Idiopathic Issues

When you think about small animal preventive care, what topics come to mind? 

If you’re like most vet students, your list probably looks something like this: 

• Physical exam
• Core vaccines
• Non-core vaccines (depending on lifestyle)
• Fecal parasite exam
• Feline infectious disease testing (FeLV/FIV)
• Canine heartworm and tick-borne disease testing
• Parasite preventatives
• Wellness laboratory testing (CBC/Chem, urinalysis) 

While all of these things are certainly important, I’d like to encourage you to broaden your definition a bit.

In a perfect world, every client would have the financial resources to provide all of the care that their pets need. Unfortunately, we don’t live or practice in a perfect world! Every client experiences periods of financial stress. Sometimes, it seems like all of our clients are under financial strain at once.