HomeAgain®
Always looking out for your pet.
He's a good listener, your jogging partner or your favorite cuddling companion. If your pet is part of your family, it's time to join ours
Using a tiny microchip about the size of a grain of rice, HomeAgain connects you and your pet to a comprehensive pet recovery service, helping to keep your pet safe and giving you peace of mind. As your pet protection and safety resource, the new HomeAgain offers you a suite of services that includes:
- Advanced Pet Recovery. Should your pet become lost, the HomeAgain microchip helps ensure his safe return. HomeAgain is the only service on the market today that sends out a lost pet alert to vet clinics and shelters when your pet is lost, and allows for immediate access to his medical information to facilitate the best care possible when he is found.
- Emergency Pet Center. Gain 24-hour access to on-call veterinarians who can offer medical assistance or connect you to an emergency vet.
- Online Medical Information. Traveling with or kenneling your pet is a breeze with convenient access to your pet's health information.
- ID Card. At your request, HomeAgain will send you a wallet-sized identification card for your pet, updated with vaccination and emergency contact information.
Call us today to learn more about this service.
Is your pet protected from Lyme Disease?
Lyme disease can affect individual pets differently. Some animals may display no symptoms. Other animals may develop fever, loss of appetite, painful joints, lethargy, and vomiting. If left untreated, the spirochete may damage the eyes, heart, kidneys, and nervous system. Lyme disease has been diagnosed in humans, dogs, cats, horses, goats, and cattle. Other species may also be at risk. Down Maine Vets offers several products to control fleas and ticks as well as vaccinations specifically targeting lyme disease.
Cats
Cats may show lameness, fever, loss of appetite, fatigue, eye damage, unusual breathing, or heart involvement. Many cats do not show noticeable symptoms, despite being infected.
Dogs
Infected dogs may be lethargic, have a poor/loss of appetite, or a fever (103° - 105 ° F). Dogs may also experience lameness shifting from one joint to another, fatigue, kidney damage or failure, heart disorders, or neurologic involvement (e.g. aggression, confusion, overeating, seizures). Dogs can be infected with the Lyme bacterium but not exhibit any noticeable symptoms. Dogs appear to have the same expression of disease as humans, therefore, humans have been considered an animal model for dogs. Transplacental transmission has occurred in dogs.
Information provided by the Lyme Disease Foundation.
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At Down Maine Veterinary Clinic, we firmly believe that when it comes to your pet's health, an ounce of prevention is worth a hundred pounds of cure. Diseases are much more cost-effective, both financially and emotionally, to prevent rather than treat. That is why for both dogs and cats, we recommend vaccination and parasite-control protocols to fit your pet's individual lifestyle. For all pets not used for breeding we recommend spaying and neutering at 6 months of age.