Mercury Animal Hospital

BOARDING

When your pet comes to Mercury Animal Hospital, you can rest assured your pet will receive superb care, loving attention and highly-competent treatment. In short, when you leave your pet with us, you can be assured that, while there’s no place like home, we can provide a very comfortable vacation home for your loved one.

BOARDING POLICY
Each boarder is checked for cleanliness, fleas and ticks upon arrival. Bathing and flea treatments are done accordingly at the owner’s expense. All boarding pets must have documented proof of their current vaccination status. Vaccines that are REQUIRED for boarding are: DHPP (within a year), Bordetella (within 6 months) and Rabies (within a year for the first rabies and within 3 years for those after). In the event of an emergency occurring during their stay, every attempt will be made to contact the owners (emergency contact numbers are mandatory). If the owners cannot be reached, we will treat your pet as we deem appropriate, at the owner’s expense.

Your pets are observed daily by the veterinarians and the hospital staff . A daily log is kept on each pet, recording their appetite, urination/defecation status, medications given and their overall well-being. If your pet is on a specific diet, we recommend that you bring their food for us to feed during their stay with us (helps to prevent GI upsets). We try to make each pet’s stay as comfortable as possible. With individual care and attention given to each pet, their stay will seem “almost” like home.

CANINE WARD & KENNEL
Our kennel is climate controlled and well ventilated. For dogs, we have all in-door separate runs (medium, large and extra-large sizes) and stainless steel cages (small, medium and large sizes). We also have stainless steel cages in our separate dog ward, for small and medium breeds. Each cage and run are thoroughly sanitized multiple times a day with additional clean-ups as needed. We also have a 3000 sq. ft. securely fenced exercise area (separately divided for small and large breeds) where pets are allowed to run and play under direct supervision, multiple times a day.

FELINE WARD
Cats have a separate ward for boarding. Each cat is allowed to exercise in the cat room with cat toys and a jungle gym daily.

DAYCARE

DAYCARE POLICY
All daycare pets must have documented proof of their current vaccination status. Vaccines that are REQUIRED for boarding are: DHPP (within a year), Bordetella (within 6 months) and Rabies (within a year for the first rabies and within 3 years for those after).

Daycare is open to any and all pets. Daycare is provide for those parents who, like us, have to work all day and don’t want their pets to be at home alone all day long. Daycare is advantageous for pets, especially puppies and adult dogs. At daycare, our puppies are let out every hour (to aid in housebreaking). Our adult dog are let out 3 times in the morning and 3 times in the evening. At anytime, if you would like your pet to socialize with other pets of their own size, just let us know. We have playtime with those pets who get along well. This playtime is always under direct supervision.