rate, respiratory rate, oxygenation, blood pressure and temperature will be monitored minute by minute by our skilled medical team.

*Surgical patients must have a valid veterinarian-client-patient relationship and/or surgical consultation prior to scheduling any anesthetic procedure. Consultations are performed as a separate appointment from the surgical procedures.*

Orthopedic Surgery

Dr. Becker uses the Securos system to perform extracapsular repairs that stabilize the stifle (knee) following rupture of the cranial cruciate ligament (a "torn ACL"). She also repairs luxating patellas (slippery knee caps) and repairs many types of fractures. We take time to individualize the care for your injured pet by discussing options for treatment, expected outcomes and aftercare needs so that you know what to expect and how to care for your loved pet as he or she recovers from orthopedic surgery.

*Please note Dr. Becker needs to perform a surgical consultation prior to scheduling any anesthetic procedure. Some procedures may not be suitable for all patients, and may require an orthopedic specialist referral. 

Radiology

At NorthPaws Animal Hospital, we have in-house computed radiology (x-ray) services that provide us with crisp, detailed, fast digital images to aid in the prompt and accurate diagnosis of your pet.

Ultrasound

We are equipped with a state of the art ultrasound machine and doctors that know how to use this technology to provide you and your pet with advanced imaging that goes beyond a 2D image.

Therapeutic Laser

Laser therapy is the non-invasive use of laser light energy to generate a photochemical response in damaged or dysfunctional tissue. Laser therapy can alleviate pain, reduce inflammation and accelerate recovery from a wide range of acute and chronic clinical conditions. As rehabilitation specialists know, the main goal of treatment for many when treating painful, debilitating conditions is to facilitate improved function, comfort and mobility. Laser therapy is a drug-free, surgery-free technique to help make that goal a reality.

Dentistry

Good oral health is an important part of good general health for your pet. Our annual preventative exam includes a thorough oral exam and a discussion about options to maintain or improve upon your pet's oral health. When appropriate, we are able to provide your pet with a safe anesthetic dental cleaning including scaling, polishing and extractions when and if needed.

Behavioral Consultations

We understand that a well-behaved confident pet can be taken most anywhere so they can participate in and enjoy any of the family’s activities. We also know that inappropriate behavior is the number one reason pets are abandoned or euthanized. Most behavioral problems of dogs and cats can be effectively managed with appropriate advice. Sometimes medications can be helpful to relieve anxiety and fear. At NorthPaws Animal Hospital, we are able to provide behavioral counseling to head off problems in pet behavior and provide pet owners with the tools they need to gently and efficiently train their pets.

Microchipping

A microchip for your pet can mean the difference between being lost and found. Although tags and collars are important, they can tear or slip off. In order to place the microchip, our veterinarian injects a tiny computer chip—about the size of a grain of rice—just under your pet’s skin, between the shoulder blades. The microchip number is entered into an international database, which can be read by a microchip scanner if your pet is lost and picked up by an animal hospital or humane society. If your contact information is up-to-date, the hospital or humane society that found your pet can contact you and reunite you with your pet.

A microchip is your pet's ticket home. Does your pet have his? If not, we can help. It's fast, easy and affordable and you'll never regret the decision!

Boarding

While we do not have overnight or weekend office hours, we will provide routine boarding services for our exotic patients.  We are unable to provide routine boarding services for cats or dogs- medical exceptions may be considered on a case by case basis. 

Please note we do not provide 24 hour care regardless of if patients are being boarded - patients that would require extensive 24 hour hospitalization will be transferred to an appropriate 24 hour facility as needed.  Drop off and pick ups must be done during our regular weekday office hours.

**Regrettably we are unable to accommodate boarding for macaws longer than 30 inches from the tip of the head to the tip of the tail feathers because we do not keep appropriate cages for such long/large birds in our facility.  This means that we will not board any Hyacinth, Green-winged, Buffon’s, Blue and Gold, Scarlet, or Great Green Macaws. Smaller species of Macaws and other smaller avian species can be boarded with us.**