How To Make Sure Your Pup Is Ready For His/Her First Vet Visit

We’ve recently chatted with Dr. Saunders at Sploot Veterinary Care to discuss the best way to ensure that your pup is ready for his/her first vet visit, as behavioral issues related to anxiety at the vet clinic is a pretty common issue that they encounter at the clinic.

Specifically, it’s not uncommon for puppies who’ve had a bad experience at their first vet visit (for one reason or another), to develop anxiety (and fear) around vet visits in the future.

As a result, it’s vitally important to make the vet office, and more specifically, to make the things that the vet will likely do to your dog (i.e. grabbing paws, opening their mouths, pinching, poking, etc.), a familiar experience that they do not have to be scared of.

REMEMBER: Our pupz are learning, in real time, what is dangerous and safe in OUR WORLD, so let’s take on the responsibility to make them feel safe in environments that you know they will have to encounter in their lives.

I’ve outlined a few exercises that you can do at home with your dog to get them comfortable with being touched in a way that your vet will touch him/her during routine visits.

Check out the video below, and consider Sploot Veterinary Care for your urgent & primary care visits for your pup, where they, “treat your pet like family”!