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Mon:	8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tue:	6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Wed:	8:30 am - 6:00 pm
Thu:	6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Fri:	8:30 am - 6:00 pm

Houston Animal Acupuncture

Preventive Care

Dental Care
Cat owners were once told that dry food is better for their cat’s teeth. Not true! The research suggesting that dry food is better for oral health was done on dogs, not cats. There is little evidence to suggest dry food in the cat plays a significant role in maintaining oral health. A cat’s jaw does not go side-to-side as a person’s would, so there can be no true chewing. Cats use their teeth in the wild to catch and tear their food and in the process mechanically clean their teeth. The pieces are then swallowed whole. Commercial dry kibble is throat sized, so our domestic cats have little opportunity to rip and tear into their food.

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Phone: (713) 942-2275

TollFree: (888) 426-4435

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West University Place

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Southwest Houston, West University Place

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Phone: (832) 405-6535

Address: 2715 Bissonnet Building 5, Suite 505, Houston, TX 77005

Website: http://www.animalfixer.com

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Houston Animal Acupuncture

Preventive Care

Dental Care
Cat owners were once told that dry food is better for their cat’s teeth. Not true! The research suggesting that dry food is better for oral health was done on dogs, not cats. There is little evidence to suggest dry food in the cat plays a significant role in maintaining oral health. A cat’s jaw does not go side-to-side as a person’s would, so there can be no true chewing. Cats use their teeth in the wild to catch and tear their food and in the process mechanically clean their teeth. The pieces are then swallowed whole. Commercial dry kibble is throat sized, so our domestic cats have little opportunity to rip and tear into their food.
Vaccination
Prepare an emergency pet sheet. Include phone numbers for your veterinarian and someone who can watch your pet or help transport the animal to a boarding kennel if needed. List all medications and allergies and have a copy of the latest vaccination record.
Veterinary Ophthalmology
High blood pressure can cause sudden blindness, nose bleeds, or blood clots that could lodge anywhere, including the brain. High blood pressure may cause changes in personality. In cats, an increase in meowing, especially at night, may be a sign of high blood pressure. People with hypertension sometimes complain of early morning headaches, but this is a difficult symptom to diagnose in an animal!
Behavioral Counseling
Nutritional Counseling
High carbohydrate diets may cause obesity and health problems. Carbohydrates cause overproduction of insulin, increased hunger, and weight gain. There are health concerns related to this weight gain, not the least of which is diabetes. A cat with a high carbohydrate diet often has a flakey coat (some owners think this is dandruff) or some may be greasy. Overweight cats often are not able to groom as well, sometimes culminating in poor bathroom grooming behaviors. Weight can affect your cat’s joints causing them to forgo jumping, or they may be less willing to play. It is not uncommon to have an obese cat newly diagnosed with diabetes who can be converted to a non diabetic state just by altering the diet. The key is to significantly decrease the carbohydrate content in their diet and begin a slow weight loss program.
Comprehensive Examination
During your cat’s physical exam, pre-existing medical conditions, sex, breed, and age are evaluated to allow us to make specific diet recommendations for your cat.

Illness Treatment

Behavioral Disorder Treatment
How old is the patient and when was the first seizure? Congenital epilepsy generally develops between six months to six years of age. Schnauzers, Basset hounds, Collies, and Cocker spaniels have epilepsy two to three times as often as other breeds. Young animals could have a bacterial infection or a viral infection, like canine distemper or feline infectious peritonitis. I would also consider a liver shunt, a condition in which the liver does not metabolize the toxins in the body.
Pain Management
Andrew’s owner had limited knowledge of acupuncture but understood that acupuncture was more than randomly placing needles all over the body. Acupuncture is an exact treatment involving placing needles in local and distal sites. For example, if a patient has arthritis of the hips, local needles placed around the hip can provide significant pain relief. Longer lasting pain relief is often obtained by placing needles far away from the hips in distal points.
Vomiting Treatment
Diarrhea Treatment
Skin Condition and Allergy Treatment
Acupuncture can bridge the gap between medicine and surgery. In China, it is often used as the primary treatment before conventional medicines and surgery. In small animals, such as dogs and cats and large animals, acupuncture is most commonly used for: musculoskeletal problems (e.g. arthritis), skin problems, nervous disorders, reproductive disorders, respiratory problems, poor immunity and internal medicine problems such as heart (cardiac) and kidney (renal) disease, etc. Acupuncture is now known to affect all major physiologic systems including the musculoskeletal, hormonal, and cardiovascular systems.
Upper Respiratory Illness Treatment
Injury Treatment

Infection Treatment

Bacterial and Viral Infection Treatment
I have taken her to see multiple vets as well as a canine dermatologist. She literally had been on round after round of antibiotics and steroids, battled with skin infections, suffered from yeast and bacterial infections, lost most of her hair, scratched and licked until she bled.
Ear Infection Treatment
My father developed vertigo a few months ago. His world started spinning and he couldn't move off the couch. The vestibular apparatus of the inner ear is responsible for allowing you to orient yourself without feeling dizzy. Sometimes vertigo is related to an ear infection. My father didn’t have an ear infection, and neither do many older dogs that develop this same condition. Dad definitely had an old dog look about him, he was flopped on the couch trying not to move his head. I immediately diagnosed him with what veterinarians term "Old Dog Vestibular Disease".

Chronic Condition Treatment

Arthritis Treatment
Hip Dysplasia Treatment
Diabetes Treatment
Vestibular Disease Treatment
Thyroid Disease Treatment
Other diseases that lead to high blood pressure include Cushing’s disease in dogs, and in cats an elevated thyroid level, or hyperthyroidism. Low thyroid level in dogs, known as hypothyroidism, does not cause hypertension.
Epilepsy Treatment
Heart Disease Treatment
Andrew is an example of how well animals accept and respond to acupuncture treatment. In addition to constipation, acupuncture can treat arthritis or an injury, and can help manage skin allergies, chronic vomiting or diarrhea, as well as balance the body when faced with cancer, kidney, liver, or heart disease.
Kidney Disease Treatment
A common cause of high blood pressure in animals is kidney disease. The complication of hypertension develops in over half of cats with kidney disease and in most dogs with kidney disease. As many cats develop kidney disease as they age, monitoring for high blood pressure is important.
Cancer Treatment
Most conventional cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation, are based on the fact that malignant tumors have a higher rate of growth and the drugs work by interfering with the cell's DNA synthesis or function. Because healthy cells go through regular division, these conventional treatments have an increased incidence of side effects and a limited area of effectiveness and safety.

Veterinary Surgery
A bloat is also known as a GDV – a gastric dilatation and volvulus. This is a life threatening condition and is seen with some regularity at veterinary hospitals. Patients die within a matter of hours unless emergency surgery is performed.

Laboratory Services
Your pet should have an examination by your veterinarian every year because early disease detection can increase the length and quality of life. A blood test and urine test are recommended at least yearly by age 7 in dogs and by age 10 in cats. High blood pressure is almost always a complication of another disease, so your veterinarian may wait to recommend a blood pressure measurement until your pet is diagnosed with an illness. In patients with a high risk, a blood pressure measurement should be taken routinely.

General Pet Care

Boarding
Grooming

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