Preventive Care

Preventive care services are performed to help pets avoid disease and sickness and to ensure that they remain healthy. These services include vaccinations, parasite control, wellness exams, and weight management. Please click on any of the subheadings listed below to learn more about our services in preventive care.
Available Services
  • At VCA Rossmoor El Dorado Animal Hospital, we recommend annual (and biannual for older pet) wellness exam for your beloved pets. Besides general physical examinations, wellness testing may be suggested by your veterinarian as well. These tests are designed to help your veterinarian detect and treat common and potentially life-threatening conditions, even before clinical signs appear.... Read more

  • There are a plethora of products out there in the open market for flea and tick control. Many pet store products or online products are not very effective and occasionially harmful. Ask one of your VCA Rossmoor Eldorado Animal Hospital Veterinarians or there knowledgeable staff about what is currently effective.... Read more

  • Vaccines and regular health exams are critical preventive care measures to help protect pets from potentially deadly infectious diseases like Distemper, Parvovirus, Leptospirosis and Rabies in dogs; and Panleukopenia, Feline Leukemia Virus (FLV) and Rabies in cats.

    Vaccinations protect pets from disease by exposing their body's immune system to inactive or parts of a type of bacteria or virus. Our doctors will help you decide which vaccines are appropriate for your pet's risk factors.... Read more

  • Does your pet have a microchip? Each year, millions of pets go missing and many don't make it back home. Microchipping your pet is a simple, effective way to prevent this sort of tragic loss.

    About the size and shape of a grain of rice, identification microchips are encoded with your pet's vital information then implanted beneath your pet's skin, usually between the shoulder blades.... Read more

  • We want to ensure that your new addition stays healthy and safe. Our new Best Care plans for puppies and kittens are designed to help you and your little one have the very best start to your new life together!

    Your new puppy or kitten is very vulnerable to disease in his first weeks and months, and needs a properly designed program of vaccines and boosters. Many harbor parasites too, so an exam and de-worming treatment are very important.... Read more

  • Our hospital offers guidance on a number of parasite control programs. The most common parasites that afflict pets are fleas and ticks.

    Fleas and ticks are capable of transmitting infection and disease to pets through a bite.... Read more

  • Our hospital offers and encourages Preventive Medicine Services through the use of special "Early Disease Detection/Wellness" programs for adult and senior dogs. Because pets are living longer, they are experiencing increased problems with chronic illnesses and cancer. The earlier a problem is diagnosed and a treatment plan started, the better the outcome.... Read more

  • Our hospital offers our patients a reduced cost vaccine clinic. During certain days and times of the week, vaccines for your pet are at a discounted rate when your pet receives a regular price veterinarian exam. Ask a member of our staff what days and times we hold our reduced cost vaccine clinic.... Read more

  • Vaccinations are critical to the well-being of our pets, because they protect against potentially deadly viral diseases like Distemper, Parvovirus, Leptospirosis and Rabies in dogs, and Panleukopenia, Feline Leukemia Virus and Rabies in cats.

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    • Annual Rabies Vaccination - Rabies is always fatal (in both animals and humans). Since there is no cure, prevention by vaccination is the only solution.... Read more

  • We have many weight management programs that are extremely effective. Make an appointment to see one of our Veterinarians to discuss your pets particular needs. There are quite a few diseases that will make your pets increase in weight appear to be caused by how you feed your pet, when in fact, the answer may not be a dietary change.... Read more

  • A wellness exam is a complete annual physical exam on a healthy patient.

    .... Read more