Animal hospital in Prince George since 1996
Vets for working dogs, barn cats and yours.
A full animal hospital where the Fraser meets the Nechako. Exams, surgery and dentistry under one roof, and a separate waiting room so the cats never sit beside the dogs.
After-hours emergency? Call and press 1. A vet on call answers every night of the year.
(250) 555-0138Services
What fills a normal week
Written estimates before anything bigger than an exam, with a low and a high number.
Wellness exams and vaccines
Nose to tail, on the floor scale, with only the vaccines their life calls for.
Exam $89
Surgery and dentistry
Spays, neuters, lumps and dental cleanings, bloodwork included.
Dental from $650
Working dogs
Pre-season checks for sled, ranch and hunting dogs.
Pre-season check $120
Barn cat clinic
First Tuesday monthly: spay or neuter, rabies and deworming.
$165 a cat
Surgery day
Drop off in the dark, home by supper
No breakfast after midnight. Water is fine until you leave the house.
Before eight
Drop-off
A technologist takes a weight, goes over the consent form with you and answers the last questions.
Morning
Bloodwork and pain plan
Bloodwork runs in our own lab, pain relief goes in before the anaesthetic, and every patient gets an IV line.
Midday
Surgery and recovery
One vet operates while a registered technologist watches nothing but the monitor. We call you once they are awake.
After four
Home
Pick-up with a written plan and the medications, then a check-in call from us the next morning.
The team
Four people you will get to know
Every patient has a regular vet, so the one who sees the limp in March is the one who saw the puppy in June.
Dr. Anneke Visser
Founder, internal medicine
Dr. Owen Petrie
Working dogs and sports medicine
Dr. Leah Morin
Surgeon, soft tissue and orthopaedics
Kaylee Dumont, RVT
Head technologist, anaesthesia
We run a team of fourteen dogs out past Salmon Valley. Dr. Petrie came to the dog yard in February to look at a sore wrist, and he knew what a sled dog's winter looks like without being told.
Marnie
Salmon Valley, sled dogs
Our barn cats had never seen the inside of a carrier. The clinic got all six done in one morning, and nobody lectured us about how long we had waited.
Rob and Lise
Shelley, barn cats
Accreditation
Inspected, registered and written down
The paperwork behind a hospital you can leave your animal at overnight.
Accredited companion animal hospital
Inspected by the College of Veterinarians of British Columbia against its hospital standard.
Licensed veterinarians only
Every vet here holds a CVBC licence, renewed each year with continuing education.
In-house lab and digital X-ray
Most bloodwork and X-rays read during the same visit, not the next day.
Insurance claims sent for you
Invoice and records go to your pet insurer the day of the visit.
A January week
Snow on the lot, dogs in the ward
Questions
Asked at the front desk
Yes, dogs, cats and rabbits from Prince George and the surrounding area. Book a first exam and bring any records you have.
No. We are a companion animal hospital, and we will point you to the large animal vets in the region.
Call anyway. The vet on call looks after our own patients first and will always tell you where to go if we cannot see you.
For surgery over $1,000 we offer three payments with no interest, arranged before the day.
Bring them in before the first cold snap.
Paw checks, a weight and a winter plan take half an hour. Book online or call the front desk.
Front desk
Book a visit
Tell us who you are bringing and what is going on. We reply within the working day.
Hours
- Monday–Friday
- 7:30am–7pm
- Saturday
- 9am–4pm
After hours, call the main line and press 1 for the vet on call.